Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/2] drm/i915: Get rid of intel_dp_dpcd_read_wake()

[Daniel Vetter]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 06:41:40PM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 06:12:35PM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 04:13:45PM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 11:40:45AM -0400, Lyude wrote:
> > > > Since we've fixed up drm_dp_dpcd_read() to allow for retries when things
> > > > timeout, there's no use for having this function anymore. Good riddens.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Lyude <cpaul@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c | 79 ++++++++++++-----------------------------
> > > >  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
> > > > index cdc2c15..fb4cbbe5 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
> > > > @@ -3190,47 +3190,14 @@ static void chv_dp_post_pll_disable(struct intel_encoder *encoder)
> > > >  }
> > > >  
> > > >  /*
> > > > - * Native read with retry for link status and receiver capability reads for
> > > > - * cases where the sink may still be asleep.
> > > > - *
> > > > - * Sinks are *supposed* to come up within 1ms from an off state, but we're also
> > > > - * supposed to retry 3 times per the spec.
> > > > - */
> > > > -static ssize_t
> > > > -intel_dp_dpcd_read_wake(struct drm_dp_aux *aux, unsigned int offset,
> > > > -			void *buffer, size_t size)
> > > > -{
> > > > -	ssize_t ret;
> > > > -	int i;
> > > > -
> > > > -	/*
> > > > -	 * Sometime we just get the same incorrect byte repeated
> > > > -	 * over the entire buffer. Doing just one throw away read
> > > > -	 * initially seems to "solve" it.
> > > > -	 */
> > > > -	drm_dp_dpcd_read(aux, DP_DPCD_REV, buffer, 1);
> > > 
> > > NAK
> > > 
> > > If people keep intentionally breaking my shit I'm going to become
> > > really grumpy soon.
> > 
> > Oh, and just in case someone wants to come up with a better kludge,
> > I just spent a few minutes analyzing the behavior of this crappy
> > monitor a.
> > 
> > What happens is that when the monitor is fully powered up (LED is blue)
> > things are fine. After the monitor goes to sleep (LED turns orange)
> > the first DPCD read will produce garbage. Further DPCD reads are fine,
> > even if I wait a significant amount of time between the reads, as long
> > as the monitor didn't do a power on->off cycle in between. So it looks
> > like it's always just the first read after power down that gets
> > corrupted.
> > 
> > Now I think I'll go and test how writes behave, assuming I can find a
> > decently sized chunk of DPCD address space I can write. And maybe I
> > should also try i2c-over-aux...
> 
> The first DPCD write after powerdown also got corrupted. But i2c-over-aux
> seems unaffected for whatever reason.

Do you have an amd card nearby to test there? Would be interesting to
confirm that this is indeed a sink bug, and hence that it really all
should be in the shared code.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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