Re: [PATCH v2] ALSA: hda: Continue to probe when codec probe fails

Re: [PATCH v2] ALSA: hda: Continue to probe when codec probe fails

[Kai-Heng Feng]

[+Cc nouveau]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 4:06 PM Takashi Iwai <tiwai-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org> wrote:
[snip]
> > Quite possibly the system doesn't power up HDA controller when there's
> > no external monitor.
> > So when it's connected to external monitor, it's still needed for HDMI audio.
> > Let me ask the user to confirm this.
>
> Yeah, it's the basic question whether the HD-audio is supposed to work
> on this machine at all.  If yes, the current approach we take makes
> less sense - instead we should rather make the HD-audio controller
> working.

Yea, confirmed that the Nvidia HDA works when HDMI is connected prior boot.

> > > - The second problem is that pci_enable_device() ignores the error
> > >   returned from pci_set_power_state() if it's -EIO.  And the
> > >   inaccessible access error returns -EIO, although it's rather a fatal
> > >   problem.  So the driver believes as the PCI device gets enabled
> > >   properly.
> >
> > This was introduced in 2005, by Alan's 11f3859b1e85 ("[PATCH] PCI: Fix
> > regression in pci_enable_device_bars") to fix UHCI controller.
> >
> > >
> > > - The third problem is that HD-audio driver blindly believes the
> > >   codec_mask read from the register even if it's a read failure as I
> > >   already showed.
> >
> > This approach has least regression risk.
>
> Yes, but it assumes that HD-audio is really non-existent.

I really don't know any good approach to address this.
On Windows, HDA PCI is "hidden" until HDMI cable is plugged, then the
driver will flag the magic bit to make HDA audio appear on the PCI
bus.
IIRC the current approach is to make nouveau and device link work.

Kai-Heng

>
>
> thanks,
>
> Takashi

Re: [PATCH v2] ALSA: hda: Continue to probe when codec probe fails

[Takashi Iwai]

On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 17:33:20 +0100,
Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> 
> [+Cc nouveau]
> 
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 4:06 PM Takashi Iwai <tiwai-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> [snip]
> > > Quite possibly the system doesn't power up HDA controller when there's
> > > no external monitor.
> > > So when it's connected to external monitor, it's still needed for HDMI audio.
> > > Let me ask the user to confirm this.
> >
> > Yeah, it's the basic question whether the HD-audio is supposed to work
> > on this machine at all.  If yes, the current approach we take makes
> > less sense - instead we should rather make the HD-audio controller
> > working.
> 
> Yea, confirmed that the Nvidia HDA works when HDMI is connected prior boot.
> 
> > > > - The second problem is that pci_enable_device() ignores the error
> > > >   returned from pci_set_power_state() if it's -EIO.  And the
> > > >   inaccessible access error returns -EIO, although it's rather a fatal
> > > >   problem.  So the driver believes as the PCI device gets enabled
> > > >   properly.
> > >
> > > This was introduced in 2005, by Alan's 11f3859b1e85 ("[PATCH] PCI: Fix
> > > regression in pci_enable_device_bars") to fix UHCI controller.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > - The third problem is that HD-audio driver blindly believes the
> > > >   codec_mask read from the register even if it's a read failure as I
> > > >   already showed.
> > >
> > > This approach has least regression risk.
> >
> > Yes, but it assumes that HD-audio is really non-existent.
> 
> I really don't know any good approach to address this.
> On Windows, HDA PCI is "hidden" until HDMI cable is plugged, then the
> driver will flag the magic bit to make HDA audio appear on the PCI
> bus.
> IIRC the current approach is to make nouveau and device link work.

But what happens if you plug the HDMI cable later and want to use the
HDMI audio?  It won't work with your fix, right?


Takashi

Re: [PATCH v2] ALSA: hda: Continue to probe when codec probe fails

[Kai-Heng Feng]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 12:47 AM Takashi Iwai <tiwai-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org> wrote:
[snip]
> But what happens if you plug the HDMI cable later and want to use the
> HDMI audio?  It won't work with your fix, right?

No it won't.
It's possible to fix from nouveau, but it's at the mercy of Nvidia to
fix their proprietary driver, which many users use.

Kai-Heng

>
>
> Takashi

Re: [PATCH v2] ALSA: hda: Continue to probe when codec probe fails

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 11:33 AM Kai-Heng Feng
<kai.heng.feng-Z7WLFzj8eWMS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> [+Cc nouveau]
>
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 4:06 PM Takashi Iwai <tiwai-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> [snip]
> > > Quite possibly the system doesn't power up HDA controller when there's
> > > no external monitor.
> > > So when it's connected to external monitor, it's still needed for HDMI audio.
> > > Let me ask the user to confirm this.
> >
> > Yeah, it's the basic question whether the HD-audio is supposed to work
> > on this machine at all.  If yes, the current approach we take makes
> > less sense - instead we should rather make the HD-audio controller
> > working.
>
> Yea, confirmed that the Nvidia HDA works when HDMI is connected prior boot.
>
> > > > - The second problem is that pci_enable_device() ignores the error
> > > >   returned from pci_set_power_state() if it's -EIO.  And the
> > > >   inaccessible access error returns -EIO, although it's rather a fatal
> > > >   problem.  So the driver believes as the PCI device gets enabled
> > > >   properly.
> > >
> > > This was introduced in 2005, by Alan's 11f3859b1e85 ("[PATCH] PCI: Fix
> > > regression in pci_enable_device_bars") to fix UHCI controller.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > - The third problem is that HD-audio driver blindly believes the
> > > >   codec_mask read from the register even if it's a read failure as I
> > > >   already showed.
> > >
> > > This approach has least regression risk.
> >
> > Yes, but it assumes that HD-audio is really non-existent.
>
> I really don't know any good approach to address this.
> On Windows, HDA PCI is "hidden" until HDMI cable is plugged, then the
> driver will flag the magic bit to make HDA audio appear on the PCI
> bus.
> IIRC the current approach is to make nouveau and device link work.

I don't have the full context of this discussion, but the kernel
force-enables the HDA subfunction nowadays, irrespective of nouveau or
nvidia or whatever:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/pci/quirks.c?h=v5.10#n5267

Cheers,

  -ilia

Re: [PATCH v2] ALSA: hda: Continue to probe when codec probe fails

[Kai-Heng Feng]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 1:56 AM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin-FrUbXkNCsVf2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 11:33 AM Kai-Heng Feng
> <kai.heng.feng-Z7WLFzj8eWMS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >
> > [+Cc nouveau]
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 4:06 PM Takashi Iwai <tiwai-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > > Quite possibly the system doesn't power up HDA controller when there's
> > > > no external monitor.
> > > > So when it's connected to external monitor, it's still needed for HDMI audio.
> > > > Let me ask the user to confirm this.
> > >
> > > Yeah, it's the basic question whether the HD-audio is supposed to work
> > > on this machine at all.  If yes, the current approach we take makes
> > > less sense - instead we should rather make the HD-audio controller
> > > working.
> >
> > Yea, confirmed that the Nvidia HDA works when HDMI is connected prior boot.
> >
> > > > > - The second problem is that pci_enable_device() ignores the error
> > > > >   returned from pci_set_power_state() if it's -EIO.  And the
> > > > >   inaccessible access error returns -EIO, although it's rather a fatal
> > > > >   problem.  So the driver believes as the PCI device gets enabled
> > > > >   properly.
> > > >
> > > > This was introduced in 2005, by Alan's 11f3859b1e85 ("[PATCH] PCI: Fix
> > > > regression in pci_enable_device_bars") to fix UHCI controller.
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > - The third problem is that HD-audio driver blindly believes the
> > > > >   codec_mask read from the register even if it's a read failure as I
> > > > >   already showed.
> > > >
> > > > This approach has least regression risk.
> > >
> > > Yes, but it assumes that HD-audio is really non-existent.
> >
> > I really don't know any good approach to address this.
> > On Windows, HDA PCI is "hidden" until HDMI cable is plugged, then the
> > driver will flag the magic bit to make HDA audio appear on the PCI
> > bus.
> > IIRC the current approach is to make nouveau and device link work.
>
> I don't have the full context of this discussion, but the kernel
> force-enables the HDA subfunction nowadays, irrespective of nouveau or
> nvidia or whatever:

That's the problem.

The nvidia HDA controller on the affected system only gets its power
after HDMI cable plugged, so the probe on boot fails.

Kai-Heng

>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/pci/quirks.c?h=v5.10#n5267
>
> Cheers,
>
>   -ilia

Re: [PATCH v2] ALSA: hda: Continue to probe when codec probe fails

[Karol Herbst]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 3:50 AM Kai-Heng Feng
<kai.heng.feng-Z7WLFzj8eWMS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 1:56 AM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin-FrUbXkNCsVf2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 11:33 AM Kai-Heng Feng
> > <kai.heng.feng-Z7WLFzj8eWMS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > [+Cc nouveau]
> > >
> > > On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 4:06 PM Takashi Iwai <tiwai-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > > > > Quite possibly the system doesn't power up HDA controller when there's
> > > > > no external monitor.
> > > > > So when it's connected to external monitor, it's still needed for HDMI audio.
> > > > > Let me ask the user to confirm this.
> > > >
> > > > Yeah, it's the basic question whether the HD-audio is supposed to work
> > > > on this machine at all.  If yes, the current approach we take makes
> > > > less sense - instead we should rather make the HD-audio controller
> > > > working.
> > >
> > > Yea, confirmed that the Nvidia HDA works when HDMI is connected prior boot.
> > >
> > > > > > - The second problem is that pci_enable_device() ignores the error
> > > > > >   returned from pci_set_power_state() if it's -EIO.  And the
> > > > > >   inaccessible access error returns -EIO, although it's rather a fatal
> > > > > >   problem.  So the driver believes as the PCI device gets enabled
> > > > > >   properly.
> > > > >
> > > > > This was introduced in 2005, by Alan's 11f3859b1e85 ("[PATCH] PCI: Fix
> > > > > regression in pci_enable_device_bars") to fix UHCI controller.
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > - The third problem is that HD-audio driver blindly believes the
> > > > > >   codec_mask read from the register even if it's a read failure as I
> > > > > >   already showed.
> > > > >
> > > > > This approach has least regression risk.
> > > >
> > > > Yes, but it assumes that HD-audio is really non-existent.
> > >
> > > I really don't know any good approach to address this.
> > > On Windows, HDA PCI is "hidden" until HDMI cable is plugged, then the
> > > driver will flag the magic bit to make HDA audio appear on the PCI
> > > bus.
> > > IIRC the current approach is to make nouveau and device link work.
> >
> > I don't have the full context of this discussion, but the kernel
> > force-enables the HDA subfunction nowadays, irrespective of nouveau or
> > nvidia or whatever:
>
> That's the problem.
>
> The nvidia HDA controller on the affected system only gets its power
> after HDMI cable plugged, so the probe on boot fails.
>

it might be that the code to enable the sub function is a bit broken
:/ but it should work. Maybe the quirk_nvidia_hda function needs to be
called on more occasions? No idea.

