[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Clear bogus DMC BIOS/debug power well requests

Imre Deak imre.deak at intel.com
Thu Dec 6 12:47:38 UTC 2018


On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 02:23:00PM +0200, Imre Deak wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 10:20:23PM +0200, Ville Syrjala wrote:
> > From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> > 
> > The DMC firmware is confused and forces on the BIOS and debug
> > power well requests for PW1 and MISC IO on some platforms. On
> > BXT I measured this to waste about 10mW in the freeze system
> > suspend state with the SoC in s0. I didn't get conclusive
> > numbers for s0ix on account of the power consumption being
> > much more noisy than in s0.
> > 
> > This is pretty much undoing part of commit 42d9366d41a9
> > ("drm/i915/gen9+: Don't remove secondary power well requests")
> > where we stopped sanitizing the DMCs bogus request bits.
> > 
> > Cc: Imre Deak <imre.deak at intel.com>
> > Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> 
> Thanks for the effort for clarifying this.
> 
> The justification in 42d9366d41a9 for not removing the PW#1 and MISC_IO driver
> request bits is not too solid, I admit. Bspec 4230 has this to say about them
> (for SKL, but same in practice for the rest):
> 
> """
> 4. Disable Power Well 1 (PG1) and Misc IO Power
> 
>     Clear PWR_WELL_CTL Power Well 1 Request to 0b. Do not clear Misc IO Power Request.
>     Wait for 10us. Do not poll for the power well to disable. Other clients may be keeping it enabled.
> """
> 
> With MISC_IO we would clearly do the opposite in this patch wrt. the spec.

Actually we don't disable MISC_IO during SKL display core uninit, so
we'd still follow the spec regarding this.

> 
> With PW#1 it's unclear if the spec means only the driver's request bit or all
> of them, but "other clients may be keeping it enabled" suggests to me it means
> only the driver's request bit. OTOH removing only the driver's request bit
> alone doesn't make sense due to DMC forcing on the BIOS (and debug) request
> bits anyway.
> 
> I opened a BSpec update request to clarify this, I suggest waiting for an
> update there before going ahead with this change.
> 
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_runtime_pm.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_runtime_pm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_runtime_pm.c
> > index 4350a5270423..6e349181dd1c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_runtime_pm.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_runtime_pm.c
> > @@ -336,10 +336,17 @@ static void hsw_wait_for_power_well_disable(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv,
> >  	 * Bspec doesn't require waiting for PWs to get disabled, but still do
> >  	 * this for paranoia. The known cases where a PW will be forced on:
> >  	 * - a KVMR request on any power well via the KVMR request register
> > -	 * - a DMC request on PW1 and MISC_IO power wells via the BIOS and
> > -	 *   DEBUG request registers
> > +	 * - a debug request on any power well via the DEBUG request register
> >  	 * Skip the wait in case any of the request bits are set and print a
> >  	 * diagnostic message.
> > +	 *
> > +	 * Note that DMC firmware will also force on the PW1 BIOS request
> > +	 * on SKL-CNL, MISC_IO BIOS request on SKL-GLK (although MISC_IO
> > +	 * does not even exits on BXT/GLK so the bit doesn't stick),
> > +	 * and the PW1/MISC_IO debug request on BXT. We simply clear
> > +	 * those spurious requests in hsw_power_well_disable() to make
> > +	 * sure they don't waste power. Starting from ICL the DMC firmware
> > +	 * has been fixed to only force on the PW1 driver request bit.
> >  	 */
> >  	wait_for((disabled = !(I915_READ(regs->driver) &
> >  			       HSW_PWR_WELL_CTL_STATE(pw_idx))) ||
> > @@ -347,6 +354,11 @@ static void hsw_wait_for_power_well_disable(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv,
> >  	if (disabled)
> >  		return;
> >  
> > +	WARN(reqs & 3,
> > +	     "%s left on (bios:%d driver:%d kvmr:%d debug:%d)\n",
> > +	     power_well->desc->name,
> > +	     !!(reqs & 1), !!(reqs & 2), !!(reqs & 4), !!(reqs & 8));
> > +
> >  	DRM_DEBUG_KMS("%s forced on (bios:%d driver:%d kvmr:%d debug:%d)\n",
> >  		      power_well->desc->name,
> >  		      !!(reqs & 1), !!(reqs & 2), !!(reqs & 4), !!(reqs & 8));
> > @@ -409,6 +421,7 @@ static void hsw_power_well_disable(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv,
> >  				   struct i915_power_well *power_well)
> >  {
> >  	const struct i915_power_well_regs *regs = power_well->desc->hsw.regs;
> > +	enum i915_power_well_id id = power_well->desc->id;
> >  	int pw_idx = power_well->desc->hsw.idx;
> >  	u32 val;
> >  
> > @@ -417,6 +430,24 @@ static void hsw_power_well_disable(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv,
> >  
> >  	val = I915_READ(regs->driver);
> >  	I915_WRITE(regs->driver, val & ~HSW_PWR_WELL_CTL_REQ(pw_idx));
> > +	/*
> > +	 * On SKL-CNL DMC firmware forces on the BIOS request.
> > +	 * This wastes a bit of power so clear it.
> > +	 */
> > +	if (INTEL_GEN(dev_priv) < 11 &&
> > +	    (id == SKL_DISP_PW_1 || id == SKL_DISP_PW_MISC_IO)) {
> > +		val = I915_READ(regs->bios);
> > +		I915_WRITE(regs->bios, val & ~HSW_PWR_WELL_CTL_REQ(pw_idx));
> > +	}
> > +	/*
> > +	 * On BXT DMC firmware forces on the debug request.
> > +	 * This wastes a bit of power so clear it.
> > +	 */
> > +	if (IS_BROXTON(dev_priv) &&
> > +	    (id == SKL_DISP_PW_1 || id == SKL_DISP_PW_MISC_IO)) {
> 
> No MISC_IO on BXT, so is this just for symmetry with the above if-block?
> 
> > +		val = I915_READ(regs->debug);
> > +		I915_WRITE(regs->debug, val & ~HSW_PWR_WELL_CTL_REQ(pw_idx));
> > +	}
> >  	hsw_wait_for_power_well_disable(dev_priv, power_well);
> >  }
> >  
> > -- 
> > 2.18.1
> > 
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