[PATCH] drm/i915: Disable lazy PPGTT page table optimization for vGPU

From: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
To: Intel graphics driver community testing & development
	<intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>,
	Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] drm/i915: Disable lazy PPGTT page table optimization for vGPU
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 13:25:43 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171018102543.10031-1-joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> (raw)

When running under virtualization (vGPU active), we must disable
the azy PPGTT page table initialization optimization introduced by:

14826673247e ("drm/i915: Only initialize partially filled pagetables")

We must do this because GVT-g makes unduly assumptions about guest
behaviour, which this optimization breaks. This results in following
looking errors in the host:

ERROR gvt: guest page write error -22, gfn 0x7ada8, pa 0x7ada89a8, var 0x6, len 1

The real fix is to not to depend on i915 driver behaviour, but instead
either rely on only the contracts that i915 has with the hardware, or
add some paravirtualization. While the real fix is en route, it won't
be finished in time for 4.15, so the best option is to disable the
optimization for now when vGPU is active to avoid breaking 4.15 guests
in existing VM environments.

Fixes: 14826673247e ("drm/i915: Only initialize partially filled pagetables")
Suggested-by: Xiaolin Zhang <xiaolin.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiaolin Zhang <xiaolin.zhang@intel.com>
[Joonas: Rewrote the commit message and added tags.]
Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
index 527a2d2d6281..5eaa6893daaa 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
@@ -1341,7 +1341,7 @@ static int gen8_ppgtt_alloc_pd(struct i915_address_space *vm,
 			if (IS_ERR(pt))
 				goto unwind;
 
-			if (count < GEN8_PTES)
+			if (count < GEN8_PTES || intel_vgpu_active(vm->i915))
 				gen8_initialize_pt(vm, pt);
 
 			gen8_ppgtt_set_pde(vm, pd, pt, pde);
-- 
2.13.6

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