Re: [REGRESSION] Re: i915 driver crashes on T540p if docking station attached

From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	intel-gfx <intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	DRI <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>,
	Mani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>,
	Ander Conselvan de Oliveira 
	<ander.conselvan.de.oliveira@intel.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] Re: i915 driver crashes on T540p if docking station attached
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 18:05:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150804160511.GK24689@phenom.ffwll.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150803162511.GA3563@thunk.org>

On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 12:25:11PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 05:27:29PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > 
> > Ok I updated fixes-stuff with just 2 patches which seem to be enough to
> > fix it. Plus a patch to convert Linus' hack into something we can keep
> > plus a drive-by WARNING fix in mst that got in the way for me.
> > 
> > Seems to work here in getting rid of the Oops. If this tests out for you
> > too I'll send a pull to Linus.
> 
> I've just tried pulling in your updated fixes-stuff, and it avoids the
> oops and allows external the monitor to work correctly.  However, I'm
> still seeing a large number of drm/i915 related warning messages and
> other kernel kvetching.

Involved a bit of head-scratching since I'm not too familiar with the
watermark code and it gained a lot of complexity for atomic. But the below
patch should be able to fix this WARNING (and it looks like it was a
genuine one). If it works for you I'll bake it into a proper patch.

Thanks, Daniel

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
index 30e0f54ba19d..ae07fd0c395c 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
@@ -15121,6 +15121,11 @@ void intel_modeset_setup_hw_state(struct drm_device *dev,
 
 	intel_modeset_readout_hw_state(dev);
 
+	if (IS_GEN9(dev))
+		skl_wm_get_hw_state(dev);
+	else if (HAS_PCH_SPLIT(dev))
+		ilk_wm_get_hw_state(dev);
+
 	/*
 	 * Now that we have the config, copy it to each CRTC struct
 	 * Note that this could go away if we move to using crtc_config
@@ -15162,11 +15167,6 @@ void intel_modeset_setup_hw_state(struct drm_device *dev,
 		pll->on = false;
 	}
 
-	if (IS_GEN9(dev))
-		skl_wm_get_hw_state(dev);
-	else if (HAS_PCH_SPLIT(dev))
-		ilk_wm_get_hw_state(dev);
-
 	if (force_restore) {
 		i915_redisable_vga(dev);
 
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
