Re: [PATCH] i915: disable framebuffer compression on GeminiLake

From: Chris Wilson
Date: Wed Apr 24 2019 - 15:59:13 EST


Quoting Jian-Hong Pan (2019-04-23 10:28:10)
> From: Daniel Drake <drake@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> On many (all?) the Gemini Lake systems we work with, there is frequent
> momentary graphical corruption at the top of the screen, and it seems
> that disabling framebuffer compression can avoid this.
>
> The ticket was reported 6 months ago and has already affected a
> multitude of users, without any real progress being made. So, lets
> disable framebuffer compression on GeminiLake until a solution is found.
>
> Buglink: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108085
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <drake@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jian-Hong Pan <jian-hong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Fixes: fd7d6c5c8f3e ("drm/i915: enable FBC on gen9+ too") ?
Cc: Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.11+

glk landed 1 month before, so that seems the earliest broken point.

> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbc.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbc.c
> index 656e684e7c9a..fc018f3f53a1 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbc.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbc.c
> @@ -1278,6 +1278,10 @@ static int intel_sanitize_fbc_option(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
> if (!HAS_FBC(dev_priv))
> return 0;
>
> + /* https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108085 */
> + if (IS_GEMINILAKE(dev_priv))
> + return 0;
> +
> if (IS_BROADWELL(dev_priv) || INTEL_GEN(dev_priv) >= 9)
> return 1;
>
> --
> 2.21.0
>