[Intel-gfx] Skylake / (EE) modeset(0): present flip failed loop

[Marc MERLIN]

Howdy,

I have a thinkpad P70 with debian testing and 4.11.6 kernel.
A recent-ish upgrade broke something and now I'm getting loads of spam
in my Xorg.log

[  5031.435] (WW) modeset(0): flip queue failed: Invalid argument
[  5031.435] (WW) modeset(0): Page flip failed: Invalid argument
[  5031.435] (EE) modeset(0): present flip failed
[  5031.519] (WW) modeset(0): flip queue failed: Invalid argument
[  5031.519] (WW) modeset(0): Page flip failed: Invalid argument
[  5031.519] (EE) modeset(0): present flip failed
(...)

system info:
ii  libdrm-intel1:amd64        2.4.74-1               
ii  xserver-xorg-core          2:1.19.2-1              
ii  xserver-xorg-video-intel   2:2.99.917+git20161206-1

4.11.6-amd64-preempt

saruman:~$ xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 2
Provider 0: id: 0x7a cap: 0xf, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload crtcs: 3 outputs: 1 associated providers: 0 name:modesetting
Provider 1: id: 0x46 cap: 0xf, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload crtcs: 4 outputs: 3 associated providers: 0 name:modesetting

[    73.575] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card1)
[    73.576] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0)
[    73.588] (--) PCI:*(0:0:2:0) 8086:191b:17aa:222d rev 6, Mem @ 0xd2000000/16777216, 0x60000000/536870912, I/O @ 0x00006000/64, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
[    73.588] (--) PCI: (0:1:0:0) 10de:13b2:17aa:222d rev 162, Mem @ 0xd3000000/16777216, 0xc0000000/268435456, 0xd0000000/33554432, I/O @ 0x00005000/128, BIOS @ 0x????????/524288
[    73.597] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
[    73.597] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so
[    73.598] (II) Module modesetting: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    73.598]    compiled for 1.19.2, module version = 1.19.2
[    73.598]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[    73.598]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 23.0
[    73.598] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
[    73.598] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fbdev_drv.so
[    73.598] (II) Module fbdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    73.598]    compiled for 1.19.0, module version = 0.4.4
[    73.598]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[    73.598]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 23.0
[    73.598] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
[    73.598] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
[    73.599] (II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    73.599]    compiled for 1.19.0, module version = 2.3.4
[    73.599]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[    73.599]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 23.0
[    73.599] (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: kms
[    73.599] (II) FBDEV: driver for framebuffer: fbdev
[    73.599] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
[    73.637] (II) modeset(0): using drv /dev/dri/card0
[    73.637] (II) modeset(G0): using drv /dev/dri/card1

In case it helps:
saruman:~#  grep . /sys/module/i915/parameters/*
/sys/module/i915/parameters/alpha_support:0
/sys/module/i915/parameters/disable_display:N
/sys/module/i915/parameters/disable_power_well:1
/sys/module/i915/parameters/edp_vswing:0
/sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_cmd_parser:Y
/sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_dc:-1
/sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_dpcd_backlight:N
/sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_dp_mst:Y
/sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_execlists:1
/sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_fbc:1
/sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_guc_loading:0
/sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_guc_submission:0
/sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_gvt:N
/sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_hangcheck:Y
/sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_ips:1
/sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_ppgtt:3
/sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_psr:0
/sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_rc6:1
/sys/module/i915/parameters/error_capture:Y
/sys/module/i915/parameters/fastboot:N
/sys/module/i915/parameters/force_reset_modeset_test:N
/sys/module/i915/parameters/guc_log_level:-1
/sys/module/i915/parameters/inject_load_failure:0
/sys/module/i915/parameters/invert_brightness:0
/sys/module/i915/parameters/load_detect_test:N
/sys/module/i915/parameters/lvds_channel_mode:0
/sys/module/i915/parameters/lvds_use_ssc:-1
/sys/module/i915/parameters/mmio_debug:0
/sys/module/i915/parameters/modeset:1
/sys/module/i915/parameters/nuclear_pageflip:N
/sys/module/i915/parameters/panel_ignore_lid:1
/sys/module/i915/parameters/prefault_disable:N
/sys/module/i915/parameters/reset:Y
/sys/module/i915/parameters/semaphores:0
/sys/module/i915/parameters/use_mmio_flip:0
/sys/module/i915/parameters/vbt_sdvo_panel_type:-1
/sys/module/i915/parameters/verbose_state_checks:Y

Any idea what to do?

Thanks,
Marc
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