Re: PROBLEM: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X iGPU - Blinking Issue

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On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 10:52 AM Felix Richter <judge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> sorry for the silence from my side. I had a lot of things to take care
> of after returning from vacation. Also I had to wait on the zfs modules
> to be updated to support kernel 6.3 for further testing.
>
> The bad news is that I am still experiencing issues. I have been able to
> get a reproducible trigger for the buggy behavior. The moment I take a
> screenshot or any other program like `wdisplays` accesses the screen
> buffer the screen starts flickering. The only way to reset it is to
> reboot the machine or log out of the desktop.
>
> With this I did a bisection to figure out which commit is responsible
> for this. I attached the logs to the mail. The short version is that I
> identified commit 81d0bcf9900932633d270d5bc4a54ff599c6ebdb as the
> culprit. Seems that there are side effects of having more flexible
> buffer placement for the case of the internal GPU. To verify that this
> actually is the cause of the issue I built the current archlinux kernel
> with an extra patch to revert the commit:
> https://github.com/ju6ge/linux/tree/v6.3.5-ju6ge. The result is that be
> bug is fixed!

+ Hamza

This is a known issue.  You can workaround it by setting
amdgpu.sg_display=0.  It should be issue should be fixed in:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=08da182175db4c7f80850354849d95f2670e8cd9

Alex



>
> Now if this is the desired long term fix I do not know …
>
> Kind regards,
> Felix Richter
>
> On 02.05.23 16:12, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote:
> > On 02.05.23 15:48, Felix Richter wrote:
> >> On 5/2/23 15:34, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote:
> >>> On 02.05.23 15:13, Alex Deucher wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 7:45 AM Linux regression tracking (Thorsten
> >>>> Leemhuis)<regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 30.04.23 13:44, Felix Richter wrote:
> >>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I am running into an issue with the integrated GPU of the Ryzen 9
> >>>>>> 7950X. It seems to be a regression from kernel version 6.1 to 6.2.
> >>>>>> The bug materializes in from of my monitor blinking, meaning it
> >>>>>> turns full white shortly. This happens very often so that the
> >>>>>> system becomes unpleasant to use.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I am running the Archlinux Kernel:
> >>>>>> The Issue happens on the bleeding edge kernel: 6.2.13
> >>>>>> Switching back to the LTS kernel resolves the issue: 6.1.26
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I have two monitors attached to the system. One 42 inch 4k Display
> >>>>>> and a 24 inch 1080p Display and am running sway as my desktop.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Let me know if there is more information I could provide to help
> >>>>>> narrow down the issue.
> >>>>> Thanks for the report. To be sure the issue doesn't fall through the
> >>>>> cracks unnoticed, I'm adding it to regzbot, the Linux kernel regression
> >>>>> tracking bot:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> #regzbot ^introduced v6.1..v6.2
> >>>>> #regzbot title drm: amdgpu: system becomes unpleasant to use after
> >>>>> monitor starts blinking and turns full white
> >>>>> #regzbot ignore-activity
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This isn't a regression? This issue or a fix for it are already
> >>>>> discussed somewhere else? It was fixed already? You want to clarify
> >>>>> when
> >>>>> the regression started to happen? Or point out I got the title or
> >>>>> something else totally wrong? Then just reply and tell me -- ideally
> >>>>> while also telling regzbot about it, as explained by the page listed in
> >>>>> the footer of this mail.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Developers: When fixing the issue, remember to add 'Link:' tags
> >>>>> pointing
> >>>>> to the report (the parent of this mail). See page linked in footer for
> >>>>> details.
> >>>> This sounds exactly like the issue that was fixed in this patch which
> >>>> is already on it's way to Linus:
> >>>> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/agd5f/linux/-/commit/08da182175db4c7f80850354849d95f2670e8cd9
> >>> FWIW, you in the flood of emails likely missed that this is the same
> >>> thread where you yesterday replied "If the module parameter didn't help
> >>> then perhaps you are seeing some other issue.  Can you bisect?". That's
> >>> why I decided to add this to the tracking. Or am I missing something
> >>> obvious here?
> >>>
> >>> /me looks around again and can't see anything, but that doesn't have to
> >>> mean anything...
> >>>
> >>> Felix, btw, this guide might help you with the bisection, even if it's
> >>> just for kernel compilation:
> >>>
> >>> https://docs.kernel.org/next/admin-guide/quickly-build-trimmed-linux.html
> >>>
> >>> And to indirectly reply to your mail from yesterday[1]. You might want
> >>> to ignore the arch linux kernel git repo and just do a bisection between
> >>> 6.1 and the latest 6.2.y kernel using upstream repos; and if I were you
> >>> I'd also try 6.3 or even mainline before that, in case the issue was
> >>> fixed already.
> >>>
> >>> [1]
> >>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/04749ee4-0728-92fe-bcb0-a7320279eaac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> >>>
> >> Thanks for the pointers, I'll do a bisection on my desktop from 6.1 to
> >> the newest commit.
> > FWIW, I wonder what you actually mean with "newest commit" here: a
> > bisection between 6.1 and mainline HEAD might be a waste of time, *if*
> > this is something that only happens in 6.2.y (say due to a broken or
> > incomplete backport)
> >
> >> That was the part I was mostly unsure about … where
> >> to start from.
> >>
> >> I was planning to use PKGBUILD scripts from arch to achieve the same
> >> configuration as I would when installing
> >> the package and just rewrite the script to use a local copy of the
> >> source code instead of the repository.
> >> That way I can just use the bisect command, rebuild the package and test
> >> again.
> > In my experience trying to deal with Linux distro's package managers
> > creates more trouble than it's worth.
> >
> >> But I probably won't be able to finish it this week, since I am on
> >> vacation starting tomorrow and will not have access to the computer in
> >> question. I will be back next week, by that time the patch Alex is
> >> talking about might
> >> already be in mainline. So if that fixes it, I will notice and let you
> >> know. If not I will do the bisection to figure out what the actual issue
> >> is.
> > Enjoy your vacation!
> >
> > Ciao, Thorsten




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