[Nouveau] PROBLEM: new kernel 3.15.0-rc8 hangs completely with CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU enabled

[Ilia Mirkin]

First off, the current state of support for Maxwell (GM107/NV110) is
not very useful to end-users. It's especially not useful if it's a 3d
accelerator card without outputs (as yours appears to be), since
acceleration is not supported in 3.15 out of the box. You'd have to
figure out how to extract the context switching firmware from the blob
driver and load it in nouveau. I'm told the mechanism that this fw is
uploaded with has also changed lately in the blob, so existing
instructions will be less-than-useful.

It looks like the card is probably suspended since nothing is using
it. Does your Xorg log show any NOUVEAU(G0) lines? If so, it's being
added as a GPU, and chances are your environment is helpfully trying
to link it up for offloading. However xf86-video-nouveau presently has
no support for GM107, which means it's unlikely to do anything good.

It's also a little odd that you're getting errors executing _DSM.
Could you open a bug on freedesktop.org to track this? Include the
"old" log (since it's pretty obvious what happens without nouveau
being loaded at all), as well as an acpidump of your system.

  -ilia

On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Christian Wehrmeyer <c.wehrmeyer at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello, guys.
> First apologize my flaws, I am not a native English speaker and thus am
> prone to stupid errors.
>
> My box is an ASUSTek Notebook with Optimus capability (no, this is NOT
> about Optimus, I don't try to use Optimus yet, so please don't switch
> off here) with a running Gentoo. The first GPU is an Haswell-based Intel
> chip, the second one is a nVidia GeForce GTX 850M, the chip is a GM107M,
> which I understand to be a NV110.
> So far I have been using the 3.14.8 kernel without CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU
> enabled, as it was lacking of the maxwell support you guys added in May
> 2014. Today I wanted to try if I could use my card with the nouveau
> driver (no particular purpose in general, I just thought I could somehow
> support you guys. Xorg is told NOT to use any GPU except for the Intel one).
>
> Yet, the 3.15.0-rc8 which I downloaded this evening crashes on me when
> compiled with the CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU flag enabled during compilation.
> Crashes means: xdm starts, slim starts, I login to my Gentoo box, open a
> terminal emulator instance (exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator), and try
> to open /var/log/kern.log for any error messages - and if I got halfway
> through tipping that command, I'll be a lucky man. The notebook suddenly
> and unexpectedly hangs during these actions, the mouse does not
> response, the keyboard does not response, the display manager freezes
> completely (I can say that by a CPU usage tool that runs in my Xfce, and
> it freezes as well, so it's not just the input devices getting
> disconnected). ALT+SysReq+s/b does not work, syncing/rebooting fails, it
> does absolutely nothing. Disabling the CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU flag and
> recompiling removes the hang completely. I can reproduce the problem by
> just rebooting and logging in as descriped above.
>
> Files within the attached tar.gz:
> config-3.15.0-rc8-valhalla.old [non-working configuration]
> config-3.15.0-rc8-valhalla [working configuration]
> kern.log.old: Shows the boot process with the non-working configuration
> kern.log: Shows the boot process with the working configuration
>
> The output of lshw:
>
> description: Notebook
> product: N550JK (ASUS-NotebookSKU)
> vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
> version: 1.0
> serial: <scrubed>
> width: 64 bits
> capabilities: smbios-2.7 dmi-2.7 ldt16 vsyscall32
> configuration: boot=normal chassis=notebook family=N
> sku=ASUS-NotebookSKU uuid=<scrubed>
>
> Output of lspci -vvvvvk, everything not-VGA-like scrubed off:
>
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core
> Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA
> controller])
>         Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 11cd
>         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
>         Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
>         Latency: 0
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 40
>         Region 0: Memory at f7400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
>         Region 2: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>         Region 4: I/O ports at f000 [size=64]
>         Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
>                 Address: feeff00c  Data: 4181
>         Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
>                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>                 Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>         Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features
>                 AFCap: TP+ FLR+
>                 AFCtrl: FLR-
>                 AFStatus: TP-
>         Kernel driver in use: i915
>
> 01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX 850M] (rev a2)
>         Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 11cd
>         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
>         Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
>         Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
>         Region 0: Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>         Region 1: Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>         Region 3: Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
>         Region 5: I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
>         Expansion ROM at f7000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
>         Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
>                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>                 Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>         Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
>                 Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
>         Capabilities: [78] Express (v2) Endpoint, MSI 00
>                 DevCap: MaxPayload 256 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s unlimited, L1 <64us
>                         ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
>                 DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
>                         RlxdOrd- ExtTag+ PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
>                         MaxPayload 256 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
>                 DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr- TransPend-
>                 LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <1us,
> L1 <4us
>                         ClockPM+ Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
>                 LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
>                         ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
>                 LnkSta: Speed 8GT/s, Width x16, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive-
> BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
>                 DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Range AB, TimeoutDis+, LTR+, OBFF Via message
>                 DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis-, LTR+, OBFF
> Disabled
>                 LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 8GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-
>                          Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance-
> ComplianceSOS-
>                          Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
>                 LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -3.5dB, EqualizationComplete+,
> EqualizationPhase1+
>                          EqualizationPhase2-, EqualizationPhase3-, LinkEqualizationRequest-
>
> I will provide you with additional informations if you need them, just
> let me know.
>
> With best regards,
> Christian Wehrmeyer from Germany
>
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