Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2] drm/i915: dell wyse 3040 shutdown fix

[Jani Nikula]

On Tue, 27 Dec 2022, Alexey Lukyachuk <skif@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 11:39:25 -0500
> Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Dec 25, 2022 at 09:55:08PM +0300, Alexey Lukyanchuk wrote:
>> > dell wyse 3040 doesn't peform poweroff properly, but instead remains in 
>> > turned power on state.
>> 
>> okay, the motivation is explained in the commit msg..
>> 
>> > Additional mutex_lock and 
>> > intel_crtc_wait_for_next_vblank 
>> > feature 6.2 kernel resolve this trouble.
>> 
>> but this why is not very clear... seems that by magic it was found,
>> without explaining what race we are really protecting here.
>> 
>> but even worse is:
>> what about those many random vblank waits in the code? what's the
>> reasoning?
>> 
> I would like to say, that this solution was found in drm-tip repository:
> link: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm-tip
> I will quotate original commit message from Ville Syrjälä 
> <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: "The spec tells us to do a bunch of 
> vblank waits in the audio enable/disable sequences. Make it so."
> So it's just a backport of accepted patch.
> Which i wanna to propagate to stable versions

This is not how stable kernel backports work. Please read [1].

Does v6.2-rc1 work for you? It has all the relevant commits. Which
stable kernel are you trying to backport them to?

Though I must say I find it surprising that these changes would fix a
poweroff issue, and it certainly was not the goal. I'm wondering if it's
just a coincidence due to timing and/or locking changes.

Have you reported an issue at fdo gitlab [2]?


BR,
Jani.



[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
[2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/wikis/How-to-file-i915-bugs


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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center