The issue is that we stale data in the CPU caches, when we come to
swap-out the object, the CPU may short-circuit the reads from those
cacheline and so corrupt the context object.
Secondary, leaving the context object as being marked in the CPU write
domain whilst on the GPU active list is a bad idea and will throw
warnings later.
Note: Thanks to calling set_to_gtt_domain with write = false and not
setting any gpu write domain when putting a context object onto the
active list (when we switch away from it) the set_to_gtt_domain call
won't block.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
[danvet: Added a note to the commit message and a comment in the code
to explain the clever non-blocking trick.]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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* For the very latest on DRI development, please see: *
* http://dri.freedesktop.org/ *
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The Direct Rendering Manager (drm) is a device-independent kernel-level
device driver that provides support for the XFree86 Direct Rendering
Infrastructure (DRI).
The DRM supports the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) in four major
ways:
1. The DRM provides synchronized access to the graphics hardware via
the use of an optimized two-tiered lock.
2. The DRM enforces the DRI security policy for access to the graphics
hardware by only allowing authenticated X11 clients access to
restricted regions of memory.
3. The DRM provides a generic DMA engine, complete with multiple
queues and the ability to detect the need for an OpenGL context
switch.
4. The DRM is extensible via the use of small device-specific modules
that rely extensively on the API exported by the DRM module.
Documentation on the DRI is available from:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Documentation
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=387
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/
For specific information about kernel-level support, see:
The Direct Rendering Manager, Kernel Support for the Direct Rendering
Infrastructure
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/drm_low_level.html
Hardware Locking for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/hardware_locking_low_level.html
A Security Analysis of the Direct Rendering Infrastructure
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/security_low_level.html
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