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Braswell is really picky about having our writes posted to memory before we execute or else the GPU may see stale values. A wmb() is insufficient as it only ensures the writes are visible to other cores, we need a full mb() to ensure the writes are in memory and visible to the GPU. The most frequent failure in flushing before execution is that we see stale PTE values and execute the wrong pages. References:987abd5c62("drm/i915/execlists: Force write serialisation into context image vs execution") Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20181206084431.9805-3-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk (cherry picked from commit490b8c65b9) Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.