Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH v6 2/2] ALSA: hda: Allow HDA to be runtime suspended when dGPU is not bound to a driver

From: Jaroslav Kysela
Date: Fri Jan 10 2020 - 04:43:38 EST


Dne 18. 10. 19 v 9:38 Kai-Heng Feng napsal(a):
Nvidia proprietary driver doesn't support runtime power management, so
when a user only wants to use the integrated GPU, it's a common practice
to let dGPU not to bind any driver, and let its upstream port to be
runtime suspended. At the end of runtime suspension the port uses
platform power management to disable power through _OFF method of power
resource, which is listed by _PR3.

After commit b516ea586d71 ("PCI: Enable NVIDIA HDA controllers"), when
the dGPU comes with an HDA function, the HDA won't be suspended if the
dGPU is unbound, so the power resource can't be turned off by its
upstream port driver.

Commit 37a3a98ef601 ("ALSA: hda - Enable runtime PM only for
discrete GPU") only allows HDA to be runtime suspended once GPU is
bound, to keep APU's HDA working.

However, HDA on dGPU isn't that useful if dGPU is not bound to any
driver. So let's relax the runtime suspend requirement for dGPU's HDA
function, to disable the power source to save lots of power.

This patch breaks the HDMI audio detection at least on some platforms (Lenovo P50 for example) with nouveau and the proprietary nvidia driver. Those laptops have the external HDMI/DP ports connected to dGPU instead the iGPU. The ACPI PR3 is set.

The runtime PM off fixes this problem:

echo on > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:01\:00.1/power/control

But I don't think that it's the best solution. My proposal is to create a pr3 check blacklist to keep power for the HDMI audio for those machines. Also we may add a new module parameter for snd-hda-intel to control this. Other ideas?

Jaroslav


BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1840835
Fixes: b516ea586d71 ("PCI: Enable NVIDIA HDA controllers")
Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v5, v6:
- No change.
v4:
- Find upstream port, it's callee's responsibility now.
v3:
- Make changelog more clear.
v2:
- Change wording.
- Rebase to Tiwai's branch.
sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
index 240f4ca76391..e63b871343e5 100644
--- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
+++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
@@ -1280,11 +1280,17 @@ static void init_vga_switcheroo(struct azx *chip)
{
struct hda_intel *hda = container_of(chip, struct hda_intel, chip);
struct pci_dev *p = get_bound_vga(chip->pci);
+ struct pci_dev *parent;
if (p) {
dev_info(chip->card->dev,
"Handle vga_switcheroo audio client\n");
hda->use_vga_switcheroo = 1;
- chip->bus.keep_power = 1; /* cleared in either gpu_bound op or codec probe */
+
+ /* cleared in either gpu_bound op or codec probe, or when its
+ * upstream port has _PR3 (i.e. dGPU).
+ */
+ parent = pci_upstream_bridge(p);
+ chip->bus.keep_power = parent ? !pci_pr3_present(parent) : 1;
chip->driver_caps |= AZX_DCAPS_PM_RUNTIME;
pci_dev_put(p);
}



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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx>
Linux Sound Maintainer; ALSA Project; Red Hat, Inc.