drm/i915: Retire any pending operations on the old scanout when switching
An old and oft reported bug, is that of the GPU hanging on a MI_WAIT_FOR_EVENT following a mode switch. The cause is that the GPU is waiting on a scanline counter on an inactive pipe, and so waits for a very long time until eventually the user reboots his machine. We can prevent this either by moving the WAIT into the kernel and thereby incurring considerable cost on every swapbuffers, or by waiting for the GPU to retire the last batch that accesses the framebuffer before installing a new one. As mode switches are much rarer than swap buffers, this looks like an easy choice. Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28964 Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29252Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: stable@kernel.org
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