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Date:      Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:11:04 -0600
From:      Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Sergey G Nasonov <snasonov@bcc.ru>
Subject:   Re: Interrupt stom on cardbus device
Message-ID:  <1235761864.1289.54.camel@widget.2hip.net>
In-Reply-To: <200902271403.46828.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 14:03 -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday 27 February 2009 1:50:28 pm Robert Noland wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 12:08 -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > On Friday 27 February 2009 9:30:06 am Sergey G Nasonov wrote:
> > > > Hello all,
> > > > I have get an issue after recent kernel recompile.
> > > > The problem appears after switch from X to text console and back to=
 X11.
> > > > After that vmstat -i show an  interrupt storm on cardbus device:
> > > >=20
> > > > > vmstat -i
> > > > interrupt                          total       rate
> > > > irq1: atkbd0                        6483          3
> > > > irq9: acpi0                         3236          1
> > > > irq12: psm0                       347988        167
> > > > irq14: ata0                        16431          7
> > > > irq16: cbb0 uhci2+              13624982       6556
> > > > irq20: uhci0                          14          0
> > > > irq22: ehci0                           2          0
> > > > cpu0: timer                      4154687       1999
> > > > irq256: em0                        53736         25
> > > > irq257: hdac0                       5797          2
> > > > cpu1: timer                      4153683       1998
> > > > irq258: vgapci0                   235585        113
> > > > Total                           22602624      10877
> > > >=20
> > > > I suppose that the issue related with the latest MSI interrupt=20
> > > > handler changes for intel graphics chipset. My laptop has i965GM.
> > > > pciconf -lv:
> > > >=20
> > > > vgapci0@pci0:0:2:0:     class=3D0x030000 card=3D0x20b517aa chip=3D0=
x2a028086=20
> > > > rev=3D0x0c hdr=3D0x00
> > > >     vendor     =3D 'Intel Corporation'
> > > >     device     =3D 'Mobile 965 Express Integrated Graphics Controll=
er'
> > > >     class      =3D display
> > > >     subclass   =3D VGA
> > > >=20
> > > > When I added my device to drm_msi_blacklist and recompile drm modul=
es=20
> the=20
> > > > problem disappear.
> > > > Is it possible to resolve this problem without moving the device to=
 the=20
> > > > drm_msi_blacklist?
> > > > I can test any patches or provide additional detail if it is requir=
ed. =20
> > > > Thanks.
> > >=20
> > > It seems the device is still interrupting on its INTx line perhaps in=
=20
> addition=20
> > > to the MSI interrupts.
> >=20
> > Hrm, I did most all of that development on a 965gm.  When you VT switch=
,
> > the irq handler gets uninstalled and reinstalled when you return to X.
> > There was an eratta on the 965gm suggesting that msi didn't work right,
> > but I was never able to produce the issue.  Intel was having major
> > issues with this on linux and I finally convinced them to turn msi back
> > on.  My irq handler and Eric's are very similar, so I'm not sure what
> > could be going on here.
> >=20
> > There is however an issue with vblanks that might be related.  Could yo=
u
> > try http://people.freebsd.org/~rnoland/drm-move_vblank_init.patch and
> > see if that helps?
>=20
> In this case the issue isn't that MSI isn't working I think, but that the=
=20
> hardware is sending interrupts via both routes (MSI and INTx).  If that=20
> happens, then you will see an interrupt storm on the INTx line, but FreeB=
SD=20
> will only notice if another device is sharing the same IRQ line.  So if y=
our=20
> test machine has vgapci0 on irq 22 and you have no other devices on IRQ 2=
2,=20
> then the storm would go unnoticed.  This is most likely a chip bug (unles=
s=20
> the driver has to explicitly disable INTx interrupts when using MSI).  It=
=20
> would probably be a good idea to add a hw.drm.msi_enable tunable (or=20
> hw.drm.msi) that people can use to disable MSI perhaps.

Ok, I do have docs on the 965, so I'll look at this.  The linux version
does not do this, unless the OS does it in the background somewhere.

I thought about adding a tuneable, but I have to figure out how that
works first... ;)

robert.

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Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD

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