drm/i915/execlists: Relax the locked clear_bit(IRQ_EXECLIST)

We only need to care about the ordering of the clearing of the bit with
the uncached CSB read in order to correctly detect a new interrupt
before the read completes. The uncached read itself acts as a full
memory barrier, so we do not need to enforce another in the form of a
locked clear_bit.

v2: Clarify why the split and unlocked test/clear is harmless.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170323134803.10418-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
index eec1e71..dd0e9d5 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
@@ -540,7 +540,17 @@ static void intel_lrc_irq_handler(unsigned long data)
                        dev_priv->regs + i915_mmio_reg_offset(RING_CONTEXT_STATUS_BUF_LO(engine, 0));
                unsigned int csb, head, tail;
 
-               clear_bit(ENGINE_IRQ_EXECLIST, &engine->irq_posted);
+               /* The write will be ordered by the uncached read (itself
+                * a memory barrier), so we do not need another in the form
+                * of a locked instruction. The race between the interrupt
+                * handler and the split test/clear is harmless as we order
+                * our clear before the CSB read. If the interrupt arrived
+                * first between the test and the clear, we read the updated
+                * CSB and clear the bit. If the interrupt arrives as we read
+                * the CSB or later (i.e. after we had cleared the bit) the bit
+                * is set and we do a new loop.
+                */
+               __clear_bit(ENGINE_IRQ_EXECLIST, &engine->irq_posted);
                csb = readl(csb_mmio);
                head = GEN8_CSB_READ_PTR(csb);
                tail = GEN8_CSB_WRITE_PTR(csb);