[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 4/4] drm/i915/psr: Account for sink CRC raciness on some panels

Jani Nikula jani.nikula at linux.intel.com
Mon May 8 18:05:08 UTC 2017


On Mon, 08 May 2017, Jim Bride <jim.bride at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 12:12:47PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> On Sat, 06 May 2017, Jim Bride <jim.bride at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> > According to the eDP spec, when the count field in TEST_SINK_MISC
>> > increments then the six bytes of sink CRC information in the DPCD
>> > should be valid.  Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be the case
>> > on some panels, and as a result we get some incorrect and inconsistent
>> > values from the sink CRC DPCD locations at times.  This problem exhibits
>> > itself more on faster processors (relative failure rates HSW < SKL < KBL.)
>> > In order to try and account for this, we try a lot harder to read the sink
>> > CRC until we get consistent values twice in a row before returning what we
>> > read and delay for a time before trying to read.  We still see some
>> > occasional failures, but reading the sink CRC is much more reliable,
>> > particularly on SKL and KBL, with these changes than without.
>> 
>> Retrying seems like a good idea. But this patch retries up to 36 times
>> if the two consecutive reads don't match, which is excessive.
>
> I don't see where you're getting 36 from; the loop runs through six times.

i915_sink_crc() calls intel_dp_sink_crc(), retrying on ETIMEDOUT. In
turn, intel_dp_sink_crc() reads CRC, retrying on mismatched CRC and
returning ETIMEDOUT to i915_sink_crc() on errors. Admittedly the loop in
intel_dp_sink_crc() will always run at least twice to get two results to
compare, so I guess it would be fair to say the combo tries CRC read up
to 6 * 5 = 30 times.

>> The sleeps should probably be a separate change. Also not happy about
>> the magic numbers there.
>
> Looping w/o the sleeps doesn't make a ton of sense IMHO.  The numbers
> were found experimentally on KBL, which seemed to more easily
> exercise the race that this patch is meant to address.  Ideally the
> panels would not increment the counter until they were sure that the
> CRC data in the DPCD actually reflected reality.  Unfortunately, this
> isn't what we're seeing.  I will create a couple of #defines for the
> sleep values, at least, with some comments about them.  

It's just that the magic sleeps are eerily close to a frame at 60
Hz. Did you try another vblank wait instead? Or maybe it's the sync to
vblank that is the issue.

>> Also, there are plenty of what seem like unrelated changes. Whitespace,
>> debug logging, error checking, etc.
>
> I looked at this as refactoring the existing implementation, so I
> went ahead and added some debugging info; the error checking is
> part of the refactoring.  Given the history of problems with this
> functionality that seemed warranted.  I did notice one line of
> whitespace change that snuck in (where I missed that I removed a
> blank line.)  I can take out the debug prints for the success
> cases if they seem excessive (and I'll restore the deleted
> blank line for the next version of the patch.)

The thing is, by now I'm looking at basically any sink visible
functional changes to eDP, and PSR in particular, with the thought that
this may have to be reverted due to regressions later. That has nothing
to do with these patches, but rather our track record with eDP and
PSR. (And that also says a lot about eDP sink quality in general.)

So I'd rather see the other changes split out so we have a smaller diff
to revert, in case we have to revert. The pessimist does not get
disappointed. And so far PSR hasn't given us any reasons for optimism.

BR,
Jani.



