Debugging Thinkpad T430s occasional suspend failure.

[Daniel Vetter]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Hugh Dickins <hughd at google.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2013, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>> On Sat, 16 Feb 2013, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> >
>> > I think it's worth it to give them a heads-up already. So I've cc'd
>> > the main suspects here..
>>
>> Okay, thanks.
>>
>> >
>> > Daniel, Dave - any comments about a NULL fb in
>> > intel_choose_pipe_bpp_dither() during either suspend or resume? Some
>> > googling shows this:
>> >
>> >     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=895123
>>
>> Great, yes, I'm sure that's the same (though it says "suspend"
>> and I say "resume").
>>
>> >
>> > which sounds remarkably similar, and is also during a suspend attempt
>> > (but apparently Satish got a full oops out).. Some timing race with a
>> > worker entry?
>
> Comparing Satish's backtrace and drivers/gpu/drm history, it's clear that
> the oops comes from Daniel's 3.8-rc2 45e2b5f640b3 "drm/i915: force restore
> on lid open", whose force_restore case now passes down crtc->base.fb.  But
> I wouldn't have a clue why that's usually non-NULL but occasionally NULL:
> your timing race with a worker entry, perhaps.
>
> And 45e2b5f640b3 contains a fine history of going back and forth, so I
> wouldn't want to play further with it out of ignorance - though tempted
> to replace the "if (force_restore) {" by an interim safe-seeming
> compromise of "if (force_restore && crtc->base.fb) {".

Two things to try while I try to grow a clue on what exactly is going on:

1. Related to new ACPI sleep states we've recently made the lid_notifier
locking more sound, maybe that helps:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm-intel/commit/?h=drm-intel-next-queued&id=b8efb17b3d687695b81485f606fc4e6c35a50f9a

2. The new i915 force restore code is indeed missing a safety check
compared to the old crtc helper based one:

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
index 6eb3882..095094c 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
@@ -9153,7 +9153,13 @@ void intel_modeset_setup_hw_state(struct drm_device *dev,
 
 	if (force_restore) {
 		for_each_pipe(pipe) {
-			intel_crtc_restore_mode(dev_priv->pipe_to_crtc_mapping[pipe]);
+			struct drm_crtc * crtc =
+				dev_priv->pipe_to_crtc_mapping[pipe];
+
+			if (!crtc->enabled)
+				continue;
+
+			intel_crtc_restore_mode(crtc);
 		}
 
 		i915_redisable_vga(dev);

The issue is that we save a pointer to the fb (since those are refcounted)
but copy the mode into the crtc struct (since modes are not refcounted).
So on restore the mode will always be non-NULL, which is wrong if the crtc
is off (and so also has a NULL fb).

The problem I have with that patch is figuring out how this ever worked. I
think I need more coffee ;-)

Cheers, Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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