Re: [REGRESSION] Too-low frequency limit for AMD GPU PCI-passed-through to Windows VM

[James Turner]

Hi Lijo,

> Could you provide the pp_dpm_* values in sysfs with and without the
> patch? Also, could you try forcing PCIE to gen3 (through pp_dpm_pcie)
> if it's not in gen3 when the issue happens?

AFAICT, I can't access those values while the AMD GPU PCI devices are
bound to `vfio-pci`. However, I can at least access the link speed and
width elsewhere in sysfs. So, I gathered what information I could for
two different cases:

- With the PCI devices bound to `vfio-pci`. With this configuration, I
  can start the VM, but the `pp_dpm_*` values are not available since
  the devices are bound to `vfio-pci` instead of `amdgpu`.

- Without the PCI devices bound to `vfio-pci` (i.e. after removing the
  `vfio-pci.ids=...` kernel command line argument). With this
  configuration, I can access the `pp_dpm_*` values, since the PCI
  devices are bound to `amdgpu`. However, I cannot use the VM. If I try
  to start the VM, the display (both the external monitors attached to
  the AMD GPU and the built-in laptop display attached to the Intel
  iGPU) completely freezes.

The output shown below was identical for both the good commit:
f1688bd69ec4 ("drm/amd/amdgpu:save psp ring wptr to avoid attack")
and the commit which introduced the issue:
f9b7f3703ff9 ("drm/amdgpu/acpi: make ATPX/ATCS structures global (v2)")

Note that the PCI link speed increased to 8.0 GT/s when the GPU was
under heavy load for both versions, but the clock speeds of the GPU were
different under load. (For the good commit, it was 1295 MHz; for the bad
commit, it was 501 MHz.)


# With the PCI devices bound to `vfio-pci`

## Before starting the VM

% ls /sys/module/amdgpu/drivers/pci:amdgpu
module  bind  new_id  remove_id  uevent  unbind

% find /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/ -type f -name 'current_link*' -print -exec cat {} \;
/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/current_link_width
8
/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/current_link_speed
8.0 GT/s PCIe

## While running the VM, before placing the AMD GPU under heavy load

% find /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/ -type f -name 'current_link*' -print -exec cat {} \;
/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/current_link_width
8
/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/current_link_speed
2.5 GT/s PCIe

## While running the VM, with the AMD GPU under heavy load

% find /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/ -type f -name 'current_link*' -print -exec cat {} \;
/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/current_link_width
8
/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/current_link_speed
8.0 GT/s PCIe

## While running the VM, after stopping the heavy load on the AMD GPU

% find /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/ -type f -name 'current_link*' -print -exec cat {} \;
/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/current_link_width
8
/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/current_link_speed
2.5 GT/s PCIe

## After stopping the VM

% find /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/ -type f -name 'current_link*' -print -exec cat {} \;
/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/current_link_width
8
/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/current_link_speed
2.5 GT/s PCIe


# Without the PCI devices bound to `vfio-pci`

% ls /sys/module/amdgpu/drivers/pci:amdgpu
0000:01:00.0  module  bind  new_id  remove_id  uevent  unbind

% for f in /sys/module/amdgpu/drivers/pci:amdgpu/*/pp_dpm_*; do echo "$f"; cat "$f"; echo; done
/sys/module/amdgpu/drivers/pci:amdgpu/0000:01:00.0/pp_dpm_mclk
0: 300Mhz
1: 625Mhz
2: 1500Mhz *

/sys/module/amdgpu/drivers/pci:amdgpu/0000:01:00.0/pp_dpm_pcie
0: 2.5GT/s, x8
1: 8.0GT/s, x16 *

/sys/module/amdgpu/drivers/pci:amdgpu/0000:01:00.0/pp_dpm_sclk
0: 214Mhz
1: 501Mhz
2: 850Mhz
3: 1034Mhz
4: 1144Mhz
5: 1228Mhz
6: 1275Mhz
7: 1295Mhz *

% find /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/ -type f -name 'current_link*' -print -exec cat {} \;
/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/current_link_width
8
/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/current_link_speed
8.0 GT/s PCIe


James