Re: xrandr fails after resume from hibernation in kernels 4.7.4 and 4.8.0

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Oct 28 2016 - 11:57:06 EST


On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 10:38:17AM -0300, Gaston Gonzalez wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 07:23:23AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 08:43:03PM -0300, Gaston Gonzalez wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > After hibernation I get the following error when I tried to connect to monitor
> > > through hdmi:
> > >
> > > $ xrandr --output LVDS1 --off --output HDMI1 --auto
> > > xrandr: Configure crtc 1 failed
> > >
> > > This does not happen in kernel in kernel v4.6.7 but do happen in kernels v4.7.4
> > > and v4.8.0
> >
> > Ah, can you use 'git bisect' to track down the offending patch?
> >
> > Also, if you let the graphics driver authors know, they are probably the
> > best ones to help out with this, not the "generic" stable mailing list.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
>
> Hello,
>
> The culprit commit seems to be:
>
> commit: ed4a6a7
> drm/i915: Add two-stage ILK-style watermark programming
>
> Attached the bisection log.
>
> Let me know if additional test or bisect is needed.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Gaston

> git bisect start '--' 'drivers/gpu/drm/'
> # good: [096998b11906dd79df5af4d688c9974342dd09f2] Linux 4.6.7
> git bisect good 096998b11906dd79df5af4d688c9974342dd09f2
> # bad: [c8d2bc9bc39ebea8437fd974fdbc21847bb897a3] Linux 4.8
> git bisect bad c8d2bc9bc39ebea8437fd974fdbc21847bb897a3
> # good: [2dcd0af568b0cf583645c8a317dd12e344b1c72a] Linux 4.6
> git bisect good 2dcd0af568b0cf583645c8a317dd12e344b1c72a
> # bad: [3c85f20a289d044f303f473ee6ab7502303fc3b0] Merge tag 'omapdrm-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tomba/linux into drm-next
> git bisect bad 3c85f20a289d044f303f473ee6ab7502303fc3b0
> # bad: [a64424d722504926f3375bc4887976e3bfe3a01d] Merge branch 'drm-next-4.7' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux into drm-next
> git bisect bad a64424d722504926f3375bc4887976e3bfe3a01d
> # bad: [b5bf0f1ea3658254bd72ef64abc97786e8a32255] drm/exynos: clean up register definions for fimd and decon
> git bisect bad b5bf0f1ea3658254bd72ef64abc97786e8a32255
> # bad: [27878ede4fec7b929c3010710ba4d55c617c621d] drm/i915: Throw out BUGs from DPLL/PCH functions
> git bisect bad 27878ede4fec7b929c3010710ba4d55c617c621d
> # bad: [72341af4285ae1337c0dfdfa3e68318b52b8757c] drm/i915: hide away VBT private data in a separate header
> git bisect bad 72341af4285ae1337c0dfdfa3e68318b52b8757c
> # bad: [71f0a626143368b8aead361ffaff7e36d043fd8e] drm/i915: Only use sanitized values for ILK watermarks
> git bisect bad 71f0a626143368b8aead361ffaff7e36d043fd8e
> # bad: [66e2c4c39cc37beaccc24c9d14c75d627fce9cf4] drm/i915/gen9: Disable DC states if power well support is disabled
> git bisect bad 66e2c4c39cc37beaccc24c9d14c75d627fce9cf4
> # bad: [4f2d9934bd6ac73950832c96b385822846670668] drm/i915: Pass drm_frambuffer to intel_compute_page_offset()
> git bisect bad 4f2d9934bd6ac73950832c96b385822846670668
> # bad: [1d5bf5d9d9ef0c1e639d36178a224d83888c5a29] drm/i915: Add missing NULL check before calling initial_watermarks
> git bisect bad 1d5bf5d9d9ef0c1e639d36178a224d83888c5a29
> # bad: [d9f8e52b22454a30aaaf26b7ef029598b30abf8e] drm/i915: remove dead code
> git bisect bad d9f8e52b22454a30aaaf26b7ef029598b30abf8e
> # bad: [c3454d575da162cd310d9b83696baefb29d10a70] drm/i915: remove left over dead code
> git bisect bad c3454d575da162cd310d9b83696baefb29d10a70
> # bad: [ed4a6a7ca853253f9b86f3005d76345482a71283] drm/i915: Add two-stage ILK-style watermark programming (v11)
> git bisect bad ed4a6a7ca853253f9b86f3005d76345482a71283
> # first bad commit: [ed4a6a7ca853253f9b86f3005d76345482a71283] drm/i915: Add two-stage ILK-style watermark programming (v11)


Nothing from the graphics developers? Come on, here is someone who
found a specific patch that causes a problem, and no one responds?

Why isn't this fixed by reverting the above mentioned patch in Linus's
tree already? Or, is there something else that needs to be done?

thanks,

greg k-h