Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ hangs in vc4_hdmi_runtime_resume()

Tue Sep 27 11:45:00 PDT 2022

Hi Maxime,

Am 27.09.22 um 15:15 schrieb Maxime Ripard:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 02:25:12PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 01:42:40PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 01:12:35PM +0200, Stefan Wahren wrote:
>>>> Am 27.09.22 um 11:42 schrieb Maxime Ripard:
>>>>> On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 09:25:54AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Stefan,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 08:50:12PM +0200, Stefan Wahren wrote:
>>>>>>> Am 26.09.22 um 14:47 schrieb Maxime Ripard:
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 02:40:48PM +0200, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 26.09.2022 14:08:04, Stefan Wahren wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Hi Marc,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Am 26.09.22 um 12:21 schrieb Marc Kleine-Budde:
>>>>>>>>>>> On 22.09.2022 17:06:00, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ running current Debian testing ARM64,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> using Debian's v5.19 kernel (Debian's v5.18 was working flawless).
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> | [    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0000000000 [0x410fd034]
>>>>>>>>>>>>> | [    0.000000] Linux version 5.19.0-1-arm64 (debian-kernel at lists.debian.org) (gcc-11 (Debian 11.3.0-5) 11.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.38.90.20220713) #1 SMP Debian 5.19.6-1 (2022-0
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 9-01)
>>>>>>>>>>>>> | [    0.000000] Machine model: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+
>>>>>>>>>>>>> | [    3.747500] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Attached to firmware from 2022-03-24T13:21:11
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> As soon a the vc4 module is loaded the following warnings hits 4
>>>>>>>>>>>>> times, then the machine stops.
>>>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> The warning itself is fixed, both upstream and in stable (5.19.7).
>>>>>>>>>>> Ok. Debian is using 5.19.6
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> It shouldn't have any relation to the hang though. Can you share your
>>>>>>>>>>>> setup?
>>>>>>>>>>> - config.txt:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> -------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8--------
>>>>>>>>>>> gpu_mem=16
>>>>>>>>>>> disable_splash=1
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> arm_64bit=1
>>>>>>>>>>> enable_uart=1
>>>>>>>>>>> uart_2ndstage=1
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> os_prefix=/u-boot/
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> [pi3]
>>>>>>>>>>> force_turbo=1
>>>>>>>>>>> -------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8--------
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> - Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+
>>>>>>>>>>> - no HDMI connected
>>>>>>>>>> Does it mean, the issue only occurs without HDMI connected?
>>>>>>>>>> If you didn't test with HDMI yet, could you please do?
>>>>>>>>> The error occurs with HDMI not connected, as vc4 is the gfx driver I
>>>>>>>>> thought this might be of interest. :)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I don't have a HDMI monitor here, but I'll come back to you as soon as I
>>>>>>>>> get access to one (might take some time).
>>>>>>>> It's not the first time an issue like this one would occur. I'm trying
>>>>>>>> to make my Pi3 boot again, and will try to bisect the issue.
>>>>>>> yes the issue is only triggered without HDMI connected. I was able to
>>>>>>> reproduce with an older vc4 firmware from 2020 (don't want to upgrade yet).
>>>>>>> Kernel was also an arm64 build with defconfig.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Here some rough starting point for bisection:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 5.18.0 good
>>>>>>> 5.19.0 bad
>>>>>>> 5.19.6 bad
>>>>>> Sorry it took a bit of time, it looks like I found another bug while
>>>>>> trying to test this yesterday.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Your datapoints are interesting though. I have a custom configuration
>>>>>> and it does boot 5.19 without an HDMI connected.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So I guess it leaves us with either the firmware version being different
>>>>>> (I'm using a newer version, from March 2022), or the configuration. I'll
>>>>>> test with defconfig.
>>>>> So it turns out compiling vc4 as a module is the culprit.
>>>> Do you mean regardless of the kernel version in your case?
>>> No, I mean that, with vc4 as a module, 5.18 works but 5.19 doesn't, like
>>> Marc said. But if vc4 is built in, both work.
>>>
>>>> In my test cases i build vc4 always as module.
>>>>
>>>>> It's not clear to me why at this point, but the first register write in
>>>>> vc4_hdmi_reset stalls.
>>>> Sounds like timing issue or a missing dependency (clock or power domain)
>>> It felt like a clock or power domain issue to me indeed, but adding
>>> clk_ignore_unused and pd_ignore_unused isn't enough, so it's probably
>>> something a bit more complicated than just the clock / PD being
>>> disabled.
>> I found the offending patch:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20220225143534.405820-13-maxime@cerno.tech/
>>
>> That code was removed because it was made irrelevant by that earlier patch:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20220225143534.405820-10-maxime@cerno.tech/
>>
>> But it turns out that while it works when the driver is built-in, it
>> doesn't when it's a module. If we add a clk_hw_get_rate() call right
>> after that call to raspberrypi_fw_set_rate(), the rate returned is 0.
>>
>> I'm not entirely sure why, but I wonder if it's related to:
>> https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/4962#issuecomment-1228593439
> Turns out it's not, since the Pi3 is using the clk-bcm2835 driver.

FWIW i can confirm, that i see the same behavior:

fd5894fa2413cca3e6a3ea713b2bd57281af2e86 bad

5b6ef06ea6225570bc0b33325306c7b8c6bdf5eb good

>
> However, even reverting that patch fails. clk_set_min_rate fails because
> the rate is protected, but it doesn't look like it is anywhere for that
> clock, so I'm a bit confused.
>
> Even if we do remove the clock protection check in
> clk_core_set_rate_nolock(), clk_calc_new_rates() will then fail because
> the bcm2835 driver will round the clock rate below the minimum, which is
> rejected.
>
> I'm not entirely sure what to do at this point. I guess the proper fix
> would be to:
>    - Figure out why it's considered protected when it's not (or shouldn't be)
>    - Make the driver compute an acceptable rate for that clock
>    - Reintroduce the clk_set_min_rate call to HDMI's runtime_resume, or
>      some other equivalent code
>
> Maxime