> Kai-Heng
>
> >
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/pci/quirks.c?h=v5.10#n5267
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >   -ilia
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Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH v2] ALSA: hda: Continue to probe when codec probe fails

[Roy Spliet]

Reviving this thread as we have another user (rightfully) complaining on 
IRC about this.

The way I see it there's two issues:
1) snd_hda_intel not allowing runpm (or w/e vgaswitcheroo needs) when 
there's missing codecs, inhibiting the entire GPU from performing runpm. 
This needlessly wastes lots of battery power.
2) HDMI audio not working on such machines unless it was plugged in at 
boot-time.

The original workarounds proposed by Kai-Heng seem to fix 1), which is 
progress. I don't see a reason why that should be held off even if it 
doesn't fix 2).
To fix 2), more work is needed. On a high level, I suspect nouveau 
should start controlling the enabling/disabling of the HDA controller 
based on connector events and/or connector state at module load. 
Currently the PCI quirk seems to enable it wholesale, and I don't know 
why. If no GPU driver is loaded, it's pointless to turn the HDA device 
on. The blob presumably doesn't need this either, as it can control the 
device just as well as nouveau. If it doesn't, NVIDIA should fix it 
rather than rely on this quirk. The only reason I can think of is that 
snd_hda_intel or vgaswitcheroo isn't prepared for hot(un)plugging (or 
alternatively reprobing) devices. Without that, we presumably won't 
solve issue 2). Can I ask someone with more technical knowledge of 
snd_hda_intel and vgaswitcheroo to brainstorm about the possible 
challenges of nouveau taking matters into its own hand rather than 
keeping this PCI quirk around?

Roy

Op 04-01-2021 om 13:20 schreef Karol Herbst:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 3:50 AM Kai-Heng Feng
> <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 1:56 AM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 11:33 AM Kai-Heng Feng
>>> <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> [+Cc nouveau]
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 4:06 PM Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
>>>> [snip]
>>>>>> Quite possibly the system doesn't power up HDA controller when there's
>>>>>> no external monitor.
>>>>>> So when it's connected to external monitor, it's still needed for HDMI audio.
>>>>>> Let me ask the user to confirm this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, it's the basic question whether the HD-audio is supposed to work
>>>>> on this machine at all.  If yes, the current approach we take makes
>>>>> less sense - instead we should rather make the HD-audio controller
>>>>> working.
>>>>
>>>> Yea, confirmed that the Nvidia HDA works when HDMI is connected prior boot.
>>>>
>>>>>>> - The second problem is that pci_enable_device() ignores the error
>>>>>>>    returned from pci_set_power_state() if it's -EIO.  And the
>>>>>>>    inaccessible access error returns -EIO, although it's rather a fatal
>>>>>>>    problem.  So the driver believes as the PCI device gets enabled
>>>>>>>    properly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This was introduced in 2005, by Alan's 11f3859b1e85 ("[PATCH] PCI: Fix
>>>>>> regression in pci_enable_device_bars") to fix UHCI controller.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - The third problem is that HD-audio driver blindly believes the
>>>>>>>    codec_mask read from the register even if it's a read failure as I
>>>>>>>    already showed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This approach has least regression risk.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, but it assumes that HD-audio is really non-existent.
>>>>
>>>> I really don't know any good approach to address this.
>>>> On Windows, HDA PCI is "hidden" until HDMI cable is plugged, then the
>>>> driver will flag the magic bit to make HDA audio appear on the PCI
>>>> bus.
>>>> IIRC the current approach is to make nouveau and device link work.
>>>
>>> I don't have the full context of this discussion, but the kernel
>>> force-enables the HDA subfunction nowadays, irrespective of nouveau or
>>> nvidia or whatever:
>>
>> That's the problem.
>>
>> The nvidia HDA controller on the affected system only gets its power
>> after HDMI cable plugged, so the probe on boot fails.
>>
> 
> it might be that the code to enable the sub function is a bit broken
> :/ but it should work. Maybe the quirk_nvidia_hda function needs to be
> called on more occasions? No idea.
> 
>> Kai-Heng
>>
>>>
>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/pci/quirks.c?h=v5.10#n5267
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>>    -ilia
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Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH v2] ALSA: hda: Continue to probe when codec probe fails

[Lukas Wunner]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 04:51:27PM +0100, Roy Spliet wrote:
> Can I ask someone with more
> technical knowledge of snd_hda_intel and vgaswitcheroo to brainstorm about
> the possible challenges of nouveau taking matters into its own hand rather
> than keeping this PCI quirk around?

It sounds to me like the HDA is not powered if no cable is plugged in.
What is reponsible then for powering it up or down, firmware code on
the GPU or in the host's BIOS?

Ideally, we should try to find out how to control HDA power from the
operating system rather than trying to cooperate with whatever firmware
is doing.  If we have that capability, the OS should power the HDA up
and down as it sees fit.

Thanks,

Lukas
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Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH v2] ALSA: hda: Continue to probe when codec probe fails

[Roy Spliet]

Op 10-04-2021 om 20:23 schreef Lukas Wunner:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 04:51:27PM +0100, Roy Spliet wrote:
>> Can I ask someone with more
>> technical knowledge of snd_hda_intel and vgaswitcheroo to brainstorm about
>> the possible challenges of nouveau taking matters into its own hand rather
>> than keeping this PCI quirk around?
> 
> It sounds to me like the HDA is not powered if no cable is plugged in.
> What is reponsible then for powering it up or down, firmware code on
> the GPU or in the host's BIOS?

Sometimes the BIOS, but definitely unconditionally the PCI quirk code: 
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/pci/quirks.c#L5289

(CC Aaron Plattner)

> 
> Ideally, we should try to find out how to control HDA power from the
> operating system rather than trying to cooperate with whatever firmware
> is doing.  If we have that capability, the OS should power the HDA up
> and down as it sees fit.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Lukas
> 

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Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH v2] ALSA: hda: Continue to probe when codec probe fails

[Aaron Plattner]

On 4/10/21 1:48 PM, Roy Spliet wrote:
> Op 10-04-2021 om 20:23 schreef Lukas Wunner:
>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 04:51:27PM +0100, Roy Spliet wrote:
>>> Can I ask someone with more
>>> technical knowledge of snd_hda_intel and vgaswitcheroo to brainstorm 
>>> about
>>> the possible challenges of nouveau taking matters into its own hand 
>>> rather
>>> than keeping this PCI quirk around?
>>
>> It sounds to me like the HDA is not powered if no cable is plugged in.
>> What is reponsible then for powering it up or down, firmware code on
>> the GPU or in the host's BIOS?
> 
> Sometimes the BIOS, but definitely unconditionally the PCI quirk code: 
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/pci/quirks.c#L5289
> 
> (CC Aaron Plattner)

My basic understanding is that the audio function stops responding 
whenever the graphics function is powered off. So the requirement here 
is that the audio driver can't try to talk to the audio function while 
the graphics function is asleep, and must trigger a graphics function 
wakeup before trying to communicate with the audio function. I think 
there are also requirements about the audio function needing to be awake 
when the graphics driver is updating the ELD, but I'm not sure.

This is harder on Windows because the audio driver lives in its own 
little world doing its own thing but on Linux we can do better.

>> Ideally, we should try to find out how to control HDA power from the
>> operating system rather than trying to cooperate with whatever firmware
>> is doing.  If we have that capability, the OS should power the HDA up
>> and down as it sees fit.

After system boot, I don't think there's any firmware involved, but I'm 
not super familiar with the low-level details and it's possible the 
situation changed since I last looked at it.

I think the problem with having nouveau write this quirk is that the 
kernel will need to re-probe the PCI device to notice that it has 
suddenly become a multi-function device with an audio function, and 
hotplug the audio driver. I originally looked into trying to do that but 
it was tricky because the PCI subsystem didn't really have a mechanism 
for a single-function device to become a multi-function device on the 
fly and it seemed easier to enable it early on during bus enumeration. 
That way the kernel sees both functions all the time without anything 
else having to be special about this configuration.

-- Aaron

>> Thanks,
>>
>> Lukas
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Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH v2] ALSA: hda: Continue to probe when codec probe fails

[Roy Spliet]

Hello Aaron,

Thanks for your insights. A follow-up query and some observations in-line.

Op 12-04-2021 om 20:06 schreef Aaron Plattner:
> On 4/10/21 1:48 PM, Roy Spliet wrote:
>> Op 10-04-2021 om 20:23 schreef Lukas Wunner:
>>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 04:51:27PM +0100, Roy Spliet wrote:
>>>> Can I ask someone with more
>>>> technical knowledge of snd_hda_intel and vgaswitcheroo to brainstorm 
>>>> about
>>>> the possible challenges of nouveau taking matters into its own hand 
>>>> rather
>>>> than keeping this PCI quirk around?
>>>
>>> It sounds to me like the HDA is not powered if no cable is plugged in.
>>> What is reponsible then for powering it up or down, firmware code on
>>> the GPU or in the host's BIOS?
>>
>> Sometimes the BIOS, but definitely unconditionally the PCI quirk code: 
>> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/pci/quirks.c#L5289
>>
>> (CC Aaron Plattner)
> 
> My basic understanding is that the audio function stops responding 
> whenever the graphics function is powered off. So the requirement here 
> is that the audio driver can't try to talk to the audio function while 
> the graphics function is asleep, and must trigger a graphics function 
> wakeup before trying to communicate with the audio function.

I believe that vgaswitcheroo takes care of this for us.

> I think 
> there are also requirements about the audio function needing to be awake 
> when the graphics driver is updating the ELD, but I'm not sure.
> 
> This is harder on Windows because the audio driver lives in its own 
> little world doing its own thing but on Linux we can do better.
> 
>>> Ideally, we should try to find out how to control HDA power from the
>>> operating system rather than trying to cooperate with whatever firmware
>>> is doing.  If we have that capability, the OS should power the HDA up
>>> and down as it sees fit.
> 
> After system boot, I don't think there's any firmware involved, but I'm 
> not super familiar with the low-level details and it's possible the 
> situation changed since I last looked at it.
> 
> I think the problem with having nouveau write this quirk is that the 
> kernel will need to re-probe the PCI device to notice that it has 
> suddenly become a multi-function device with an audio function, and 
> hotplug the audio driver. I originally looked into trying to do that but 
> it was tricky because the PCI subsystem didn't really have a mechanism 
> for a single-function device to become a multi-function device on the 
> fly and it seemed easier to enable it early on during bus enumeration. 
> That way the kernel sees both functions all the time without anything 
> else having to be special about this configuration.

