RE: [char-misc-next 3/4] mei: pxp: re-enable client on errors

Winkler, Tomas
2023-11-14T18:54:47Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Teres Alexis, Alan Previn <alan.previn.teres.alexis@intel.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 5:32 PM
> To: ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com; Winkler, Tomas <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
> Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; Usyskin, Alexander
> <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; intel-
> gfx@lists.freedesktop.org; Lubart, Vitaly <vitaly.lubart@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [char-misc-next 3/4] mei: pxp: re-enable client on errors
>
> On Tue, 2023-11-14 at 16:00 +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 02:01:56PM +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > > From: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>
> > >
> > > Disable and enable mei-pxp client on errors to clean the internal state.
> >
> > This broke i915 on my Alderlake-P laptop.

This fix was already posted, just missed the merging window
https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/10/31/636

Greg can you please take this fix into v6.7-rc2 run, or I can repost it with the correct subject.
Thanks
Tomas

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> Hi Alex, i just relooked at the series that got merged, and i noticed that in patch
> #3 of the series, you had changed mei_pxp_send_message to return bytes sent
> instead of zero on success. IIRC, we had agreed to not effect the behavior of
> this component interface (other than adding the timeout) - this was the
> intention of Patch #4 that i was pushing for in order to spec the interface
> (which continues to say zero on success). We should fix this to stay with the
> original behavior - where mei-pxp should NOT send partial packets and will
> only return zero in success case where success is sending of the complete
> packets - so we don't need to get back the "bytes sent"
> from mei_pxp_send_message. So i think this might be causing the problem.
>
>
> Side note to Ville:, are you enabling PXP kernel config by default in all MESA
> contexts? I recall that MESA folks were running some CI testing with enable
> pxp contexts, but didn't realize this is being enabled by default in all contexts.
> Please be aware that enabling pxp-contexts would temporarily disabled
> runtime-pm during that contexts lifetime.
> Also pxp contexts will be forced to be irrecoverable if it ever hangs.
> The former is a hardware architecture requirement but doesn't do anything if
> you're enabling display (which I beleive also blocks in ADL). The latter was a
> requirement to comply with Vulkan.
>
> ...alan
>