[PATCH 4/6] drm/radeon: Add a rmb() in IH processing

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jul 13 14:42:25 PDT 2011


On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 10:48 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> >> We should have a read memory barrier between reading the WPTR from
> >> memory and reading ring entries based on that value (ie, we need to
> >> ensure both loads are done in order by the CPU).
> >>
> >> It could be argued that the MMIO reads in r600_ack_irq() might be
> >> enough to get that barrier but I prefer keeping an explicit one just
> >> in case.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
> 
> evergreen.c will need a similar fix.

Ok. I can do that.

Cheers,
Ben.

> Alex
> 
> >
> >> ---
> >>
> >> (resent adding dri-devel to the CC list to hit patchwork)
> >>
> >> drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/r600.c |    3 +++
> >>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/r600.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/r600.c
> >> index 3c86b15..7e5c801 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/r600.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/r600.c
> >> @@ -3312,6 +3312,9 @@ int r600_irq_process(struct radeon_device *rdev)
> >>        }
> >>
> >>  restart_ih:
> >> +       /* Order reading of wptr vs. reading of IH ring data */
> >> +       wmb();
> >> +
> >>        /* display interrupts */
> >>        r600_irq_ack(rdev);
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >




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