5.6 DP-MST regression: 1 of 2 monitors on TB3 (DP-MST) dock no longer light up

Thu Feb 27 18:42:49 UTC 2020

On Thu, 2020-02-27 at 10:04 -0500, Mikita Lipski wrote:
> 
> On 2/26/20 6:41 PM, Souza, Jose wrote:
> > Hi Hans
> > 
> > Just commenting in the "[    3.309061] [drm:intel_dump_pipe_config
> > [i915]] MST master transcoder: <invalid>" message, it is the expected
> > behaviour for anything older than Tigerlake, from TGL+ this will be set
> > in MST mode.
> > 
> > On Wed, 2020-02-26 at 18:52 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On 2/26/20 5:05 PM, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 10:43 AM Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > 
> > > > > On 2/26/20 4:29 PM, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > > > > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 10:16 AM Hans de Goede <
> > > > > > hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > Hi Lyude and everyone else,
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Lyude I'm mailing you about this because you have done a lot
> > > > > > > of
> > > > > > > work on DP MST, but if this rings a bell to anyone else feel
> > > > > > > free to weigh in on this.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Might be a duplicate of:
> > > > > > https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.freedesktop.org%2Fdrm%2Famd%2Fissues%2F1052&data=02%7C01%7Cmikita.lipski%40amd.com%7Ca48e7470afee41cb208508d7bb155ad0%7C3dd8961fe4884e608e11a82d994e183d%7C0%7C0%7C637183572706454329&sdata=AKmPhCqvvKtgzDBaobU4g74bErQQ7O3aL%2FJ8Al2Ey2I%3D&reserved=0
> > > > > 
> > > > > Looks like you are right, reverting the commit which the bisect
> > > > > from that issue points to:
> > > > > 
> > > > > cd82d82cbc04 ("drm/dp_mst: Add branch bandwidth validation to MST
> > > > > atomic check")
> > > > > 
> > > > > Fixes the issue for me. I will add a comment to the issue.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Note I'm using integrated Intel gfx, so that means that this
> > > > > issue
> > > > > definitely is not amdgpu specific.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I'm not too familiar with the mst code, but I wonder if we were
> > > > exceeding the bandwidth limits in some setups and it just happened
> > > > to
> > > > work, but now that we enforcing them, they don't which is correct,
> > > > but
> > > > a regression from some users' perspective?
> > > 
> > > I seriously doubt that is the case according to:
> > > https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.lenovo.com%2Fnl%2Fen%2Fsolutions%2Fpd029622&data=02%7C01%7Cmikita.lipski%40amd.com%7Ca48e7470afee41cb208508d7bb155ad0%7C3dd8961fe4884e608e11a82d994e183d%7C0%7C0%7C637183572706454329&sdata=64uP50QojK2HkemDq3EGNKCVEgVl1ZxucyI%2F%2Bkk2Ng0%3D&reserved=0
> > > 
> > > The gen 2 tb3 dock can handle 2 external
> > > displays at 3840*2160 at 60Hz together with the internal
> > > panel being on and both my external displays run at
> > > 1920x1080 at 60 so I'm consuming less then half of the
> > > maximum bandwidth.
> > > 
> > > There definitely is a bug somewhere in the
> > > cd82d82cbc04 ("drm/dp_mst: Add branch bandwidth validation to MST
> > > atomic check")
> > > commit (or somewhere else and triggered by that commit).
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > Hans
> 
> + Lin Wyane, Lyude Paul
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry I'm late responding to the thread.
> The reason why this issue could have missed is because this patch was 
> pushed as a part of DSC MST patch series and with DSC the pbn is much 
> lower so it wouldn't fail this check.
> 
> Anyways this check might have exposed a different bug in DRM. It seems 
> like the variable of available_pbn doesn't get updated on the ports in 
> the topology so the calculation of branch's bandwidth limit is not 
> correct, which would cause a branch bandwidth to be bottle-necked by 
> pbn_limit variable.
>  From DP 1.4 standart it seems like DRM should update available_pbn on 
> each port, when processing RESOURCE_STATUS_NOTIFY sideband message when 
> topology changes. Right now DRM doesn't seem to be doing anything about 
> it. Was it the intention, or has it just never implemented? If it the 
> intention, then the patch should be reverted till a new solution is 
> delivered, otherwise it should be treated as a bug exposed by a branch 
> bandwidth check.
> I would appreciate any suggestions.

This was definitely something on my to-do list to implement but I never got
around to it, and your explanation of the problem makes perfect sense to me so
this would probably be the place to start. Thanks for looking into this while
I was gone!

> 
> Thanks,
> Mikita
> 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > Alex
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hans
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > > > I'm currently using a Lenovo X1 7th gen + a Lenovo TB3 gen 2
> > > > > > > dock
> > > > > > > as my daily rider for testing purposes. When 5.6-rc1 came out
> > > > > > > I
> > > > > > > noticed that only 1 of the 2 1920x1080 at 60 monitors on the
> > > > > > > dock
> > > > > > > lights up.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > There are no kernel errors in the logs, but mutter/gnome-
> > > > > > > shell says:
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > gnome-shell[1316]: Failed to post KMS update: Page flip of 93
> > > > > > > failed
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > With 93 being the crtc-id of the crtc used for the monitor
> > > > > > > which is
> > > > > > > displaying black. Since then I've waited for 5.6-rc3 hoping
> > > > > > > that a
> > > > > > > fix was already queued up, but 5.6-rc3 still has this
> > > > > > > problem.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > gnome-shell does behave as if all monitors are connected, so
> > > > > > > the
> > > > > > > monitor is seen, but we are failing to actually send any
> > > > > > > frames
> > > > > > > to it.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > I've put a log collected with drm.debug=0x104 here:
> > > > > > > https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https:%2F%2Ffedorapeople.org%2F~jwrdegoede%2Fdrm-debug.log&data=02%7C01%7Cmikita.lipski%40amd.com%7Ca48e7470afee41cb208508d7bb155ad0%7C3dd8961fe4884e608e11a82d994e183d%7C0%7C0%7C637183572706454329&sdata=eHPlfCRZXIPp9O%2B9CHvwb1kg5ffIhO%2FFFgwTcuWFKHM%3D&reserved=0
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > This message stands out as pointing to the likely cause of
> > > > > > > this problem:
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > [    3.309061] [drm:intel_dump_pipe_config [i915]] MST master
> > > > > > > transcoder: <invalid>
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Regards,
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Hans
> > > > > > > 
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Cheers,
	Lyude Paul (she/her)
	Associate Software Engineer at Red Hat