Right, so for a little more context: a while ago I noticed that my 
laptop (lucky me, Asus K501UB) has a 940M with HDA but no codec. Seems 
legit, given how this GPU has no displays attached; they're all hooked 
up to the Intel integrated GPU. That threw off the snd_hda_intel 
mid-probe, and as a result didn't permit runpm, keeping the entire GPU, 
PCIe bus and thus the CPU package awake. A bit of hackerly later we 
decided to continue probing without a codec, and now my laptop is happy, 
but...
A new problem popped up with several other NVIDIA GPUs that expose their 
HDA subdevice, but somehow its inaccessible. Relevant lines from a 
users' log:

[    3.031222] MXM: GUID detected in BIOS
[    3.031280] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index 
(0x000000003) is beyond end of object (length 0x0) (20200925/exoparg2-393)
[    3.031352] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM due to 
previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200925/psparse-529)
[    3.031419] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.GFX0: failed to evaluate _DSM (0x300b)
[    3.031424] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM: Argument #4 type 
mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20200925/nsarguments-61)
[    3.031619] pci 0000:00:02.0: optimus capabilities: enabled, status 
dynamic power,
[    3.031667] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index 
(0x000000003) is beyond end of object (length 0x0) (20200925/exoparg2-393)
[    3.031731] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM due to 
previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200925/psparse-529)
[    3.031791] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM due 
to previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200925/psparse-529)
[    3.031856] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP: failed to evaluate _DSM (0x300b)
[    3.031859] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type 
mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20200925/nsarguments-61)
[    3.032058] pci 0000:01:00.0: optimus capabilities: enabled, status 
dynamic power,
[    3.032061] VGA switcheroo: detected Optimus DSM method 
\_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP handle
[    3.032323] checking generic (d0000000 410000) vs hw (f6000000 1000000)
[    3.032325] checking generic (d0000000 410000) vs hw (e0000000 10000000)
[    3.032326] checking generic (d0000000 410000) vs hw (f0000000 2000000)
[    3.032410] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: NVIDIA GK107 (0e71f0a2)
[    3.042385] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: version 80.07.a0.00.11
--- snip ---
[    8.951478] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: can't change power state from 
D3cold to D0 (config space inaccessible)
[    8.951509] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: can't change power state from 
D3hot to D0 (config space inaccessible)
[    8.951608] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Disabling MSI
[    8.951621] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Handle vga_switcheroo audio 
client
[    8.952461] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops 
i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
[    8.952642] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: number of I/O streams is 30, 
forcing separate stream tags

Now I don't know what's going on, but the snd_hda_intel messages are 
ominous. And so are the ACPI warnings. But I don't know how much these 
two are related.

You say that it is desirable to switch on HDA at boot-time because the 
PCI subsystem doesn't play nicely with changing a device to 
multi-function. That rules out the option of only enabling the HDA 
device once a cable is plugged in. Are there any other trap doors that 
snd_hda_intel needs to navigate around to make this work fault free on 
all hardware, such as:
- Codecs not revealing themselves until a display is plugged in, 
requiring perhaps a "codec reprobe" and "codec remove" event from 
nouveau/rm to snd_hda_intel,
- Borked BIOSes just blindly assigning the MMIO space of the HDA device 
to another device, or nothing at all,
- ... other things that might give any of us nightmares and heart burn?

Thanks!

Roy

> 
> -- Aaron
> 
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Lukas

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Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH v2] ALSA: hda: Continue to probe when codec probe fails

[Aaron Plattner]

On 4/12/21 12:36 PM, Roy Spliet wrote:
> Hello Aaron,
>
> Thanks for your insights. A follow-up query and some observations 
> in-line.
>
> Op 12-04-2021 om 20:06 schreef Aaron Plattner:
>> On 4/10/21 1:48 PM, Roy Spliet wrote:
>>> Op 10-04-2021 om 20:23 schreef Lukas Wunner:
>>>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 04:51:27PM +0100, Roy Spliet wrote:
>>>>> Can I ask someone with more
>>>>> technical knowledge of snd_hda_intel and vgaswitcheroo to 
>>>>> brainstorm about
>>>>> the possible challenges of nouveau taking matters into its own 
>>>>> hand rather
>>>>> than keeping this PCI quirk around?
>>>>
>>>> It sounds to me like the HDA is not powered if no cable is plugged in.
>>>> What is reponsible then for powering it up or down, firmware code on
>>>> the GPU or in the host's BIOS?
>>>
>>> Sometimes the BIOS, but definitely unconditionally the PCI quirk 
>>> code: 
>>> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/pci/quirks.c#L5289 
>>>
>>>
>>> (CC Aaron Plattner)
>>
>> My basic understanding is that the audio function stops responding 
>> whenever the graphics function is powered off. So the requirement 
>> here is that the audio driver can't try to talk to the audio function 
>> while the graphics function is asleep, and must trigger a graphics 
>> function wakeup before trying to communicate with the audio function.
>
> I believe that vgaswitcheroo takes care of this for us.
>
>> I think there are also requirements about the audio function needing 
>> to be awake when the graphics driver is updating the ELD, but I'm not 
>> sure.
>>
>> This is harder on Windows because the audio driver lives in its own 
>> little world doing its own thing but on Linux we can do better.
>>
>>>> Ideally, we should try to find out how to control HDA power from the
>>>> operating system rather than trying to cooperate with whatever 
>>>> firmware
>>>> is doing.  If we have that capability, the OS should power the HDA up
>>>> and down as it sees fit.
>>
>> After system boot, I don't think there's any firmware involved, but 
>> I'm not super familiar with the low-level details and it's possible 
>> the situation changed since I last looked at it.
>>
>> I think the problem with having nouveau write this quirk is that the 
>> kernel will need to re-probe the PCI device to notice that it has 
>> suddenly become a multi-function device with an audio function, and 
>> hotplug the audio driver. I originally looked into trying to do that 
>> but it was tricky because the PCI subsystem didn't really have a 
>> mechanism for a single-function device to become a multi-function 
>> device on the fly and it seemed easier to enable it early on during 
>> bus enumeration. That way the kernel sees both functions all the time 
>> without anything else having to be special about this configuration.
>
> Right, so for a little more context: a while ago I noticed that my 
> laptop (lucky me, Asus K501UB) has a 940M with HDA but no codec. Seems 
> legit, given how this GPU has no displays attached; they're all hooked 
> up to the Intel integrated GPU. That threw off the snd_hda_intel 
> mid-probe, and as a result didn't permit runpm, keeping the entire 
> GPU, PCIe bus and thus the CPU package awake. A bit of hackerly later 
> we decided to continue probing without a codec, and now my laptop is 
> happy, but...

What is the PCI class of the GPU in your system? If it has no display 
outputs it's probably 0x302 ("3D Controller") rather than 0x300 ("VGA 
Controller"). Looking at the code it looks like this workaround is being 
applied to both but maybe it should be restricted to just VGA controllers.

-- Aaron

> A new problem popped up with several other NVIDIA GPUs that expose 
> their HDA subdevice, but somehow its inaccessible. Relevant lines from 
> a users' log:
>
> [    3.031222] MXM: GUID detected in BIOS
> [    3.031280] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index 
> (0x000000003) is beyond end of object (length 0x0) 
> (20200925/exoparg2-393)
> [    3.031352] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM due to 
> previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200925/psparse-529)
> [    3.031419] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.GFX0: failed to evaluate _DSM (0x300b)
> [    3.031424] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM: Argument #4 type 
> mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] 
> (20200925/nsarguments-61)
> [    3.031619] pci 0000:00:02.0: optimus capabilities: enabled, status 
> dynamic power,
> [    3.031667] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index 
> (0x000000003) is beyond end of object (length 0x0) 
> (20200925/exoparg2-393)
> [    3.031731] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM due to 
> previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200925/psparse-529)
> [    3.031791] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM 
> due to previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200925/psparse-529)
> [    3.031856] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP: failed to evaluate _DSM 
> (0x300b)
> [    3.031859] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 
> type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] 
> (20200925/nsarguments-61)
> [    3.032058] pci 0000:01:00.0: optimus capabilities: enabled, status 
> dynamic power,
> [    3.032061] VGA switcheroo: detected Optimus DSM method 
> \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP handle
> [    3.032323] checking generic (d0000000 410000) vs hw (f6000000 
> 1000000)
> [    3.032325] checking generic (d0000000 410000) vs hw (e0000000 
> 10000000)
> [    3.032326] checking generic (d0000000 410000) vs hw (f0000000 
> 2000000)
> [    3.032410] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: NVIDIA GK107 (0e71f0a2)
> [    3.042385] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: version 80.07.a0.00.11
> --- snip ---
> [    8.951478] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: can't change power state 
> from D3cold to D0 (config space inaccessible)
> [    8.951509] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: can't change power state 
> from D3hot to D0 (config space inaccessible)
> [    8.951608] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Disabling MSI
> [    8.951621] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Handle vga_switcheroo audio 
> client
> [    8.952461] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops 
> i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
> [    8.952642] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: number of I/O streams is 
> 30, forcing separate stream tags
>
> Now I don't know what's going on, but the snd_hda_intel messages are 
> ominous. And so are the ACPI warnings. But I don't know how much these 
> two are related.
>
> You say that it is desirable to switch on HDA at boot-time because the 
> PCI subsystem doesn't play nicely with changing a device to 
> multi-function. That rules out the option of only enabling the HDA 
> device once a cable is plugged in. Are there any other trap doors that 
> snd_hda_intel needs to navigate around to make this work fault free on 
> all hardware, such as:
> - Codecs not revealing themselves until a display is plugged in, 
> requiring perhaps a "codec reprobe" and "codec remove" event from 
> nouveau/rm to snd_hda_intel,
> - Borked BIOSes just blindly assigning the MMIO space of the HDA 
> device to another device, or nothing at all,
> - ... other things that might give any of us nightmares and heart burn?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Roy
>
>>
>> -- Aaron
>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Lukas
>
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Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH v2] ALSA: hda: Continue to probe when codec probe fails

