drm/i915: Keep physical cursors pinned while in use

The optimisation inherent in commit 6a2c4232ece1 ("drm/i915: Make the
physical object coherent with GTT") relies on that once we allocated a
cursor we would have coherent, zero overhead access to the scanout plane
holding the cursor. That is we could then do the very frequent cursor
updates X enjoys with no indirection or kernel involvement. However,
that all hinges on the GGTT mmap of the cursor being pinned and not
require refaulting on each access -- handling such a page fault likely
requires the busy GGTT to be rearranged causing a stall. A very simple
fix is then to handle the physical cursor exactly like other cursors and
keep its vma pinned while active.

References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107600
References: 6a2c4232ece1 ("drm/i915: Make the physical object coherent with GTT")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20180817082405.755-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
index ec3e24f07486..b79ad9c57d35 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
@@ -12969,8 +12969,11 @@ static int intel_plane_pin_fb(struct intel_plane_state *plane_state)
             INTEL_INFO(dev_priv)->cursor_needs_physical) {
                 struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj = intel_fb_obj(fb);
                 const int align = intel_cursor_alignment(dev_priv);
+                int err;
 
-                return i915_gem_object_attach_phys(obj, align);
+                err = i915_gem_object_attach_phys(obj, align);
+                if (err)
+                        return err;
         }
 
         vma = intel_pin_and_fence_fb_obj(fb,