Commit 4eebd5a4e726 ("apple-gmux: lock iGP IO to protect from vgaarb
changes") amended this driver's ->probe hook to lock decoding of normal
(non-legacy) I/O space accesses to the integrated GPU on dual-GPU
MacBook Pros. The lock stays in place until the driver is unbound.
The change was made to work around an issue with the out-of-tree nvidia
graphics driver (available at http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html).
It contains the following sequence in nvidia/nv.c:
#if defined(CONFIG_VGA_ARB) && !defined(NVCPU_PPC64LE)
#if defined(VGA_DEFAULT_DEVICE)
vga_tryget(VGA_DEFAULT_DEVICE, VGA_RSRC_LEGACY_MASK);
#endif
vga_set_legacy_decoding(dev, VGA_RSRC_NONE);
#endif
This code was reported to cause deadlocks with VFIO already in 2013:
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/545560
I've reported the issue to Nvidia developers once more in 2017:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg138754.html
On the MacBookPro10,1, this code apparently breaks backlight control
(which is handled by apple-gmux via an I/O region starting at 0x700),
as reported by Petri Hodju:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86121
I tried to replicate Petri's observations on my MacBook9,1, which uses
the same Intel Ivy Bridge + Nvidia GeForce GT 650M architecture, to no
avail. On my machine apple-gmux' I/O region remains accessible even
with the nvidia driver loaded and commit 4eebd5a4e726 reverted.
Petri reported that apple-gmux becomes accessible again after a
suspend/resume cycle because the BIOS changed the VGA routing on the
root port to the Nvidia GPU. Perhaps this is a BIOS issue after all
that can be fixed with an update?
In any case, the change made by commit 4eebd5a4e726 has turned out to
cause two new issues:
* Wilfried Klaebe reports a deadlock when launching Xorg because it
opens /dev/vga_arbiter and calls vga_get(), but apple-gmux is holding
a lock on I/O space indefinitely. It looks like apple-gmux' current
behavior is an abuse of the vgaarb API as locks are not meant to be
held for longer periods:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88861#c11
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=217541
* On dual GPU MacBook Pros introduced since 2013, the integrated GPU is
powergated on boot und thus becomes invisible to Linux unless a custom
EFI protocol is used to leave it powered on. (A patch exists but is
not in mainline yet due to several negative side effects.) On these
machines, locking I/O to the integrated GPU (as done by 4eebd5a4e726)
fails and backlight control is therefore broken:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105051
So let's revert commit 4eebd5a4e726 please. Users experiencing the
issue with the proprietary nvidia driver can comment out the above-
quoted problematic code as a workaround (or try updating the BIOS).
Cc: Petri Hodju <petrihodju@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Ritger <aritger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ronald Tschalär <ronald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Wilfried Klaebe <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/platform/x86/apple-gmux.c | 48 +--------------------------------------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 47 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/apple-gmux.c b/drivers/platform/x86/apple-gmux.c
index 623d322447a2..7c4eb86c851e 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/apple-gmux.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/apple-gmux.c
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/pci.h>
#include <linux/vga_switcheroo.h>
-#include <linux/vgaarb.h>
#include <acpi/video.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
@@ -54,7 +53,6 @@ struct apple_gmux_data {
bool indexed;
struct mutex index_lock;
- struct pci_dev *pdev;
struct backlight_device *bdev;
/* switcheroo data */
@@ -599,23 +597,6 @@ static int gmux_resume(struct device *dev)
return 0;
}
-static struct pci_dev *gmux_get_io_pdev(void)
-{
- struct pci_dev *pdev = NULL;
-
- while ((pdev = pci_get_class(PCI_CLASS_DISPLAY_VGA << 8, pdev))) {
- u16 cmd;
-
- pci_read_config_word(pdev, PCI_COMMAND, &cmd);
- if (!(cmd & PCI_COMMAND_IO))
- continue;
-
- return pdev;
- }
-
- return NULL;
-}
-
static int is_thunderbolt(struct device *dev, void *data)
{
return to_pci_dev(dev)->is_thunderbolt;
@@ -631,7 +612,6 @@ static int gmux_probe(struct pnp_dev *pnp, const struct pnp_device_id *id)
int ret = -ENXIO;
acpi_status status;
unsigned long long gpe;
- struct pci_dev *pdev = NULL;
if (apple_gmux_data)
return -EBUSY;
@@ -682,7 +662,7 @@ static int gmux_probe(struct pnp_dev *pnp, const struct pnp_device_id *id)
ver_minor = (version >> 16) & 0xff;
ver_release = (version >> 8) & 0xff;
} else {
- pr_info("gmux device not present or IO disabled\n");
+ pr_info("gmux device not present\n");
ret = -ENODEV;
goto err_release;
}
@@ -690,23 +670,6 @@ static int gmux_probe(struct pnp_dev *pnp, const struct pnp_device_id *id)
pr_info("Found gmux version %d.%d.%d [%s]\n", ver_major, ver_minor,
ver_release, (gmux_data->indexed ? "indexed" : "classic"));
- /*
- * Apple systems with gmux are EFI based and normally don't use
- * VGA. In addition changing IO+MEM ownership between IGP and dGPU
- * disables IO/MEM used for backlight control on some systems.
- * Lock IO+MEM to GPU with active IO to prevent switch.
- */
- pdev = gmux_get_io_pdev();
- if (pdev && vga_tryget(pdev,
- VGA_RSRC_NORMAL_IO | VGA_RSRC_NORMAL_MEM)) {
- pr_err("IO+MEM vgaarb-locking for PCI:%s failed\n",
- pci_name(pdev));
- ret = -EBUSY;
- goto err_release;
- } else if (pdev)
- pr_info("locked IO for PCI:%s\n", pci_name(pdev));
- gmux_data->pdev = pdev;
-
memset(&props, 0, sizeof(props));
props.type = BACKLIGHT_PLATFORM;
props.max_brightness = gmux_read32(gmux_data, GMUX_PORT_MAX_BRIGHTNESS);
@@ -822,10 +785,6 @@ static int gmux_probe(struct pnp_dev *pnp, const struct pnp_device_id *id)
err_notify:
backlight_device_unregister(bdev);
err_release:
- if (gmux_data->pdev)
- vga_put(gmux_data->pdev,
- VGA_RSRC_NORMAL_IO | VGA_RSRC_NORMAL_MEM);
- pci_dev_put(pdev);
release_region(gmux_data->iostart, gmux_data->iolen);
err_free:
kfree(gmux_data);
@@ -845,11 +804,6 @@ static void gmux_remove(struct pnp_dev *pnp)
&gmux_notify_handler);
}
- if (gmux_data->pdev) {
- vga_put(gmux_data->pdev,
- VGA_RSRC_NORMAL_IO | VGA_RSRC_NORMAL_MEM);
- pci_dev_put(gmux_data->pdev);
- }
backlight_device_unregister(gmux_data->bdev);
release_region(gmux_data->iostart, gmux_data->iolen);
--
2.15.1