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 4:01 PM Aaron Plattner <aplattner@nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/12/21 12:36 PM, Roy Spliet wrote:
> > Hello Aaron,
> >
> > Thanks for your insights. A follow-up query and some observations
> > in-line.
> >
> > Op 12-04-2021 om 20:06 schreef Aaron Plattner:
> >> On 4/10/21 1:48 PM, Roy Spliet wrote:
> >>> Op 10-04-2021 om 20:23 schreef Lukas Wunner:
> >>>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 04:51:27PM +0100, Roy Spliet wrote:
> >>>>> Can I ask someone with more
> >>>>> technical knowledge of snd_hda_intel and vgaswitcheroo to
> >>>>> brainstorm about
> >>>>> the possible challenges of nouveau taking matters into its own
> >>>>> hand rather
> >>>>> than keeping this PCI quirk around?
> >>>>
> >>>> It sounds to me like the HDA is not powered if no cable is plugged in.
> >>>> What is reponsible then for powering it up or down, firmware code on
> >>>> the GPU or in the host's BIOS?
> >>>
> >>> Sometimes the BIOS, but definitely unconditionally the PCI quirk
> >>> code:
> >>> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/pci/quirks.c#L5289
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> (CC Aaron Plattner)
> >>
> >> My basic understanding is that the audio function stops responding
> >> whenever the graphics function is powered off. So the requirement
> >> here is that the audio driver can't try to talk to the audio function
> >> while the graphics function is asleep, and must trigger a graphics
> >> function wakeup before trying to communicate with the audio function.
> >
> > I believe that vgaswitcheroo takes care of this for us.
> >
> >> I think there are also requirements about the audio function needing
> >> to be awake when the graphics driver is updating the ELD, but I'm not
> >> sure.
> >>
> >> This is harder on Windows because the audio driver lives in its own
> >> little world doing its own thing but on Linux we can do better.
> >>
> >>>> Ideally, we should try to find out how to control HDA power from the
> >>>> operating system rather than trying to cooperate with whatever
> >>>> firmware
> >>>> is doing.  If we have that capability, the OS should power the HDA up
> >>>> and down as it sees fit.
> >>
> >> After system boot, I don't think there's any firmware involved, but
> >> I'm not super familiar with the low-level details and it's possible
> >> the situation changed since I last looked at it.
> >>
> >> I think the problem with having nouveau write this quirk is that the
> >> kernel will need to re-probe the PCI device to notice that it has
> >> suddenly become a multi-function device with an audio function, and
> >> hotplug the audio driver. I originally looked into trying to do that
> >> but it was tricky because the PCI subsystem didn't really have a
> >> mechanism for a single-function device to become a multi-function
> >> device on the fly and it seemed easier to enable it early on during
> >> bus enumeration. That way the kernel sees both functions all the time
> >> without anything else having to be special about this configuration.
> >
> > Right, so for a little more context: a while ago I noticed that my
> > laptop (lucky me, Asus K501UB) has a 940M with HDA but no codec. Seems
> > legit, given how this GPU has no displays attached; they're all hooked
> > up to the Intel integrated GPU. That threw off the snd_hda_intel
> > mid-probe, and as a result didn't permit runpm, keeping the entire
> > GPU, PCIe bus and thus the CPU package awake. A bit of hackerly later
> > we decided to continue probing without a codec, and now my laptop is
> > happy, but...
>
> What is the PCI class of the GPU in your system? If it has no display
> outputs it's probably 0x302 ("3D Controller") rather than 0x300 ("VGA
> Controller"). Looking at the code it looks like this workaround is being
> applied to both but maybe it should be restricted to just VGA controllers.

That was a comment I had back when the quirk was being implemented,
but helpfully there are some of these devices running around which say
"3D Controller" but still have displays attached to them. Lukas
probably remembers more specifics.

  -ilia
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Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH v2] ALSA: hda: Continue to probe when codec probe fails

[Karol Herbst]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 9:36 PM Roy Spliet <nouveau@spliet.org> wrote:
>
> Hello Aaron,
>
> Thanks for your insights. A follow-up query and some observations in-line.
>
> Op 12-04-2021 om 20:06 schreef Aaron Plattner:
> > On 4/10/21 1:48 PM, Roy Spliet wrote:
> >> Op 10-04-2021 om 20:23 schreef Lukas Wunner:
> >>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 04:51:27PM +0100, Roy Spliet wrote:
> >>>> Can I ask someone with more
> >>>> technical knowledge of snd_hda_intel and vgaswitcheroo to brainstorm
> >>>> about
> >>>> the possible challenges of nouveau taking matters into its own hand
> >>>> rather
> >>>> than keeping this PCI quirk around?
> >>>
> >>> It sounds to me like the HDA is not powered if no cable is plugged in.
> >>> What is reponsible then for powering it up or down, firmware code on
> >>> the GPU or in the host's BIOS?
> >>
> >> Sometimes the BIOS, but definitely unconditionally the PCI quirk code:
> >> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/pci/quirks.c#L5289
> >>
> >> (CC Aaron Plattner)
> >
> > My basic understanding is that the audio function stops responding
> > whenever the graphics function is powered off. So the requirement here
> > is that the audio driver can't try to talk to the audio function while
> > the graphics function is asleep, and must trigger a graphics function
> > wakeup before trying to communicate with the audio function.
>
> I believe that vgaswitcheroo takes care of this for us.
>

yeah, and also: why would the driver want to do stuff? If the GPU is
turned off, there is no point in communicating with the audio device
anyway. The driver should do the initial probe and leave the device be
unless it's actively used. Also there is no such thing as "use the
audio function, but not the graphics one"

> > I think
> > there are also requirements about the audio function needing to be awake
> > when the graphics driver is updating the ELD, but I'm not sure.
> >

well, it's one physical device anyway, so technically the audio
function is powered on.

> > This is harder on Windows because the audio driver lives in its own
> > little world doing its own thing but on Linux we can do better.
> >
> >>> Ideally, we should try to find out how to control HDA power from the
> >>> operating system rather than trying to cooperate with whatever firmware
> >>> is doing.  If we have that capability, the OS should power the HDA up
> >>> and down as it sees fit.
> >
> > After system boot, I don't think there's any firmware involved, but I'm
> > not super familiar with the low-level details and it's possible the
> > situation changed since I last looked at it.
> >
> > I think the problem with having nouveau write this quirk is that the
> > kernel will need to re-probe the PCI device to notice that it has
> > suddenly become a multi-function device with an audio function, and
> > hotplug the audio driver. I originally looked into trying to do that but
> > it was tricky because the PCI subsystem didn't really have a mechanism
> > for a single-function device to become a multi-function device on the
> > fly and it seemed easier to enable it early on during bus enumeration.
> > That way the kernel sees both functions all the time without anything
> > else having to be special about this configuration.

Well, we do have this pci/quirk.c thing, no? Nouveau does flip the
bit, but I am actually not sure if that's even doing something
anymore. Maybe in the runtime_resume case it's still relevant but not
sure _when_ DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_CLASS_RESUME_EARLY is triggered, it does
seem to be called even in the runtime_resume case though.

>
> Right, so for a little more context: a while ago I noticed that my
> laptop (lucky me, Asus K501UB) has a 940M with HDA but no codec. Seems
> legit, given how this GPU has no displays attached; they're all hooked
> up to the Intel integrated GPU. That threw off the snd_hda_intel
> mid-probe, and as a result didn't permit runpm, keeping the entire GPU,
> PCIe bus and thus the CPU package awake. A bit of hackerly later we
> decided to continue probing without a codec, and now my laptop is happy,
> but...
> A new problem popped up with several other NVIDIA GPUs that expose their
> HDA subdevice, but somehow its inaccessible. Relevant lines from a
> users' log:
>
> [    3.031222] MXM: GUID detected in BIOS
> [    3.031280] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index
> (0x000000003) is beyond end of object (length 0x0) (20200925/exoparg2-393)
> [    3.031352] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM due to
> previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200925/psparse-529)
> [    3.031419] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.GFX0: failed to evaluate _DSM (0x300b)
> [    3.031424] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM: Argument #4 type
> mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20200925/nsarguments-61)
> [    3.031619] pci 0000:00:02.0: optimus capabilities: enabled, status
> dynamic power,
> [    3.031667] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index
> (0x000000003) is beyond end of object (length 0x0) (20200925/exoparg2-393)
> [    3.031731] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM due to
> previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200925/psparse-529)
> [    3.031791] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM due
> to previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200925/psparse-529)
> [    3.031856] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP: failed to evaluate _DSM (0x300b)
> [    3.031859] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type
> mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20200925/nsarguments-61)

If I am not wrong we are calling the _DSM method inside nouveau when
doing runpm on pre _PR3 systems. As this is all very vendor specific,
we might be doing something incorrectly.

> [    3.032058] pci 0000:01:00.0: optimus capabilities: enabled, status
> dynamic power,
> [    3.032061] VGA switcheroo: detected Optimus DSM method
> \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP handle
> [    3.032323] checking generic (d0000000 410000) vs hw (f6000000 1000000)
> [    3.032325] checking generic (d0000000 410000) vs hw (e0000000 10000000)
> [    3.032326] checking generic (d0000000 410000) vs hw (f0000000 2000000)
> [    3.032410] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: NVIDIA GK107 (0e71f0a2)
> [    3.042385] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: version 80.07.a0.00.11
> --- snip ---
> [    8.951478] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: can't change power state from
> D3cold to D0 (config space inaccessible)
> [    8.951509] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: can't change power state from
> D3hot to D0 (config space inaccessible)

This is actually a little bad, because it means that the device
doesn't come back up from D3. It's a bit weird it's D3cold and D3hot
in the messages, but maybe the device just takes quite some time to
wake up. But it does look like the device gets woken up.

> [    8.951608] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Disabling MSI
> [    8.951621] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Handle vga_switcheroo audio
> client
> [    8.952461] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops
> i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
> [    8.952642] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: number of I/O streams is 30,
> forcing separate stream tags
>
> Now I don't know what's going on, but the snd_hda_intel messages are
> ominous. And so are the ACPI warnings. But I don't know how much these
> two are related.
>

What is the actual problem though? Seems like everything is fine
despite those messages.

> You say that it is desirable to switch on HDA at boot-time because the
> PCI subsystem doesn't play nicely with changing a device to
> multi-function. That rules out the option of only enabling the HDA
> device once a cable is plugged in. Are there any other trap doors that

yeah, we can absolutely not do that. We do quirk the device to put the
GPU into multi function state asap and the intel_hda_snd driver should
deal with it.

