3.13 i915 brightness settings broken when going from docked -> undocked

3.13 i915 brightness settings broken when going from docked -> undocked

[Josh Boyer]

Hi All,

We've had a rather weird report[1] of the brightness adjustments being
broken in a specific case with Thinkpad x220 hardware (SandyBridge
based).  If you boot the machine with it in a dock and then undock,
the brightness adjustments do not work.  That is with either the FN
keys or the GNOME brightness slider.

I can see that the value of
/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness increases/decreases but
/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness doesn't reflect any
changes.  With 3.12 this works, and oddly with 3.14-rc1 it works
(specifically, it starts working around v3.13-10231-g53d8ab2 which is
right after the first DRM merge for 3.14).  With 3.13, if I undock and
echo a higher value in the intel_backlight_brightness sysfs entry, the
brightness will actually increase so it can be done manually, but it
does not work as you'd expect.

I'm in the middle of trying to do a reverse bisect for which patch
fixes it in the 3.14-rcX series, but that's taking a while.  I thought
I'd email and see if anyone already knows about this situation, what
patch in 3.13 broke this, and which one then fixed it again.  Thus far
all I've gathered is that backlight handling is confusing.

josh

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1067071

Re: 3.13 i915 brightness settings broken when going from docked -> undocked

[Paul Bolle]

On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 21:20 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> We've had a rather weird report[1] of the brightness adjustments being
> broken in a specific case with Thinkpad x220 hardware (SandyBridge
> based).  If you boot the machine with it in a dock and then undock,
> the brightness adjustments do not work.  That is with either the FN
> keys or the GNOME brightness slider.

On an (rather old) ThinkPad X41, which also uses i915, brightness
adjustments stopped working altogether in v3.14-rc1 (I haven't used its
docking station in the v3.14 release cycle). In v3.13.y things behave as
expected. So perhaps there's actually a more general problem here.

> I can see that the value of
> /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness

On the X41 I check /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness ...

>  increases/decreases but
> /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness doesn't reflect any
> changes.

but otherwise things look similar.

>  With 3.12 this works, and oddly with 3.14-rc1 it works
> (specifically, it starts working around v3.13-10231-g53d8ab2 which is
> right after the first DRM merge for 3.14).  With 3.13, if I undock and
> echo a higher value in the intel_backlight_brightness sysfs entry, the
> brightness will actually increase so it can be done manually, but it
> does not work as you'd expect.

Echoing values into /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness
works too (that's a new trick for me!). But, again, no docking station
is required, so the problem looks less odd than the problem on that
x220.

> I'm in the middle of trying to do a reverse bisect for which patch
> fixes it in the 3.14-rcX series, but that's taking a while.  I thought
> I'd email and see if anyone already knows about this situation, what
> patch in 3.13 broke this, and which one then fixed it again.  Thus far
> all I've gathered is that backlight handling is confusing.

I haven't yet tried bisecting.

> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1067071


Paul Bolle

Re: 3.13 i915 brightness settings broken when going from docked -> undocked

[Jani Nikula]

On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> wrote:
> On an (rather old) ThinkPad X41, which also uses i915, brightness
> adjustments stopped working altogether in v3.14-rc1 (I haven't used its
> docking station in the v3.14 release cycle). In v3.13.y things behave as
> expected. So perhaps there's actually a more general problem here.

I presume different problems. Does the ThinkPad X41 have gen3 graphics?
(See e.g. /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/i915_capabilities) If yes, it might be
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75001

BR,
Jani.

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center

Re: 3.13 i915 brightness settings broken when going from docked -> undocked

[Paul Bolle]

On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 10:05 +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> wrote:
> > On an (rather old) ThinkPad X41, which also uses i915, brightness
> > adjustments stopped working altogether in v3.14-rc1 (I haven't used its
> > docking station in the v3.14 release cycle). In v3.13.y things behave as
> > expected. So perhaps there's actually a more general problem here.
> 
> I presume different problems. Does the ThinkPad X41 have gen3 graphics?
> (See e.g. /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/i915_capabilities) If yes, it might be
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75001

Yes, it has "gen3" graphics (a 915GM). And applying your patch
"drm/i915: use backlight legacy combination mode also for
i915gm/i945/gm" on top of v3.14-rc5 fixes the issue on that ThinkPad
X41.

