[Intel-gfx] [char-misc-next 3/4] mei: pxp: re-enable client on errors

Ville Syrjälä ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com
Wed Nov 15 20:35:16 UTC 2023


On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 06:40:26PM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Teres Alexis, Alan Previn <alan.previn.teres.alexis at intel.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 5:32 PM
> > To: ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com; Winkler, Tomas <tomas.winkler at intel.com>
> > Cc: gregkh at linuxfoundation.org; Usyskin, Alexander
> > <alexander.usyskin at intel.com>; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; intel-
> > gfx at lists.freedesktop.org; Lubart, Vitaly <vitaly.lubart at intel.com>
> > Subject: Re: [char-misc-next 3/4] mei: pxp: re-enable client on errors
> > 
> > On Tue, 2023-11-14 at 16:00 +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 02:01:56PM +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > > > From: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin at intel.com>
> > > >
> > > > Disable and enable mei-pxp client on errors to clean the internal state.
> > >
> > > This broke i915 on my Alderlake-P laptop.
> 
> This fix was already posted, just missed the merging window
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/10/31/636

Gave this a spin and it fixes the issue for me. Thanks.

> 
> Greg can you please take this fix into v6.7-rc2 run, or I can repost it with the correct subject.
> Thanks
> Tomas
> 
> 
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Alex, i just relooked at the series that got merged, and i noticed that in patch
> > #3 of the series, you had changed mei_pxp_send_message to return bytes sent
> > instead of zero on success. IIRC, we had agreed to not effect the behavior of
> > this component interface (other than adding the timeout) - this was the
> > intention of Patch #4 that i was pushing for in order to spec the interface
> > (which continues to say zero on success). We should fix this to stay with the
> > original behavior - where mei-pxp should NOT send partial packets and will
> > only return zero in success case where success is sending of the complete
> > packets - so we don't need to get back the "bytes sent"
> > from mei_pxp_send_message. So i think this might be causing the problem.
> > 
> > 
> > Side note  to Ville:, are you enabling PXP kernel config by default in all MESA
> > contexts? I recall that MESA folks were running some CI testing with enable
> > pxp contexts, but didn't realize this is being enabled by default in all contexts.
> > Please be aware that enabling pxp-contexts would temporarily disabled
> > runtime-pm during that contexts lifetime.
> > Also pxp contexts will be forced to be irrecoverable if it ever hangs.
> > The former is a hardware architecture requirement but doesn't do anything if
> > you're enabling display (which I beleive also blocks in ADL). The latter was a
> > requirement to comply with Vulkan.
> > 
> > ...alan
> > 
> 

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Ville Syrjälä
Intel


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