> snd_hda_intel needs to navigate around to make this work fault free on
> all hardware, such as:
> - Codecs not revealing themselves until a display is plugged in,
> requiring perhaps a "codec reprobe" and "codec remove" event from
> nouveau/rm to snd_hda_intel,

we could trigger the reprobe from within nouveau as we are dealing
with display hotplug events anyway.

> - Borked BIOSes just blindly assigning the MMIO space of the HDA device
> to another device, or nothing at all,

that exists? *sigh*

> - ... other things that might give any of us nightmares and heart burn?
>

hopefully there are none :p

> Thanks!
>
> Roy
>
> >
> > -- Aaron
> >
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Lukas
>

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Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH v2] ALSA: hda: Continue to probe when codec probe fails

[Roy Spliet]

Op 13-04-2021 om 01:10 schreef Karol Herbst:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 9:36 PM Roy Spliet <nouveau@spliet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Aaron,
>>
>> Thanks for your insights. A follow-up query and some observations in-line.
>>
>> Op 12-04-2021 om 20:06 schreef Aaron Plattner:
>>> On 4/10/21 1:48 PM, Roy Spliet wrote:
>>>> Op 10-04-2021 om 20:23 schreef Lukas Wunner:
>>>>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 04:51:27PM +0100, Roy Spliet wrote:
>>>>>> Can I ask someone with more
>>>>>> technical knowledge of snd_hda_intel and vgaswitcheroo to brainstorm
>>>>>> about
>>>>>> the possible challenges of nouveau taking matters into its own hand
>>>>>> rather
>>>>>> than keeping this PCI quirk around?
>>>>>
>>>>> It sounds to me like the HDA is not powered if no cable is plugged in.
>>>>> What is reponsible then for powering it up or down, firmware code on
>>>>> the GPU or in the host's BIOS?
>>>>
>>>> Sometimes the BIOS, but definitely unconditionally the PCI quirk code:
>>>> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/pci/quirks.c#L5289
>>>>
>>>> (CC Aaron Plattner)
>>>
>>> My basic understanding is that the audio function stops responding
>>> whenever the graphics function is powered off. So the requirement here
>>> is that the audio driver can't try to talk to the audio function while
>>> the graphics function is asleep, and must trigger a graphics function
>>> wakeup before trying to communicate with the audio function.
>>
>> I believe that vgaswitcheroo takes care of this for us.
>>
> 
> yeah, and also: why would the driver want to do stuff? If the GPU is
> turned off, there is no point in communicating with the audio device
> anyway. The driver should do the initial probe and leave the device be
> unless it's actively used. Also there is no such thing as "use the
> audio function, but not the graphics one"
> 
>>> I think
>>> there are also requirements about the audio function needing to be awake
>>> when the graphics driver is updating the ELD, but I'm not sure.
>>>
> 
> well, it's one physical device anyway, so technically the audio
> function is powered on.
> 
>>> This is harder on Windows because the audio driver lives in its own
>>> little world doing its own thing but on Linux we can do better.
>>>
>>>>> Ideally, we should try to find out how to control HDA power from the
>>>>> operating system rather than trying to cooperate with whatever firmware
>>>>> is doing.  If we have that capability, the OS should power the HDA up
>>>>> and down as it sees fit.
>>>
>>> After system boot, I don't think there's any firmware involved, but I'm
>>> not super familiar with the low-level details and it's possible the
>>> situation changed since I last looked at it.
>>>
>>> I think the problem with having nouveau write this quirk is that the
>>> kernel will need to re-probe the PCI device to notice that it has
>>> suddenly become a multi-function device with an audio function, and
>>> hotplug the audio driver. I originally looked into trying to do that but
>>> it was tricky because the PCI subsystem didn't really have a mechanism
>>> for a single-function device to become a multi-function device on the
>>> fly and it seemed easier to enable it early on during bus enumeration.
>>> That way the kernel sees both functions all the time without anything
>>> else having to be special about this configuration.
> 
> Well, we do have this pci/quirk.c thing, no? Nouveau does flip the
> bit, but I am actually not sure if that's even doing something
> anymore. Maybe in the runtime_resume case it's still relevant but not
> sure _when_ DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_CLASS_RESUME_EARLY is triggered, it does
> seem to be called even in the runtime_resume case though.
> 
>>
>> Right, so for a little more context: a while ago I noticed that my
>> laptop (lucky me, Asus K501UB) has a 940M with HDA but no codec. Seems
>> legit, given how this GPU has no displays attached; they're all hooked
>> up to the Intel integrated GPU. That threw off the snd_hda_intel
>> mid-probe, and as a result didn't permit runpm, keeping the entire GPU,
>> PCIe bus and thus the CPU package awake. A bit of hackerly later we
>> decided to continue probing without a codec, and now my laptop is happy,
>> but...
>> A new problem popped up with several other NVIDIA GPUs that expose their
>> HDA subdevice, but somehow its inaccessible. Relevant lines from a
>> users' log:
>>
>> [    3.031222] MXM: GUID detected in BIOS
>> [    3.031280] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index
>> (0x000000003) is beyond end of object (length 0x0) (20200925/exoparg2-393)
>> [    3.031352] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM due to
>> previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200925/psparse-529)
>> [    3.031419] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.GFX0: failed to evaluate _DSM (0x300b)
>> [    3.031424] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM: Argument #4 type
>> mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20200925/nsarguments-61)
>> [    3.031619] pci 0000:00:02.0: optimus capabilities: enabled, status
>> dynamic power,
>> [    3.031667] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index
>> (0x000000003) is beyond end of object (length 0x0) (20200925/exoparg2-393)
>> [    3.031731] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM due to
>> previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200925/psparse-529)
>> [    3.031791] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM due
>> to previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200925/psparse-529)
>> [    3.031856] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP: failed to evaluate _DSM (0x300b)
>> [    3.031859] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type
>> mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20200925/nsarguments-61)
> 
> If I am not wrong we are calling the _DSM method inside nouveau when
> doing runpm on pre _PR3 systems. As this is all very vendor specific,
> we might be doing something incorrectly.
> 
>> [    3.032058] pci 0000:01:00.0: optimus capabilities: enabled, status
>> dynamic power,
>> [    3.032061] VGA switcheroo: detected Optimus DSM method
>> \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP handle
>> [    3.032323] checking generic (d0000000 410000) vs hw (f6000000 1000000)
>> [    3.032325] checking generic (d0000000 410000) vs hw (e0000000 10000000)
>> [    3.032326] checking generic (d0000000 410000) vs hw (f0000000 2000000)
>> [    3.032410] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: NVIDIA GK107 (0e71f0a2)
>> [    3.042385] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: version 80.07.a0.00.11
>> --- snip ---
>> [    8.951478] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: can't change power state from
>> D3cold to D0 (config space inaccessible)
>> [    8.951509] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: can't change power state from
>> D3hot to D0 (config space inaccessible)
> 
> This is actually a little bad, because it means that the device
> doesn't come back up from D3. It's a bit weird it's D3cold and D3hot
> in the messages, but maybe the device just takes quite some time to
> wake up. But it does look like the device gets woken up.
> 
>> [    8.951608] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Disabling MSI
>> [    8.951621] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Handle vga_switcheroo audio
>> client
>> [    8.952461] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops
>> i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
>> [    8.952642] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: number of I/O streams is 30,
>> forcing separate stream tags
>>
>> Now I don't know what's going on, but the snd_hda_intel messages are
>> ominous. And so are the ACPI warnings. But I don't know how much these
>> two are related.
>>
> 
> What is the actual problem though? Seems like everything is fine
> despite those messages.

The problem, as stated a few e-mails earlier, is that the HDA errors 
currently prevent snd_hda_intel from properly probing the device and 
registering it with vgaswitcheroo. As a result, the GPU always stays in 
DynPwr rather than DynOff even when it's unused, keeping the PCIe bus 
and the CPU package powered. Basically burning through a charged battery 
a lot quicker than need be.
If we go back a mile on the e-mail thread, I think the problem was 
narrowed down to snd_hda_intel reading an invalid codec mask on the 
config space, and using it anyway. That being said, I believe there are 
also reports of users that don't get HDMI audio unless the cable was 
plugged in at boot-time, with similar messages in their logs. The codec 
might in such cases be hiding themselves until a cable is plugged in?
@Aaron Plattner: does that latter observation sound right to you?

> 
>> You say that it is desirable to switch on HDA at boot-time because the
>> PCI subsystem doesn't play nicely with changing a device to
>> multi-function. That rules out the option of only enabling the HDA
>> device once a cable is plugged in. Are there any other trap doors that
> 
> yeah, we can absolutely not do that. We do quirk the device to put the
> GPU into multi function state asap and the intel_hda_snd driver should
> deal with it.
> 
>> snd_hda_intel needs to navigate around to make this work fault free on
>> all hardware, such as:
>> - Codecs not revealing themselves until a display is plugged in,
>> requiring perhaps a "codec reprobe" and "codec remove" event from
>> nouveau/rm to snd_hda_intel,
> 
> we could trigger the reprobe from within nouveau as we are dealing
> with display hotplug events anyway.

Right. Are there situations where nouveau needs to? Or is this a 
misunderstanding of the problem from my end?

