linux-kernel - Re: [Intel-gfx] 3.15-rc5: Regression in i915 driver?

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Message-ID: <20140519070705.GA8790@phenom.ffwll.local>
Date:	Mon, 19 May 2014 09:07:05 +0200
From:	Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
To:	Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>,
	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
	"intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org" <intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] 3.15-rc5: Regression in i915 driver?

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 08:13:38PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 09:08:40PM +0200, Thomas Meyer wrote:
> > Am Montag, den 12.05.2014, 07:33 +0100 schrieb Chris Wilson:
> > > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 07:40:57PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com> wrote:
> > > > > On 11 May 2014 18:28, Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de> wrote:
> > > > >> Hi,
> > > > >>
> > > > >> 3.14.3 works as expected.
> > > > >> 3.15-rc5 shows a strange behaviour: When resuming from ram the X server
> > > > >> seems to be disfunctional.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> I see this WARNING in the kernel log before suspend to ram in the early
> > > > >> boot process:
> > > > 
> > > > Doesn't ring a bell really.
> > > 
> > > Same symptoms as
> > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76554
> > > -Chris
> > > 
> > 
> > bisected this to:
> > # first bad commit: [78f2975eec9faff353a6194e854d3d39907bab68] drm/i915: Move all ring resets before setting the HWS page
> > 
> > commit 78f2975eec9faff353a6194e854d3d39907bab68
> > Author: Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
> > Date:   Wed Apr 2 16:36:07 2014 +0100
> > 
> >     drm/i915: Move all ring resets before setting the HWS page
> >     
> >     In commit a51435a3137ad8ae75c288c39bd2d8b2696bae8f
> >     Author: Naresh Kumar Kachhi <naresh.kumar.kachhi@...el.com>
> >     Date:   Wed Mar 12 16:39:40 2014 +0530
> >     
> >         drm/i915: disable rings before HW status page setup
> >     
> >     we reordered stopping the rings to do so before we set the HWS register.
> >     However, there is an extra workaround for g45 to reset the rings twice,
> >     and for consistency we should apply that workaround before setting the
> >     HWS to be sure that the rings are truly stopped.
> >     
> >     Reference: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140423202248.GA3621@amd.pavel.ucw.cz
> >     Tested-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
> >     Cc: Naresh Kumar Kachhi <naresh.kumar.kachhi@...el.com>
> >     Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
> >     Reviewed-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
> >     Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
> >     Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>
> > 
> > Reverting above commit from current linus' master tree makes the display server behave correctly after resume from ram.
> 
> Boot time regression trumps resume regression? Doubly-so as we have an
> earlier resume regression with identical symptoms?

I'll check on my gm45 - that has has become much more crashy ime in 3.15
somehow, with ring init failures.
-Daniel
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