Re: i915_driver_irq_handler: irq 42: nobody cared

Jiri Slaby
2012-05-03T19:56:18Z

On 04/11/2012 12:40 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 01:34:11PM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:32:12 +0200
>> Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 09:52:40PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>>>> Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
>>>> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
>>>>
>>>> I tried 3.2 and 3.3. Although the spurious interrupts were always
>>>> there, they occurred with frequency lower by a magnitude (15 vs. 300
>>>> after X starts). So I bisected that and it lead to a commit which
>>>> fixes bad tiling for me:
>>>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~ickle/linux-2.6/commit/?h=for-jiri&id=79710e6ccabdac80c65cd13b944695ecc3e42a9d
>>>
>>> Pipelined fencing is pretty much just broken and we'll completely rip it
>>> out in 3.5. Does this also happen with 3.4-rc2?
>>
>> Does INTx- stay that way? Or does it frequently read INTx+ if you
>> sample it a lot? If it stays as INTx-, then something other than the
>> GPU is getting stuck (though it's possible this could be related to
>> pipelined fencing, if the fences are programmed to point at some funky
>> memory space).

Hi and sorry for the delay. It stays INTx-. And I tested that with patch
removing fencing.

> Shot in the dark, let's disable msi a bit. Can you try the below patch?

Yeah, no IRQ_NONE at the end of i915_driver_irq_handler now. So MSI is
busted, either in the card, the chipset or the kernel. Any idea how to
find out?

thanks,
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js
suse labs