> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cole Leavitt <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2026 2:18 PM
> To: Murthy, Arun R <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]; Kandpal, Suraj <[email protected]>;
> Nikula, Jani <[email protected]>; Cole Leavitt <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] drm/i915/cx0_phy_regs: Include SoC and OS
> turnaround time
> 
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2026, Arun R Murthy <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The port refclk enable timeout and the soc ready timeout value
> > mentioned in the spec is the PHY timings and doesn't include the
> > turnaround time from the SoC or OS. So add an overhead timeout value
> > on top of the recommended timeouts from the PHY spec.
> 
> Hi Arun,
> 
> Thanks for the fix. I wanted to flag that I independently identified this 
> exact
> issue and posted a detailed root cause analysis on the i915 GitLab tracker 
> five
> days before this patch series.
> 
> On February 7, 2026, I filed the analysis on GitLab issue #14713:
> 
>   https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/i915/kernel/-/issues/14713#note_2739573
> 
> That comment includes the following findings, which directly correspond to
> what this patch addresses:
> 
> 1. Traced the error to intel_cx0_phy_lane_reset() in intel_cx0_phy.c
>    (line ~2911), where the driver writes the PCLK_REFCLK_REQUEST bit to
>    XELPDP_PORT_CLOCK_CTL and polls for PCLK_REFCLK_ACK with a timeout
>    of XELPDP_REFCLK_ENABLE_TIMEOUT_US = 1 (1 us).
> 
> 2. Identified that this calls __intel_wait_for_register() with
>    fast_timeout_us=1 and slow_timeout_ms=0 -- a single spin-poll with
>    no slow-path fallback.
> 
> 3. Compared the 1 us refclk timeout against other timeouts in the same
>    PHY init sequence:
> 
>      XELPDP_PORT_BUF_SOC_READY_TIMEOUT_US  = 100 us
>      XELPDP_PORT_RESET_START_TIMEOUT_US     =   5 us
>      XELPDP_PCLK_PLL_ENABLE_TIMEOUT_US      = 3200 us
>      XELPDP_PORT_RESET_END_TIMEOUT_MS       =  15 ms
> 
>    The 1 us value is an outlier by 1-3 orders of magnitude compared to
>    every other timeout in the same code path.
> 
> 4. Recommended increasing XELPDP_REFCLK_ENABLE_TIMEOUT_US to ~100 us
>    or adding a slow-path ms fallback, consistent with how other waits
>    in the same function are structured.
> 
> This analysis was performed on a Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 with an Arrow
> Lake-S Core Ultra 9 275HX (device ID 7d67) running kernel 6.19.0-rc8. The PHY
> A refclk failure reproduced on every boot at ~8.5s after i915 init, during 
> the eDP
> panel probe path.
> 
> Your patch does the right thing -- increasing the timeout values and adding
> SoC/OS overhead. Since my analysis identified the root cause and
> recommended the same fix direction, I'd appreciate attribution:
> 
> Reported-by: Cole Leavitt <[email protected]>
> 
Yes, definitely would provide credits to you in this patch.

Thanks and Regards,
Arun R Murthy
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