> 
>> - Borked BIOSes just blindly assigning the MMIO space of the HDA device
>> to another device, or nothing at all,
> 
> that exists? *sigh*
> 
>> - ... other things that might give any of us nightmares and heart burn?
>>
> 
> hopefully there are none :p
> 
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Roy
>>
>>>
>>> -- Aaron
>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Lukas
>>
> 

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Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH v2] ALSA: hda: Continue to probe when codec probe fails

[Karol Herbst]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 10:24 AM Roy Spliet <nouveau@spliet.org> wrote:
>
> Op 13-04-2021 om 01:10 schreef Karol Herbst:
> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 9:36 PM Roy Spliet <nouveau@spliet.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello Aaron,
> >>
> >> Thanks for your insights. A follow-up query and some observations in-line.
> >>
> >> Op 12-04-2021 om 20:06 schreef Aaron Plattner:
> >>> On 4/10/21 1:48 PM, Roy Spliet wrote:
> >>>> Op 10-04-2021 om 20:23 schreef Lukas Wunner:
> >>>>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 04:51:27PM +0100, Roy Spliet wrote:
> >>>>>> Can I ask someone with more
> >>>>>> technical knowledge of snd_hda_intel and vgaswitcheroo to brainstorm
> >>>>>> about
> >>>>>> the possible challenges of nouveau taking matters into its own hand
> >>>>>> rather
> >>>>>> than keeping this PCI quirk around?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It sounds to me like the HDA is not powered if no cable is plugged in.
> >>>>> What is reponsible then for powering it up or down, firmware code on
> >>>>> the GPU or in the host's BIOS?
> >>>>
> >>>> Sometimes the BIOS, but definitely unconditionally the PCI quirk code:
> >>>> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/pci/quirks.c#L5289
> >>>>
> >>>> (CC Aaron Plattner)
> >>>
> >>> My basic understanding is that the audio function stops responding
> >>> whenever the graphics function is powered off. So the requirement here
> >>> is that the audio driver can't try to talk to the audio function while
> >>> the graphics function is asleep, and must trigger a graphics function
> >>> wakeup before trying to communicate with the audio function.
> >>
> >> I believe that vgaswitcheroo takes care of this for us.
> >>
> >
> > yeah, and also: why would the driver want to do stuff? If the GPU is
> > turned off, there is no point in communicating with the audio device
> > anyway. The driver should do the initial probe and leave the device be
> > unless it's actively used. Also there is no such thing as "use the
> > audio function, but not the graphics one"
> >
> >>> I think
> >>> there are also requirements about the audio function needing to be awake
> >>> when the graphics driver is updating the ELD, but I'm not sure.
> >>>
> >
> > well, it's one physical device anyway, so technically the audio
> > function is powered on.
> >
> >>> This is harder on Windows because the audio driver lives in its own
> >>> little world doing its own thing but on Linux we can do better.
> >>>
> >>>>> Ideally, we should try to find out how to control HDA power from the
> >>>>> operating system rather than trying to cooperate with whatever firmware
> >>>>> is doing.  If we have that capability, the OS should power the HDA up
> >>>>> and down as it sees fit.
> >>>
> >>> After system boot, I don't think there's any firmware involved, but I'm
> >>> not super familiar with the low-level details and it's possible the
> >>> situation changed since I last looked at it.
> >>>
> >>> I think the problem with having nouveau write this quirk is that the
> >>> kernel will need to re-probe the PCI device to notice that it has
> >>> suddenly become a multi-function device with an audio function, and
> >>> hotplug the audio driver. I originally looked into trying to do that but
> >>> it was tricky because the PCI subsystem didn't really have a mechanism
> >>> for a single-function device to become a multi-function device on the
> >>> fly and it seemed easier to enable it early on during bus enumeration.
> >>> That way the kernel sees both functions all the time without anything
> >>> else having to be special about this configuration.
> >
> > Well, we do have this pci/quirk.c thing, no? Nouveau does flip the
> > bit, but I am actually not sure if that's even doing something
> > anymore. Maybe in the runtime_resume case it's still relevant but not
> > sure _when_ DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_CLASS_RESUME_EARLY is triggered, it does
> > seem to be called even in the runtime_resume case though.
> >
> >>
> >> Right, so for a little more context: a while ago I noticed that my
> >> laptop (lucky me, Asus K501UB) has a 940M with HDA but no codec. Seems
> >> legit, given how this GPU has no displays attached; they're all hooked
> >> up to the Intel integrated GPU. That threw off the snd_hda_intel
> >> mid-probe, and as a result didn't permit runpm, keeping the entire GPU,
> >> PCIe bus and thus the CPU package awake. A bit of hackerly later we
> >> decided to continue probing without a codec, and now my laptop is happy,
> >> but...
> >> A new problem popped up with several other NVIDIA GPUs that expose their
> >> HDA subdevice, but somehow its inaccessible. Relevant lines from a
> >> users' log:
> >>
> >> [    3.031222] MXM: GUID detected in BIOS
> >> [    3.031280] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index
> >> (0x000000003) is beyond end of object (length 0x0) (20200925/exoparg2-393)
> >> [    3.031352] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM due to
> >> previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200925/psparse-529)
> >> [    3.031419] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.GFX0: failed to evaluate _DSM (0x300b)
> >> [    3.031424] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM: Argument #4 type
> >> mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20200925/nsarguments-61)
> >> [    3.031619] pci 0000:00:02.0: optimus capabilities: enabled, status
> >> dynamic power,
> >> [    3.031667] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index
> >> (0x000000003) is beyond end of object (length 0x0) (20200925/exoparg2-393)
> >> [    3.031731] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM due to
> >> previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200925/psparse-529)
> >> [    3.031791] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM due
> >> to previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200925/psparse-529)
> >> [    3.031856] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP: failed to evaluate _DSM (0x300b)
> >> [    3.031859] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type
> >> mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20200925/nsarguments-61)
> >
> > If I am not wrong we are calling the _DSM method inside nouveau when
> > doing runpm on pre _PR3 systems. As this is all very vendor specific,
> > we might be doing something incorrectly.
> >
> >> [    3.032058] pci 0000:01:00.0: optimus capabilities: enabled, status
> >> dynamic power,
> >> [    3.032061] VGA switcheroo: detected Optimus DSM method
> >> \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP handle
> >> [    3.032323] checking generic (d0000000 410000) vs hw (f6000000 1000000)
> >> [    3.032325] checking generic (d0000000 410000) vs hw (e0000000 10000000)
> >> [    3.032326] checking generic (d0000000 410000) vs hw (f0000000 2000000)
> >> [    3.032410] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: NVIDIA GK107 (0e71f0a2)
> >> [    3.042385] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: version 80.07.a0.00.11
> >> --- snip ---
> >> [    8.951478] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: can't change power state from
> >> D3cold to D0 (config space inaccessible)
> >> [    8.951509] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: can't change power state from
> >> D3hot to D0 (config space inaccessible)
> >
> > This is actually a little bad, because it means that the device
> > doesn't come back up from D3. It's a bit weird it's D3cold and D3hot
> > in the messages, but maybe the device just takes quite some time to
> > wake up. But it does look like the device gets woken up.
> >
> >> [    8.951608] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Disabling MSI
> >> [    8.951621] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Handle vga_switcheroo audio
> >> client
> >> [    8.952461] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops
> >> i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
> >> [    8.952642] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: number of I/O streams is 30,
> >> forcing separate stream tags
> >>
> >> Now I don't know what's going on, but the snd_hda_intel messages are
> >> ominous. And so are the ACPI warnings. But I don't know how much these
> >> two are related.
> >>
> >
> > What is the actual problem though? Seems like everything is fine
> > despite those messages.
>
> The problem, as stated a few e-mails earlier, is that the HDA errors
> currently prevent snd_hda_intel from properly probing the device and
> registering it with vgaswitcheroo. As a result, the GPU always stays in
> DynPwr rather than DynOff even when it's unused, keeping the PCIe bus
> and the CPU package powered. Basically burning through a charged battery
> a lot quicker than need be.

That's not the result of those errors, just the result of having no codecs, no?

> If we go back a mile on the e-mail thread, I think the problem was
> narrowed down to snd_hda_intel reading an invalid codec mask on the
> config space, and using it anyway. That being said, I believe there are
> also reports of users that don't get HDMI audio unless the cable was
> plugged in at boot-time, with similar messages in their logs. The codec
> might in such cases be hiding themselves until a cable is plugged in?
> @Aaron Plattner: does that latter observation sound right to you?
>

yeah, I think that's the thing we should focus on, everything else
just seems unrelated at this point until we have more information
(like, codecs hide, because the _DSM calls failed or something)

> >
> >> You say that it is desirable to switch on HDA at boot-time because the
> >> PCI subsystem doesn't play nicely with changing a device to
> >> multi-function. That rules out the option of only enabling the HDA
> >> device once a cable is plugged in. Are there any other trap doors that
> >
> > yeah, we can absolutely not do that. We do quirk the device to put the
> > GPU into multi function state asap and the intel_hda_snd driver should
> > deal with it.
> >
> >> snd_hda_intel needs to navigate around to make this work fault free on
> >> all hardware, such as:
> >> - Codecs not revealing themselves until a display is plugged in,
> >> requiring perhaps a "codec reprobe" and "codec remove" event from
> >> nouveau/rm to snd_hda_intel,
> >
> > we could trigger the reprobe from within nouveau as we are dealing
> > with display hotplug events anyway.
>
> Right. Are there situations where nouveau needs to? Or is this a
> misunderstanding of the problem from my end?
>

nouveau has to do some configuration anyway, like connecting the audio
stream with the port used etc...that's the ELD part. We have some
drm_audio bits though, so maybe we can solve this more general and
maybe the radeon drivers already have something here? Might be worth
to take a look there as well.

> >
> >> - Borked BIOSes just blindly assigning the MMIO space of the HDA device
> >> to another device, or nothing at all,
> >
> > that exists? *sigh*
> >
> >> - ... other things that might give any of us nightmares and heart burn?
> >>
> >
> > hopefully there are none :p
> >
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Roy
> >>
> >>>
> >>> -- Aaron
> >>>
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Lukas
> >>
> >
>

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Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH v2] ALSA: hda: Continue to probe when codec probe fails

[Roy Spliet]

