Drm: mgag200. Video adapter issue with 5.4.0-rc3 ; no graphics
Thomas Zimmermann
tzimmermann at suse.de
Fri Nov 8 07:46:50 UTC 2019
Hi John
Am 07.11.19 um 23:14 schrieb John Donnelly:
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>> On Nov 7, 2019, at 10:13 AM, John Donnelly <john.p.donnelly at oracle.com> wrote:
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>>> On Nov 7, 2019, at 7:42 AM, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi John
>>>
>>> Am 07.11.19 um 14:12 schrieb John Donnelly:
>>>> Hi Thomas ; Thank you for reaching out.
>>>>
>>>> See inline:
>>>>
>>>>> On Nov 7, 2019, at 1:54 AM, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi John,
>>>>>
>>>>> apparently the vgaarb was not the problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> Am 07.11.19 um 03:29 schrieb John Donnelly:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am investigating an issue where we lose video activity when the display is switched from from “text mode” to “graphic mode”
>>>>>> on a number of servers using this driver. Specifically starting the GNOME desktop.
>>>>>
>>>>> When you say "text mode", do you mean VGA text mode or the graphical
>>>>> console that emulates text mode?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I call “text mode” the 24x80 ascii mode ; - NOT GRAPHICS . Ie : run-level 3; So I guess your term for it is VGA.
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> When you enable graphics mode, does it set the correct resolution? A lot
>>>>> of work went into memory management recently. I could imagine that the
>>>>> driver sets the correct resolution, but then fails to display the
>>>>> correct framebuffer.
>>>>
>>>> There is no display at all ; so there is no resolution to mention.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If possible, could you try to update to the latest drm-tip and attach
>>>>> the output of
>>>>>
>>>>> /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/vram-mm
>>>>
>>>> I don’t see that file ; Is there something else I need to do ?
>>>
>>> That file is fairly new and maybe it's not in the mainline kernel yet.
>>> See below for how to get it.
>>
>> I built your “tip” ; Still no graphics displayed .
>>
>>
>> mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel
>>
>> cat /proc/cmdline
>> BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,msdos1)/vmlinuz-5.4.0-rc6.drm.+ root=/dev/mapper/ol_ca--dev55-root ro crashkernel=auto resume=/dev/mapper/ol_ca--dev55-swap rd.lvm.lv=ol_ca-dev55/root rd.lvm.lv=ol_ca-dev55/swap console=ttyS0,9600,8,n,1 drm.debug=0xff
>>
>>
>> cat /sys/kernel/dri/0/vram-mm
>>
>> In VGA mode :
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>> cat /sys/kernel/dri/0/vram-mm
>> 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000300: 768: used
>> 0x0000000000000300-0x0000000000000600: 768: used
>> 0x0000000000000600-0x00000000000007ee: 494: free
>> 0x00000000000007ee-0x00000000000007ef: 1: used
>> 0x00000000000007ef-0x00000000000007f0: 1: used
>>
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>> In GRAPHICS mode ( if it matters )
>>
>>
>> cat /sys/kernel/dri/0/vram-mm
>> 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000300: 768: used
>> 0x0000000000000300-0x0000000000000600: 768: used
>> 0x0000000000000600-0x00000000000007ee: 494: free
>> 0x00000000000007ee-0x00000000000007ef: 1: used
>> 0x00000000000007ef-0x00000000000007f0: 1: used
>> total: 2032, used 1538 free 494
>>
This is interesting. In the graphics mode, you see two buffers of 768
pages each. That's the main framebuffers as used by X (it's double
buffered). Then there's a free area and finally two pages for cursor
images (also double buffered). That looks as expected.
The thing is that in text mode, the areas are allocated. But the driver
shouldn't be active, so the file shouldn't exist or only show a single
free area.
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>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I’ve attached : var/lib/gdm/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log. ; instead ;
>>>
>>> Good! Looking through that log file, the card is found at line 79 and
>>> the generic X modesetting driver initializes below. That works as expected.
>>>
>>> I notices that several operations are not permitted (lines 78 and 87). I
>>> guess you're starting X from a regular user account? IIRC special
>>> permission is required to acquire control of the display. What happens
>>> if you start X as root user?
>>
>>
>> I am starting GNOME as root by doing “init 5” from either the console session or from ssh .
>>
>> The default runlevel is 3 on boot .
>>
>> On failing session running your 5.4.0.rc6.
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>> 78 [ 237.712] xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted)
>>
>> 87 [ 237.712] (EE) open /dev/fb0: Permission denied
>>
>> Booting 4.18 kernel yields the same error results in: /var/lib/gdm/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log
>>
>> 78 [ 101.334] xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted)
>>
>> 87 [ 101.334] (EE) open /dev/fb0: Permission denied
>>
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>> What is strange the X logs ( bad and Ok ) files essentially appear as if GNOME started !
