This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/amd/powerplay/smu7: disable mclk switching for high refresh rates to the 4.11-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-amd-powerplay-smu7-disable-mclk-switching-for-high-refresh-rates.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 2275a3a2fe9914ba6d76c8ea490da3c08342bd19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 13:57:41 -0400 Subject: drm/amd/powerplay/smu7: disable mclk switching for high refresh rates MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx> commit 2275a3a2fe9914ba6d76c8ea490da3c08342bd19 upstream. Even if the vblank period would allow it, it still seems to be problematic on some cards. bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96868 Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/powerplay/hwmgr/smu7_hwmgr.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/powerplay/hwmgr/smu7_hwmgr.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/powerplay/hwmgr/smu7_hwmgr.c @@ -2794,7 +2794,8 @@ static int smu7_apply_state_adjust_rules disable_mclk_switching = ((1 < info.display_count) || disable_mclk_switching_for_frame_lock || - smu7_vblank_too_short(hwmgr, mode_info.vblank_time_us)); + smu7_vblank_too_short(hwmgr, mode_info.vblank_time_us) || + (mode_info.refresh_rate > 120)); sclk = smu7_ps->performance_levels[0].engine_clock; mclk = smu7_ps->performance_levels[0].memory_clock; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx are queue-4.11/drm-amd-powerplay-smu7-add-vblank-check-for-mclk-switching-v2.patch queue-4.11/drm-radeon-ci-disable-mclk-switching-for-high-refresh-rates-v2.patch queue-4.11/drm-radeon-unbreak-hpd-handling-for-r600.patch queue-4.11/drm-amd-powerplay-smu7-disable-mclk-switching-for-high-refresh-rates.patch