[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v3] drm/i915/skl: Add support for the SAGV, fix underrun hangs

Matt Roper matthew.d.roper at intel.com
Tue Jul 12 18:21:39 UTC 2016


On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 01:36:03PM -0400, Lyude wrote:
> Since the watermark calculations for Skylake are still broken, we're apt
> to hitting underruns very easily under multi-monitor configurations.
> While it would be lovely if this was fixed, it's not. Another problem
> that's been coming from this however, is the mysterious issue of
> underruns causing full system hangs. An easy way to reproduce this with
> a skylake system:
> 
> - Get a laptop with a skylake GPU, and hook up two external monitors to
>   it
> - Move the cursor from the built-in LCD to one of the external displays
>   as quickly as you can
> - You'll get a few pipe underruns, and eventually the entire system will
>   just freeze.
> 
> After doing a lot of investigation and reading through the bspec, I
> found the existence of the SAGV, which is responsible for adjusting the
> system agent voltage and clock frequencies depending on how much power
> we need. According to the bspec:
> 
> "The display engine access to system memory is blocked during the
>  adjustment time. SAGV defaults to enabled. Software must use the
>  GT-driver pcode mailbox to disable SAGV when the display engine is not
>  able to tolerate the blocking time."
> 
> The rest of the bspec goes on to explain that software can simply leave
> the SAGV enabled, and disable it when we use interlaced pipes/have more
> then one pipe active.
> 
> Sure enough, with this patchset the system hangs resulting from pipe
> underruns on Skylake have completely vanished on my T460s. Additionally,
> the bspec mentions turning off the SAGV	with more then one pipe enabled
> as a workaround for display underruns. While this patch doesn't entirely
> fix that, it looks like it does improve the situation a little bit so
> it's likely this is going to be required to make watermarks on Skylake
> fully functional.
> 
> Changes since v2:
>  - Really apply minor style nitpicks to patch this time
> Changes since v1:
>  - Added comments about this probably being one of the requirements to
>    fixing Skylake's watermark issues
>  - Minor style nitpicks from Matt Roper
>  - Disable these functions on Broxton, since it doesn't have an SAGV
> 
> Cc: Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper at intel.com>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lyude <cpaul at redhat.com>

I don't have a SKL to try this out on (only BXT here), but this matches
my interpretation of the current bspec text, so

Reviewed-by: Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper at intel.com>

I think this also applies to

Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94625

And maybe a +cc stable?


