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Message-Id: <1410818997-9432-171-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com>
Date:	Mon, 15 Sep 2014 15:09:40 -0700
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.13 170/187] drm/i915: read HEAD register back in init_ring_common() to enforce ordering

3.13.11.7 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>

commit ece4a17d237a79f63fbfaf3f724a12b6d500555c upstream.

Withtout this, ring initialization fails reliabily during resume with

	[drm:init_ring_common] *ERROR* render ring initialization failed ctl 0001f001 head ffffff8804 tail 00000000 start 000e4000

This is not a complete fix, but it is verified to make the ring
initialization failures during resume much less likely.

We were not able to root-cause this bug (likely HW-specific to Gen4 chips)
yet. This is therefore used as a ducttape before problem is fully
understood and proper fix created, so that people don't suffer from
completely unusable systems in the meantime.

The discussion and debugging is happening at

	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76554

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
index 53f5458..dfb8546 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
@@ -473,6 +473,9 @@ static int init_ring_common(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring)
 		}
 	}
 
+	/* Enforce ordering by reading HEAD register back */
+	I915_READ_HEAD(ring);
+
 	/* Initialize the ring. This must happen _after_ we've cleared the ring
 	 * registers with the above sequence (the readback of the HEAD registers
 	 * also enforces ordering), otherwise the hw might lose the new ring
-- 
1.9.1

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