Op 13-04-2021 om 10:48 schreef Karol Herbst:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 10:24 AM Roy Spliet <nouveau@spliet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Op 13-04-2021 om 01:10 schreef Karol Herbst:
>>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 9:36 PM Roy Spliet <nouveau@spliet.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello Aaron,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your insights. A follow-up query and some observations in-line.
>>>>
>>>> Op 12-04-2021 om 20:06 schreef Aaron Plattner:
>>>>> On 4/10/21 1:48 PM, Roy Spliet wrote:
>>>>>> Op 10-04-2021 om 20:23 schreef Lukas Wunner:
>>>>>>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 04:51:27PM +0100, Roy Spliet wrote:
>>>>>>>> Can I ask someone with more
>>>>>>>> technical knowledge of snd_hda_intel and vgaswitcheroo to brainstorm
>>>>>>>> about
>>>>>>>> the possible challenges of nouveau taking matters into its own hand
>>>>>>>> rather
>>>>>>>> than keeping this PCI quirk around?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It sounds to me like the HDA is not powered if no cable is plugged in.
>>>>>>> What is reponsible then for powering it up or down, firmware code on
>>>>>>> the GPU or in the host's BIOS?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sometimes the BIOS, but definitely unconditionally the PCI quirk code:
>>>>>> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/pci/quirks.c#L5289
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (CC Aaron Plattner)
>>>>>
>>>>> My basic understanding is that the audio function stops responding
>>>>> whenever the graphics function is powered off. So the requirement here
>>>>> is that the audio driver can't try to talk to the audio function while
>>>>> the graphics function is asleep, and must trigger a graphics function
>>>>> wakeup before trying to communicate with the audio function.
>>>>
>>>> I believe that vgaswitcheroo takes care of this for us.
>>>>
>>>
>>> yeah, and also: why would the driver want to do stuff? If the GPU is
>>> turned off, there is no point in communicating with the audio device
>>> anyway. The driver should do the initial probe and leave the device be
>>> unless it's actively used. Also there is no such thing as "use the
>>> audio function, but not the graphics one"
>>>
>>>>> I think
>>>>> there are also requirements about the audio function needing to be awake
>>>>> when the graphics driver is updating the ELD, but I'm not sure.
>>>>>
>>>
>>> well, it's one physical device anyway, so technically the audio
>>> function is powered on.
>>>
>>>>> This is harder on Windows because the audio driver lives in its own
>>>>> little world doing its own thing but on Linux we can do better.
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ideally, we should try to find out how to control HDA power from the
>>>>>>> operating system rather than trying to cooperate with whatever firmware
>>>>>>> is doing.  If we have that capability, the OS should power the HDA up
>>>>>>> and down as it sees fit.
>>>>>
>>>>> After system boot, I don't think there's any firmware involved, but I'm
>>>>> not super familiar with the low-level details and it's possible the
>>>>> situation changed since I last looked at it.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think the problem with having nouveau write this quirk is that the
>>>>> kernel will need to re-probe the PCI device to notice that it has
>>>>> suddenly become a multi-function device with an audio function, and
>>>>> hotplug the audio driver. I originally looked into trying to do that but
>>>>> it was tricky because the PCI subsystem didn't really have a mechanism
>>>>> for a single-function device to become a multi-function device on the
>>>>> fly and it seemed easier to enable it early on during bus enumeration.
>>>>> That way the kernel sees both functions all the time without anything
>>>>> else having to be special about this configuration.
>>>
>>> Well, we do have this pci/quirk.c thing, no? Nouveau does flip the
>>> bit, but I am actually not sure if that's even doing something
>>> anymore. Maybe in the runtime_resume case it's still relevant but not
>>> sure _when_ DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_CLASS_RESUME_EARLY is triggered, it does
>>> seem to be called even in the runtime_resume case though.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Right, so for a little more context: a while ago I noticed that my
>>>> laptop (lucky me, Asus K501UB) has a 940M with HDA but no codec. Seems
>>>> legit, given how this GPU has no displays attached; they're all hooked
>>>> up to the Intel integrated GPU. That threw off the snd_hda_intel
>>>> mid-probe, and as a result didn't permit runpm, keeping the entire GPU,
>>>> PCIe bus and thus the CPU package awake. A bit of hackerly later we
>>>> decided to continue probing without a codec, and now my laptop is happy,
>>>> but...
>>>> A new problem popped up with several other NVIDIA GPUs that expose their
>>>> HDA subdevice, but somehow its inaccessible. Relevant lines from a
>>>> users' log:
>>>>
>>>> [    3.031222] MXM: GUID detected in BIOS
>>>> [    3.031280] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index
>>>> (0x000000003) is beyond end of object (length 0x0) (20200925/exoparg2-393)
>>>> [    3.031352] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM due to
>>>> previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200925/psparse-529)
>>>> [    3.031419] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.GFX0: failed to evaluate _DSM (0x300b)
>>>> [    3.031424] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM: Argument #4 type
>>>> mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20200925/nsarguments-61)
>>>> [    3.031619] pci 0000:00:02.0: optimus capabilities: enabled, status
>>>> dynamic power,
>>>> [    3.031667] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index
>>>> (0x000000003) is beyond end of object (length 0x0) (20200925/exoparg2-393)
>>>> [    3.031731] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM due to
>>>> previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200925/psparse-529)
>>>> [    3.031791] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM due
>>>> to previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200925/psparse-529)
>>>> [    3.031856] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP: failed to evaluate _DSM (0x300b)
>>>> [    3.031859] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type
>>>> mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20200925/nsarguments-61)
>>>
>>> If I am not wrong we are calling the _DSM method inside nouveau when
>>> doing runpm on pre _PR3 systems. As this is all very vendor specific,
>>> we might be doing something incorrectly.
>>>
>>>> [    3.032058] pci 0000:01:00.0: optimus capabilities: enabled, status
>>>> dynamic power,
>>>> [    3.032061] VGA switcheroo: detected Optimus DSM method
>>>> \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP handle
>>>> [    3.032323] checking generic (d0000000 410000) vs hw (f6000000 1000000)
>>>> [    3.032325] checking generic (d0000000 410000) vs hw (e0000000 10000000)
>>>> [    3.032326] checking generic (d0000000 410000) vs hw (f0000000 2000000)
>>>> [    3.032410] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: NVIDIA GK107 (0e71f0a2)
>>>> [    3.042385] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: version 80.07.a0.00.11
>>>> --- snip ---
>>>> [    8.951478] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: can't change power state from
>>>> D3cold to D0 (config space inaccessible)
>>>> [    8.951509] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: can't change power state from
>>>> D3hot to D0 (config space inaccessible)
>>>
>>> This is actually a little bad, because it means that the device
>>> doesn't come back up from D3. It's a bit weird it's D3cold and D3hot
>>> in the messages, but maybe the device just takes quite some time to
>>> wake up. But it does look like the device gets woken up.
>>>
>>>> [    8.951608] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Disabling MSI
>>>> [    8.951621] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Handle vga_switcheroo audio
>>>> client
>>>> [    8.952461] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops
>>>> i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
>>>> [    8.952642] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: number of I/O streams is 30,
>>>> forcing separate stream tags
>>>>
>>>> Now I don't know what's going on, but the snd_hda_intel messages are
>>>> ominous. And so are the ACPI warnings. But I don't know how much these
>>>> two are related.
>>>>
>>>
>>> What is the actual problem though? Seems like everything is fine
>>> despite those messages.
>>
>> The problem, as stated a few e-mails earlier, is that the HDA errors
>> currently prevent snd_hda_intel from properly probing the device and
>> registering it with vgaswitcheroo. As a result, the GPU always stays in
>> DynPwr rather than DynOff even when it's unused, keeping the PCIe bus
>> and the CPU package powered. Basically burning through a charged battery
>> a lot quicker than need be.
> 
> That's not the result of those errors, just the result of having no codecs, no?

If it was just a case of no codecs, Takashi and my patches from last 
year would have fixed it. This one seems a bit more hairy.

> 
>> If we go back a mile on the e-mail thread, I think the problem was
>> narrowed down to snd_hda_intel reading an invalid codec mask on the
>> config space, and using it anyway. That being said, I believe there are
>> also reports of users that don't get HDMI audio unless the cable was
>> plugged in at boot-time, with similar messages in their logs. The codec
>> might in such cases be hiding themselves until a cable is plugged in?
>> @Aaron Plattner: does that latter observation sound right to you?
>>
> 
> yeah, I think that's the thing we should focus on, everything else
> just seems unrelated at this point until we have more information
> (like, codecs hide, because the _DSM calls failed or something)
> 

Sure, but the option of not exposing the HDA device in the first place 
had to be explored, even if it just led to rejecting the idea like it 
seems to have. I'm in favour of pushing forward the original fix that 
makes snd_hda_intel not fail on reading an invalid codec mask, and have 
it register the device with vgaswitcheroo so we can send it to DynOff. 
With the current snd_hda_intel architecture that seems simpler than 
failing to probe and unmapping the driver from the device. However, the 
issue of no HDMI sound unless plugged in as boot is/might be related, 
and needs to be on someone's agenda.

>>>
>>>> You say that it is desirable to switch on HDA at boot-time because the
>>>> PCI subsystem doesn't play nicely with changing a device to
>>>> multi-function. That rules out the option of only enabling the HDA
>>>> device once a cable is plugged in. Are there any other trap doors that
>>>
>>> yeah, we can absolutely not do that. We do quirk the device to put the
>>> GPU into multi function state asap and the intel_hda_snd driver should
>>> deal with it.
>>>
>>>> snd_hda_intel needs to navigate around to make this work fault free on
>>>> all hardware, such as:
>>>> - Codecs not revealing themselves until a display is plugged in,
>>>> requiring perhaps a "codec reprobe" and "codec remove" event from
>>>> nouveau/rm to snd_hda_intel,
>>>
>>> we could trigger the reprobe from within nouveau as we are dealing
>>> with display hotplug events anyway.
>>
>> Right. Are there situations where nouveau needs to? Or is this a
>> misunderstanding of the problem from my end?
>>
> 
> nouveau has to do some configuration anyway, like connecting the audio
> stream with the port used etc...that's the ELD part. We have some
> drm_audio bits though, so maybe we can solve this more general and
> maybe the radeon drivers already have something here? Might be worth
> to take a look there as well.
> 
>>>
>>>> - Borked BIOSes just blindly assigning the MMIO space of the HDA device
>>>> to another device, or nothing at all,
>>>
>>> that exists? *sigh*
>>>
>>>> - ... other things that might give any of us nightmares and heart burn?
>>>>
>>>
>>> hopefully there are none :p
>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Roy
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Aaron
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Lukas
>>>>
>>>
>>
> 

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Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH v2] ALSA: hda: Continue to probe when codec probe fails

