Re: i915 PSR test results and cursor lag

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Fri, 2018-02-02 at 19:18 +0000, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 1:24 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 9:20 PM, Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Quoting Andy Lutomirski (2018-02-01 21:04:30)
> >>> I got this after a recent suspend/resume:
> >>>
> >>> Feb 01 09:44:34 laptop systemd-logind[2412]: Lid closed.
> >>> Feb 01 09:44:34 laptop systemd-logind[2412]: device-enumerator: scan all dirs
> >>> Feb 01 09:44:34 laptop systemd-logind[2412]:   device-enumerator:
> >>> scanning /sys/bus
> >>> Feb 01 09:44:34 laptop systemd-logind[2412]:   device-enumerator:
> >>> scanning /sys/class
> >>> Feb 01 09:44:34 laptop systemd-logind[2412]: Failed to open
> >>> configuration file '/etc/systemd/sleep.conf': No such file or
> >>> directory
> >>> Feb 01 09:44:34 laptop systemd-logind[2412]: Suspending...
> >>> Feb 01 09:44:34 laptop systemd-logind[2412]: Sent message type=signal
> >>> sender=n/a destination=n/a object=/org/freedesktop/login1
> >>> interface=org.freedesktop.login1.Manager member=PrepareForSleep
> >>> cookie=570 reply
> >>> Feb 01 09:44:34 laptop systemd-logind[2412]: Got message
> >>> type=method_call sender=:1.46 destination=:1.1
> >>> object=/org/freedesktop/login1/session/_32
> >>> interface=org.freedesktop.login1.Session member=ReleaseDevice
> >>> Feb 01 09:44:34 laptop systemd-logind[2412]: Sent message type=signal
> >>> sender=n/a destination=:1.46
> >>> object=/org/freedesktop/login1/session/_32
> >>> interface=org.freedesktop.login1.Session member=PauseDevice cookie
> >>> Feb 01 09:44:34 laptop gnome-shell[2630]: Failed to apply DRM plane
> >>> transform 0: Permission denied
> >>> Feb 01 09:44:34 laptop gnome-shell[2630]: drmModeSetCursor2 failed
> >>> with (Permission denied), drawing cursor with OpenGL from now on
> >>>
> >>> But I don't see the word "cursor" in my system logs before the first
> >>> suspend.  What am I looking for?  This is Fedora 27 running a Gnome
> >>> Wayland session, but it hasn't been reinstalled in some time, so it's
> >>> possible that there are some weird settings sitting around.  But I did
> >>> check and I have no weird i915 parameters.
> >>
> >> You are using gnome-shell as the display server. From that it appears to
> >> have started off with a HW cursor and switched to a SW cursor after
> >> suspend. Did you notice a change in behaviour? After rebooting or just
> >> restarting gnome-shell?
> >
> > I think it's less consistently bad after a reboot before suspending.
> >
> >>
> >>> Also, are these things potentially related:
> >>>
> >>> [ 3067.702527] [drm:intel_pipe_update_start [i915]] *ERROR* Potential
> >>> atomic update failure on pipe A
> >>
> >> They are just "missed the immediate vblank for the screen update"
> >> messages. Should not be related to PSR, but may cause jitter by delaying
> >> the odd screen update.
> >
> > I just got this one, and the timestamp is at least reasonably close to
> > a giant latency spike:
> >
> > [  288.799654] [drm:intel_pipe_update_end [i915]] *ERROR* Atomic
> > update failure on pipe A (start=31 end=32) time 15 us, min 1073, max
> > 1079, scanline start 1087, end 1088
> >
> >>
> >>> As I'm typing this, I've seen a couple instances of what seems like a
> >>> full *second* of cursor latency, but I've only gotten the potential
> >>> atomic update failure once.
> >>>
> >>> And is there any straightforward tracing to do to distinguish between
> >>> PSR exit latency and other potential sources of latency?
> >>
> >> It looks plausible that we could at least report how long it takes the
> >> registers to reflect the change in state (but we don't). The best source
> >> of information atm is /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/i915_edp_psr_status.
> >
> > Hmm.
> >
> > I went and looked at the code, and I noticed what could be bugs or
> > could (more likely) be my confusion since I don't know this code at
> > all:
> >
> > intel_single_frame_update() does something inscrutable to me, but I