Matt

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h |   2 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h |   5 ++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c | 110 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 117 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> index 03e1bfa..660d0a6 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> @@ -1959,6 +1959,8 @@ struct drm_i915_private {
>  	struct i915_suspend_saved_registers regfile;
>  	struct vlv_s0ix_state vlv_s0ix_state;
>  
> +	bool skl_sagv_enabled;
> +
>  	struct {
>  		/*
>  		 * Raw watermark latency values:
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
> index 8bfde75..9b2eb0b 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
> @@ -7162,6 +7162,11 @@ enum {
>  #define   HSW_PCODE_DE_WRITE_FREQ_REQ		0x17
>  #define   DISPLAY_IPS_CONTROL			0x19
>  #define	  HSW_PCODE_DYNAMIC_DUTY_CYCLE_CONTROL	0x1A
> +#define   GEN9_PCODE_SAGV_CONTROL		0x21
> +#define     GEN9_SAGV_DISABLE			0x0
> +#define     GEN9_SAGV_LOW_FREQ			0x1
> +#define     GEN9_SAGV_HIGH_FREQ			0x2
> +#define     GEN9_SAGV_DYNAMIC_FREQ              0x3
>  #define GEN6_PCODE_DATA				_MMIO(0x138128)
>  #define   GEN6_PCODE_FREQ_IA_RATIO_SHIFT	8
>  #define   GEN6_PCODE_FREQ_RING_RATIO_SHIFT	16
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
> index 5a8ee0c..948564a 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
> @@ -2876,6 +2876,109 @@ skl_wm_plane_id(const struct intel_plane *plane)
>  }
>  
>  static void
> +skl_sagv_get_hw_state(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
> +{
> +	u32 temp;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	if (IS_BROXTON(dev_priv))
> +		return;
> +
> +	mutex_lock(&dev_priv->rps.hw_lock);
> +	ret = sandybridge_pcode_read(dev_priv, GEN9_PCODE_SAGV_CONTROL, &temp);
> +	mutex_unlock(&dev_priv->rps.hw_lock);
> +
> +	if (!ret) {
> +		dev_priv->skl_sagv_enabled = !!(temp & GEN9_SAGV_DYNAMIC_FREQ);
> +	} else {
> +		/*
> +		 * If for some reason we can't access the SAGV state, follow
> +		 * the bspec and assume it's enabled
> +		 */
> +		DRM_ERROR("Failed to get SAGV state, assuming enabled\n");
> +		dev_priv->skl_sagv_enabled = true;
> +	}
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * SAGV dynamically adjusts the system agent voltage and clock frequencies
> + * depending on power and performance requirements. The display engine access
> + * to system memory is blocked during the adjustment time. Having this enabled
> + * in multi-pipe configurations can cause issues (such as underruns causing
> + * full system hangs), and the bspec also suggests that software disable it
> + * when more then one pipe is enabled.
> + */
> +static int
> +skl_enable_sagv(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
> +{
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	if (IS_BROXTON(dev_priv))
> +		return 0;
> +	if (dev_priv->skl_sagv_enabled)
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	mutex_lock(&dev_priv->rps.hw_lock);
> +	DRM_DEBUG_KMS("Enabling the SAGV\n");
> +
> +	ret = sandybridge_pcode_write(dev_priv, GEN9_PCODE_SAGV_CONTROL,
> +				      GEN9_SAGV_DYNAMIC_FREQ);
> +	if (!ret)
> +		dev_priv->skl_sagv_enabled = true;
> +	else
> +		DRM_ERROR("Failed to enable the SAGV\n");
> +
> +	/* We don't need to wait for SAGV when enabling */
> +	mutex_unlock(&dev_priv->rps.hw_lock);
> +	return ret;
> +}
> +
> +static int
> +skl_disable_sagv(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
> +{
> +	int ret = 0;
> +	unsigned long timeout;
> +	u32 temp;
> +
> +	if (IS_BROXTON(dev_priv))
> +		return 0;
> +	if (!dev_priv->skl_sagv_enabled)
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	mutex_lock(&dev_priv->rps.hw_lock);
> +	DRM_DEBUG_KMS("Disabling the SAGV\n");
> +
> +	/* bspec says to keep retrying for at least 1 ms */
> +	timeout = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(1);
> +	do {
> +		ret = sandybridge_pcode_write(dev_priv, GEN9_PCODE_SAGV_CONTROL,
> +					      GEN9_SAGV_DISABLE);
> +		if (ret) {
> +			DRM_ERROR("Failed to disable the SAGV\n");
> +			goto out;
> +		}
> +
> +		ret = sandybridge_pcode_read(dev_priv, GEN9_PCODE_SAGV_CONTROL,
> +					     &temp);
> +		if (ret) {
> +			DRM_ERROR("Failed to check the status of the SAGV\n");
> +			goto out;
> +		}
> +	} while (!(temp & 0x1) && jiffies < timeout);
> +
> +	if (temp & 0x1) {
> +		dev_priv->skl_sagv_enabled = false;
> +	} else {
> +		ret = -1;
> +		DRM_ERROR("Request to disable SAGV timed out\n");
> +	}
> +
> +out:
> +	mutex_unlock(&dev_priv->rps.hw_lock);
> +	return ret;
> +}
> +
> +static void
>  skl_ddb_get_pipe_allocation_limits(struct drm_device *dev,
>  				   const struct intel_crtc_state *cstate,
>  				   struct skl_ddb_entry *alloc, /* out */
> @@ -3686,6 +3789,11 @@ static void skl_write_wm_values(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv,
>  	struct drm_device *dev = &dev_priv->drm;
>  	struct intel_crtc *crtc;
>  
> +	if (dev_priv->active_crtcs == 1)
> +		skl_enable_sagv(dev_priv);
> +	else
> +		skl_disable_sagv(dev_priv);
> +
>  	for_each_intel_crtc(dev, crtc) {
>  		int i, level, max_level = ilk_wm_max_level(dev);
>  		enum pipe pipe = crtc->pipe;
> @@ -4228,6 +4336,8 @@ void skl_wm_get_hw_state(struct drm_device *dev)
>  		/* Easy/common case; just sanitize DDB now if everything off */
>  		memset(ddb, 0, sizeof(*ddb));
>  	}
> +
> +	skl_sagv_get_hw_state(dev_priv);
>  }
>  
>  static void ilk_pipe_wm_get_hw_state(struct drm_crtc *crtc)
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 

-- 
Matt Roper
Graphics Software Engineer
IoTG Platform Enabling & Development
Intel Corporation
(916) 356-2795


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