Re: [PATCH v4] pci: prevent putting nvidia GPUs into lower device states on certain intel bridges

[Karol Herbst]

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 12:39 PM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 12:17 PM Karol Herbst <kherbst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > anybody any other ideas?
>
> Not yet, but I'm trying to collect some more information.
>
> > It seems that both patches don't really fix
> > the issue and I have no idea left on my side to try out. The only
> > thing left I could do to further investigate would be to reverse
> > engineer the Nvidia driver as they support runpm on Turing+ GPUs now,
> > but I've heard users having similar issues to the one Lyude told us
> > about... and I couldn't verify that the patches help there either in a
> > reliable way.
>
> It looks like the newer (8+) versions of Windows expect the GPU driver
> to prepare the GPU for power removal in some specific way and the
> latter fails if the GPU has not been prepared as expected.
>
> Because testing indicates that the Windows 7 path in the platform
> firmware works, it may be worth trying to do what it does to the PCIe
> link before invoking the _OFF method for the power resource
> controlling the GPU power.
>

ohh, that actually makes sense. Didn't think of that yet.

> If the Mika's theory that the Win7 path simply turns the PCIe link off
> is correct, then whatever the _OFF method tries to do to the link
> after that should not matter.
>

By the way, and I was only thinking about it after sending my last
email out, do you think we should fail the runtime resume path if the
device gets stuck in a power state?

Currently pci core always calls into the driver regardless, but maybe
for D3cold it really makes sense to just bail and refuse to resume? I
think I tried that as an early "fix" and might even have a patch
around. This should at least prevent crashes inside drivers trying to
access invalid memory or getting stuck in loops.

> > On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 8:55 PM Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2019-11-27 at 12:51 +0100, Karol Herbst wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 12:49 PM Mika Westerberg
> > > > <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 06:10:36PM -0500, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > > > > > Hey-this is almost certainly not the right place in this thread to
> > > > > > respond,
> > > > > > but this thread has gotten so deep evolution can't push the subject
> > > > > > further to
> > > > > > the right, heh. So I'll just respond here.
> > > > >
> > > > > :)
> > > > >
> > > > > > I've been following this and helping out Karol with testing here and
> > > > > > there.
> > > > > > They had me test Bjorn's PCI branch on the X1 Extreme 2nd generation,
> > > > > > which
> > > > > > has a turing GPU and 8086:1901 PCI bridge.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I was about to say "the patch fixed things, hooray!" but it seems that
> > > > > > after
> > > > > > trying runtime suspend/resume a couple times things fall apart again:
> > > > >
> > > > > You mean $subject patch, no?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > no, I told Lyude to test the pci/pm branch as the runpm errors we saw
> > > > on that machine looked different. Some BAR error the GPU reported
> > > > after it got resumed, so I was wondering if the delays were helping
> > > > with that. But after some cycles it still caused the same issue, that
> > > > the GPU disappeared. Later testing also showed that my patch also
> > > > didn't seem to help with this error sadly :/
> > > >
> > > > > > [  686.883247] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: suspending object tree...
> > > > > > [  752.866484] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP.NVPO due
> > > > > > to previous error (AE_AML_LOOP_TIMEOUT) (20190816/psparse-529)
> > > > > > [  752.866508] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.PGON due to
> > > > > > previous error (AE_AML_LOOP_TIMEOUT) (20190816/psparse-529)
> > > > > > [  752.866521] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PG00._ON due
> > > > > > to previous error (AE_AML_LOOP_TIMEOUT) (20190816/psparse-529)
> > > > >
> > > > > This is probably the culprit. The same AML code fails to properly turn
> > > > > on the device.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is acpidump from this system available somewhere?
> > >
> > > Attached it to this email
> > >
> > > > >
> > > --
> > > Cheers,
> > >         Lyude Paul
> >
>