i915 | Bug in virtual PCH detection

Andrey Toloknev andreyhack at gmail.com
Sun Sep 1 09:56:07 UTC 2024


Hello!

I have 2 machines with Comet Lake CPUs on Tiger Lake PCH (500 series of
Intel chipsets).
For that configuration there was a patch for adding support for Tiger Lake
PCH with CometLake CPU in 2021 -
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/412664/
This patch made possible correct detection of such chipset and cpu
configuration for i915 kernel module. Without it there was no output to any
display (HDMI/DP/DVI, even VGA).

But this patch doesn't touch intel_virt_detect_pch method, when you
passthrough iGPU to a virtual machine.
So, virtual PCH incorrectly detects as Cannon Lake and you have no output
to a physical display with i915 driver:

[    2.933139] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm:intel_virt_detect_pch [i915]]
Assuming PCH ID a300
[    2.933308] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm:intel_pch_type [i915]] Found Cannon
Lake PCH (CNP)


The bug is on line 173 in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/soc/intel_pch.c in method
intel_virt_detect_pch:

else if (IS_TIGERLAKE(dev_priv) || IS_ROCKETLAKE(dev_priv))

id = INTEL_PCH_TGP_DEVICE_ID_TYPE;

It must be:

else if (IS_TIGERLAKE(dev_priv) || IS_ROCKETLAKE(dev_priv) ||
IS_GEN9_BC(dev_priv))

id = INTEL_PCH_TGP_DEVICE_ID_TYPE;


After that small change you get correct detection of PCH and have output to
a physical display in VM with passthrough iGPU:

[   16.139809] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm:intel_virt_detect_pch [i915]]
Assuming PCH ID a080
[   16.261151] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm:intel_pch_type [i915]] Found Tiger
Lake LP PCH


All kernel versions in any distro since 2021 are affected by this small bug.
The patch for i915 module of the actual kernel version is in attachment.

-- 
Best regards, Andrey Toloknev
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