The GPU device currently supports large BAR which means that the driver
can write directly to GPU memory over the PCI bus without using SDMA or
PM4 packets. The gem5 PCI interface only provides an atomic interface
for BAR reads/writes, which means the values cannot go through timing
mode Ruby caches. This causes bugs as the TCC cache is allowed to keep
clean data between kernels for performance reasons. If there is a BAR
write directly to memory bypassing the cache, the value in the cache is
stale and must be invalidated.
In this commit a TCC invalidate is generated for all writes over PCI
that go directly to GPU memory. This will also invalidate TCP along the
way if necessary. This currently relies on the driver synchonization
which only allows BAR writes in between kernels. Therefore, the cache
should only be in I or V state.
To handle a race condition between invalidates and launching the next
kernel, the invalidates return a response and the GPU command processor
will wait for all TCC invalidates to be complete before launching the
next kernel.
This fixes issues with stale data in nanoGPT and possibly PENNANT.
Change-Id: I8e1290f842122682c271e5508a48037055bfbcdf
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