Re: 5.9.11 still hanging 2mn at each boot and looping on nvidia-gpu 0000:01:00.3: PME# enabled (Quadro RTX 4000 Mobile)

[Marc MERLIN <marc_nouveau@merlins.org>]

On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 03:12:09AM -0800, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> > after boot, when it gets the right trigger (not sure which ones), it
> > loops on this evern 2 seconds, mostly forever.
> 
> The gpu suspends with runtime pm. And then gets woken up for some
> reason (could be something quite silly, like lspci, or could be
> something explicitly checking connectors, etc). Repeat.

Ah, fair point.  Could it be powertop even?
How would I go towards tracing that?
Sounds like this would be a problem with all chips if userspace is able
to wake them up every second or two with a probe. Now I wonder what
broken userspace I have that could be doing this.
 
> Display offload usually requires acceleration -- the copies are done
> using the DMA engine. Please make sure that you have firmware
> available (and a new enough mesa). The errors suggest that you don't
> have firmware available at the time that nouveau loads. Depending on
> your setup, that might mean the firmware has to be built into the
> kernel, or available in initramfs. (Or just regular filesystem if you
> don't use a complicated boot sequence. But many people go with distro
> defaults, which do have this complexity.)

Hi Ilia, thanks for your answer.

Do you think that could be a reason why the boot would hang for 2 full minutes at every
boot ever since I upgraded to 5.5?

Also, without wanting to sound like a full newbie, where is that
firmware you're talking about? In my kernel source?

Here's what I do have:
sauron:/usr/local/bin# dpkggrep nouveau
libdrm-nouveau2:amd64				install
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau			install

no nouveau-firmware package in debian:
sauron:/usr/local/bin# apt-cache search nouveau
bumblebee - NVIDIA Optimus support for Linux
libdrm-nouveau2 - Userspace interface to nouveau-specific kernel DRM services -- runtime
xfonts-jmk - Jim Knoble's character-cell fonts for X
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - X.Org X server -- Nouveau display driver

No firmware file on my disk:
sauron:/usr/local/bin# find /lib/modules/5.9.11-amd64-preempt-sysrq-20190817/ /lib/firmware/ |grep nouveau
/lib/modules/5.9.11-amd64-preempt-sysrq-20190817/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau
/lib/modules/5.9.11-amd64-preempt-sysrq-20190817/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko
sauron:/usr/local/bin# 

The kernel module is in my initrd:
sauron:/usr/local/bin# dd if=/boot/initrd.img-5.9.11-amd64-preempt-sysrq-20190817 bs=2966528  skip=1 | gunzip | cpio -tdv | grep nouveau
drwxr-xr-x   1 root     root            0 Nov 30 15:40 usr/lib/modules/5.9.11-amd64-preempt-sysrq-20190817/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      3691385 Nov 30 15:35 usr/lib/modules/5.9.11-amd64-preempt-sysrq-20190817/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko
17+1 records in
17+1 records out
52566778 bytes (53 MB, 50 MiB) copied, 1.69708 s, 31.0 MB/s

What am I supposed to do/check next?

Note that ultimately I only need nouveau not to hang my boot 2mn and do
PM so that the nvidia chip goes to sleep since I don't use it.

Thanks,
Marc
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