RE: [PATCH] drm: make drm_dp_add_payload_part2 gracefully handle NULL state pointer

[Lin, Wayne]

[AMD Official Use Only - General]



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2023 6:30 PM
> To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>; Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx>; Lin,
> Wayne <Wayne.Lin@xxxxxxx>; Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx>; Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx>;
> Deucher, Alexander <Alexander.Deucher@xxxxxxx>; linux-
> kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm: make drm_dp_add_payload_part2 gracefully
> handle NULL state pointer
> 
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2023, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2023-04-17 at 11:44 +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> >> On Fri, 14 Apr 2023, Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > On Fri, 2023-04-14 at 13:35 +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> >> > > On Fri, 14 Apr 2023, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > > > On Fri, 2023-04-14 at 04:40 +0000, Lin, Wayne wrote:
> >> > > > > [Public]
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Hi Jeff,
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Thanks. I might need more information to understand why we
> >> > > > > can't retrieve the drm atomic state. Also , "Failed to create
> >> > > > > MST payload for port" indicates error while configuring DPCD
> >> > > > > payload ID table. Could you help to provide log with KMS +
> ATOMIC + DP debug on please? Thanks in advance!
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Regards,
> >> > > > > Wayne
> >> > > > >
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Possibly. I'm not that familiar with display driver debugging.
> >> > > > Can you send me some directions on how to crank up that sort of
> debug logging?
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Note that this problem is _very_ intermittent too: I went about
> >> > > > 2 weeks between crashes, and then I got 3 in one day. I'd
> >> > > > rather not run with a lot of debug logging for a long time if
> >> > > > that's what this is going to require, as this is my main workstation.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > The last time I got this log message, my proposed patch did
> >> > > > prevent the box from oopsing, so I'd really like to see it go
> >> > > > in unless it's just categorically wrong for the caller to pass
> >> > > > down a NULL state pointer to drm_dp_add_payload_part2.
> >> > >
> >> > > Cc: Lyude.
> >> > >
> >> > > Looks like the state parameter was added in commit 4d07b0bc4034
> >> > > ("drm/display/dp_mst: Move all payload info into the atomic
> >> > > state") and its only use is to get at state->dev for debug logging.
> >> > >
> >> > > What's the plan for the parameter? Surely something more than
> >> > > that! :)
> >> >
> >> > I don't think there was any plan for that, or at least I certainly
> >> > don't even remember adding that D:. It must totally have been by
> >> > mistake and snuck by review, if that's the only thing that we're
> >> > using it for I'd say it's definitely fine to just drop it entirely
> >>
> >> I guess we could use two patches then, first replace state->dev with
> >> mgr->dev as something that can be backported as needed, and second
> >> mgr->drop
> >> the state parameter altogether.
> >>
> >> Jeff, up for it? At least the first one?
> >>
> >>
> >> BR,
> >> Jani.
> >>
> >
> > Sure. I'm happy to test patches if you send them along.
> 
> I was hoping to lure you into sending patches. ;)
> 
> Anyway, I'm not working on this.
> 
> 
Hi Jeff,

I probably know the root cause. 
But it doesn't need to use the state in the end, I will just rely on the patch 
that Jani suggested to fix it. I can help to provide the patch later : )

> BR,
> Jani.
> 
> >
> > Thanks,
> 
> --
> Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center

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Regards,
Wayne