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> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2021 5:21 PM
> To: Imre Deak <imre.deak@xxxxxxxxx>; Koenig, Christian
> <Christian.Koenig@xxxxxxx>; Pan, Xinhui <Xinhui.Pan@xxxxxxx>;
> Wentland, Harry <Harry.Wentland@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>; Deucher, Alexander
> <Alexander.Deucher@xxxxxxx>; Kai-Heng Feng
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> Subject: Re: Expecting to revert commit 55285e21f045 "fbdev/efifb: Release
> PCI device ..."
>
> [ Adding back in more amd people and the amd list, the people Daniel added
> seem to have gotten lost again, but I think people at least saw my original
> report thanks to Daniel ]
>
> With "amdgpu.runpm=0", things are better, but not perfect. With that I can
> lock the screen, and it has to go through *two* cycles of "No signal, turning
> off", but on the second cycle it does finally work.
>
> This was exposed by commit 55285e21f045 ("fbdev/efifb: Release PCI
> device's runtime PM ref during FB destroy"), probably because that made
> runtime PM actually potentially work, but it is then broken on amdgpu.
>
> Absolutely nothing odd in my setup. Two monitors, one GPU. PCI ID
> 1002:67df rev e7, subsystem ID 1da2:e353.
>
> I'd expect pretty much any amdgpu person to see this.
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 2:04 PM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-
> foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Note: on my machine, I get that
> >
> > amdgpu 0000:49:00.0: amdgpu: Using BACO for runtime pm
> >
> > so maybe the other possible runtime pm models (ARPX and BOCO) are ok,
> > and it's only that BACO case that is broken.
>
> Hmm. The *documentation* says:
>
> PX runtime pm
> 2 = force enable with BAMACO,
> 1 = force enable with BACO,
> 0 = disable,
> -1 = PX only default
>
> but the code actually makes anything != 0 enable it, except on VEGA20 and
> ARCTURUS, where it needs to be positive.
>
> My card is apparently "POLARIS10", whatever that means, which means that
> any non-zero value of amdgpu_runtime_pm will enable runtime PM as long
> as "amdgpu_device_supports_baco()" is true. Which it is.
>
> Whatever. Now I'm just kwetching about the documentation not matching
> what I see the code doing, which is never a great sign when things don't
> work.
Apologies on the documentation. -1 is the default and is enabled for all dGPUs which support runtime D3. It was never fixed up when we extended support for runtime pm beyond PX/HG laptops. Fixed up the documentation here:
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/467681/
Alex
