Hi, On 2/26/21 5:13 PM, Justin Forbes wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 12:52 PM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On 2/25/21 3:37 PM, Justin Forbes wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 7:31 AM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> On 2/25/21 1:33 PM, Justin Forbes wrote: >>>>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 5:44 AM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> On 2/23/21 6:25 PM, Hans de Goede wrote: >>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I've been working with various reporters to try and get the sometimes severe >>>>>>> gfx glitches which people are seeing with kernel >= 5.10.9 resolved, see the >>>>>>> following bugs: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 1843274 - i915 GPU Hang with kernel 5.7 on Haswell (Acer C720P Chromebook) >>>>>>> 1925346 - Screen glitches after updating to Kernel 5.10.10 >>>>>>> 1925903 - Flickering UI elements, screen instability (Wayland) >>>>>>> 1931065 - Frequent i915 hangs >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I've written 2 patches 2 address this and asked users to test Fedora-kernel >>>>>>> scratch-builds with those patches added. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The first patch is i915-revert.patch, this reverts 3 troublesome commits >>>>>>> which were first added in 5.10.9 these commit change the i915 mitigations >>>>>>> for a year old i915 CVE which IIRC was mostly about data leaking from a >>>>>>> previous GPU context to the next. These patches enable these mitigations >>>>>>> on more GPU models, where they were previously disabled because they were >>>>>>> causing issues... >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Reporters have reported a 100% success-rate in getting rid of the gfx >>>>>>> issues with these 3 reverts. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The second patch is i915-fixes.patch, this cherry-picks 3 patches from >>>>>>> -next instead (these were suggested by i915 upstream) and this also helps >>>>>>> for most users, but some users still report some rendering artifacts >>>>>>> (but overall things are much better). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Upstream has gone silent on the issue of there still being rendering >>>>>>> artifacts with the 3 cherry-picked fixes unfortunately. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Given that we are getting more and more bug-reports about this I think >>>>>>> that we should be do something about this downstream. Upstream seams >>>>>>> to be aiming for fixing things, rather then reverting, so going with >>>>>>> i915-fixes.patch will stay the closest to what I expect to land in >>>>>>> 5.10.y and 5.11.y at some point. >>>>>> >>>>>> The bug reports for this keep coming in; and it seems that this is >>>>>> fully resolved for all reporters except one by the i915-fixes.patch which >>>>>> I attached earlier; and for the one reporter who is still seeing some >>>>>> rendering glitches things are much improved, so I think he is also >>>>>> hitting a different issue. >>>>>> >>>>>> Here is the full lists of bugs which I'm aware of which all have this >>>>>> as root cause: >>>>>> >>>>>> 1843274 - i915 GPU Hang with kernel 5.7 on Haswell (Acer C720P Chromebook) >>>>>> 1922511 - Recent upgrades caused smearing/tearing >>>>>> 1925346 - Screen glitches after updating to Kernel 5.10.10 >>>>>> 1925903 - Flickering UI elements, screen instability (Wayland) >>>>>> 1931065 - Frequent i915 hangs >>>>>> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/3099 >>>>>> >>>>>> So unless there are any objections I would really like to move forward >>>>>> with adding i915-fixes.patch to the Fedora 5.10.y kernels. >>>>>> >>>>> The actual patch was not attached, >>>> >>>> It was attached to the first email in this thread, I've also attached it >>>> to this email again. >>> >>> Something must have happened, it didn't make my inbox or the list >>> archives. Thanks for the reattach. >>> >>>>> so I could not add it, you are >>>>> welcome to do so, or attach the patch and I will do it. >>>> >>>> If you can take care of this, then that would be great, thanks. >>> >>> This is added and should make 5.10.19 (likely this weekend). Does this >>> need to go into 5.11.y as is, or does something need to change there? >> >> It should apply cleanly to 5.11 too, as that has the same set of >> i915 mitigation fixes/changes which landed 5.10.9+ . >> >> Although since for 5.11 you are using a full linux git tree as base >> it might be cleaner to just cherry pick the 3 commits. Although this will >> require adding drm-intel as remote:https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm-intel/ >> >> The 3 commits are: >> >> e627d5923cae ("drm/i915/gt: One more flush for Baytrail clear residuals") >> d30bbd62b1bf ("drm/i915/gt: Flush before changing register state") >> 1914911f4aa0 ("drm/i915/gt: Correct surface base address for renderclear") >> >> If you have any issues with applying this to 5.11, please let me know and >> I'll take a look. >> > > Thanks, these are applied and will be in 5.11.2 FYI, Greg has now picked these up for 5.10.y and 5.11.y so you should be able to drop the patch in 5.10.y soon and I assume that for 5.11.y you will just do a merge, which should be fine. Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
