drm/xe: Implement Wa_22016122933

On platforms with a standalone media GT and media version 13.00
(MTL/ARL), memory shared between the CPU and the media GT's GuC must
not be mapped cached on the CPU side: the CPU can otherwise read stale
cache lines for data the GuC has already written.

i915 implements this as Wa_22016122933 (see
intel_gt_needs_wa_22016122933(), used by intel_guc_allocate_vma() and
intel_gt_coherent_map_type()); xe never inherited it.

The visible symptom on ARL is TLB invalidation acks stalling for a
near-constant ~2.3s: the GuC writes the G2H ack in time, but the CPU
keeps reading a stale (empty) view of the G2H CTB until the line is
naturally evicted, so the fence timeout at 2.25s fires first. GuC log
decode confirmed all invalidations were handled promptly by the
firmware, and only the media GT was affected. See Link for the full
investigation (three machines affected: 7d51, 7dd1, Arc Pro 130T).

Making the mapping coherent instead of uncached does not help: with a
GGTT PAT entry repurposed to WB|COH_2WAY the driver comes up and the
media GT GuC runs, but the stalls remain (request-to-ack 2290ms).
Uncached really is required here. Note that 2-way coherency is not
normally reachable from a GGTT PTE (only 2 PAT bits), so that
experiment needed a modified PAT table and may not reflect a supported
configuration.

Add the OOB workaround scoped like i915 (media version 13.00, media GT
only - MEDIA_VERSION() OOB rules only match the media GT on standalone
media platforms) and apply XE_BO_FLAG_NEEDS_UC to the GuC-shared
allocations the CPU reads from: the CTBs, the GuC log, ADS, the SLPC
shared data and the engine activity buffers. hwconfig and the G2G
buffer are allocated on the primary GT only, where the workaround does
not apply.

Note that XE_BO_FLAG_NEEDS_UC drives both the CPU mapping (uncached)
and the GGTT cache mode (XE_CACHE_NONE instead of XE_CACHE_WB), which is
stricter than i915: i915 documents the workaround as WC on the CPU side
and UC on the GPU side. A CPU-WC variant with the GGTT side kept at
XE_CACHE_NONE was measured to be equally effective, but expressing it
would require either a new BO flag or decoupling the GGTT cache-mode
selection from XE_BO_FLAG_NEEDS_UC - simply swapping in
XE_BO_FLAG_FORCE_WC silently relaxes the GPU side back to WB and the
stalls return. The stricter mapping is kept here since it is the tested
configuration and no throughput difference between the two was
measurable; the extra plumbing can be added later if parity with i915 is
preferred.

Scope is limited to the GuC-shared allocations, which is where the
failures were observed. i915 additionally covers media-GT LRC/ring
state; extending xe to match can be done as a follow-up if wanted.

Validation on two ARL machines (7d51 and 7dd1): before, 20-60 TLB
invalidation ack stalls per day, every day, for weeks, on every kernel
and on two GuC firmware versions (70.53.0 and 70.72.1). After: zero
stalls in six weeks of combined runtime, over 10M TLB invalidations
processed under the same workloads, across kernels 7.1.6, 7.1.8 and
7.2. The 7dd1 machine, which could not survive a day of media
workloads on xe without a platform freeze, has been running xe full
time since 11 August, including days with heavy video transcoding,
with zero stalls and zero freezes.

The coherency experiment, the CPU-WC measurements and the engine
activity coverage gap were found by Navon John Lukose while A/B
testing v2 on an ARL 7d51.

Link: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/xe/kernel/-/work_items/8678
Suggested-by: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tales A. Mendonça <talesam@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Navon John Lukose <navonjohnlukose@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260922144634.55130-4-talesam@gmail.com

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