[PATCH] drm/nouveau: fix hibernate on disabled GPU

From: chr[]
Date: Tue Mar 04 2025 - 16:08:53 EST


Hibernate bricks the machine if a discrete GPU was disabled via

echo IGD > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch

The freeze and thaw handler lacks checking the GPU power state,
as suspend and resume do.

This patch add the checks and fix this issue.

Signed-off-by: chr[] <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
I got an old MacBook having a defective nvidia GPU

So I put this in the initrd scripts to turn it off asap:

mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug
echo IGD > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch

which powers down the nouveau.

Suspend and resume works,
but hibernate locks up the machine.

The handlers are not checking the GPU state.

Signed-off-by:
---
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c
index 5664c4c71faf1ced30f38d9874244db80d58194a..0958d1b940c2533bfadc29e098045db6f0170c79 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c
@@ -1079,6 +1079,10 @@ nouveau_pmops_freeze(struct device *dev)
{
struct nouveau_drm *drm = dev_get_drvdata(dev);

+ if (drm->dev->switch_power_state == DRM_SWITCH_POWER_OFF ||
+ drm->dev->switch_power_state == DRM_SWITCH_POWER_DYNAMIC_OFF)
+ return 0;
+
return nouveau_do_suspend(drm, false);
}

@@ -1087,6 +1091,10 @@ nouveau_pmops_thaw(struct device *dev)
{
struct nouveau_drm *drm = dev_get_drvdata(dev);

+ if (drm->dev->switch_power_state == DRM_SWITCH_POWER_OFF ||
+ drm->dev->switch_power_state == DRM_SWITCH_POWER_DYNAMIC_OFF)
+ return 0;
+
return nouveau_do_resume(drm, false);
}


---
base-commit: 7eb172143d5508b4da468ed59ee857c6e5e01da6
change-id: 20250304-nouveau-fix-hibernate-249826d427bb

Best regards,
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chr[] <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx>