On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 09:07:53AM -0800, Manasi Navare wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 05:30:07PM +0200, ville.syrj...@linux.intel.com wrote:
> > From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrj...@linux.intel.com>
> > 
> > Apparently some DP sinks are a little nuts and cause HPD to drop
> > intermittently during modesets. This happens eg. on an ASUS PB287Q.
> > In oder to recover from this we can't really use the previous
> > connector status to determine if the link needs retraining, so let's
> > just ignore that piece of information and do the retrain
> > unconditionally. We do of course still check whether the link is
> > supposed to be running or not.
> > 
> > Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <pal...@dabbelt.com>
> > Reported-by: Palmer Dabbelt <pal...@dabbelt.com>
> > References: 
> > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2017-February/119779.html
> > Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrj...@linux.intel.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c | 15 +++++++++++----
> >  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c 
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
> > index 024798a9c016..37a746f7fbc3 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
> > @@ -4648,11 +4648,18 @@ intel_dp_long_pulse(struct intel_connector 
> > *intel_connector)
> >              */
> >             status = connector_status_disconnected;
> >             goto out;
> > -   } else if (connector->status == connector_status_connected) {
> > +   } else {
> >             /*
> > -            * If display was connected already and is still connected
> > -            * check links status, there has been known issues of
> > -            * link loss triggerring long pulse!!!!
> > +            * If display is now connected check links status,
> > +            * there has been known issues of link loss triggerring
> > +            * long pulse.
> > +            *
> > +            * Some sinks (eg. ASUS PB287Q) seem to perform some
> > +            * weird HPD ping pong during modesets. So we can apparely
> > +            * end up with HPD going low during a modeset, and then
> > +            * going back up soon after. And once that happens we must
> > +            * retrain the link to get a picture. That's in case no
> > +            * userspace component reacted to intermittent HPD dip.
> >              */
> >             drm_modeset_lock(&dev->mode_config.connection_mutex, NULL);
> >             intel_dp_check_link_status(intel_dp);
> > --
> 
> So here we basically just ignore the connector status and retrain 
> irrespectively.

We ignore the _previous_ connector status.

> But that means even if we have newer values now for max link rate/lane count 
> from
> DPCD, during this retrain we are just using the stale value of 
> intel_dp->link_rate
> and intel_dp->lane_count. I think intel_dp->link_rate and lane count values
> should be set to 0 on HPD pulse, they would be set only during a modeset.

The DPCD has already been parsed by this time.

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel OTC
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