On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 09:20:56AM -0300, Gustavo Sousa wrote:
> James Xiong <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > During driver probe, DMC firmware is loaded asynchronously via a
> > workqueue. There is a race between parse_dmc_fw() setting the payload
> > pointer (making has_dmc_id_fw() return true) and intel_dmc_load_program()
> > writing the firmware to hardware registers. If the probe thread calls
> > intel_dmc_enable_pipe() -> assert_dmc_loaded() in this window via
> > intel_modeset_setup_hw_state(), it sees parsed payload but stale HW
> > registers, triggering a ~20% intermittent WARNING on ADL-N warm boot.
> >
> > v2: Fix by calling intel_dmc_wait_fw_load() in
> > intel_modeset_setup_hw_state() before iterating the CRTCs (Gustavo
> > Sousa).
> >
> > v3: Move intel_dmc_wait_fw_load() into intel_dmc_enable_pipe() itself
> > so the function is self-contained (Jani Nikula, Gustavo Sousa).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: James Xiong <[email protected]>
>
> +Imre
>
> Perhaps this deserves a fixes tag?
Since that would result in backporting the fix to -stable, it depends on
whether enabling the pipe DMC functionality before the firmware is
loaded is an actual functionality problem.
> If so, maybe it should be this one:
>
> Fixes: 3af2ff0840be ("drm/i915: Enable a PIPEDMC whenever its corresponding
> pipe is enabled")
>
> The change itself looks good to me, so
>
> Reviewed-by: Gustavo Sousa <[email protected]>
>
> > ---
> > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dmc.c | 7 ++++++-
> > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dmc.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dmc.c
> > index 0df4f42ba3e3..4151eae92744 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dmc.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dmc.c
> > @@ -786,7 +786,12 @@ void intel_dmc_enable_pipe(const struct
> > intel_crtc_state *crtc_state)
> > enum pipe pipe = crtc->pipe;
> > enum intel_dmc_id dmc_id = PIPE_TO_DMC_ID(pipe);
> >
> > - if (!is_valid_dmc_id(dmc_id) || !has_dmc_id_fw(display, dmc_id))
> > + if (!is_valid_dmc_id(dmc_id))
> > + return;
> > +
> > + intel_dmc_wait_fw_load(display);
> > +
> > + if (!has_dmc_id_fw(display, dmc_id))
> > return;
> >
> > if (!can_enable_pipedmc(crtc_state)) {
> > --
> > 2.34.1