>
> Jim
>
>
>> 
>> BR,
>> Jani.
>> 
>> 
>> >
>> > Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>
>> > Cc: Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni at intel.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Jim Bride <jim.bride at linux.intel.com>
>> > ---
>> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c | 14 +++++++--
>> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c     | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>> >  2 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
>> > index 870c470..4902473 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
>> > @@ -2718,7 +2718,7 @@ static int i915_sink_crc(struct seq_file *m, void *data)
>> >  	struct intel_connector *connector;
>> >  	struct drm_connector_list_iter conn_iter;
>> >  	struct intel_dp *intel_dp = NULL;
>> > -	int ret;
>> > +	int ret, tries = 6;
>> >  	u8 crc[6];
>> >  
>> >  	drm_modeset_lock_all(dev);
>> > @@ -2738,9 +2738,17 @@ static int i915_sink_crc(struct seq_file *m, void *data)
>> >  
>> >  		intel_dp = enc_to_intel_dp(connector->base.state->best_encoder);
>> >  
>> > -		ret = intel_dp_sink_crc(intel_dp, crc);
>> > -		if (ret)
>> > +		memset(crc, 0, 6);
>> > +		do {
>> > +			ret = intel_dp_sink_crc(intel_dp, crc);
>> > +			if (ret == -ETIMEDOUT)
>> > +				usleep_range(500, 700);
>> > +		} while ((ret == -ETIMEDOUT) && --tries);
>> > +
>> > +		if (ret != 0) {
>> > +			seq_printf(m, "000000000000\n");
>> >  			goto out;
>> > +		}
>> >  
>> >  		seq_printf(m, "%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x\n",
>> >  			   crc[0], crc[1], crc[2],
>> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
>> > index 06b8bd4..217bc06 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
>> > @@ -3877,13 +3877,15 @@ static int intel_dp_sink_crc_stop(struct intel_dp *intel_dp)
>> >  
>> >  	do {
>> >  		intel_wait_for_vblank(dev_priv, intel_crtc->pipe);
>> > -
>> > +		usleep_range(16700, 17000);
>> >  		if (drm_dp_dpcd_readb(&intel_dp->aux,
>> >  				      DP_TEST_SINK_MISC, &buf) < 0) {
>> > +			DRM_DEBUG_KMS("Could not read TEST_SINK_MISC\n");
>> >  			ret = -EIO;
>> >  			goto out;
>> >  		}
>> >  		count = buf & DP_TEST_COUNT_MASK;
>> > +		DRM_DEBUG_KMS("PSR count is %d\n", count);
>> >  	} while (--attempts && count);
>> >  
>> >  	if (attempts == 0) {
>> > @@ -3928,6 +3930,8 @@ static int intel_dp_sink_crc_start(struct intel_dp *intel_dp)
>> >  	}
>> >  
>> >  	intel_wait_for_vblank(dev_priv, intel_crtc->pipe);
>> > +	usleep_range(16700, 17000);
>> > +	DRM_DEBUG_KMS("PSR Successfully started sink CRC\n");
>> >  	return 0;
>> >  }
>> >  
>> > @@ -3939,21 +3943,30 @@ int intel_dp_sink_crc(struct intel_dp *intel_dp, u8 *crc)
>> >  	u8 buf;
>> >  	int count, ret;
>> >  	int attempts = 6;
>> > +	u8 old_crc[6];
>> > +
>> > +	if (crc != NULL)
>> > +		memset(crc, 0, 6);
>> > +	else
>> > +		return -ENOMEM;
>> >  
>> >  	ret = intel_dp_sink_crc_start(intel_dp);
>> > -	if (ret)
>> > +	if (ret) {
>> > +		DRM_DEBUG_KMS("Could not start sink crc; ret %d\n", ret);
>> >  		return ret;
>> > +	}
>> >  
>> >  	do {
>> >  		intel_wait_for_vblank(dev_priv, intel_crtc->pipe);
>> > +		usleep_range(16700, 17000);
>> >  
>> >  		if (drm_dp_dpcd_readb(&intel_dp->aux,
>> >  				      DP_TEST_SINK_MISC, &buf) < 0) {
>> > +			DRM_DEBUG_KMS("Cound not read TEST_SINK_MISC\n");
>> >  			ret = -EIO;
>> >  			goto stop;
>> >  		}
>> >  		count = buf & DP_TEST_COUNT_MASK;
>> > -
>> >  	} while (--attempts && count == 0);
>> >  
>> >  	if (attempts == 0) {
>> > @@ -3962,11 +3975,41 @@ int intel_dp_sink_crc(struct intel_dp *intel_dp, u8 *crc)
>> >  		goto stop;
>> >  	}
>> >  
>> > -	if (drm_dp_dpcd_read(&intel_dp->aux, DP_TEST_CRC_R_CR, crc, 6) < 0) {
>> > -		ret = -EIO;
>> > -		goto stop;
>> > -	}
>> > +	attempts = 6;
>> > +	memset(old_crc, 0xFF, 6);
>> > +	do {
>> > +		intel_wait_for_vblank(dev_priv, intel_crtc->pipe);
>> > +		usleep_range(16500, 17000);
>> > +		if (drm_dp_dpcd_read(&intel_dp->aux, DP_TEST_CRC_R_CR,
>> > +				     crc, 6) < 0) {
>> > +			DRM_DEBUG_KMS("Could not read sink crc\n");
>> > +			ret = -EIO;
>> > +			goto stop;
>> > +		}
>> > +
>> > +		if (memcmp(old_crc, crc, 6) == 0) {
>> > +			DRM_DEBUG_KMS("PSR Active: %3s Matching crc values found:"
>> > +				      "%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x\n",
>> > +				      yesno(dev_priv->psr.active),
>> > +				      crc[0], crc[1], crc[2],
>> > +				      crc[3], crc[4], crc[5]);
>> > +			ret = 0;
>> > +			goto stop;
>> > +		} else {
>> > +			DRM_DEBUG_KMS("PSR Active: %3s crc %02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x "
>> > +				      "doesn't match "
>> > +				      "previous %02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x\n",
>> > +				      yesno(dev_priv->psr.active),
>> > +				      crc[0], crc[1], crc[2],
>> > +				      crc[3], crc[4], crc[5],
>> > +				      old_crc[0], old_crc[1], old_crc[2],
>> > +				      old_crc[3], old_crc[4], old_crc[5]);
>> > +			memcpy(old_crc, crc, 6);
>> > +		}
>> > +	} while (--attempts);
>> >  
>> > +	DRM_DEBUG_KMS("Failed to get CRC after 6 attempts.\n");
>> > +	ret = -ETIMEDOUT;
>> >  stop:
>> >  	intel_dp_sink_crc_stop(intel_dp);
>> >  	return ret;
>> 
>> -- 
>> Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center


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