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[5/6] drm/i915: Use the uncached domain for the display planes v2

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Eric Anholt March 29, 2011, 11:59 p.m. UTC
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diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
index 8389b03..de9a446 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -3062,6 +3062,19 @@  i915_gem_object_set_to_display_plane(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj,
 			return ret;
 	}
 
+	/* The display engine is not coherent with the LLC cache on gen6.  As
+	 * a result, we make sure that the pinning that is about to occur is
+	 * done with uncached PTEs. This is lowest common denominator for all
+	 * chipsets.
+	 *
+	 * However for gen6+, we could do better by using the GFDT bit instead
+	 * of uncaching, which would allow us to flush all the LLC-cached data
+	 * with that bit in the PTE to main memory with just one PIPE_CONTROL.
+	 */
+	ret = i915_gem_object_set_cache_level(obj, I915_CACHE_NONE);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
 	i915_gem_object_flush_cpu_write_domain(obj);
 
 	old_read_domains = obj->base.read_domains;