drm/i915: enable low power render writes on GEN3 hardware.

A lot of 945GMs have had stability issues for a long time, this manifested as X hangs, blitter engine hangs, and lots of crashes.

one such report is at:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20560

along with numerous distro bugzillas.

This only took a week of digging and hair ripping to figure out.

Tracked down and tested on a 945GM Lenovo T60,
previously running
x11perf -copypixwin500
or
x11perf -copywinpix500
repeatedly would cause the GPU to wedge within 4 or 5 tries, with random busy bits set.

After this patch no hangs were observed.

cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
index 074385882ccf..43ce3809ef64 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -4741,6 +4741,16 @@ i915_gem_load(struct drm_device *dev)
         list_add(&dev_priv->mm.shrink_list, &shrink_list);
         spin_unlock(&shrink_list_lock);
 
+        /* On GEN3 we really need to make sure the ARB C3 LP bit is set */
+        if (IS_GEN3(dev)) {
+                u32 tmp = I915_READ(MI_ARB_STATE);
+                if (!(tmp & MI_ARB_C3_LP_WRITE_ENABLE)) {
+                        /* arb state is a masked write, so set bit + bit in mask */
+                        tmp = MI_ARB_C3_LP_WRITE_ENABLE | (MI_ARB_C3_LP_WRITE_ENABLE << MI_ARB_MASK_SHIFT);
+                        I915_WRITE(MI_ARB_STATE, tmp);
+                }
+        }
+
         /* Old X drivers will take 0-2 for front, back, depth buffers */
         if (!drm_core_check_feature(dev, DRIVER_MODESET))
                 dev_priv->fence_reg_start = 3;