This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/nouveau/pci: do a msi rearm on init to the 4.4-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-nouveau-pci-do-a-msi-rearm-on-init.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Wed Feb 28 16:19:30 CET 2018 From: Karol Herbst <kherbst@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 03:56:26 +0100 Subject: drm/nouveau/pci: do a msi rearm on init From: Karol Herbst <kherbst@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit a121027d2747168df0aac0c3da35509eea39f61c ] On my GP107 when I load nouveau after unloading it, for some reason the GPU stopped sending or the CPU stopped receiving interrupts if MSI was enabled. Doing a rearm once before getting any interrupts fixes this. Signed-off-by: Karol Herbst <kherbst@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/pci/base.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/pci/base.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/pci/base.c @@ -127,6 +127,13 @@ nvkm_pci_init(struct nvkm_subdev *subdev return ret; pci->irq = pdev->irq; + + /* Ensure MSI interrupts are armed, for the case where there are + * already interrupts pending (for whatever reason) at load time. + */ + if (pci->msi) + pci->func->msi_rearm(pci); + return ret; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kherbst@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/drm-nouveau-pci-do-a-msi-rearm-on-init.patch