commit 15512021eb3975a8c2366e3883337e252bb0eee5 causes white spots in console screens

[Jani Nikula]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2022, François Valenduc <francoisvalenduc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 14/04/22 à 10:03, Lisovskiy, Stanislav a écrit :
>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 08:33:35AM +0200, François Valenduc wrote:
>>> Le 14/04/22 à 08:31, Lisovskiy, Stanislav a écrit :
>>>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 08:12:20PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 13 Apr 2022, François Valenduc <francoisvalenduc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Commit 15512021eb3975a8c2366e3883337e252bb0eee5
>>>>>> (15512021eb3975a8c2366e3883337e252bb0eee5) causes a lof of white spots
>>>>>> to appears on the right upper corner of all console screens (see
>>>>>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/13GabEvOIKSAj5yox6ybAZEDu3Ixncw5Q/view).
>>>>>> git-bisect shows that this is the offending commit and if I revert it,
>>>>>> the problem goes away. The problem still occurs with kernel 5.18-rc2 and
>>>>>> to all stable trees where it was applied.
>>>>>> Can somebody explains what happens ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The video card is the following: VGA compatible controller: Intel
>>>>>> Corporation WhiskeyLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics 620] (rev 02) (prog-if 00
>>>>>> [VGA controller])
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please tell me if you need more info.
>>>>> That's commit 15512021eb39 ("drm/i915: Workaround broken BIOS DBUF
>>>>> configuration on TGL/RKL"), adding Cc's.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please file a report at fdo gitlab [1] and attach dmesg etc. there.
>>>> That commit looks like it is just disabling all the planes, if wrong
>>>> dbuf/wm configuration is detected.
>>>> However it should do that only once during boot as I understand.
>>>>
>>>> Are you sure that is exactly this commit which is causing this?
>>>> Does the issue appear always?
>>>>
>>>> Ville Syrjälä, thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> Stan
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Jani.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/wikis/How-to-file-i915-bugs
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center
>>> As I said, git-bisect shows it's the offending commit and if I revert it,
>>> the problem doesn't happens. Otherwise, it always occurs.
>>>
>>> François
>>>
>> Does it just happen all the time or some steps/certain circumstances needed
>> for it to happen?
>>
>> Only suspicion after looking briefly is that once suspend/resume is done
>> it might be messing something up. Just a quick guess..
>>
>> Stan
>
> It occurs permantently as soon as I boot my computer.

I'd appreciate that bug being filed, and the discussion moved there, so
all the details and history are in one place.

Thanks,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center