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-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_object_types.h6
-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c18
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_object_types.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_object_types.h
index 79de925aecfd..2471f36aaff3 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_object_types.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_object_types.h
@@ -415,6 +415,12 @@ struct drm_i915_gem_object {
* Note that on shared LLC platforms we still apply the heavy flush for
* I915_CACHE_NONE objects, under the assumption that this is going to
* be used for scanout.
+ *
+ * Update: On some hardware there is now also the 'Bypass LLC' MOCS
+ * entry, which defeats our @cache_coherent tracking, since userspace
+ * can freely bypass the CPU cache when touching the pages with the GPU,
+ * where the kernel is completely unaware. On such platform we need
+ * apply the sledgehammer-on-acquire regardless of the @cache_coherent.
*/
unsigned int cache_dirty:1;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c
index 6a04cce188fc..11f072193f3b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c
@@ -182,6 +182,24 @@ rebuild_st:
if (i915_gem_object_needs_bit17_swizzle(obj))
i915_gem_object_do_bit_17_swizzle(obj, st);
+ /*
+ * EHL and JSL add the 'Bypass LLC' MOCS entry, which should make it
+ * possible for userspace to bypass the GTT caching bits set by the
+ * kernel, as per the given object cache_level. This is troublesome
+ * since the heavy flush we apply when first gathering the pages is
+ * skipped if the kernel thinks the object is coherent with the GPU. As
+ * a result it might be possible to bypass the cache and read the
+ * contents of the page directly, which could be stale data. If it's
+ * just a case of userspace shooting themselves in the foot then so be
+ * it, but since i915 takes the stance of always zeroing memory before
+ * handing it to userspace, we need to prevent this.
+ *
+ * By setting cache_dirty here we make the clflush in set_pages
+ * unconditional on such platforms.
+ */
+ if (IS_JSL_EHL(i915) && obj->flags & I915_BO_ALLOC_USER)
+ obj->cache_dirty = true;
+
__i915_gem_object_set_pages(obj, st, sg_page_sizes);
return 0;