[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/byt: Avoid tweaking evaluation thresholds

Mika Kuoppala mika.kuoppala at linux.intel.com
Wed Jan 25 12:31:08 UTC 2017


Certain Baytrails, namely the 4 cpu core variants, have been
plaqued by spurious system hangs, mostly occurring with light loads.

Multiple bisects by various people point to a commit which changes the
reclocking strategy for Baytrail to follow its bigger brethen:
commit 8fb55197e64d ("drm/i915: Agressive downclocking on Baytrail")

There is also a review comment attached to this commit from Deepak S
on avoiding punit access on Cherryview and thus it is excluded on
common reclocking path. By taking the same approach and omitting
the punit access by not tweaking the thresholds when the hardware
has been asked to move into different frequency, considerable gains
in stability have been observed.

With J1900 box, light render/video load would end up in system hang
in usually less than 12 hours. With this patch applied, the cumulative
uptime has now been 34 days without issues. To provoke system hang,
light loads on both render and bsd engines in parallel have been used:
glxgears >/dev/null 2>/dev/null &
mpv --vo=vaapi --hwdec=vaapi --loop=inf vid.mp4

So far, author has not witnessed system hang with above load
and this patch applied. Reports from the tenacious people at
kernel bugzilla are also promising.

Considering that the punit access frequency with this patch is
considerably less, there is a possibility that this will push
the, still unknown, root cause past the triggering point on most loads.
Further work on investigating the punit accesses on byt is welcomed.

References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109051
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown at intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
Cc: fritsch at xbmc.org
Cc: miku at iki.fi
Cc: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel at vanguardiasur.com.ar>
CC: Michal Feix <michal at feix.cz>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
Cc: Deepak S <deepak.s at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula at linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # v4.2+
Signed-off-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c | 4 ++--
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h | 2 ++
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c
index 3fc286c..4b9635f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c
@@ -1039,7 +1039,7 @@ static u32 vlv_wa_c0_ei(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, u32 pm_iir)
 	if (pm_iir & GEN6_PM_RP_DOWN_EI_EXPIRED) {
 		if (!vlv_c0_above(dev_priv,
 				  &dev_priv->rps.down_ei, &now,
-				  dev_priv->rps.down_threshold))
+				  VLV_RP_DOWN_EI_THRESHOLD))
 			events |= GEN6_PM_RP_DOWN_THRESHOLD;
 		dev_priv->rps.down_ei = now;
 	}
@@ -1047,7 +1047,7 @@ static u32 vlv_wa_c0_ei(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, u32 pm_iir)
 	if (pm_iir & GEN6_PM_RP_UP_EI_EXPIRED) {
 		if (vlv_c0_above(dev_priv,
 				 &dev_priv->rps.up_ei, &now,
-				 dev_priv->rps.up_threshold))
+				 VLV_RP_UP_EI_THRESHOLD))
 			events |= GEN6_PM_RP_UP_THRESHOLD;
 		dev_priv->rps.up_ei = now;
 	}
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
index 70d9616..09f6aea 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
@@ -787,6 +787,8 @@ enum skl_disp_power_wells {
 #define 	CHV_BIAS_CPU_50_SOC_50 (3 << 2)
 
 #define VLV_CZ_CLOCK_TO_MILLI_SEC		100000
+#define VLV_RP_UP_EI_THRESHOLD			90
+#define VLV_RP_DOWN_EI_THRESHOLD		70
 
 /* vlv2 north clock has */
 #define CCK_FUSE_REG				0x8
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
index db24f89..1923b6b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
@@ -4983,7 +4983,7 @@ static void valleyview_set_rps(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, u8 val)
 
 	if (val != dev_priv->rps.cur_freq) {
 		vlv_punit_write(dev_priv, PUNIT_REG_GPU_FREQ_REQ, val);
-		if (!IS_CHERRYVIEW(dev_priv))
+		if (!(IS_CHERRYVIEW(dev_priv) || IS_VALLEYVIEW(dev_priv)))
 			gen6_set_rps_thresholds(dev_priv, val);
 	}
 
-- 
2.7.4



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