Thanks,


Paul Bolle

Re: 3.13 i915 brightness settings broken when going from docked -> undocked

[Jani Nikula]

On Tue, 04 Mar 2014, Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 10:05 +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> wrote:
>> > On an (rather old) ThinkPad X41, which also uses i915, brightness
>> > adjustments stopped working altogether in v3.14-rc1 (I haven't used its
>> > docking station in the v3.14 release cycle). In v3.13.y things behave as
>> > expected. So perhaps there's actually a more general problem here.
>> 
>> I presume different problems. Does the ThinkPad X41 have gen3 graphics?
>> (See e.g. /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/i915_capabilities) If yes, it might be
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75001
>
> Yes, it has "gen3" graphics (a 915GM). And applying your patch
> "drm/i915: use backlight legacy combination mode also for
> i915gm/i945/gm" on top of v3.14-rc5 fixes the issue on that ThinkPad
> X41.

Thanks for confirming this on i915gm too.

BR,
Jani.


-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center

Re: 3.13 i915 brightness settings broken when going from docked -> undocked

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We've had a rather weird report[1] of the brightness adjustments being
> broken in a specific case with Thinkpad x220 hardware (SandyBridge
> based).  If you boot the machine with it in a dock and then undock,
> the brightness adjustments do not work.  That is with either the FN
> keys or the GNOME brightness slider.
>
> I can see that the value of
> /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness increases/decreases but
> /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness doesn't reflect any
> changes.  With 3.12 this works, and oddly with 3.14-rc1 it works
> (specifically, it starts working around v3.13-10231-g53d8ab2 which is
> right after the first DRM merge for 3.14).  With 3.13, if I undock and
> echo a higher value in the intel_backlight_brightness sysfs entry, the
> brightness will actually increase so it can be done manually, but it
> does not work as you'd expect.
>
> I'm in the middle of trying to do a reverse bisect for which patch
> fixes it in the 3.14-rcX series, but that's taking a while.  I thought
> I'd email and see if anyone already knows about this situation, what
> patch in 3.13 broke this, and which one then fixed it again.  Thus far
> all I've gathered is that backlight handling is confusing.

The reverse bisect between 3.13 and 3.14-rc1 didn't prove fruitful,
either because I messed it up or there's a combination of things that
fix the issue.  So instead I did a regular git bisect between 3.12 and
3.13 to see which commit _broke_ things and caused the above behavior.
 That landed me at:

Author: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Date:   Thu Oct 31 18:55:49 2013 +0200

    drm/i915: make backlight functions take a connector

I have no idea if that makes sense or not, but it's at least something
that seems to be in a relevant area of code.  Does anyone involved in
that know why it would cause the above symptoms on 3.13, and which
commit(s) fix it in 3.14-rc1?