[Karol Herbst]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 1:17 PM Roy Spliet <nouveau@spliet.org> wrote:
>
> Op 13-04-2021 om 10:48 schreef Karol Herbst:
> > On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 10:24 AM Roy Spliet <nouveau@spliet.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Op 13-04-2021 om 01:10 schreef Karol Herbst:
> >>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 9:36 PM Roy Spliet <nouveau@spliet.org> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hello Aaron,
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks for your insights. A follow-up query and some observations in-line.
> >>>>
> >>>> Op 12-04-2021 om 20:06 schreef Aaron Plattner:
> >>>>> On 4/10/21 1:48 PM, Roy Spliet wrote:
> >>>>>> Op 10-04-2021 om 20:23 schreef Lukas Wunner:
> >>>>>>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 04:51:27PM +0100, Roy Spliet wrote:
> >>>>>>>> Can I ask someone with more
> >>>>>>>> technical knowledge of snd_hda_intel and vgaswitcheroo to brainstorm
> >>>>>>>> about
> >>>>>>>> the possible challenges of nouveau taking matters into its own hand
> >>>>>>>> rather
> >>>>>>>> than keeping this PCI quirk around?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> It sounds to me like the HDA is not powered if no cable is plugged in.
> >>>>>>> What is reponsible then for powering it up or down, firmware code on
> >>>>>>> the GPU or in the host's BIOS?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Sometimes the BIOS, but definitely unconditionally the PCI quirk code:
> >>>>>> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/pci/quirks.c#L5289
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> (CC Aaron Plattner)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> My basic understanding is that the audio function stops responding
> >>>>> whenever the graphics function is powered off. So the requirement here
> >>>>> is that the audio driver can't try to talk to the audio function while
> >>>>> the graphics function is asleep, and must trigger a graphics function
> >>>>> wakeup before trying to communicate with the audio function.
> >>>>
> >>>> I believe that vgaswitcheroo takes care of this for us.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> yeah, and also: why would the driver want to do stuff? If the GPU is
> >>> turned off, there is no point in communicating with the audio device
> >>> anyway. The driver should do the initial probe and leave the device be
> >>> unless it's actively used. Also there is no such thing as "use the
> >>> audio function, but not the graphics one"
> >>>
> >>>>> I think
> >>>>> there are also requirements about the audio function needing to be awake
> >>>>> when the graphics driver is updating the ELD, but I'm not sure.
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >>> well, it's one physical device anyway, so technically the audio
> >>> function is powered on.
> >>>
> >>>>> This is harder on Windows because the audio driver lives in its own
> >>>>> little world doing its own thing but on Linux we can do better.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>> Ideally, we should try to find out how to control HDA power from the
> >>>>>>> operating system rather than trying to cooperate with whatever firmware
> >>>>>>> is doing.  If we have that capability, the OS should power the HDA up
> >>>>>>> and down as it sees fit.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> After system boot, I don't think there's any firmware involved, but I'm
> >>>>> not super familiar with the low-level details and it's possible the
> >>>>> situation changed since I last looked at it.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I think the problem with having nouveau write this quirk is that the
> >>>>> kernel will need to re-probe the PCI device to notice that it has
> >>>>> suddenly become a multi-function device with an audio function, and
> >>>>> hotplug the audio driver. I originally looked into trying to do that but
> >>>>> it was tricky because the PCI subsystem didn't really have a mechanism
> >>>>> for a single-function device to become a multi-function device on the
> >>>>> fly and it seemed easier to enable it early on during bus enumeration.
> >>>>> That way the kernel sees both functions all the time without anything
> >>>>> else having to be special about this configuration.
> >>>
> >>> Well, we do have this pci/quirk.c thing, no? Nouveau does flip the
> >>> bit, but I am actually not sure if that's even doing something
> >>> anymore. Maybe in the runtime_resume case it's still relevant but not
> >>> sure _when_ DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_CLASS_RESUME_EARLY is triggered, it does
> >>> seem to be called even in the runtime_resume case though.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Right, so for a little more context: a while ago I noticed that my
> >>>> laptop (lucky me, Asus K501UB) has a 940M with HDA but no codec. Seems
> >>>> legit, given how this GPU has no displays attached; they're all hooked
> >>>> up to the Intel integrated GPU. That threw off the snd_hda_intel
> >>>> mid-probe, and as a result didn't permit runpm, keeping the entire GPU,
> >>>> PCIe bus and thus the CPU package awake. A bit of hackerly later we
> >>>> decided to continue probing without a codec, and now my laptop is happy,
> >>>> but...
> >>>> A new problem popped up with several other NVIDIA GPUs that expose their
> >>>> HDA subdevice, but somehow its inaccessible. Relevant lines from a
> >>>> users' log:
> >>>>
> >>>> [    3.031222] MXM: GUID detected in BIOS
> >>>> [    3.031280] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index
> >>>> (0x000000003) is beyond end of object (length 0x0) (20200925/exoparg2-393)
> >>>> [    3.031352] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM due to
> >>>> previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200925/psparse-529)
> >>>> [    3.031419] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.GFX0: failed to evaluate _DSM (0x300b)
> >>>> [    3.031424] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM: Argument #4 type
> >>>> mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20200925/nsarguments-61)
> >>>> [    3.031619] pci 0000:00:02.0: optimus capabilities: enabled, status
> >>>> dynamic power,
> >>>> [    3.031667] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index
> >>>> (0x000000003) is beyond end of object (length 0x0) (20200925/exoparg2-393)
> >>>> [    3.031731] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM due to
> >>>> previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200925/psparse-529)
> >>>> [    3.031791] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM due
> >>>> to previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200925/psparse-529)
> >>>> [    3.031856] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP: failed to evaluate _DSM (0x300b)
> >>>> [    3.031859] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type
> >>>> mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20200925/nsarguments-61)
> >>>
> >>> If I am not wrong we are calling the _DSM method inside nouveau when
> >>> doing runpm on pre _PR3 systems. As this is all very vendor specific,
> >>> we might be doing something incorrectly.
> >>>
> >>>> [    3.032058] pci 0000:01:00.0: optimus capabilities: enabled, status
> >>>> dynamic power,
> >>>> [    3.032061] VGA switcheroo: detected Optimus DSM method
> >>>> \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP handle
> >>>> [    3.032323] checking generic (d0000000 410000) vs hw (f6000000 1000000)
> >>>> [    3.032325] checking generic (d0000000 410000) vs hw (e0000000 10000000)
> >>>> [    3.032326] checking generic (d0000000 410000) vs hw (f0000000 2000000)
> >>>> [    3.032410] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: NVIDIA GK107 (0e71f0a2)
> >>>> [    3.042385] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: version 80.07.a0.00.11
> >>>> --- snip ---
> >>>> [    8.951478] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: can't change power state from
> >>>> D3cold to D0 (config space inaccessible)
> >>>> [    8.951509] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: can't change power state from
> >>>> D3hot to D0 (config space inaccessible)
> >>>
> >>> This is actually a little bad, because it means that the device
> >>> doesn't come back up from D3. It's a bit weird it's D3cold and D3hot
> >>> in the messages, but maybe the device just takes quite some time to
> >>> wake up. But it does look like the device gets woken up.
> >>>
> >>>> [    8.951608] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Disabling MSI
> >>>> [    8.951621] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Handle vga_switcheroo audio
> >>>> client
> >>>> [    8.952461] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops
> >>>> i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
> >>>> [    8.952642] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: number of I/O streams is 30,
> >>>> forcing separate stream tags
> >>>>
> >>>> Now I don't know what's going on, but the snd_hda_intel messages are
> >>>> ominous. And so are the ACPI warnings. But I don't know how much these
> >>>> two are related.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> What is the actual problem though? Seems like everything is fine
> >>> despite those messages.
> >>
> >> The problem, as stated a few e-mails earlier, is that the HDA errors
> >> currently prevent snd_hda_intel from properly probing the device and
> >> registering it with vgaswitcheroo. As a result, the GPU always stays in
> >> DynPwr rather than DynOff even when it's unused, keeping the PCIe bus
> >> and the CPU package powered. Basically burning through a charged battery
> >> a lot quicker than need be.
> >
> > That's not the result of those errors, just the result of having no codecs, no?
>
> If it was just a case of no codecs, Takashi and my patches from last
> year would have fixed it. This one seems a bit more hairy.
>

sure, but the issue is still that no codecs are there on initial probe
time, right? I still don't see how any of those warnings/errors are
related to that unless the _DSM call flips something.

> >
> >> If we go back a mile on the e-mail thread, I think the problem was
> >> narrowed down to snd_hda_intel reading an invalid codec mask on the
> >> config space, and using it anyway. That being said, I believe there are
> >> also reports of users that don't get HDMI audio unless the cable was
> >> plugged in at boot-time, with similar messages in their logs. The codec
> >> might in such cases be hiding themselves until a cable is plugged in?
> >> @Aaron Plattner: does that latter observation sound right to you?
> >>
> >
> > yeah, I think that's the thing we should focus on, everything else
> > just seems unrelated at this point until we have more information
> > (like, codecs hide, because the _DSM calls failed or something)
> >
>
> Sure, but the option of not exposing the HDA device in the first place
> had to be explored, even if it just led to rejecting the idea like it
> seems to have. I'm in favour of pushing forward the original fix that
> makes snd_hda_intel not fail on reading an invalid codec mask, and have
> it register the device with vgaswitcheroo so we can send it to DynOff.
> With the current snd_hda_intel architecture that seems simpler than
> failing to probe and unmapping the driver from the device. However, the
> issue of no HDMI sound unless plugged in as boot is/might be related,
> and needs to be on someone's agenda.
>

yeah.. but it might require a bigger rework of the snd_hda_intel
driver as it seems. I am not sure how "dynamic" audio devices are in
general, but it sounds like that devices usually just expose
everything and are done with it.

In the end the GPU can wake up for any reason. you might start
rendering and then you plug in the connector and honestly.. I think
snd_hda_intel has to be able to recheck for changed configuration,
because I have no idea what nouveau could do here anyway?

What I think we need to figure out is, what exactly is changing the
audio device, it might be some bits in the nouveau loading code or it
might indeed be something the device itself is doing? dunno... Maybe
some of the vbios scripts are doing something as well?

I think having access to such a system would allow us to dig deeper
and I think we need this understanding before throwing in random
suggestions on what to do.

Maybe it's also worth checking with the nvidia driver and see how the
situation is there?

> >>>
> >>>> You say that it is desirable to switch on HDA at boot-time because the
> >>>> PCI subsystem doesn't play nicely with changing a device to
> >>>> multi-function. That rules out the option of only enabling the HDA
> >>>> device once a cable is plugged in. Are there any other trap doors that
> >>>
> >>> yeah, we can absolutely not do that. We do quirk the device to put the
> >>> GPU into multi function state asap and the intel_hda_snd driver should
> >>> deal with it.
> >>>
> >>>> snd_hda_intel needs to navigate around to make this work fault free on
> >>>> all hardware, such as:
> >>>> - Codecs not revealing themselves until a display is plugged in,
> >>>> requiring perhaps a "codec reprobe" and "codec remove" event from
> >>>> nouveau/rm to snd_hda_intel,
> >>>
> >>> we could trigger the reprobe from within nouveau as we are dealing
> >>> with display hotplug events anyway.
> >>
> >> Right. Are there situations where nouveau needs to? Or is this a
> >> misunderstanding of the problem from my end?
> >>
> >
> > nouveau has to do some configuration anyway, like connecting the audio
> > stream with the port used etc...that's the ELD part. We have some
> > drm_audio bits though, so maybe we can solve this more general and
> > maybe the radeon drivers already have something here? Might be worth
> > to take a look there as well.
> >
> >>>
> >>>> - Borked BIOSes just blindly assigning the MMIO space of the HDA device
> >>>> to another device, or nothing at all,
> >>>
> >>> that exists? *sigh*
> >>>
> >>>> - ... other things that might give any of us nightmares and heart burn?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> hopefully there are none :p
> >>>
> >>>> Thanks!
> >>>>
> >>>> Roy
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> -- Aaron
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Lukas
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
>

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