Patch "Revert "drm/amdgpu: disable runtime pm on PX laptops without dGPU power control"" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    Revert "drm/amdgpu: disable runtime pm on PX laptops without dGPU power control"

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     revert-drm-amdgpu-disable-runtime-pm-on-px-laptops-without-dgpu-power-control.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From e9bef455af8eb0e837e179aab8988ae2649fd8d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:12:18 -0400
Subject: Revert "drm/amdgpu: disable runtime pm on PX laptops without dGPU power control"

From: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>

commit e9bef455af8eb0e837e179aab8988ae2649fd8d3 upstream.

This reverts commit bedf2a65c1aa8fb29ba8527fd00c0f68ec1f55f1.

See the radeon revert for an extended description.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_atpx_handler.c |    8 ++++----
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c       |    8 +-------
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_atpx_handler.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_atpx_handler.c
@@ -63,10 +63,6 @@ bool amdgpu_has_atpx(void) {
 	return amdgpu_atpx_priv.atpx_detected;
 }
 
-bool amdgpu_has_atpx_dgpu_power_cntl(void) {
-	return amdgpu_atpx_priv.atpx.functions.power_cntl;
-}
-
 /**
  * amdgpu_atpx_call - call an ATPX method
  *
@@ -146,6 +142,10 @@ static void amdgpu_atpx_parse_functions(
  */
 static int amdgpu_atpx_validate(struct amdgpu_atpx *atpx)
 {
+	/* make sure required functions are enabled */
+	/* dGPU power control is required */
+	atpx->functions.power_cntl = true;
+
 	if (atpx->functions.px_params) {
 		union acpi_object *info;
 		struct atpx_px_params output;
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
@@ -61,12 +61,6 @@ static const char *amdgpu_asic_name[] =
 	"LAST",
 };
 
-#if defined(CONFIG_VGA_SWITCHEROO)
-bool amdgpu_has_atpx_dgpu_power_cntl(void);
-#else
-static inline bool amdgpu_has_atpx_dgpu_power_cntl(void) { return false; }
-#endif
-
 bool amdgpu_device_is_px(struct drm_device *dev)
 {
 	struct amdgpu_device *adev = dev->dev_private;
@@ -1475,7 +1469,7 @@ int amdgpu_device_init(struct amdgpu_dev
 
 	if (amdgpu_runtime_pm == 1)
 		runtime = true;
-	if (amdgpu_device_is_px(ddev) && amdgpu_has_atpx_dgpu_power_cntl())
+	if (amdgpu_device_is_px(ddev))
 		runtime = true;
 	vga_switcheroo_register_client(adev->pdev, &amdgpu_switcheroo_ops, runtime);
 	if (runtime)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from alexander.deucher@amd.com are

queue-4.4/revert-drm-amdgpu-disable-runtime-pm-on-px-laptops-without-dgpu-power-control.patch
queue-4.4/revert-drm-radeon-disable-runtime-pm-on-px-laptops-without-dgpu-power-control.patch