josh

Re: 3.13 i915 brightness settings broken when going from docked -> undocked

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 07:31:41PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> We've had a rather weird report[1] of the brightness adjustments being
>> broken in a specific case with Thinkpad x220 hardware (SandyBridge
>> based).  If you boot the machine with it in a dock and then undock,
>> the brightness adjustments do not work.  That is with either the FN
>> keys or the GNOME brightness slider.
>>
>> I can see that the value of
>> /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness increases/decreases but
>> /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness doesn't reflect any
>> changes.  With 3.12 this works, and oddly with 3.14-rc1 it works
>> (specifically, it starts working around v3.13-10231-g53d8ab2 which is
>> right after the first DRM merge for 3.14).  With 3.13, if I undock and
>> echo a higher value in the intel_backlight_brightness sysfs entry, the
>> brightness will actually increase so it can be done manually, but it
>> does not work as you'd expect.
>>
>> I'm in the middle of trying to do a reverse bisect for which patch
>> fixes it in the 3.14-rcX series, but that's taking a while.  I thought
>> I'd email and see if anyone already knows about this situation, what
>> patch in 3.13 broke this, and which one then fixed it again.  Thus far
>> all I've gathered is that backlight handling is confusing.
>
>The reverse bisect between 3.13 and 3.14-rc1 didn't prove fruitful,
>either because I messed it up or there's a combination of things that
>fix the issue.  So instead I did a regular git bisect between 3.12 and
>3.13 to see which commit _broke_ things and caused the above behavior.
> That landed me at:
>
>Author: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
>Date:   Thu Oct 31 18:55:49 2013 +0200
>
>    drm/i915: make backlight functions take a connector
>
>I have no idea if that makes sense or not, but it's at least something
>that seems to be in a relevant area of code.  Does anyone involved in
>that know why it would cause the above symptoms on 3.13, and which
>commit(s) fix it in 3.14-rc1?

Since nobody is replying I poked around a bit myself.  The one commit
that looks somewhat relevant in 3.14-rc1 seems to be:

commit c91c9f32843a1b433de5a1ead4789a6bc8d3d914
Author: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Date:   Fri Nov 8 16:48:55 2013 +0200

    drm/i915: make asle notifications update backlight on all connectors

That doesn't apply cleanly on 3.13 because of the other reworks that
went in first, so I came up with the patch below.  It seems to fix it
for my machine, but I'm waiting for confirmation from the original bug
reporter still.  Maybe this will elicit some comments?

josh

Backport of upstream commit c91c9f328

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h       |  1 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c | 31 ++++++-------------------------
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c    |  4 ++++
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
index 221ac62..d6d4349 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
@@ -1371,6 +1371,7 @@ typedef struct drm_i915_private {
 
 	/* backlight */
 	struct {
+		bool present;
 		int level;
 		bool enabled;
 		spinlock_t lock; /* bl registers and the above bl fields */
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c
index 6d69a9b..b2a51ae 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c
@@ -414,38 +414,19 @@ static u32 asle_set_backlight(struct drm_device *dev, u32 bclp)
 		return ASLC_BACKLIGHT_FAILED;
 
 	mutex_lock(&dev->mode_config.mutex);
-	/*
-	 * Could match the OpRegion connector here instead, but we'd also need
-	 * to verify the connector could handle a backlight call.
-	 */
-	list_for_each_entry(encoder, &dev->mode_config.encoder_list, head)
-		if (encoder->crtc == crtc) {
-			found = true;
-			break;
-		}
-
-	if (!found) {
-		ret = ASLC_BACKLIGHT_FAILED;
-		goto out;
-	}
 
-	list_for_each_entry(connector, &dev->mode_config.connector_list, head)
-		if (connector->encoder == encoder)
-			intel_connector = to_intel_connector(connector);
-
-	if (!intel_connector) {
-		ret = ASLC_BACKLIGHT_FAILED;
-		goto out;
+	DRM_DEBUG_KMS("updating opregion backlight %d/255\n", bclp);
+	list_for_each_entry(connector, &dev->mode_config.connector_list, head) {
+		intel_connector = to_intel_connector(connector);
+		if (dev_priv->backlight.present)
+			intel_panel_set_backlight(intel_connector, bclp, 255);
 	}
 
-	DRM_DEBUG_KMS("updating opregion backlight %d/255\n", bclp);
-	intel_panel_set_backlight(intel_connector, bclp, 255);
 	iowrite32(DIV_ROUND_UP(bclp * 100, 255) | ASLE_CBLV_VALID, &asle->cblv);
 
-out:
 	mutex_unlock(&dev->mode_config.mutex);
 
-	return ret;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static u32 asle_set_als_illum(struct drm_device *dev, u32 alsi)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
index e6f782d..fa7b984 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
@@ -832,6 +832,9 @@ int intel_panel_setup_backlight(struct drm_connector *connector)
 		dev_priv->backlight.device = NULL;
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
+
+	dev_priv->backlight.present = true;
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -839,6 +842,7 @@ void intel_panel_destroy_backlight(struct drm_device *dev)
 {
 	struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = dev->dev_private;
 	if (dev_priv->backlight.device) {
+		dev_priv->backlight.present = false;
 		backlight_device_unregister(dev_priv->backlight.device);
 		dev_priv->backlight.device = NULL;
 	}
-- 
1.8.5.3

