drm/i915/ringbuffer: 2-step restart

We may be simply restarting too fast for the culmudgeonly gen3/gen4 as
we still see missing interrupts following a reset. So let's try
restarting a little slower, first wake up the ring empty and then tell
it about the work it has to perform.

References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108735
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20181126122821.4537-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
index 87eebc13c0d8..e18a64d41843 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
@@ -546,10 +546,11 @@ static int init_ring_common(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
         /* Check that the ring offsets point within the ring! */
         GEM_BUG_ON(!intel_ring_offset_valid(ring, ring->head));
         GEM_BUG_ON(!intel_ring_offset_valid(ring, ring->tail));
-
         intel_ring_update_space(ring);
+
+        /* First wake the ring up to an empty/idle ring */
         I915_WRITE_HEAD(engine, ring->head);
-        I915_WRITE_TAIL(engine, ring->tail);
+        I915_WRITE_TAIL(engine, ring->head);
         (void)I915_READ_TAIL(engine);
 
         I915_WRITE_CTL(engine, RING_CTL_SIZE(ring->size) | RING_VALID);
@@ -574,6 +575,12 @@ static int init_ring_common(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
         if (INTEL_GEN(dev_priv) > 2)
                 I915_WRITE_MODE(engine, _MASKED_BIT_DISABLE(STOP_RING));
 
+        /* Now awake, let it get started */
+        if (ring->tail != ring->head) {
+                I915_WRITE_TAIL(engine, ring->tail);
+                (void)I915_READ_TAIL(engine);
+        }
+
         /* Papering over lost _interrupts_ immediately following the restart */
         intel_engine_wakeup(engine);
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