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>> <Xorg.0.log.bad><Xorg.0.log.Ok>
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>>>> Here is my cmdline - I just tested 5.3.0 and it fails too ( my last test was 5.3.8 and it failed also ) .
>>>>
>>>> # cat /proc/cmdline
>>>> BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,msdos1)/vmlinuz-5.3.0+ root=/dev/mapper/ol_ca--dev55-root ro crashkernel=auto resume=/dev/mapper/ol_ca--dev55-swap rd.lvm.lv=ol_ca-dev55/root rd.lvm.lv=ol_ca-dev55/swap console=ttyS0,9600,8,n,1 drm.debug=0xff
>>>>
>>>> When you say “tip”. - Are you referring to a specific kernel ? I can build a 5.4.0.rc6 ; The problem appears to have been introduced around 5.3 time frame.
>>>
>>> The latest and greatest DRM code is in the drm-tip branch at
>>>
>>> git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-tip
>>>
>>> If you build this version you should find
>>>
>>> /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/vram-mm
>>>
>>> on the device. You have to build with debugfs enabled and
>>> maybe have to mount debugfs at /sys/kernel/debug.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> before and after switching to graphics mode. The file lists the
>>>>> allocated regions of the VRAM.
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This adapter is Server Engines Integrated Remote Video Acceleration Subsystem (RVAS) and is used as remote console in iLO/DRAC environments.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don’t see any specific errors in the gdm logs or message file other than this:
>>>>>
>>>>> You can boot with drm.debug=0xff on the kernel command line to enable
>>>>> more warnings.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you please attach the output of lspci -v for the VGA adapter?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Here is the output from the current machine; The previous addresses were from another model using the same SE device:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nov 7 04:42:50 ca-dev55 kernel: mgag200 0000:3d:00.0: remove_conflicting_pci_framebuffers: bar 0: 0xc5000000 -> 0xc5ffffff
>>>> Nov 7 04:42:50 ca-dev55 kernel: mgag200 0000:3d:00.0: remove_conflicting_pci_framebuffers: bar 1: 0xc6810000 -> 0xc6813fff
>>>> Nov 7 04:42:50 ca-dev55 kernel: mgag200 0000:3d:00.0: remove_conflicting_pci_framebuffers: bar 2: 0xc6000000 -> 0xc67fffff
>>>> Nov 7 04:42:50 ca-dev55 kernel: mgag200 0000:3d:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> lspci -s 3d:00.0 -vvv -k
>>>> 3d:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. MGA G200e [Pilot] ServerEngines (SEP1) (rev 05) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>>>> Subsystem: Oracle/SUN Device 4852
>>>> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr+ Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
>>>> Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
>>>> Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
>>>> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
>>>> NUMA node: 0
>>>> Region 0: Memory at c5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>>>> Region 1: Memory at c6810000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>>>> Region 2: Memory at c6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
>>>> Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>>>> Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
>>>> Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>>>> Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>>>> Capabilities: [e4] Express (v1) Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
>>>> DevCap: MaxPayload 256 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
>>>> ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE- FLReset-
>>>> DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable+ Non-Fatal+ Fatal+ Unsupported-
>>>> RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
>>>> MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
>>>> DevSta: CorrErr+ UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq+ AuxPwr- TransPend-
>>>> LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s, Exit Latency L0s <64ns
>>>> ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- ASPMOptComp-
>>>> LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- CommClk+
>>>> ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
>>>> LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
>>>> Capabilities: [54] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
>>>> Address: 00000000 Data: 0000
>>>> Kernel driver in use: mgag200
>>>> Kernel modules: mgag200
>>>
>>> Looks all normal.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Thomas
>>>
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> Hi Thomas
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> I hopefully narrowed down the breakage between these up-stream commits, which is v5.2 and 5.3.0-rc1:
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> between : 0ecfebd2b524 2019-07-07 | Linux 5.2 to : 5f9e832c1370 2019-07-21 | Linus 5.3-rc1
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> I started to bisect this range on by date, by day , based on the changes done in :
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> drivers/gpu/drm/
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> fec88ab0af97 2019-07-14 | Merge tag 'for-linus-hmm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma ; works
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> Hopefully something in drivers/gpu/drm/ between the date range of 2019-07-14 to 2019-07-21 will surface tomorrow.
Great, thanks for bisecting.
Could you attach your kernel config file? I'd like to compare with my
config and try to reproduce the issue.
Best regards
Thomas
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Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
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