linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] i915 / PM: Fix crash while aborting hibernation (Re: [linux-pm] [regression] "drm/i915: implement new pm ops" disables irq on aborted s2disk)

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Message-ID: <87k4ukd1tc.fsf@pollan.anholt.net>
Date:	Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:59:59 -0800
From:	Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@...ux.intel.com>,
	Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@...fmail.co.uk>
Cc:	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	dri-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i915 / PM: Fix crash while aborting hibernation (Re:
 [linux-pm] [regression] "drm/i915: implement new pm ops" disables irq on
 aborted s2disk)

On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 21:48:24 +0100, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
> On Thursday 04 February 2010, Zhenyu Wang wrote:
> > On 2010.02.03 23:44:41 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Alan Jenkins wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > > 
> > > > I found this regression on my EeePC 701 with modesetting enabled.  When 
> > > > I hibernate using s2disk, I can abort the hibernation by pressing the 
> > > > backspace key.  Doing so breaks X on 2.6.32-rc6 (but not 2.6.32).
> > > 
> > > Yeah.
> > > 
> > > To be honest, I knew that's going to happen, but didn't have the time to take
> > > care of it.
> > > 
> > > The problem is that i915 does literally _nothing_ in its .thaw() callback,
> > > although it should at least reverse whatever .freeze() did to the hardware
> > > (and memory allocations and so on), so that the adapter is functional
> > > after creating the image.
> > > 
> > > Fixing this requires some thought, though, because at the moment .freeze()
> > > thinks it's .suspend(), which is not the case as this report clearly shows.
> > > So, in fact i915_pci_suspend() has to be split into the .freeze() part and
> > > the poweroff part cleanly and that's not  so simple (at least to me).
> > > 
> > 
> > Right, I think that'll be more clean, stuff in i915_save/restore_state() need
> > to be splited too, especially isolate stuff for mode setting and other device
> > state, as what my original purpose for this is to remove extra mode setting 
> > cycle in old behavior so not waste time for hibernate.
> 
> We can't really do that, because we'll need to restore the saved state at the
> resume-from-hibernation stage.
> 
> The appended patch fixes the issue for me, although it's been only tested
> a little.  It sort of defeats the purpose of commit
> cbda12d77ea590082edb6d30bd342a67ebc459e0, but I don't see any less invasive
> way to fix this except maybe for reverting that commit entirely.
> 
> Note that the drm_irq_[un]install() thing may be unnecessary, but I wasn't sure
> about that and surely wouldn't suggest doing that for 2.6.33.  Also it looks like
> some things from the freeze and thaw parts may be moved to the "low-level"
> suspend and resume parts, respectively, but that would require some
> i915_gem_* surgery I was too scared to do.
> 
> Alan, please test, i915 guys, please review.
> 
> Rafael

Applied to for-linus.  Thanks!

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