From: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison(a)Intel.com>
Direction from hardware is that stolen memory should never be used for
ring buffer allocations on platforms with LLC. There are too many
caching pitfalls due to the way stolen memory accesses are routed. So
it is safest to just not use it.
Signed-off-by: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison(a)Intel.com>
Fixes: c58b735fc762 ("drm/i915: Allocate rings from stolen")
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris(a)chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen(a)linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula(a)linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi(a)intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin(a)linux.intel.com>
Cc: intel-gfx(a)lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: <stable(a)vger.kernel.org> # v4.9+
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ring.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ring.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ring.c
index 15ec64d881c44..fb1d2595392ed 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ring.c
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ static struct i915_vma *create_ring_vma(struct i915_ggtt *ggtt, int size)
obj = i915_gem_object_create_lmem(i915, size, I915_BO_ALLOC_VOLATILE |
I915_BO_ALLOC_PM_VOLATILE);
- if (IS_ERR(obj) && i915_ggtt_has_aperture(ggtt))
+ if (IS_ERR(obj) && i915_ggtt_has_aperture(ggtt) && !HAS_LLC(i915))
obj = i915_gem_object_create_stolen(i915, size);
if (IS_ERR(obj))
obj = i915_gem_object_create_internal(i915, size);
--
2.39.1