linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] i915: disable framebuffer compression on GeminiLake

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Message-ID: <155613593248.25205.769591454199358982@skylake-alporthouse-com>
Date:   Wed, 24 Apr 2019 20:58:52 +0100
From:   Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
To:     Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>, David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jian-Hong Pan <jian-hong@...lessm.com>,
        Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@...el.com>
Cc:     intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux@...lessm.com,
        Daniel Drake <drake@...lessm.com>,
        Jian-Hong Pan <jian-hong@...lessm.com>,
        Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i915: disable framebuffer compression on GeminiLake

Quoting Jian-Hong Pan (2019-04-23 10:28:10)
> From: Daniel Drake <drake@...lessm.com>
> 
> On many (all?) the Gemini Lake systems we work with, there is frequent
> momentary graphical corruption at the top of the screen, and it seems
> that disabling framebuffer compression can avoid this.
> 
> The ticket was reported 6 months ago and has already affected a
> multitude of users, without any real progress being made. So, lets
> disable framebuffer compression on GeminiLake until a solution is found.
> 
> Buglink: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108085
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <drake@...lessm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jian-Hong Pan <jian-hong@...lessm.com>

Fixes: fd7d6c5c8f3e ("drm/i915: enable FBC on gen9+ too") ?
Cc: Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni@...el.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # v4.11+

glk landed 1 month before, so that seems the earliest broken point.

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbc.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbc.c
> index 656e684e7c9a..fc018f3f53a1 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbc.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbc.c
> @@ -1278,6 +1278,10 @@ static int intel_sanitize_fbc_option(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
>         if (!HAS_FBC(dev_priv))
>                 return 0;
>  
> +       /* https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108085 */
> +       if (IS_GEMINILAKE(dev_priv))
> +               return 0;
> +
>         if (IS_BROADWELL(dev_priv) || INTEL_GEN(dev_priv) >= 9)
>                 return 1;
>  
> -- 
> 2.21.0
>