Re: radeon issues on MacBook Pro 8,2

[Alex Deucher]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Seth Forshee
<seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 02:38:37PM -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Seth Forshee
>> <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 02:53:17PM -0600, Seth Forshee wrote:
>> >> > >  2. Occasional long delays when suspending. When this happens I see
>> >> > >    messages like following in dmesg:
>> >> > >
>> >> > >      [drm:atom_op_jump] *ERROR* atombios stuck in loop for more than 5secs aborting
>> >> > >      [drm:atom_execute_table_locked] *ERROR* atombios stuck executing D44E (len 62, WS 0, PS 0) @ 0xD46A
>> >> > >
>> >> > >    Sometimes one of suspend or resume hangs completely, but I can't
>> >> > >    tell which and am not sure whether or not it's related. I'm also
>> >> > >    testing a Mac Mini with the exact same card which does not seem to
>> >> > >    suffer from this issue.
>> >> > >
>> >> > >    I ran a bisections that identified f8d0edd (drm/radeon/kms: improve
>> >> > >    DP detect logic) as introducing problems with suspend, and reverting
>> >> > >    this patch on top of 3.2.1 does seem to eliminate both issues.
>> >> > >
>> >> >
>> >> > That patch doesn't really affect the modesetting paths directly; it
>> >> > looks like a red herring to me.
>> >>
>> >> Perhaps. I just started a run of 200 s3 cycles with the patch reverted
>> >> to see if I can reproduce the issues. I can usually trigger the problem
>> >> with 15 or fewer s3 cycles.
>> >
>> > The machine completed 200 s3 cycles with the patch reverted without long
>> > delays, hangs, or any atombios error messages. Without reverting it
>> > doesn't get through many at all before experiencing the errors and long
>> > delays or hangs.
>> >
>> > I added a printout of the connector status resulting from the logic that
>> > was changed by f8d0edd. With the logic prior to this commit it
>> > consistently returns the status as disconnected, which is correct as I
>> > have nothing connected. But with the improved logic the status is
>> > sometimes reported as connected, and these coincide with the atombios
>> > errors.
>> >
>>
>> Do any of the disconnected displayport connectors get misdetected as
>> connected during normal operation or does it only happen during
>> suspend/resume?
>
> So far I've only seen them during suspend/resume.

Can you track down who is calling the connector->detect() callbacks
during suspend and resume?

Alex
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