Re: 3.13 i915 brightness settings broken when going from docked -> undocked

[Jesse Barnes]

On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 10:50:59 -0500
Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 07:31:41PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> >On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> We've had a rather weird report[1] of the brightness adjustments being
> >> broken in a specific case with Thinkpad x220 hardware (SandyBridge
> >> based).  If you boot the machine with it in a dock and then undock,
> >> the brightness adjustments do not work.  That is with either the FN
> >> keys or the GNOME brightness slider.
> >>
> >> I can see that the value of
> >> /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness increases/decreases but
> >> /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness doesn't reflect any
> >> changes.  With 3.12 this works, and oddly with 3.14-rc1 it works
> >> (specifically, it starts working around v3.13-10231-g53d8ab2 which is
> >> right after the first DRM merge for 3.14).  With 3.13, if I undock and
> >> echo a higher value in the intel_backlight_brightness sysfs entry, the
> >> brightness will actually increase so it can be done manually, but it
> >> does not work as you'd expect.
> >>
> >> I'm in the middle of trying to do a reverse bisect for which patch
> >> fixes it in the 3.14-rcX series, but that's taking a while.  I thought
> >> I'd email and see if anyone already knows about this situation, what
> >> patch in 3.13 broke this, and which one then fixed it again.  Thus far
> >> all I've gathered is that backlight handling is confusing.
> >
> >The reverse bisect between 3.13 and 3.14-rc1 didn't prove fruitful,
> >either because I messed it up or there's a combination of things that
> >fix the issue.  So instead I did a regular git bisect between 3.12 and
> >3.13 to see which commit _broke_ things and caused the above behavior.
> > That landed me at:
> >
> >Author: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
> >Date:   Thu Oct 31 18:55:49 2013 +0200
> >
> >    drm/i915: make backlight functions take a connector
> >
> >I have no idea if that makes sense or not, but it's at least something
> >that seems to be in a relevant area of code.  Does anyone involved in
> >that know why it would cause the above symptoms on 3.13, and which
> >commit(s) fix it in 3.14-rc1?
> 
> Since nobody is replying I poked around a bit myself.  The one commit
> that looks somewhat relevant in 3.14-rc1 seems to be:
> 
> commit c91c9f32843a1b433de5a1ead4789a6bc8d3d914
> Author: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
> Date:   Fri Nov 8 16:48:55 2013 +0200
> 
>     drm/i915: make asle notifications update backlight on all connectors
> 
> That doesn't apply cleanly on 3.13 because of the other reworks that
> went in first, so I came up with the patch below.  It seems to fix it
> for my machine, but I'm waiting for confirmation from the original bug
> reporter still.  Maybe this will elicit some comments?
> 
> josh
> 
> Backport of upstream commit c91c9f328
> 
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h       |  1 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c | 31 ++++++-------------------------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c    |  4 ++++
>  3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> index 221ac62..d6d4349 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> @@ -1371,6 +1371,7 @@ typedef struct drm_i915_private {
>  
>  	/* backlight */
>  	struct {
> +		bool present;
>  		int level;
>  		bool enabled;
>  		spinlock_t lock; /* bl registers and the above bl fields */
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c
> index 6d69a9b..b2a51ae 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c
> @@ -414,38 +414,19 @@ static u32 asle_set_backlight(struct drm_device *dev, u32 bclp)
>  		return ASLC_BACKLIGHT_FAILED;
>  
>  	mutex_lock(&dev->mode_config.mutex);
> -	/*
> -	 * Could match the OpRegion connector here instead, but we'd also need
> -	 * to verify the connector could handle a backlight call.
> -	 */
> -	list_for_each_entry(encoder, &dev->mode_config.encoder_list, head)
> -		if (encoder->crtc == crtc) {
> -			found = true;
> -			break;
> -		}
> -
> -	if (!found) {
> -		ret = ASLC_BACKLIGHT_FAILED;
> -		goto out;
> -	}
>  
> -	list_for_each_entry(connector, &dev->mode_config.connector_list, head)
> -		if (connector->encoder == encoder)
> -			intel_connector = to_intel_connector(connector);
> -
> -	if (!intel_connector) {
> -		ret = ASLC_BACKLIGHT_FAILED;
> -		goto out;
> +	DRM_DEBUG_KMS("updating opregion backlight %d/255\n", bclp);
> +	list_for_each_entry(connector, &dev->mode_config.connector_list, head) {
> +		intel_connector = to_intel_connector(connector);
> +		if (dev_priv->backlight.present)
> +			intel_panel_set_backlight(intel_connector, bclp, 255);
>  	}
>  
> -	DRM_DEBUG_KMS("updating opregion backlight %d/255\n", bclp);
> -	intel_panel_set_backlight(intel_connector, bclp, 255);
>  	iowrite32(DIV_ROUND_UP(bclp * 100, 255) | ASLE_CBLV_VALID, &asle->cblv);
>  
> -out:
>  	mutex_unlock(&dev->mode_config.mutex);
>  
> -	return ret;
> +	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static u32 asle_set_als_illum(struct drm_device *dev, u32 alsi)
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
> index e6f782d..fa7b984 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
> @@ -832,6 +832,9 @@ int intel_panel_setup_backlight(struct drm_connector *connector)
>  		dev_priv->backlight.device = NULL;
>  		return -ENODEV;
>  	}
> +
> +	dev_priv->backlight.present = true;
> +
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> @@ -839,6 +842,7 @@ void intel_panel_destroy_backlight(struct drm_device *dev)
>  {
>  	struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = dev->dev_private;
>  	if (dev_priv->backlight.device) {
> +		dev_priv->backlight.present = false;
>  		backlight_device_unregister(dev_priv->backlight.device);
>  		dev_priv->backlight.device = NULL;
>  	}

