drm/i915: Remove use of the autoreported ringbuffer HEAD position
authorChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Wed, 8 Feb 2012 13:34:13 +0000 (13:34 +0000)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 4 Jul 2012 04:44:11 +0000 (05:44 +0100)
commitdbc50a3f8f5575a8559621524f40a0e7f1d64907
tree7b50bef87d02789d1e9c35729c0a6e86e89a12fa
parentac6dd8cadaba2e0eba9015edf6b18cc4c88d4eca
drm/i915: Remove use of the autoreported ringbuffer HEAD position

This is a revert of 6aa56062eaba67adfb247cded244fd877329588d.

This was originally introduced to workaround reads of the ringbuffer
registers returning 0 on SandyBridge causing hangs due to ringbuffer
overflow. The root cause here was reads through the GT powerwell require
the forcewake dance, something we only learnt of later. Now it appears
that reading the reported head position from the HWS is returning
garbage, leading once again to hangs.

For example, on q35 the autoreported head reports:
  [  217.975608] head now 00010000, actual 00010000
  [  436.725613] head now 00200000, actual 00200000
  [  462.956033] head now 00210000, actual 00210010
  [  485.501409] head now 00400000, actual 00400020
  [  508.064280] head now 00410000, actual 00410000
  [  530.576078] head now 00600000, actual 00600020
  [  553.273489] head now 00610000, actual 00610018
which appears reasonably sane. In contrast, if we look at snb:
  [  141.970680] head now 00e10000, actual 00008238
  [  141.974062] head now 02734000, actual 000083c8
  [  141.974425] head now 00e10000, actual 00008488
  [  141.980374] head now 032b5000, actual 000088b8
  [  141.980885] head now 03271000, actual 00008950
  [  142.040628] head now 02101000, actual 00008b40
  [  142.180173] head now 02734000, actual 00009050
  [  142.181090] head now 00000000, actual 00000ae0
  [  142.183737] head now 02734000, actual 00009050

In addition, the automatic reporting of the head position is scheduled
to be defeatured in the future. It has no more utility, remove it.

Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45492
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Tested-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
(cherry picked from commit 5d031e5b633d910f35e6e0abce94d9d842390006)
Signed-off-by: Timo Aaltonen <timo.aaltonen@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c