From: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
To: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Roland Singer <roland.singer@desertbit.com>,
Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>,
Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>,
Linux PCI <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
"Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
ML dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 21:21:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160830192112.GA18045@al> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKb7Uvjzhog27TUPTn5OOqXviyD_z3UV0qvskZDEO8CAB2-i2w@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 02:13:46PM -0400, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Roland Singer
> <roland.singer@desertbit.com> wrote:
> > I configured bbswitch to not set any states automatically...
> > So it's possible to obtain and verify the GPU power state.
> >
> > However I removed the bbswitch module and booted with nouveau.
> >
> > Kernel 4.7.2: nouveau switches the discrete GPU off.
> > I can't trigger the freeze, because bbswitch is missing.
> > I'll work with the system and see if it will freeze.
> >
> > Kernel 4.8-rc4: nouveau does not care about the power state and
> > the discrete GPU is never switched off. I will notice
> > this, because the second cooling FAN will stop...
> > Same log messages as send before.
>
> That's surprising. I believe there's an issue with the new logic when
> there's an HDMI audio subdevice. However that only appears if there's
> a cable plugged in, at least in the systems Peter tested. You should
> be able to see whether it's there or not with 'lspci'.
I doubt that the audio device is responsible here, that should only show
up after following very specific steps (runtime suspend/resume (PCI or
ACPI magic), remove PCI device, rescan bus).
> You can check for sure by looking in the vgaswitcheroo state. It
> should say DynOff when it's powered off.
>
> Either way, I think using bbswitch + nouveau isn't supported by
> anyone, so if you want to use it that way, you're on your own. (You
> may want to load nouveau with runpm=0 so that nouveau doesn't try to
> manage the GPU suspend stuff.)
I understood that Roland's intent is to check the power state, not use
the suspend functionality of bbswitch, if you load bbswitch without
module options amd do not write to /proc/bbswitch, then it allows you to
read out the actual status (you could also just use lspci -H1 for that
though).
--
Kind regards,
Peter Wu
https://lekensteyn.nl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-30 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2016-08-29 16:02 ` Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Bjorn Helgaas
2016-08-29 18:46 ` Roland Singer
2016-08-29 19:07 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2016-08-29 19:55 ` Roland Singer
2016-08-29 23:54 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2016-08-30 10:08 ` Roland Singer
2016-08-30 13:06 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2016-08-30 14:08 ` Emil Velikov
2016-08-30 15:25 ` Roland Singer
2016-08-30 15:44 ` Ilia Mirkin
2016-08-30 15:48 ` Ilia Mirkin
2016-08-30 15:48 ` Emil Velikov
2016-08-30 17:37 ` Roland Singer
2016-08-30 17:43 ` Ilia Mirkin
2016-08-30 18:02 ` Roland Singer
2016-08-30 18:13 ` Ilia Mirkin
2016-08-30 19:21 ` Peter Wu [this message]
2016-08-31 11:12 ` Roland Singer
2016-08-31 11:11 ` Roland Singer
2016-08-30 18:09 ` Emil Velikov
2016-08-30 18:10 ` Emil Velikov
2016-08-31 10:51 ` Roland Singer
2016-08-30 19:53 ` Peter Wu
2016-08-31 11:27 ` Roland Singer
2016-08-31 11:46 ` Peter Wu
2016-08-31 12:21 ` Roland Singer
2016-08-31 12:34 ` Peter Wu
2016-08-31 13:13 ` Roland Singer
2016-08-31 20:06 ` Roland Singer
2016-08-31 20:16 ` Roland Singer
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