[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "drm/radeon/evergreen+: don't enable HPD interrupts on" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed May 15 10:33:23 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    drm/radeon/evergreen+: don't enable HPD interrupts on

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 5768bac53d552740bda56b34369e042e956314b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:45:34 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] drm/radeon/evergreen+: don't enable HPD interrupts on
 eDP/LVDS

commit 2e97be73e5f74a317232740ae82eb8f95326a660 upstream.

Avoids potential interrupt storms when the display is disabled.

May fix:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56041

Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/evergreen.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/evergreen.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/evergreen.c
index ccac010..9cf8f35 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/evergreen.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/evergreen.c
@@ -445,6 +445,16 @@ void evergreen_hpd_init(struct radeon_device *rdev)

 	list_for_each_entry(connector, &dev->mode_config.connector_list, head) {
 		struct radeon_connector *radeon_connector = to_radeon_connector(connector);
+
+		if (connector->connector_type == DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_eDP ||
+		    connector->connector_type == DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_LVDS) {
+			/* don't try to enable hpd on eDP or LVDS avoid breaking the
+			 * aux dp channel on imac and help (but not completely fix)
+			 * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=726143
+			 * also avoid interrupt storms during dpms.
+			 */
+			continue;
+		}
 		switch (radeon_connector->hpd.hpd) {
 		case RADEON_HPD_1:
 			WREG32(DC_HPD1_CONTROL, tmp);
--
1.8.1.2





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