Re: [PATCH v3] drm/i915/display/lspcon: Increase LSPCON mode settle timeout

[Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2023, Pablo Ceballos <pceballos@google.com> wrote:
> This is to eliminate all cases of "*ERROR* LSPCON mode hasn't settled",
> followed by link training errors. Intel engineers recommended increasing
> this timeout and that does resolve the issue.
>
> On some CometLake-based device designs the Parade PS175 takes more than
> 400ms to settle in PCON mode. 100 reboot trials on one device resulted
> in a median settle time of 440ms and a maximum of 444ms. Even after
> increasing the timeout to 500ms, 2% of devices still had this error. So
> this increases the timeout to 800ms.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pablo Ceballos <pceballos@google.com>

I think we've been here before. Do you have a publicly available gitlab
issue with the proper logs? If not, please file one at [1].

BR,
Jani.

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/issues/new


> ---
>
> V2: Added more details in the commit message
> V3: Only apply the increased timeout if the vendor is Parade
>
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_lspcon.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_lspcon.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_lspcon.c
> index bb3b5355a0d9..b07eab84cc63 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_lspcon.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_lspcon.c
> @@ -153,6 +153,24 @@ static enum drm_lspcon_mode lspcon_get_current_mode(struct intel_lspcon *lspcon)
>  	return current_mode;
>  }
>  
> +static u32 lspcon_get_mode_settle_timeout(struct intel_lspcon *lspcon)
> +{
> +	u32 timeout_ms = 400;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * On some CometLake-based device designs the Parade PS175 takes more
> +	 * than 400ms to settle in PCON mode. 100 reboot trials on one device
> +	 * resulted in a median settle time of 440ms and a maximum of 444ms.
> +	 * Even after increasing the timeout to 500ms, 2% of devices still had
> +	 * this error. So this sets the timeout to 800ms.
> +	 */
> +	if (lspcon->vendor == LSPCON_VENDOR_PARADE)
> +		timeout_ms = 800;
> +
> +	return timeout_ms;
> +}
> +
> +
>  static enum drm_lspcon_mode lspcon_wait_mode(struct intel_lspcon *lspcon,
>  					     enum drm_lspcon_mode mode)
>  {
> @@ -167,7 +185,8 @@ static enum drm_lspcon_mode lspcon_wait_mode(struct intel_lspcon *lspcon,
>  	drm_dbg_kms(&i915->drm, "Waiting for LSPCON mode %s to settle\n",
>  		    lspcon_mode_name(mode));
>  
> -	wait_for((current_mode = lspcon_get_current_mode(lspcon)) == mode, 400);
> +	wait_for((current_mode = lspcon_get_current_mode(lspcon)) == mode,
> +		 lspcon_get_mode_settle_timeout(lspcon));
>  	if (current_mode != mode)
>  		drm_err(&i915->drm, "LSPCON mode hasn't settled\n");

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center