Re: [Intel-gfx] 3.15-rc5: Regression in i915 driver?

From: Chris Wilson
Date: Sun May 18 2014 - 15:13:52 EST


On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 09:08:40PM +0200, Thomas Meyer wrote:
> Am Montag, den 12.05.2014, 07:33 +0100 schrieb Chris Wilson:
> > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 07:40:57PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On 11 May 2014 18:28, Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >> Hi,
> > > >>
> > > >> 3.14.3 works as expected.
> > > >> 3.15-rc5 shows a strange behaviour: When resuming from ram the X server
> > > >> seems to be disfunctional.
> > > >>
> > > >> I see this WARNING in the kernel log before suspend to ram in the early
> > > >> boot process:
> > >
> > > Doesn't ring a bell really.
> >
> > Same symptoms as
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76554
> > -Chris
> >
>
> bisected this to:
> # first bad commit: [78f2975eec9faff353a6194e854d3d39907bab68] drm/i915: Move all ring resets before setting the HWS page
>
> commit 78f2975eec9faff353a6194e854d3d39907bab68
> Author: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed Apr 2 16:36:07 2014 +0100
>
> drm/i915: Move all ring resets before setting the HWS page
>
> In commit a51435a3137ad8ae75c288c39bd2d8b2696bae8f
> Author: Naresh Kumar Kachhi <naresh.kumar.kachhi@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed Mar 12 16:39:40 2014 +0530
>
> drm/i915: disable rings before HW status page setup
>
> we reordered stopping the rings to do so before we set the HWS register.
> However, there is an extra workaround for g45 to reset the rings twice,
> and for consistency we should apply that workaround before setting the
> HWS to be sure that the rings are truly stopped.
>
> Reference: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140423202248.GA3621@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Tested-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Naresh Kumar Kachhi <naresh.kumar.kachhi@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reverting above commit from current linus' master tree makes the display server behave correctly after resume from ram.

Boot time regression trumps resume regression? Doubly-so as we have an
earlier resume regression with identical symptoms?
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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