drm/amdgpu: add S/G display parameter

Some users have reported flickerng with S/G display.  We've
tried extensively to reproduce and debug the issue on a wide
variety of platform configurations (DRAM bandwidth, etc.) and
a variety of monitors, but so far have not been able to.  We
disabled S/G display on a number of platforms to address this
but that leads to failure to pin framebuffers errors and
blank displays when there is memory pressure or no displays
at all on systems with limited carveout (e.g., Chromebooks).
Add a option to disable this as a debugging option as a
way for users to disable this, depending on their use case,
and for us to help debug this further.

v2: fix typo

Reviewed-by: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@amd.com>
Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu.h
index 4e4efd10cb895d0e6e6b8723e8d4672db1f754d9..164141bc8b4ad1e145ead120d3094ea02efa40bb 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu.h
@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ extern int amdgpu_num_kcq;
 
 #define AMDGPU_VCNFW_LOG_SIZE (32 * 1024)
 extern int amdgpu_vcnfw_log;
+extern int amdgpu_sg_display;
 
 #define AMDGPU_VM_MAX_NUM_CTX                  4096
 #define AMDGPU_SG_THRESHOLD                    (256*1024*1024)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c
index 1bf31707e4f7f726029c25ff4cb916d7bcc39232..86fbb41382854008865ef0517c21e14bca8b4ca3 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c
@@ -188,6 +188,7 @@ int amdgpu_num_kcq = -1;
 int amdgpu_smartshift_bias;
 int amdgpu_use_xgmi_p2p = 1;
 int amdgpu_vcnfw_log;
+int amdgpu_sg_display = -1; /* auto */
 
 static void amdgpu_drv_delayed_reset_work_handler(struct work_struct *work);
 
@@ -933,6 +934,16 @@ module_param_named(num_kcq, amdgpu_num_kcq, int, 0444);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(vcnfw_log, "Enable vcnfw log(0 = disable (default value), 1 = enable)");
 module_param_named(vcnfw_log, amdgpu_vcnfw_log, int, 0444);
 
+/**
+ * DOC: sg_display (int)
+ * Disable S/G (scatter/gather) display (i.e., display from system memory).
+ * This option is only relevant on APUs.  Set this option to 0 to disable
+ * S/G display if you experience flickering or other issues under memory
+ * pressure and report the issue.
+ */
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(sg_display, "S/G Display (-1 = auto (default), 0 = disable)");
+module_param_named(sg_display, amdgpu_sg_display, int, 0444);
+
 /**
  * DOC: smu_pptable_id (int)
  * Used to override pptable id. id = 0 use VBIOS pptable.

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
index 22f0c11c9bdf4219bbaa4b44c773e8840d6424a7..9192ece8a89962dd988177cb201ca6a5e86e3d23 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
@@ -1576,6 +1576,9 @@ static int amdgpu_dm_init(struct amdgpu_device *adev)
                }
                break;
        }
+       if (init_data.flags.gpu_vm_support &&
+           (amdgpu_sg_display == 0))
+               init_data.flags.gpu_vm_support = false;
 
        if (init_data.flags.gpu_vm_support)
                adev->mode_info.gpu_vm_support = true;