[PATCH 0/5] drm/vc4: hdmi: Remove CPU hangs, take 2

Michael Stapelberg michael at stapelberg.ch
Thu Sep 23 00:05:40 PDT 2021


I can confirm that this patch series (applied to linux commit
58e2cf5d794616b84f591d4d1276c8953278ce24) works for me — my Raspberry
Pi 3 still boots fine (without HDMI connected).

Thanks!


On Wed, 22 Sept 2021 at 23:18, Michael Stapelberg <michael at stapelberg.ch> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 22 Sept 2021 at 14:54, Maxime Ripard <maxime at cerno.tech> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here's another attempt at fixing the complete CPU stall while retrieving the
>> HDMI connector status when the connector is disabled.
>>
>> This was fixed already, but eventually got reverted by Linus due to the same
>> symptom happening in another situation. This was likely (but not confirmed by
>> the reporter) due to the kernel being booted without an HDMI display connected,
>> in which case the firmware won't initialise the HDMI State Machine clock.
>
>
> Sorry for the lack of confirmation: yes, this problem was encountered when no HDMI display was connected.
>
> I’ll try testing your patch series tomorrow.
>
> Thanks for taking care of this!
>
>>
>>
>> This is fixed by patch 3. However, further changes in the clock drivers were
>> needed for clk_set_min_rate to be used, which are patches 1 and 2.
>>
>> Finally, patches 4 and 5 are the original patches that were reverted. Patch 4
>> got a small modification to move the clk_set_min_rate() call before the HSM
>> clock is enabled.
>>
>> Let me know what you think,
>> Maxime
>>
>> Maxime Ripard (5):
>>   clk: bcm-2835: Pick the closest clock rate
>>   clk: bcm-2835: Remove rounding up the dividers
>>   drm/vc4: hdmi: Set a default HSM rate
>>   drm/vc4: hdmi: Move the HSM clock enable to runtime_pm
>>   drm/vc4: hdmi: Make sure the controller is powered in detect
>>
>>  drivers/clk/bcm/clk-bcm2835.c  | 13 ++---
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_hdmi.c | 90 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>>  2 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> 2.31.1
>>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Michael



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Best regards,
Michael



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