-----Original Message----- From: Andres Freund [mailto:andres@anarazel.de] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 9:41 AM To: Dan Carpenter Cc: Deucher, Alexander; LKML; David Airlie; dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: radeon: Regression between v3.6-rc4 and v3.6-rc6: unable to allocate a PPLL
On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 03:00:09 PM Dan Carpenter wrote:
This is fixed now?
Its been reverted in 2f1f4d9b60396d2df4cff829bd5376ffc8ed9a2c which is in rc6.
On Monday, September 17, 2012 09:30:12 PM Deucher, Alexander wrote: Sorry, I somehow accidentally marked your email as read and thus didn't notice it.
I think I see the problem. I think it's a limitation of the current current
modesetting API. The current API sets up each display independently which doesn't work so well if there are resource restrictions. There shouldn't be any contention on your board since you are only using 2 non-DP displays. It looks like X is mapping different crtcs to displays than the kernel fb. Initially the kernel set up the follow:
[ 2.134901] [drm] crtc 0 using pll 0x2 [ 2.362257] [drm] crtc 1 using pll 0x1 [ 2.386709] [drm] crtc 2 using pll 0x0
Crtc 0 -> DCPLL -> DP Crtc 1 -> PPLL2 -> DVI Crtc 2 -> PPLL1 -> DVI
When X loads, it tried to set a different crtc to display mapping:
[ 60.679310] [drm] crtc 0 using pll 0xff [ 60.789183] [drm] crtc 1 using pll 0x2 [ 60.819594] [drm] crtc 2 using pll 0x1
Crtc 0 -> INVALID -> DVI 0 Crtc 1 -> DCPLL -> DP Crtc 2 -> PPLL2 -> DVI 1
Crtc 0 should have used PPLL1 or PPLL2, but they were already in use by crtc 1 and crtc 2 from the previous modeset. Since the modeset API is not atomic, it doesn't have the whole picture. I'm not sure of a good solution right now prior to the new atomic modeset API that is under discussion. I guess we can revert the patch for 3.6. For 3.7 I guess we need to validate the actual connector to make sure we aren't trying to set a different configuration relating to the same connector without first tearing down the first one. In the interim, you should be able to work around it by disabling the non-DP outputs and then bringing than back up.
Thanks! That explanation makes sense. I can work around it just fine, starting X multiple times works which coincides nicely with your explanation.
The code in the 3.7 branch doesn't do that extended validation yet, rigth? If you want/need you can CC for testing once thats ready.
It should handle it now. If you could test it that would be great.
Alex