Yeah I think it looks reasonable, I was waiting for Jani to get back
since I think he's thought about this more.

Fundamentally, mapping from an OpRegion connector to a drm connector is
what we need, and your bits look a little closer to that than the
current code.

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center

Re: 3.13 i915 brightness settings broken when going from docked -> undocked

[Jani Nikula]

On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 07:31:41PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>>On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> We've had a rather weird report[1] of the brightness adjustments being
>>> broken in a specific case with Thinkpad x220 hardware (SandyBridge
>>> based).  If you boot the machine with it in a dock and then undock,
>>> the brightness adjustments do not work.  That is with either the FN
>>> keys or the GNOME brightness slider.
>>>
>>> I can see that the value of
>>> /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness increases/decreases but
>>> /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness doesn't reflect any
>>> changes.  With 3.12 this works, and oddly with 3.14-rc1 it works
>>> (specifically, it starts working around v3.13-10231-g53d8ab2 which is
>>> right after the first DRM merge for 3.14).  With 3.13, if I undock and
>>> echo a higher value in the intel_backlight_brightness sysfs entry, the
>>> brightness will actually increase so it can be done manually, but it
>>> does not work as you'd expect.
>>>
>>> I'm in the middle of trying to do a reverse bisect for which patch
>>> fixes it in the 3.14-rcX series, but that's taking a while.  I thought
>>> I'd email and see if anyone already knows about this situation, what
>>> patch in 3.13 broke this, and which one then fixed it again.  Thus far
>>> all I've gathered is that backlight handling is confusing.
>>
>>The reverse bisect between 3.13 and 3.14-rc1 didn't prove fruitful,
>>either because I messed it up or there's a combination of things that
>>fix the issue.  So instead I did a regular git bisect between 3.12 and
>>3.13 to see which commit _broke_ things and caused the above behavior.
>> That landed me at:
>>
>>Author: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
>>Date:   Thu Oct 31 18:55:49 2013 +0200
>>
>>    drm/i915: make backlight functions take a connector
>>
>>I have no idea if that makes sense or not, but it's at least something
>>that seems to be in a relevant area of code.  Does anyone involved in
>>that know why it would cause the above symptoms on 3.13, and which
>>commit(s) fix it in 3.14-rc1?

