Merge tag 'v4.18.20' into dev-4.18dev-4.18

This is the 4.18.20 stable release

Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
index 7c4c8fb1dae4..0328ee704ee5 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
@@ -425,7 +425,8 @@ static u64 execlists_update_context(struct i915_request *rq)
 
 	reg_state[CTX_RING_TAIL+1] = intel_ring_set_tail(rq->ring, rq->tail);
 
-	/* True 32b PPGTT with dynamic page allocation: update PDP
+	/*
+	 * True 32b PPGTT with dynamic page allocation: update PDP
 	 * registers and point the unallocated PDPs to scratch page.
 	 * PML4 is allocated during ppgtt init, so this is not needed
 	 * in 48-bit mode.
@@ -433,6 +434,17 @@ static u64 execlists_update_context(struct i915_request *rq)
 	if (ppgtt && !i915_vm_is_48bit(&ppgtt->base))
 		execlists_update_context_pdps(ppgtt, reg_state);
 
+	/*
+	 * Make sure the context image is complete before we submit it to HW.
+	 *
+	 * Ostensibly, writes (including the WCB) should be flushed prior to
+	 * an uncached write such as our mmio register access, the empirical
+	 * evidence (esp. on Braswell) suggests that the WC write into memory
+	 * may not be visible to the HW prior to the completion of the UC
+	 * register write and that we may begin execution from the context
+	 * before its image is complete leading to invalid PD chasing.
+	 */
+	wmb();
 	return ce->lrc_desc;
 }