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Message-ID: <b637ec0b0909270949o154343dchffead04922afdfe@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:49:18 +0200 From: Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli@...il.com> To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org> Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, airlied@...ux.ie Subject: Re: Linux-2.6.31-rc4 - i915 errors Hi Jesse. On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org> wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:20:25 +0200 > Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli@...il.com> wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Jesse >> Barnes<jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org> wrote: >> > On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:30:42 +0200 >> > Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli@...il.com> wrote: >> > >> >> Hi. >> >> At boot time my eeepc says: >> >> >> >> [ 0.777082] render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010 >> >> [ 0.777086] page table error >> >> [ 0.777089] PGTBL_ER: 0x00000100 >> >> [ 0.777096] [drm:i915_driver_irq_handler] *ERROR* EIR stuck: >> >> 0x00000010, masking >> >> [ 0.777105] render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010 >> >> [ 0.777108] page table error >> >> [ 0.777111] PGTBL_ER: 0x00000100 >> >> >> >> with vanilla 2.6.31-rc4. >> >> >> >> Those lines weren't present with the previous kernels I used >> >> (2.6.29-stable). Everything works perfectly, actually better than >> >> ever. >> > >> > We recently added some error detection & reporting to the driver. >> > On some machines it's picking up what I think are errors in the >> > initial mode programming (possibly by the BIOS), where the display >> > base pointers are pointing at invalid addresses. We fix those up >> > shortly after loading the module so the error should be harmless, >> > but it would be nice to get rid of it. >> > >> >> Also, I would like to add that it takes very long to initialize the fb >> device with KMS (7/10 of a second): >> >> [ 0.172408] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 >> [ 0.172446] i915 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKA] -> GSI 11 >> (level, low) -> IRQ 11 >> [ 0.172455] i915 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64 >> [ 0.183493] i2c-adapter i2c-1: unable to read EDID block. >> [ 0.183501] i915 0000:00:02.0: LVDS-1: no EDID data >> [ 0.466653] [drm] DAC-6: set mode 640x480 0 >> [ 0.551026] i2c-adapter i2c-1: unable to read EDID block. >> [ 0.551032] i915 0000:00:02.0: LVDS-1: no EDID data >> [ 0.591925] [drm] TV-12: set mode NTSC 480i 0 >> [ 0.773675] render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010 >> [ 0.773679] page table error >> [ 0.773682] PGTBL_ER: 0x00000100 >> [ 0.773687] EIR stuck: 0x00000010, masking >> [ 0.773695] render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010 >> [ 0.773698] page table error >> [ 0.773701] PGTBL_ER: 0x00000100 >> [ 0.779777] [drm] LVDS-8: set mode 1024x600 16 >> [ 0.865630] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x37 >> [ 0.870711] [drm] fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device >> [ 0.870725] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 >> on minor 0 >> >> When Xorg starts we wait another second here: >> >> [ 5.781313] [drm] DAC-6: set mode 640x480 0 >> [ 5.906817] [drm] DAC-6: set mode 640x480 0 >> [ 6.014119] i2c-adapter i2c-1: unable to read EDID block. >> [ 6.014131] i915 0000:00:02.0: LVDS-1: no EDID data >> [ 6.055283] [drm] TV-12: set mode NTSC 480i 0 >> [ 6.215041] [drm] TV-12: set mode NTSC 480i 0 >> [ 6.360195] [drm] DAC-6: set mode 640x480 0 >> [ 6.465721] [drm] DAC-6: set mode 640x480 0 >> [ 6.559368] i2c-adapter i2c-1: unable to read EDID block. >> [ 6.559377] i915 0000:00:02.0: LVDS-1: no EDID data >> [ 6.600574] [drm] TV-12: set mode NTSC 480i 0 >> [ 6.876347] [drm] TV-12: set mode NTSC 480i 0 >> >> Then 5 more seconds: >> >> [ 8.692507] [drm] DAC-6: set mode 640x480 0 >> [ 8.916223] [drm] DAC-6: set mode 640x480 0 >> [ 9.009504] i2c-adapter i2c-1: unable to read EDID block. >> [ 9.009577] i915 0000:00:02.0: LVDS-1: no EDID data >> [ 9.068467] [drm] TV-12: set mode NTSC 480i 0 >> [ 10.893694] [drm] TV-12: set mode NTSC 480i 0 >> [ 13.322289] [drm] DAC-6: set mode 640x480 0 >> [ 13.498363] [drm] DAC-6: set mode 640x480 0 >> [ 13.590332] i2c-adapter i2c-1: unable to read EDID block. >> [ 13.590338] i915 0000:00:02.0: LVDS-1: no EDID data >> [ 13.649226] [drm] TV-12: set mode NTSC 480i 0 >> [ 13.876217] [drm] TV-12: set mode NTSC 480i 0 >> >> Note: I stripped all the messages non-drm related. >> >> Userspace is Xorg 1.6.2 with Intel driver 2.7.99.902 (the newest 2.8 >> hasn't hit Archlinux repositories yet) with no xorg.conf . >> >> In short, my system boots in 13 seconds; about half of those seem to >> be related to the i915 driver. >> >> I would also like to add that this version of the drm driver, coupled >> with the latest versions of the Xorg userspace performs very well, the >> framerate in 3D apps is the highest ever and the picture quality is >> much better compared with 2.6.29.x >> >> In other words, many thanks for your work. > > Yeah we have some code to speed that up a bit on its way upstream. > Some of it is kernel code and some is user code, so to get the full > speedup you'll need to update both (when available, probably in the > next release). The warning is still present with -stable 2.6.31.1 but upgrading userspace to libdrm 2.4.14-3 (libdrm-newest in archlinux AUR) eliminated most of the wait time whilst starting X. It's now 1.2 seconds (before it was about 6.5 seconds). > > -- > Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center > Regards, Fabio -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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