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authorChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>2014-03-21 13:16:43 +0000
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2014-03-21 16:13:14 +0100
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drm/i915: Include a note about the dangers of I915_READ64/I915_WRITE64
It is important that the user is fully aware that the seemingly atomic read/write of a 64-bit value from MMIO space, may in fact be 2 separate operations of 32-bits. This can lead to hilarity, such as commit d18b9619034230b6f945e215276425636ca401fe Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Date: Wed Jul 10 13:36:23 2013 +0100 drm/i915: Fix incoherence with fence updates on Sandybridge+ Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
index 9b8c1e06a787..3f62be0fb5c5 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
@@ -2736,6 +2736,12 @@ void vlv_force_wake_put(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, int fw_engine);
#define I915_READ_NOTRACE(reg) dev_priv->uncore.funcs.mmio_readl(dev_priv, (reg), false)
#define I915_WRITE_NOTRACE(reg, val) dev_priv->uncore.funcs.mmio_writel(dev_priv, (reg), (val), false)
+/* Be very careful with read/write 64-bit values. On 32-bit machines, they
+ * will be implemented using 2 32-bit writes in an arbitrary order with
+ * an arbitrary delay between them. This can cause the hardware to
+ * act upon the intermediate value, possibly leading to corruption and
+ * machine death. You have been warned.
+ */
#define I915_WRITE64(reg, val) dev_priv->uncore.funcs.mmio_writeq(dev_priv, (reg), (val), true)
#define I915_READ64(reg) dev_priv->uncore.funcs.mmio_readq(dev_priv, (reg), true)
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