[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "drm/radeon: disable runtime pm on PX laptops without dGPU power control" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Wed Mar 30 23:51:59 UTC 2016


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    drm/radeon: disable runtime pm on PX laptops without dGPU power control

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt7.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 11:47:29 -0500
Subject: drm/radeon: disable runtime pm on PX laptops without dGPU power
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commit e64c952efb8e0c15ae82cec8e455ab4910690ef1 upstream.

Some PX laptops don't provide an ACPI method to control dGPU power.  On
those systems, the driver is responsible for handling the dGPU power
state.  Disable runtime PM on them until support for this is implemented.

Reviewed-by: Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer at amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_atpx_handler.c | 8 ++++----
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c       | 8 +++++++-
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_atpx_handler.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_atpx_handler.c
index 8bc7d0b..1523cf9 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_atpx_handler.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_atpx_handler.c
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ bool radeon_has_atpx(void) {
 	return radeon_atpx_priv.atpx_detected;
 }

+bool radeon_has_atpx_dgpu_power_cntl(void) {
+	return radeon_atpx_priv.atpx.functions.power_cntl;
+}
+
 /**
  * radeon_atpx_call - call an ATPX method
  *
@@ -141,10 +145,6 @@ static void radeon_atpx_parse_functions(struct radeon_atpx_functions *f, u32 mas
  */
 static int radeon_atpx_validate(struct radeon_atpx *atpx)
 {
-	/* make sure required functions are enabled */
-	/* dGPU power control is required */
-	atpx->functions.power_cntl = true;
-
 	if (atpx->functions.px_params) {
 		union acpi_object *info;
 		struct atpx_px_params output;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c
index d8319da..94d3d3b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c
@@ -103,6 +103,12 @@ static const char radeon_family_name[][16] = {
 	"LAST",
 };

+#if defined(CONFIG_VGA_SWITCHEROO)
+bool radeon_has_atpx_dgpu_power_cntl(void);
+#else
+static inline bool radeon_has_atpx_dgpu_power_cntl(void) { return false; }
+#endif
+
 #define RADEON_PX_QUIRK_DISABLE_PX  (1 << 0)
 #define RADEON_PX_QUIRK_LONG_WAKEUP (1 << 1)

@@ -1433,7 +1439,7 @@ int radeon_device_init(struct radeon_device *rdev,
 	 * ignore it */
 	vga_client_register(rdev->pdev, rdev, NULL, radeon_vga_set_decode);

-	if (rdev->flags & RADEON_IS_PX)
+	if ((rdev->flags & RADEON_IS_PX) && radeon_has_atpx_dgpu_power_cntl())
 		runtime = true;
 	vga_switcheroo_register_client(rdev->pdev, &radeon_switcheroo_ops, runtime);
 	if (runtime)
--
2.7.4





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