drm/i915: Disable GPU semaphores by default

Andi Kleen narrowed his GPU hangs on his Sugar Bay (SNB desktop) rev 09
down to the use of GPU semaphores, and we already know that they appear
broken up to Huron River (mobile) rev 08. (I'm optimistic that disabling
GPU semaphores is simply hiding another bug by the latency and
side-effects of the additional device interaction it introduces...)

However, use of semaphores is a massive performance improvement... Only
as long as the system remains stable. Enable at your peril.

Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi-fd@firstfloor.org>
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33921
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
index 37d672a116db6e90eca8cb105197e1e2298d695f..22ec066adae68ffd83432b37e149e8344c65d744 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ module_param_named(fbpercrtc, i915_fbpercrtc, int, 0400);
 unsigned int i915_powersave = 1;
 module_param_named(powersave, i915_powersave, int, 0600);
 
+unsigned int i915_semaphores = 0;
+module_param_named(semaphores, i915_semaphores, int, 0600);
+
 unsigned int i915_enable_rc6 = 0;
 module_param_named(i915_enable_rc6, i915_enable_rc6, int, 0600);
 

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
index 549c046b4ecc6afc62ab9da3accb83b2899029bc..d023b9b33d602246a2fb073cdb980a9d8ae3dada 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
@@ -956,6 +956,7 @@ extern struct drm_ioctl_desc i915_ioctls[];
 extern int i915_max_ioctl;
 extern unsigned int i915_fbpercrtc;
 extern unsigned int i915_powersave;
+extern unsigned int i915_semaphores;
 extern unsigned int i915_lvds_downclock;
 extern unsigned int i915_panel_use_ssc;
 extern unsigned int i915_enable_rc6;

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
index d2f445e825f200b10aad8aef884ddb2ec2671fc9..50ab1614571c746447781758c8355cb251276019 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
@@ -772,8 +772,8 @@ i915_gem_execbuffer_sync_rings(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj,
        if (from == NULL || to == from)
                return 0;
 
-       /* XXX gpu semaphores are currently causing hard hangs on SNB mobile */
-       if (INTEL_INFO(obj->base.dev)->gen < 6 || IS_MOBILE(obj->base.dev))
+       /* XXX gpu semaphores are implicated in various hard hangs on SNB */
+       if (INTEL_INFO(obj->base.dev)->gen < 6 || !i915_semaphores)
                return i915_gem_object_wait_rendering(obj, true);
 
        idx = intel_ring_sync_index(from, to);