[PATCH] drm/i915: Avoid tweaking evaluation thresholds on Baytrail v2

Mika Kuoppala
2017-02-15T12:37:50Z

Certain Baytrails, namely the 4 cpu core variants, have been
plaqued by spurious system hangs, mostly occurring with light loads.

Multiple bisects by various people point to a commit which changes the
reclocking strategy for Baytrail to follow its bigger brethen:
commit 8fb55197e64d ("drm/i915: Agressive downclocking on Baytrail")

There is also a review comment attached to this commit from Deepak S
on avoiding punit access on Cherryview and thus it was excluded on
common reclocking path. By taking the same approach and omitting
the punit access by not tweaking the thresholds when the hardware
has been asked to move into different frequency, considerable gains
in stability have been observed.

With J1900 box, light render/video load would end up in system hang
in usually less than 12 hours. With this patch applied, the cumulative
uptime has now been 34 days without issues. To provoke system hang,
light loads on both render and bsd engines in parallel have been used:
glxgears >/dev/null 2>/dev/null &
mpv --vo=vaapi --hwdec=vaapi --loop=inf vid.mp4

So far, author has not witnessed system hang with above load
and this patch applied. Reports from the tenacious people at
kernel bugzilla are also promising.

Considering that the punit access frequency with this patch is
considerably less, there is a possibility that this will push
the, still unknown, root cause past the triggering point on most loads.

But as we now can reliably reproduce the hang independently,
we can reduce the pain that users are having and use a
static thresholds until a root cause is found.

References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109051
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Cc: fritsch@xbmc.org
Cc: miku@iki.fi
Cc: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
CC: Michal Feix <michal@feix.cz>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Deepak S <deepak.s@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.2+
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c | 4 ++--
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h | 2 ++
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c | 6 +++++-
3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c
index a887aef..319c02d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c
@@ -1095,7 +1095,7 @@ static u32 vlv_wa_c0_ei(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, u32 pm_iir)
if (pm_iir & GEN6_PM_RP_DOWN_EI_EXPIRED) {
if (!vlv_c0_above(dev_priv,
&dev_priv->rps.down_ei, &now,
- dev_priv->rps.down_threshold))
+ VLV_RP_DOWN_EI_THRESHOLD))
events |= GEN6_PM_RP_DOWN_THRESHOLD;
dev_priv->rps.down_ei = now;
}
@@ -1103,7 +1103,7 @@ static u32 vlv_wa_c0_ei(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, u32 pm_iir)
if (pm_iir & GEN6_PM_RP_UP_EI_EXPIRED) {
if (vlv_c0_above(dev_priv,
&dev_priv->rps.up_ei, &now,
- dev_priv->rps.up_threshold))
+ VLV_RP_UP_EI_THRESHOLD))
events |= GEN6_PM_RP_UP_THRESHOLD;
dev_priv->rps.up_ei = now;
}
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
index 141a5c1..1297f6a 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
@@ -1135,6 +1135,8 @@ enum skl_disp_power_wells {
#define CHV_BIAS_CPU_50_SOC_50 (3 << 2)

#define VLV_CZ_CLOCK_TO_MILLI_SEC 100000
+#define VLV_RP_UP_EI_THRESHOLD 90
+#define VLV_RP_DOWN_EI_THRESHOLD 70

/* vlv2 north clock has */
#define CCK_FUSE_REG 0x8
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
index 3d311e1..bce6aae 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
@@ -4971,7 +4971,11 @@ static int valleyview_set_rps(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, u8 val)
if (err)
return err;

- gen6_set_rps_thresholds(dev_priv, val);
+ /* When byt can survive without system hang with dynamic
+ * sw freq adjustments, this restriction can be lifted.
+ */
+ if (!IS_VALLEYVIEW(dev_priv))
+ gen6_set_rps_thresholds(dev_priv, val);
}

dev_priv->rps.cur_freq = val;
--
2.7.4