Re: 572994bf18ff prevents system boot

From: Thomas Zimmermann
Date: Mon Oct 04 2021 - 10:07:40 EST


Hi

Am 04.10.21 um 15:34 schrieb Chuck Lever III:

On Oct 4, 2021, at 3:07 AM, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> wrote:

(cc: ainux.wang@xxxxxxxxx)

Hi

Am 03.10.21 um 20:09 schrieb Chuck Lever III:
Hi-
After updating one of my test systems to v5.15-rc, I found that it
becomes unresponsive during the later part of the boot process. A
power-on reset is necessary to recover.
I bisected to this commit:
572994bf18ff ("drm/ast: Zero is missing in detect function")

You don't have a monitor connected, I guess?

Correct, my lab systems use IPMI and a browser-attached console.


In that case, we now trigger the helpers that poll for connected monitors. However, the overhead seems rather extreme.

I'll have to try to reproduce this, or otherwise we can revert the commit.

It's strange, only that system in my lab seems to have a problem.
The others work fine.

Thanks for having a look!

Is it a HW or FW problem? Maybe a different revision?

I'm asking because the problematic commit does the correct thing. If there is no VGA cable connected, the driver should poll until it detects one. The overhead should be minimal.

But I'll try to reproduce anyway.

Best regards
Thomas



Best regards
Thomas

Checking out v5.15-rc3 and reverting this commit enables the system
to boot again.
0b:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ASPEED Technology, Inc. ASPEED Graphics Family (rev 30) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
DeviceName: ASPEED Video AST2400
Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc X10SRL-F
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
Region 0: Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Region 1: Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Region 2: I/O ports at c000 [size=128]
Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/4 Maskable- 64bit+
Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
Kernel driver in use: ast
Kernel modules: ast
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Chuck Lever

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Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
(HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer

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Chuck Lever




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Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
(HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer

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