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Message-ID: <CACO55tu9PqhgjCEB0psaqnh+-FEOj7Y+sB_So56iHnE2kj9Z+A@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 13:19:30 +0100
From: Karol Herbst <kherbst@...hat.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...el.com>,
Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
Linux PCI <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
nouveau <nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
Mario Limonciello <Mario.Limonciello@...l.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] pci: prevent putting nvidia GPUs into lower device
states on certain intel bridges
It depends on the kernel being built with ACPI_REV_OVERRIDE_POSSIBLE=y
and acpi_rev_override=1 being set on the kernel command line
On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 1:15 PM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 1:10 PM Karol Herbst <kherbst@...hat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 1:06 PM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@...nel.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 12:51 PM Karol Herbst <kherbst@...hat.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 12:48 PM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@...nel.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 12:22 PM Mika Westerberg
> > > > > <mika.westerberg@...el.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 11:52:22AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 11:18 AM Mika Westerberg
> > > > > > > <mika.westerberg@...el.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > >
> > >
> > > [cut]
> > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Oh, so does it look like we are trying to work around AML that tried
> > > > > > > to work around some problematic behavior in Linux at one point?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Yes, it looks like so if I read the ASL right.
> > > > >
> > > > > OK, so that would call for a DMI-based quirk as the real cause for the
> > > > > issue seems to be the AML in question, which means a firmware problem.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > And I disagree as this is a linux specific workaround and windows goes
> > > > that path and succeeds. This firmware based workaround was added,
> > > > because it broke on Linux.
> > >
> > > Apparently so at the time it was added, but would it still break after
> > > the kernel changes made since then?
> > >
> > > Moreover, has it not become harmful now? IOW, wouldn't it work after
> > > removing the "Linux workaround" from the AML?
> > >
> > > The only way to verify that I can see would be to run the system with
> > > custom ACPI tables without the "Linux workaround" in the AML in
> > > question.
> > >
> >
> > the workaround is not enabled by default, because it has to be
> > explicitly enabled by the user.
>
> I'm not sure what you are talking about.
>
> I'm taking specifically about the ((OSYS == 0x07DF) && (_REV == 0x05))
> check mentioned by Mika which doesn't seem to depend on user input in
> any way.
>
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