[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "drm/radeon: dpm fixes for asrock systems" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Thu Nov 6 01:28:57 UTC 2014


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

    drm/radeon: dpm fixes for asrock systems

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.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-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.11.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From bda37459bd345aaa68dc4bf0fadea2366059a8d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 15:10:21 -0400
Subject: drm/radeon: dpm fixes for asrock systems

commit 72b3f9183ed57e4a2f0601a1c25ae2fd39855952 upstream.

- bapm seems to cause CPU stuck messages so disable it.
- nb dpm seems to prevent GPU dpm from getting enabled, so
disable it.

bug:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85107

Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/kv_dpm.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/kv_dpm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/kv_dpm.c
index 1b0331c..8fcc491 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/kv_dpm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/kv_dpm.c
@@ -2620,7 +2620,11 @@ int kv_dpm_init(struct radeon_device *rdev)
 	if (rdev->family == CHIP_KABINI)
 		pi->high_voltage_t = 4001;

-	pi->enable_nb_dpm = true;
+	/* Enabling nb dpm on an asrock system prevents dpm from working */
+	if (rdev->pdev->subsystem_vendor == 0x1849)
+		pi->enable_nb_dpm = false;
+	else
+		pi->enable_nb_dpm = true;

 	pi->caps_power_containment = true;
 	pi->caps_cac = true;
@@ -2635,10 +2639,19 @@ int kv_dpm_init(struct radeon_device *rdev)
 	pi->caps_sclk_ds = true;
 	pi->enable_auto_thermal_throttling = true;
 	pi->disable_nb_ps3_in_battery = false;
-	if (radeon_bapm == 0)
+	if (radeon_bapm == -1) {
+		/* There are stability issues reported on with
+		 * bapm enabled on an asrock system.
+		 */
+		if (rdev->pdev->subsystem_vendor == 0x1849)
+			pi->bapm_enable = false;
+		else
+			pi->bapm_enable = true;
+	} else if (radeon_bapm == 0) {
 		pi->bapm_enable = false;
-	else
+	} else {
 		pi->bapm_enable = true;
+	}
 	pi->voltage_drop_t = 0;
 	pi->caps_sclk_throttle_low_notification = false;
 	pi->caps_fps = false; /* true? */
--
1.9.1





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