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

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Message-ID: <15be67b19d898ab74c9ae6d9d9080ef339772e00.camel@intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 24 Apr 2019 13:27:07 -0700
From:   Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni@...el.com>
To:     Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>,
        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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i915: disable framebuffer compression on GeminiLake

Em qua, 2019-04-24 às 20:58 +0100, Chris Wilson escreveu:
> 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.
> 

The bug is well reported, the bug author is helpful and it even has a
description of "steps to reproduce" that looks very easy (although I
didn't try it). Everything suggests this is a bug the display team
could actually solve with not-so-many hours of debugging.

In the meantime, unbreak the systems:
Reviewed-by: Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni@...el.com>

> > ---
> >  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
> >