Hi,
while testing the mainline kernel (arm64, defconfig) on Raspberry Pi 3 B Plus with Raspberry Pi OS - 64 bit, sometimes X doesn't start into desktop properly (unexpected and unusable login screen instead of auto login or mouse pointer is show shorty and than switch back to black screen in a loop). In that case dmesg shows the following:
[ 74.737106] [drm:vc4_bo_create [vc4]] *ERROR* Failed to allocate from CMA: [ 74.737558] vc4-drm soc:gpu: [drm] V3D: 28976kb BOs (10) [ 74.737602] vc4-drm soc:gpu: [drm] V3D shader: 44kb BOs (11) [ 74.737632] vc4-drm soc:gpu: [drm] dumb: 4564kb BOs (5) [ 74.737664] vc4-drm soc:gpu: [drm] binner: 16384kb BOs (1) [ 74.737697] vc4-drm soc:gpu: [drm] total purged BO: 4kb BOs (1) [ 74.739039] [drm:vc4_bo_create [vc4]] *ERROR* Failed to allocate from CMA: [ 74.739466] vc4-drm soc:gpu: [drm] V3D: 28972kb BOs (9) [ 74.739512] vc4-drm soc:gpu: [drm] V3D shader: 44kb BOs (11) [ 74.739541] vc4-drm soc:gpu: [drm] dumb: 4564kb BOs (5) [ 74.739570] vc4-drm soc:gpu: [drm] binner: 16384kb BOs (1) [ 74.739602] vc4-drm soc:gpu: [drm] total purged BO: 4kb BOs (1) [ 74.740718] [drm:vc4_bo_create [vc4]] *ERROR* Failed to allocate from CMA: [ 74.741138] vc4-drm soc:gpu: [drm] V3D: 28972kb BOs (9) [ 74.741171] vc4-drm soc:gpu: [drm] V3D shader: 44kb BOs (11) [ 74.741202] vc4-drm soc:gpu: [drm] dumb: 4564kb BOs (5) [ 74.741231] vc4-drm soc:gpu: [drm] binner: 16384kb BOs (1) [ 74.741263] vc4-drm soc:gpu: [drm] total purged BO: 4kb BOs (1) ...
I have only seen this issue on arm64 with latest mainline kernel (5.13.0-rc5-00130-gf21b807c3cf8), but also with older kernel versions. So it's not a regression. It seems 64 bit needs more CMA.
In case X started properly i was also able to reproduce these errors above by dis- and reconneting HDMI.
So i increased CMA in bcm283x.dtsi and the problem disappeared:
iff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm283x.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm283x.dtsi index b83a864..d1304cb 100644 --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm283x.dtsi +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm283x.dtsi @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ cma: linux,cma { compatible = "shared-dma-pool"; - size = <0x4000000>; /* 64MB */ + size = <0x6000000>; /* 96MB */ reusable; linux,cma-default; };
The questions are:
Is this the right way (tm) to fix this problem?
And what is a sensible value (don't have a 4K display to test)?
Best regards Stefan