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drm/i915/gt: Mark the execlists->active as the primary volatile access

Message ID 20191123110330.874616-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series drm/i915/gt: Mark the execlists->active as the primary volatile access | expand

Commit Message

Chris Wilson Nov. 23, 2019, 11:03 a.m. UTC
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!

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
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 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine.h
index bc3b72bfa9e3..7f3cd84982b1 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine.h
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@  execlists_active(const struct intel_engine_execlists *execlists)
 {
 	GEM_BUG_ON(execlists->active - execlists->inflight >
 		   execlists_num_ports(execlists));
-	return READ_ONCE(*execlists->active);
+	return *READ_ONCE(execlists->active);
 }
 
 static inline void