This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/ast: Fix soft lockup to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: drm-ast-fix-soft-lockup.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From bc004f5038220b1891ef4107134ccae44be55109 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jammy Huang <jammy_huang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 17:02:46 +0800 Subject: drm/ast: Fix soft lockup From: Jammy Huang <jammy_huang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit bc004f5038220b1891ef4107134ccae44be55109 upstream. There is a while-loop in ast_dp_set_on_off() that could lead to infinite-loop. This is because the register, VGACRI-Dx, checked in this API is a scratch register actually controlled by a MCU, named DPMCU, in BMC. These scratch registers are protected by scu-lock. If suc-lock is not off, DPMCU can not update these registers and then host will have soft lockup due to never updated status. DPMCU is used to control DP and relative registers to handshake with host's VGA driver. Even the most time-consuming task, DP's link training, is less than 100ms. 200ms should be enough. Signed-off-by: Jammy Huang <jammy_huang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 594e9c04b586 ("drm/ast: Create the driver for ASPEED proprietory Display-Port") Reviewed-by: Jocelyn Falempe <jfalempe@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> Cc: KuoHsiang Chou <kuohsiang_chou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jocelyn Falempe <jfalempe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v5.19+ Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20240403090246.1495487-1-jammy_huang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_dp.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_dp.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_dp.c @@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ void ast_dp_set_on_off(struct drm_device { struct ast_private *ast = to_ast_private(dev); u8 video_on_off = on; + u32 i = 0; // Video On/Off ast_set_index_reg_mask(ast, AST_IO_CRTC_PORT, 0xE3, (u8) ~AST_DP_VIDEO_ENABLE, on); @@ -202,6 +203,8 @@ void ast_dp_set_on_off(struct drm_device ASTDP_MIRROR_VIDEO_ENABLE) != video_on_off) { // wait 1 ms mdelay(1); + if (++i > 200) + break; } } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jammy_huang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.1/drm-ast-fix-soft-lockup.patch