This makes perfect sense. The problem with that commit is that the ACPI
handler part assumes the output with backlight is on pipe A, which may
not be the case. Particularly when booted in the dock.

I presume this can be "fixed" by disabling/enabling the outputs with
xrandr after undocking. Also, if you disable the ACPI video backlight
handling, userspace should use the native backlight interface
(intel_backlight) which is unaffected. Neither of these is the real fix,
of course.

> Since nobody is replying I poked around a bit myself.  The one commit
> that looks somewhat relevant in 3.14-rc1 seems to be:
>
> commit c91c9f32843a1b433de5a1ead4789a6bc8d3d914
> Author: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
> Date:   Fri Nov 8 16:48:55 2013 +0200
>
>     drm/i915: make asle notifications update backlight on all connectors

This is the right fix, but obviously we didn't take your scenario into
account at the time (as the commit message still thinks this would only
affect baytrail).

> That doesn't apply cleanly on 3.13 because of the other reworks that
> went in first, so I came up with the patch below.  It seems to fix it
> for my machine, but I'm waiting for confirmation from the original bug
> reporter still.  Maybe this will elicit some comments?

Yup, see comments below. ;)

> josh
>
> Backport of upstream commit c91c9f328
>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h       |  1 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c | 31 ++++++-------------------------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c    |  4 ++++
>  3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> index 221ac62..d6d4349 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> @@ -1371,6 +1371,7 @@ typedef struct drm_i915_private {
>  
>  	/* backlight */
>  	struct {
> +		bool present;
>  		int level;
>  		bool enabled;
>  		spinlock_t lock; /* bl registers and the above bl fields */
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c
> index 6d69a9b..b2a51ae 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c
> @@ -414,38 +414,19 @@ static u32 asle_set_backlight(struct drm_device *dev, u32 bclp)
>  		return ASLC_BACKLIGHT_FAILED;
>  
>  	mutex_lock(&dev->mode_config.mutex);
> -	/*
> -	 * Could match the OpRegion connector here instead, but we'd also need
> -	 * to verify the connector could handle a backlight call.
> -	 */
> -	list_for_each_entry(encoder, &dev->mode_config.encoder_list, head)
> -		if (encoder->crtc == crtc) {
> -			found = true;
> -			break;
> -		}
> -
> -	if (!found) {
> -		ret = ASLC_BACKLIGHT_FAILED;
> -		goto out;
> -	}
>  
> -	list_for_each_entry(connector, &dev->mode_config.connector_list, head)
> -		if (connector->encoder == encoder)
> -			intel_connector = to_intel_connector(connector);
> -
> -	if (!intel_connector) {
> -		ret = ASLC_BACKLIGHT_FAILED;
> -		goto out;
> +	DRM_DEBUG_KMS("updating opregion backlight %d/255\n", bclp);
> +	list_for_each_entry(connector, &dev->mode_config.connector_list, head) {
> +		intel_connector = to_intel_connector(connector);
> +		if (dev_priv->backlight.present)
> +			intel_panel_set_backlight(intel_connector, bclp, 255);
>  	}

This is not correct because in v3.13 dev_priv->backlight is still driver
global, not per connector. This means that if you have at least one
connector with backlight control, the backlight is attempted to change
on all connectors. In your case, I'm not sure if it leads to anything
more than extra adjusting of the same backlight.

If you move the 'bool present' field to intel_connector or intel_panel,
I think this is all right.

BR,
Jani.

