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

["Ville Syrjälä" <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 10:35:16PM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 06:40:26PM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > -----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
> 
> Gave this a spin and it fixes the issue for me. Thanks.
> 
> > 
> > Greg can you please take this fix into v6.7-rc2 run, or I can repost it with the correct subject.

We're at -rc3 already and this fix is still not in!

> > Thanks
> > Tomas
> > 
> > 
> > > >
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 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
> > > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Ville Syrjälä
> Intel

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Ville Syrjälä
Intel