[Nouveau] [PATCH v2] ALSA: hda: Continue to probe when codec probe fails

[Karol Herbst]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 10:24 AM Roy Spliet <nouveau at spliet.org> wrote:
>
> Op 13-04-2021 om 01:10 schreef Karol Herbst:
> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 9:36 PM Roy Spliet <nouveau at spliet.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello Aaron,
> >>
> >> Thanks for your insights. A follow-up query and some observations in-line.
> >>
> >> Op 12-04-2021 om 20:06 schreef Aaron Plattner:
> >>> On 4/10/21 1:48 PM, Roy Spliet wrote:
> >>>> Op 10-04-2021 om 20:23 schreef Lukas Wunner:
> >>>>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 04:51:27PM +0100, Roy Spliet wrote:
> >>>>>> Can I ask someone with more
> >>>>>> technical knowledge of snd_hda_intel and vgaswitcheroo to brainstorm
> >>>>>> about
> >>>>>> the possible challenges of nouveau taking matters into its own hand
> >>>>>> rather
> >>>>>> than keeping this PCI quirk around?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It sounds to me like the HDA is not powered if no cable is plugged in.
> >>>>> What is reponsible then for powering it up or down, firmware code on
> >>>>> the GPU or in the host's BIOS?
> >>>>
> >>>> Sometimes the BIOS, but definitely unconditionally the PCI quirk code:
> >>>> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/pci/quirks.c#L5289
> >>>>
> >>>> (CC Aaron Plattner)
> >>>
> >>> My basic understanding is that the audio function stops responding
> >>> whenever the graphics function is powered off. So the requirement here
> >>> is that the audio driver can't try to talk to the audio function while
> >>> the graphics function is asleep, and must trigger a graphics function
> >>> wakeup before trying to communicate with the audio function.
> >>
> >> I believe that vgaswitcheroo takes care of this for us.
> >>
> >
> > yeah, and also: why would the driver want to do stuff? If the GPU is
> > turned off, there is no point in communicating with the audio device
> > anyway. The driver should do the initial probe and leave the device be
> > unless it's actively used. Also there is no such thing as "use the
> > audio function, but not the graphics one"
> >
> >>> I think
> >>> there are also requirements about the audio function needing to be awake
> >>> when the graphics driver is updating the ELD, but I'm not sure.
> >>>
> >
> > well, it's one physical device anyway, so technically the audio
> > function is powered on.
> >
> >>> This is harder on Windows because the audio driver lives in its own
> >>> little world doing its own thing but on Linux we can do better.
> >>>
> >>>>> Ideally, we should try to find out how to control HDA power from the
> >>>>> operating system rather than trying to cooperate with whatever firmware
> >>>>> is doing.  If we have that capability, the OS should power the HDA up
> >>>>> and down as it sees fit.
> >>>
> >>> After system boot, I don't think there's any firmware involved, but I'm
> >>> not super familiar with the low-level details and it's possible the
> >>> situation changed since I last looked at it.
> >>>
> >>> I think the problem with having nouveau write this quirk is that the
> >>> kernel will need to re-probe the PCI device to notice that it has
> >>> suddenly become a multi-function device with an audio function, and
> >>> hotplug the audio driver. I originally looked into trying to do that but
> >>> it was tricky because the PCI subsystem didn't really have a mechanism
> >>> for a single-function device to become a multi-function device on the
> >>> fly and it seemed easier to enable it early on during bus enumeration.
> >>> That way the kernel sees both functions all the time without anything
> >>> else having to be special about this configuration.
> >
> > Well, we do have this pci/quirk.c thing, no? Nouveau does flip the
> > bit, but I am actually not sure if that's even doing something
> > anymore. Maybe in the runtime_resume case it's still relevant but not
> > sure _when_ DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_CLASS_RESUME_EARLY is triggered, it does
> > seem to be called even in the runtime_resume case though.
> >
> >>
> >> Right, so for a little more context: a while ago I noticed that my
> >> laptop (lucky me, Asus K501UB) has a 940M with HDA but no codec. Seems
> >> legit, given how this GPU has no displays attached; they're all hooked
> >> up to the Intel integrated GPU. That threw off the snd_hda_intel
> >> mid-probe, and as a result didn't permit runpm, keeping the entire GPU,
> >> PCIe bus and thus the CPU package awake. A bit of hackerly later we
> >> decided to continue probing without a codec, and now my laptop is happy,
> >> but...
> >> A new problem popped up with several other NVIDIA GPUs that expose their
> >> HDA subdevice, but somehow its inaccessible. Relevant lines from a
> >> users' log:
> >>
> >> [    3.031222] MXM: GUID detected in BIOS
> >> [    3.031280] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index
> >> (0x000000003) is beyond end of object (length 0x0) (20200925/exoparg2-393)
> >> [    3.031352] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM due to
> >> previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200925/psparse-529)
> >> [    3.031419] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.GFX0: failed to evaluate _DSM (0x300b)
> >> [    3.031424] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM: Argument #4 type
> >> mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20200925/nsarguments-61)
> >> [    3.031619] pci 0000:00:02.0: optimus capabilities: enabled, status
> >> dynamic power,
> >> [    3.031667] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index
> >> (0x000000003) is beyond end of object (length 0x0) (20200925/exoparg2-393)
> >> [    3.031731] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM due to
> >> previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200925/psparse-529)
> >> [    3.031791] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM due
> >> to previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200925/psparse-529)
> >> [    3.031856] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP: failed to evaluate _DSM (0x300b)
> >> [    3.031859] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type
> >> mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20200925/nsarguments-61)
> >
> > If I am not wrong we are calling the _DSM method inside nouveau when
> > doing runpm on pre _PR3 systems. As this is all very vendor specific,
> > we might be doing something incorrectly.
> >
> >> [    3.032058] pci 0000:01:00.0: optimus capabilities: enabled, status
> >> dynamic power,
> >> [    3.032061] VGA switcheroo: detected Optimus DSM method
> >> \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP handle
> >> [    3.032323] checking generic (d0000000 410000) vs hw (f6000000 1000000)
> >> [    3.032325] checking generic (d0000000 410000) vs hw (e0000000 10000000)
> >> [    3.032326] checking generic (d0000000 410000) vs hw (f0000000 2000000)
> >> [    3.032410] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: NVIDIA GK107 (0e71f0a2)
> >> [    3.042385] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: version 80.07.a0.00.11
> >> --- snip ---
> >> [    8.951478] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: can't change power state from
> >> D3cold to D0 (config space inaccessible)
> >> [    8.951509] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: can't change power state from
> >> D3hot to D0 (config space inaccessible)
> >
> > This is actually a little bad, because it means that the device
> > doesn't come back up from D3. It's a bit weird it's D3cold and D3hot
> > in the messages, but maybe the device just takes quite some time to
> > wake up. But it does look like the device gets woken up.
> >
> >> [    8.951608] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Disabling MSI
> >> [    8.951621] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Handle vga_switcheroo audio
> >> client
> >> [    8.952461] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops
> >> i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
> >> [    8.952642] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: number of I/O streams is 30,
> >> forcing separate stream tags
> >>
> >> Now I don't know what's going on, but the snd_hda_intel messages are
> >> ominous. And so are the ACPI warnings. But I don't know how much these
> >> two are related.
> >>
> >
> > What is the actual problem though? Seems like everything is fine
> > despite those messages.
>
> The problem, as stated a few e-mails earlier, is that the HDA errors
> currently prevent snd_hda_intel from properly probing the device and
> registering it with vgaswitcheroo. As a result, the GPU always stays in
> DynPwr rather than DynOff even when it's unused, keeping the PCIe bus
> and the CPU package powered. Basically burning through a charged battery
> a lot quicker than need be.

