[REGRESSION]: drivers/firmware: move x86 Generic System Framebuffers support

Wed Nov 10 23:07:19 UTC 2021

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Hello Ilya,

On 11/10/21 21:02, Ilya Trukhanov wrote:
> Suspend-to-RAM with elogind under Wayland stopped working in 5.15.
> 
> This occurs with 5.15, 5.15.1 and latest master at
> 89d714ab6043bca7356b5c823f5335f5dce1f930. 5.14 and earlier releases work
> fine.
> 
> git bisect gives d391c58271072d0b0fad93c82018d495b2633448.
>

That's strange because this patch is just moving code around, there shouldn't
be any functional changes...

> To reproduce:
> - Use elogind and Linux 5.15.1 with CONFIG_SYSFB_SIMPLEFB=n.
> - Start a Wayland session. I tested sway and weston, neither worked.
> - In a terminal emulator (I used alacritty) execute `loginctl suspend`.
> 
> Normally after the last step the system would suspend, but it no longer
> does so after I upgraded to Linux 5.15. After running `loginctl suspend`
> in dmesg I get the following:
> [  103.098782] elogind-daemon[2357]: Suspending system...
> [  103.098794] PM: suspend entry (deep)
> [  103.124621] Filesystems sync: 0.025 seconds
> 
> But nothing happens afterwards.
> 
> Suspend works as expected if I do any of the following:
> - Revert d391c58271072d0b0fad93c82018d495b2633448.
> - Build with CONFIG_SYSFB_SIMPLEFB=y.

Can you please share the kernel boot log for any of these cases too ?

> - Suspend from tty, even if a Wayland session is running in parallel.
> - Suspend from under an X11 session.
> - Suspend with `echo mem > /sys/power/state`.
> 
> If I attach strace to the elogind-daemon process after running
> `loginctl suspend` then the system immediately suspends. However, if
> I attach strace *prior* to running `loginctl suspend` then no suspend,
> and the process gets stuck on a write syscall to `/sys/power/state`.
> 
> I "traced" a little bit with printk (sorry, I don't know of a better
> way) and the call chain is as follows:
> state_store -> pm_suspend -> enter_state -> suspend_prepare
> -> pm_prepare_console -> vt_move_to_console -> vt_waitactive
> -> __vt_event_wait
> 
> __vt_event_wait just waits until wait_event_interruptible completes, but
> it never does (not until I attach to elogind-daemon with strace, at
> least). I did not follow the chain further.
> 
> - Linux version 5.15.1 (lahvuun at lahvuun) (gcc (Gentoo 11.2.0 p1) 11.2.0,
>   GNU ld (Gentoo 2.37_p1 p0) 2.37) #51 SMP PREEMPT Tue Nov 9 23:39:25
>   EET 2021
> - Gentoo Linux 2.8
> - x86_64 AuthenticAMD
> - dmesg: https://pastebin.com/duj33bY8
> - .config: https://pastebin.com/7Hew1g0T
> 

Looking at your .config and dmesg output, my guess is that is related to the
fact that you have both CONFIG_FB_EFI=y and CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU=y.

The code that adds the "efi-framebuffer" platform device used to be in the
arch/x86/kernel/sysfb.c file but now is in drivers/firmware/sysfb.c, and it
could affect the order in which the device <--> driver matching happens.

>From your kernel boot log:

...
[    0.375796] [drm] amdgpu kernel modesetting enabled.
[    0.375819] amdgpu: CRAT table disabled by module option
[    0.375823] amdgpu: Virtual CRAT table created for CPU
[    0.375831] amdgpu: Topology: Add CPU node
[    0.375865] amdgpu 0000:0a:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console
[    0.375911] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (VEGA10 0x1002:0x687F 0x1DA2:0xE376 0xC3).
...
[    0.868997] fbcon: amdgpu (fb0) is primary device
[    1.004397] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240x67
[    1.017815] amdgpu 0000:0a:00.0: [drm] fb0: amdgpu frame buffer device
...
[    1.133997] efifb: probing for efifb
[    1.134716] efifb: framebuffer at 0xe0000000, using 8100k, total 8100k
[    1.135438] efifb: mode is 1920x1080x32, linelength=7680, pages=1
[    1.136180] efifb: scrolling: redraw
[    1.136891] efifb: Truecolor: size=8:8:8:8, shift=24:16:8:0
[    1.137638] fb1: EFI VGA frame buffer device

Usually the efifb is to have early framebuffer output before the native DRM
driver probes, but in your case is the opposite. This wouldn't happen if the
amdpug driver was built as a module.

Probably before the mentioned commit, the efifb driver was probed earlier and
then the amdgpu driver would had removed the conflicting efifb framebuffer
before registering its DRM device. But that doesn't happen here and the efifb
framebuffer is still around since is registered after the one for the amdgpu.

Which would explain why also works with CONFIG_SYSFB_SIMPLEFB=y for you, since
in that case a "simple-framebuffer" platform device is added instead of an
"efi-framebuffer". But since neither CONFIG_FB_SIMPLE nor CONFIG_DRM_SIMPLEDRM
are enabled in your kernel config, no device driver will match that device.

This is just a guess though. Would be good if you could test following cases:

1) CONFIG_FB_EFI not set
2) CONFIG_FB_EFI=y and CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU=m
3) CONFIG_SYSFB_SIMPLEFB=y and CONFIG_FB_SIMPLE=y

And for each check /proc/fb, the kernel boot log, and if Suspend-to-RAM works.

If the explanation above is correct, then I would expect (1) and (2) to work and
(3) to also fail.

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat