imx8mp: HDMI display blank/black problems

[Saravana Kannan]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 10:28 AM Adam Ford <aford173 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 4:01 AM Frieder Schrempf
> <frieder.schrempf at kontron.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Johannes,
> >
> > On 25.10.24 10:05 AM, mailinglist1 at johanneskirchmair.de wrote:
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> > >
> > > Hey,
> > > We had some problems with the hdmi on the imx8mp and wanted to leave, what we found out about it, somewhere for others to find it.
> > >
> > > The problem was that our hdmi display sometimes stayed blank after hot plugging and sometimes at startup. On older kernel versions 6.6 we did not have the problem with the not mainlined hdmi patches.
> > > We tracked the commit down that introduced the problem for us. It was the following “driver core: Enable fw_devlink=rpm by default”  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231113220948.80089-1-saravanak@google.com/
> > > So we switched back to FW_DEVLINK_FLAGS_ON via kernel parameter. Don’t really understand what the problem with RPM is.
> > >
> > > So, this information is just for reference. Maybe someone has an idea what is going on here. And how to fix the problem in a more proper way.
> >
> > Thanks for investigating and sharing your results!
> >
> > I'm seeing the same symptoms and previously found out that this is
> > related to LCDIF underrun errors. See [1] for more information.
> >
> > Adam has also started this thread: [2].
> >
> > Anyway, knowing that this is related to fw_devlink=rpm is really
> > helpful. I just tried with fw_devlink=on and wasn't able to see any
> > issues anymore. So this confirms your findings.
>
> I was off in the weeds thinking there was something wrong in timing
> and/or a race condition around the PLL or something.  This is good
> news.
> Please forgive my ignorance, what does fw_devlink do?  Is there
> something we can do in the driver itself to force its behavior?

fw_devlink figures out supplier/consumer dependencies between devices
and creates device links between them. This ensures proper
probe/suspend/resume/shutdown/runtime PM ordering.

fw_devlink=rpm vs on means "enforce all of these" vs "enforce all of
these except runtime PM".

> adam
> >
> > I hope that some of the driver framework and runtime PM experts can help
> > to find out what is actually wrong and how the correct fix might look like.
> >
> > I'm also CC-ing Saravana who authored the change from fw_devlink=on to
> > fw_devlink=rpm to see if they have anything to add.

When fw_devlink=rpm, you'll have device links created between
consumers and suppliers with the DL_FLAG_PM_RUNTIME flag set. So
before your device is runtime resumed, it'll make sure all your
suppliers are resumed first.

My guess is that there is some issue in the runtime PM handling in
these drivers. I don't have enough context to provide further insight.

-Saravana

> >
> > Thanks
> > Frieder
> >
> > [1]
> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-phy/cover/20240904233100.114611-1-aford173@gmail.com/#26014057
> > [2]
> > https://lore.kernel.org/imx/8cfd3052-c85a-4235-b9b8-6d2929e9e455@kontron.de/T/