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Commit 331bf905 authored by Chris Wilson's avatar Chris Wilson
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drm/i915/gt: Mark the execlists->active as the primary volatile access



Since we want to do a lockless read of the current active request, and
that request is written to by process_csb also without serialisation, we
need to instruct gcc to take care in reading the pointer itself.

Otherwise, we have observed execlists_active() to report 0x40.

[ 2400.760381] igt/para-4098    1..s. 2376479300us : process_csb: rcs0 cs-irq head=3, tail=4
[ 2400.760826] igt/para-4098    1..s. 2376479303us : process_csb: rcs0 csb[4]: status=0x00000001:0x00000000
[ 2400.761271] igt/para-4098    1..s. 2376479306us : trace_ports: rcs0: promote { b9c59:2622, b9c55:2624 }
[ 2400.761726] igt/para-4097    0d... 2376479311us : __i915_schedule: rcs0: -2147483648->3, inflight:0000000000000040, rq:ffff888208c1e940

which is impossible!

The answer is that as we keep the existing execlists->active pointing
into the array as we copy over that array, the unserialised read may see
a partial pointer value.

Fixes: df403069 ("drm/i915/execlists: Lift process_csb() out of the irq-off spinlock")
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191125094318.1630806-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
parent bae21dac
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