From: Randy Wright rwright@hpe.com
For several months, I've been experiencing GPU hangs when starting Cinnamon on an HP Pavilion Mini 300-020 if I try to run an upstream kernel. I reported this recently in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/2413 where I have attached the requested evidence including the state collected from /sys/class/drm/card0/error and debug output from dmesg.
I ran a bisect to find the problem, which indicates this is the troublesome commit:
[47f8253d2b8947d79fd3196bf96c1959c0f25f20] drm/i915/gen7: Clear all EU/L3 residual contexts
The nature of that commit suggested to me that reducing the batch size used in the context clear operation might help this relatively low-powered system to avoid the hang.... and it did! I simply forced this system to take the smaller batch length that is already used for non-Haswell systems.
The first two versions of this patch were posted as RFC patches to the Intel-gfx list, implementing the same algorithmic change in function batch_get_defaults, but without employing a properly constructed quirk.
I've now cleaned up the patch to employ a new QUIRK_RENDERCLEAR_REDUCED. The quirk is presently set only for the aforementioned HP Pavilion Mini 300-020. The patch now touches three files to define the quirk, set it, and then check for it in function batch_get_defaults.
Randy Wright (3): drm/i915: Introduce quirk QUIRK_RENDERCLEAR_REDUCED drm/i915/display: Add function quirk_renderclear_reduced drm/i915/gt: Force reduced batch size if new QUIRK_RENDERCLEAR_REDUCED is set.
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_quirks.c | 13 +++++++++++++ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/gen7_renderclear.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)