>  
> -	DRM_DEBUG_KMS("updating opregion backlight %d/255\n", bclp);
> -	intel_panel_set_backlight(intel_connector, bclp, 255);
>  	iowrite32(DIV_ROUND_UP(bclp * 100, 255) | ASLE_CBLV_VALID, &asle->cblv);
>  
> -out:
>  	mutex_unlock(&dev->mode_config.mutex);
>  
> -	return ret;
> +	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static u32 asle_set_als_illum(struct drm_device *dev, u32 alsi)
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
> index e6f782d..fa7b984 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
> @@ -832,6 +832,9 @@ int intel_panel_setup_backlight(struct drm_connector *connector)
>  		dev_priv->backlight.device = NULL;
>  		return -ENODEV;
>  	}
> +
> +	dev_priv->backlight.present = true;
> +
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> @@ -839,6 +842,7 @@ void intel_panel_destroy_backlight(struct drm_device *dev)
>  {
>  	struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = dev->dev_private;
>  	if (dev_priv->backlight.device) {
> +		dev_priv->backlight.present = false;
>  		backlight_device_unregister(dev_priv->backlight.device);
>  		dev_priv->backlight.device = NULL;
>  	}
> -- 
> 1.8.5.3
>

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center

Re: 3.13 i915 brightness settings broken when going from docked -> undocked

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 3:36 AM, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> Backport of upstream commit c91c9f328
>>
>> ---
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h       |  1 +
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c | 31 ++++++-------------------------
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c    |  4 ++++
>>  3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
>> index 221ac62..d6d4349 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
>> @@ -1371,6 +1371,7 @@ typedef struct drm_i915_private {
>>
>>       /* backlight */
>>       struct {
>> +             bool present;
>>               int level;
>>               bool enabled;
>>               spinlock_t lock; /* bl registers and the above bl fields */
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c
>> index 6d69a9b..b2a51ae 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c
>> @@ -414,38 +414,19 @@ static u32 asle_set_backlight(struct drm_device *dev, u32 bclp)
>>               return ASLC_BACKLIGHT_FAILED;
>>
>>       mutex_lock(&dev->mode_config.mutex);
>> -     /*
>> -      * Could match the OpRegion connector here instead, but we'd also need
>> -      * to verify the connector could handle a backlight call.
>> -      */
>> -     list_for_each_entry(encoder, &dev->mode_config.encoder_list, head)
>> -             if (encoder->crtc == crtc) {
>> -                     found = true;
>> -                     break;
>> -             }
>> -
>> -     if (!found) {
>> -             ret = ASLC_BACKLIGHT_FAILED;
>> -             goto out;
>> -     }
>>
>> -     list_for_each_entry(connector, &dev->mode_config.connector_list, head)
>> -             if (connector->encoder == encoder)
>> -                     intel_connector = to_intel_connector(connector);
>> -
>> -     if (!intel_connector) {
>> -             ret = ASLC_BACKLIGHT_FAILED;
>> -             goto out;
>> +     DRM_DEBUG_KMS("updating opregion backlight %d/255\n", bclp);
>> +     list_for_each_entry(connector, &dev->mode_config.connector_list, head) {
>> +             intel_connector = to_intel_connector(connector);
>> +             if (dev_priv->backlight.present)
>> +                     intel_panel_set_backlight(intel_connector, bclp, 255);
>>       }
>
> This is not correct because in v3.13 dev_priv->backlight is still driver
> global, not per connector. This means that if you have at least one
> connector with backlight control, the backlight is attempted to change
> on all connectors. In your case, I'm not sure if it leads to anything
> more than extra adjusting of the same backlight.

Well, empirically it leads to the backlight actually changing after
undocking my machine whereas without it, it doesn't.  So maybe by
changing it globally, it is hitting the connector that does have
backlight control.

Anyway, I'm not arguing my patch is correct.  Just that it does do
_something_ to make the backlight work :).

> If you move the 'bool present' field to intel_connector or intel_panel,
> I think this is all right.

That sounds like more of an invasive change.  I could poke at it, but
I'm not sure it would be suitable for e.g. 3.13.y stable.  Thoughts on
that?  Admittedly it is a somewhat minor problem, so if it's not
easily stable material, I don't think anyone is going to lose sleep
over it.

josh