Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 3/3] ALSA: hda: Disabled unused audio controller for Dell platforms with Switchable Graphics

[Lukas Wunner]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 05:10:23PM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> Some Dell platforms (Preicsion 7510/7710/7520/7720) have a BIOS option
> "Switchable Graphics" (SG).
> 
> When SG is enabled, we have:
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 591b (rev 04)
> 00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation CM238 HD Audio Controller (rev 31)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.  [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Polaris10]
> 01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 580]
> 
> The Intel Audio outputs all the sound, including HDMI audio. The audio
> controller comes with AMD graphics doesn't get used.
> 
> When SG is disabled, we have:
> 00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation CM238 HD Audio Controller (rev 31)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.  [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Polaris10]
> 01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 580]
> 
> Now it's a typical discrete-only system. HDMI audio comes from AMD audio
> controller, others from Intel audio controller.
> 
> When SG is enabled, the unused AMD audio controller still exposes its
> sysfs, so userspace still opens the control file and stream. If
> userspace tries to output sound through the stream, it hangs when
> runtime suspend kicks in:
> [ 12.796265] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Disabling via vga_switcheroo
> [ 12.796367] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Cannot lock devices!

This should be fixed by the following series:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2018-March/168012.html

Please verify that by testing the series on the machine in question.
I'm hoping to get those patches in for 4.17.  I suspect that your
patch may not be necessary then.


> Since the discrete audio controller isn't useful when SG enabled, we
> should just disable the device.

I don't quite follow, when SG is enabled but hda_intel doesn't bind
to the AMD audio device, how are you going to stream audio to
external displays?  Are external DP/HDMI ports muxed to the integrated
GPU when SG is enabled?

Thanks,

Lukas

> 
> Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: Mario suggested to squash the HDA part into the same series.
> 
>  sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
> index 96143df19b21..8e3e8b88624a 100644
> --- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
> +++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
> @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
>  #include <linux/clocksource.h>
>  #include <linux/time.h>
>  #include <linux/completion.h>
> +#include <linux/dell-common.h>
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86
>  /* for snoop control */
> @@ -1620,6 +1621,35 @@ static void check_msi(struct azx *chip)
>  	}
>  }
>  
> +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DELL_LAPTOP)
> +static bool check_dell_switchable_gfx(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> +{
> +	static int (*dell_switchable_gfx_enabled_func)(bool *);
> +	bool enabled;
> +	int err;
> +
> +	if (pdev->vendor != PCI_VENDOR_ID_ATI ||
> +	    pdev->subsystem_vendor != PCI_VENDOR_ID_DELL)
> +		return false;
> +
> +	dell_switchable_gfx_enabled_func =
> +		symbol_request(dell_switchable_gfx_enabled);
> +	if (!dell_switchable_gfx_enabled_func)
> +		return false;
> +
> +	err = dell_switchable_gfx_enabled_func(&enabled);
> +
> +	symbol_put(dell_switchable_gfx_enabled);
> +
> +	return !err ? enabled : false;
> +}
> +#else
> +static bool check_dell_switchable_gfx(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> +{
> +	return false;
> +}
> +#endif
> +
>  /* check the snoop mode availability */
>  static void azx_check_snoop_available(struct azx *chip)
>  {
> @@ -1702,6 +1732,11 @@ static int azx_create(struct snd_card *card, struct pci_dev *pci,
>  	if (err < 0)
>  		return err;
>  
> +	if (check_dell_switchable_gfx(pci)) {
> +		pci_disable_device(pci);
> +		return -ENODEV;
> +	}
> +
>  	hda = kzalloc(sizeof(*hda), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!hda) {
>  		pci_disable_device(pci);
> -- 
> 2.15.1
> 
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