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From:   Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
Date:   Thu, 9 Sep 2021 17:47:16 +0530
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/msm: Disable frequency clamping on a630
To:     Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
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On Wed, 8 Sept 2021 at 07:50, Bjorn Andersson
<bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon 09 Aug 10:26 PDT 2021, Akhil P Oommen wrote:
>
> > On 8/9/2021 9:48 PM, Caleb Connolly wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On 09/08/2021 17:12, Rob Clark wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 7:52 AM Akhil P Oommen
> > > > <akhilpo@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> [..]
> > > > > I am a bit confused. We don't define a power domain for gpu in dt,
> > > > > correct? Then what exactly set_opp do here? Do you think this usleep is
> > > > > what is helping here somehow to mask the issue?
> > > The power domains (for cx and gx) are defined in the GMU DT, the OPPs in
> > > the GPU DT. For the sake of simplicity I'll refer to the lowest
> > > frequency (257000000) and OPP level (RPMH_REGULATOR_LEVEL_LOW_SVS) as
> > > the "min" state, and the highest frequency (710000000) and OPP level
> > > (RPMH_REGULATOR_LEVEL_TURBO_L1) as the "max" state. These are defined in
> > > sdm845.dtsi under the gpu node.
> > >
> > > The new devfreq behaviour unmasks what I think is a driver bug, it
> > > inadvertently puts much more strain on the GPU regulators than they
> > > usually get. With the new behaviour the GPU jumps from it's min state to
> > > the max state and back again extremely rapidly under workloads as small
> > > as refreshing UI. Where previously the GPU would rarely if ever go above
> > > 342MHz when interacting with the device, it now jumps between min and
> > > max many times per second.
> > >
> > > If my understanding is correct, the current implementation of the GMU
> > > set freq is the following:
> > >   - Get OPP for frequency to set
> > >   - Push the frequency to the GMU - immediately updating the core clock
> > >   - Call dev_pm_opp_set_opp() which triggers a notify chain, this winds
> > > up somewhere in power management code and causes the gx regulator level
> > > to be updated
> >
> > Nope. dev_pm_opp_set_opp() sets the bandwidth for gpu and nothing else. We
> > were using a different api earlier which got deprecated -
> > dev_pm_opp_set_bw().
> >
>
> On the Lenovo Yoga C630 this is reproduced by starting alacritty and if
> I'm lucky I managed to hit a few keys before it crashes, so I spent a
> few hours looking into this as well...
>
> As you say, the dev_pm_opp_set_opp() will only cast a interconnect vote.
> The opp-level is just there for show and isn't used by anything, at
> least not on 845.
>
> Further more, I'm missing something in my tree, so the interconnect
> doesn't hit sync_state, and as such we're not actually scaling the
> buses. So the problem is not that Linux doesn't turn on the buses in
> time.
>
> So I suspect that the "AHB bus error" isn't saying that we turned off
> the bus, but rather that the GPU becomes unstable or something of that
> sort.
>
>
> Lastly, I reverted 9bc95570175a ("drm/msm: Devfreq tuning") and ran
> Aquarium for 20 minutes without a problem. I then switched the gpu
> devfreq governor to "userspace" and ran the following:
>
> while true; do
>   echo 257000000 > /sys/class/devfreq/5000000.gpu/userspace/set_freq
>   echo 710000000 > /sys/class/devfreq/5000000.gpu/userspace/set_freq
> done
>
> It took 19 iterations of this loop to crash the GPU.

Ack. With your above script, I can reproduce a crash too on db845c
(A630) running v5.14. I didn't get any crash log though and device
just rebooted to USB crash mode.

And same crash on RB5 (A650) too https://hastebin.com/raw/ejutetuwun

>
> So the problem doesn't seem to be Rob's change, it's just that prior to
> it the chance to hitting it is way lower. Question is still what it is
> that we're triggering.
>
> Regards,
> Bjorn