That's not the result of those errors, just the result of having no codecs, no?

> If we go back a mile on the e-mail thread, I think the problem was
> narrowed down to snd_hda_intel reading an invalid codec mask on the
> config space, and using it anyway. That being said, I believe there are
> also reports of users that don't get HDMI audio unless the cable was
> plugged in at boot-time, with similar messages in their logs. The codec
> might in such cases be hiding themselves until a cable is plugged in?
> @Aaron Plattner: does that latter observation sound right to you?
>

yeah, I think that's the thing we should focus on, everything else
just seems unrelated at this point until we have more information
(like, codecs hide, because the _DSM calls failed or something)

> >
> >> You say that it is desirable to switch on HDA at boot-time because the
> >> PCI subsystem doesn't play nicely with changing a device to
> >> multi-function. That rules out the option of only enabling the HDA
> >> device once a cable is plugged in. Are there any other trap doors that
> >
> > yeah, we can absolutely not do that. We do quirk the device to put the
> > GPU into multi function state asap and the intel_hda_snd driver should
> > deal with it.
> >
> >> snd_hda_intel needs to navigate around to make this work fault free on
> >> all hardware, such as:
> >> - Codecs not revealing themselves until a display is plugged in,
> >> requiring perhaps a "codec reprobe" and "codec remove" event from
> >> nouveau/rm to snd_hda_intel,
> >
> > we could trigger the reprobe from within nouveau as we are dealing
> > with display hotplug events anyway.
>
> Right. Are there situations where nouveau needs to? Or is this a
> misunderstanding of the problem from my end?
>

nouveau has to do some configuration anyway, like connecting the audio
stream with the port used etc...that's the ELD part. We have some
drm_audio bits though, so maybe we can solve this more general and
maybe the radeon drivers already have something here? Might be worth
to take a look there as well.

> >
> >> - Borked BIOSes just blindly assigning the MMIO space of the HDA device
> >> to another device, or nothing at all,
> >
> > that exists? *sigh*
> >
> >> - ... other things that might give any of us nightmares and heart burn?
> >>
> >
> > hopefully there are none :p
> >
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Roy
> >>
> >>>
> >>> -- Aaron
> >>>
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Lukas
> >>
> >
>