> > imagine it does something that causes the next page flip to get
> > noticed by the panel even with PSR on.  But how does the code that
> > calls it know that anything happened?  (Looking at the commit history,
> > maybe this is something special that's only needed on some platforms
> > but doesn't replace the normal PSR exit sequence.)
> >
> > Perhaps more interestingly, intel_psr_flush() does this:
> >
> >     /* By definition flush = invalidate + flush */
> >     if (frontbuffer_bits)
> >         intel_psr_exit(dev_priv);
> >
> >     if (!dev_priv->psr.active && !dev_priv->psr.busy_frontbuffer_bits)
> >         if (!work_busy(&dev_priv->psr.work.work))
> >             schedule_delayed_work(&dev_priv->psr.work,
> >                           msecs_to_jiffies(100));
> >
> > I'm guessing that the idea is that we're turning off PSR because we
> > want the panel to update and we expect that, in 100ms, the update will
> > have hit the panel and we'll have been idle long enough for it to make
> > sense to re-enter PSR.  IOW, the code wants PSR to be off for at least
> > 100ms and then to turn back on.  But this code actually says "turn PSR
> > back on in at *most* 100ms".  What happens if there are two screen
> > updates 99ms apart?  The first one should work fine, but the next one
> > will hit with 1ms left on the delayed work, and intel_psr_work() will
> > get called in 1ms.  There's some magic with busy_frontbuffer_bits, but
> > it seems questionable to me that intel_psr_flush() clears
> > busy_frontbuffer_bits and *then* calls intel_psr_exit().
> >
> > Naively, I would expect that PSR needs to be kept off until the vblank
> > following the page flip.
> >
> > Also, in intel_psr_work(), shouldn't this code:
> >
> >     /*
> >      * The delayed work can race with an invalidate hence we need to
> >      * recheck. Since psr_flush first clears this and then reschedules we
> >      * won't ever miss a flush when bailing out here.
> >      */
> >     if (dev_priv->psr.busy_frontbuffer_bits)
> >         goto unlock;
> >
> > re-arm the delayed work?
> >
> > Anyway, this is all on a 4.14 kernel.  I should update to 4.16 and see
> > what happens.
> 
> I updated to 4.15, and the situation is much worse.  With
> enable_psr=1, the system survives for several seconds and then the
> screen stops updating entirely.  If I boot with i915.enable_psr=1, I
> get to the Fedora login screen and then the system dies.  If I set
> enable_psr=1 using sysfs, it does a bit after the next resume.  It
> seems like it also sometimes hangs even worse a bit after the screen
> stops updating, but it's hard to tell.

The login screen freeze sounds like what I have. Does this system have
DMC firmware? If yes, can you try this series
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/37598/. You'll only need
patches 1,8,9 and 10.

-DK

> 
> I see this in my logs:
> 
> [drm:drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_flip_done [drm_kms_helper]] *ERROR*
> [CRTC:37:pipe A] flip_done timed out
> 
> Sometimes I see this a bit later:
> 
> [drm:drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_dependencies [drm_kms_helper]] *ERROR*
> [CRTC:37:pipe A] flip_done timed out
> 
> I'm able to get some debugging out before the system dies.  I see
> intel_psr_flush() getting called a bunch, and I don't see
> intel_psr_invalidate() being called at all.  I also see
> intel_psr_work() activating psr as little as 2ms after
> intel_psr_flush() finishes.  So I think the code is indeed buggy or at
> least questionable.  I'd try to fix it (at least as well as I can
> without knowing anything about how the PSR state machine actually
> works), but the fact that the system hangs would make it very hard to
> test.
> _______________________________________________
> Intel-gfx mailing list
> Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
_______________________________________________
Intel-gfx mailing list
Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx




[Index of Archives]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]
  Powered by Linux