[PATCH 0/2] x86, ia64: Move EFI_FB vga_default_device() initialization to pci_vga_fixup()

[Daniel Vetter]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 08:23:24AM +0200, Bruno Prémont wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 23:39:31 -0500 Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Bruno Prémont wrote:
> > 
> > > A second step would then be to tune vgaarb's initial selection.
> > > Bjorn, is it possible to verify which I/O ports are decoded by a PCI
> > > device at the time of adding it to vgaarb? If so, how? I would like to
> > > check for legacy VGA I/O range (0x03B0-0x03DF) and only let vgaarb set
> > > a device as default if that I/O range is decoded by the device.
> > 
> > I don't know of a way.  I'm pretty sure VGA devices are allowed to
> > respond to those legacy addresses even if there's no BAR for them, but
> > I haven't found a spec reference for this.  There is the VGA Enable
> > bit in bridges, of course (PCI Bridge spec, sec 12.1.1.  If the VGA
> > device is behind a bridge that doesn't have the VGA Enable bit set, it
> > probably isn't the default device.
> 
> Those VGA devices behind bridges are the easy ones that vgaarb selects
> properly.
> It's the ones not behind a bridge (integrated graphics) like the intel
> one that cause problems.
> 
> For Andreas's system the discrete nvidia GPU has no I/O enabled
> according to PCI_COMMAND flags while the integrated intel one does have
> them (that's why the Intel GPU is chosen).
> 
> Unfortunately I don't know what makes his system choke at boot time as
> he did not provide logs for the failing case.

Very often when something goes wrong with a kms driver we hang while doing
the initial modeset. Which is all done while holding the console_lock
(because fbdev+vt locking is just insane). You can try to get a closer
look with I915_FBDEV=n which will avoid the console_lock, but which also
won't register the legacy/compat i915 fbdev emulation any more, so greatly
changes boot behaviour.

If that doesn't lead to clues the next approach is to "carefully"
drop&reacquire console_lock at a few "interesting" places to get a few
printks out over netconsole or similar. Or just hack up entire netconsole
loggin infrastructure which bypasses printk and so all the console_lock
insanity.

It's not pretty, I know :(

Cheers, Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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