Re: [regression, bisected, pci/iommu] Bug 216865 - Black screen when amdgpu started during 6.2-rc1 boot with AMD IOMMU enabled

[Baolu Lu]

On 2023/1/5 18:27, Vasant Hegde wrote:
> On 1/5/2023 6:39 AM, Matt Fagnani wrote:
> > I built 6.2-rc2 with the patch applied. The same black screen problem happened
> > with 6.2-rc2 with the patch. I tried to use early kdump with 6.2-rc2 with the
> > patch twice by panicking the kernel with sysrq+alt+c after the black screen
> > happened. The system rebooted after about 10-20 seconds both times, but no kdump
> > and dmesg files were saved in /var/crash. I'm attaching the lspci -vvv output as
> > requested.
> Thanks for testing. As mentioned earlier I was not expecting this patch to fix
> the black screen issue. It should fix kernel warnings and IOMMU page fault
> related call traces. By any chance do you have the kernel boot logs?
>
>
> @Baolu,
>    Looking into lspci output, it doesn't list ACS feature for Graphics card. So
> with your fix it didn't enable PASID and hence it failed to boot.

So do you mind telling why does the PASID need to be enabled for the
graphic device? Or in another word, what does the graphic driver use the
PASID for?

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Best regards,
baolu