[Intel-gfx] Intel-gfx related suspend-to-ram issues on IBM R31

[Jani Nikula]

On Sat, 23 Sep 2017, Thomas Richter <thorfdbg at t-online.de> wrote:
> Hi Ville,
>
> Thanks for the pointers. However, which branch of mesa does this
>> 
>> drm-tip + https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/176870/ 
>
> patch apply to? I assume it is the intel-drm-nightly? Tried that, 
> without success. While the 4.9.xx reaches at least S1, this one gets 
> stuck earlier, with or without the patch.

drm-tip branch of [1].

BR,
Jani.

[1] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-tip


>
>> works rather
>> well on my 830 machine (Fujitu-Siemens Lifebook S6010). Without that
>> things gets stuck on account of vblank interrupts getting disabled at
>> random times. Xonotic has been pretty good at reproducing that bug for
>> me. Apart from that S3 works, S4 works, never tried S1 and probably
>> never will since I have S3 ;)
>
> Well, you forget that the IBM R31 "made by Acer" has a quite buggy bios 
> compared to the Fujitsu. Unfortunately, my S6010 died about two years 
> ago, a very nice machine for its age, actually. The R31 never woke up 
> from S3, the Fujitsu did from the 4.1.38 kernel. The same kernel worked 
> only for S1, though Win XP seems to manage it on the same hardware.
>
>
>> There are some bugs in Mesa though. One at least (a missing workaround)
>> can cause the GPU to die. I think the current upstream Mesa doesn't hit
>> it very reliably because it inlines the vertex data into the batch.
>> I've been working on making it use vertex buffers instead, and I think
>> that made me hit it more reliably. I have a pile of patches for Mesa
>> that I need to clean up at some point. In the meantime here's the diff
>> for that one fix (probably won't apply as is since I have it sitting
>> on top a pile of other stuff atm):
>
> Sorry, again the same question: I checked the head branch, but there the 
> functions look quite different. I tried to tweak it in, there seems to 
> be the same sort of misalingment issue, but it's really not the same 
> structure. With the modifications below "fiddled in", I do not see much 
> of of a difference.
>
> Thanks and greetings,
>
> Thomas
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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center