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Lukas Wunner d6fa7588fd Revert "apple-gmux: lock iGP IO to protect from vgaarb changes" 
Commit 4eebd5a4e7 ("apple-gmux: lock iGP IO to protect from vgaarb
changes") amended this driver's ->probe hook to lock decoding of normal
(non-legacy) I/O space accesses to the integrated GPU on dual-GPU
MacBook Pros.  The lock stays in place until the driver is unbound.

The change was made to work around an issue with the out-of-tree nvidia
graphics driver (available at http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html).
It contains the following sequence in nvidia/nv.c:

	#if defined(CONFIG_VGA_ARB) && !defined(NVCPU_PPC64LE)
	#if defined(VGA_DEFAULT_DEVICE)
	    vga_tryget(VGA_DEFAULT_DEVICE, VGA_RSRC_LEGACY_MASK);
	#endif
	    vga_set_legacy_decoding(dev, VGA_RSRC_NONE);
	#endif

This code was reported to cause deadlocks with VFIO already in 2013:
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/545560

I've reported the issue to Nvidia developers once more in 2017:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg138754.html

On the MacBookPro10,1, this code apparently breaks backlight control
(which is handled by apple-gmux via an I/O region starting at 0x700),
as reported by Petri Hodju:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86121

I tried to replicate Petri's observations on my MacBook9,1, which uses
the same Intel Ivy Bridge + Nvidia GeForce GT 650M architecture, to no
avail.  On my machine apple-gmux' I/O region remains accessible even
with the nvidia driver loaded and commit 4eebd5a4e7 reverted.
Petri reported that apple-gmux becomes accessible again after a
suspend/resume cycle because the BIOS changed the VGA routing on the
root port to the Nvidia GPU.  Perhaps this is a BIOS issue after all
that can be fixed with an update?

In any case, the change made by commit 4eebd5a4e7 has turned out to
cause two new issues:

* Wilfried Klaebe reports a deadlock when launching Xorg because it
  opens /dev/vga_arbiter and calls vga_get(), but apple-gmux is holding
  a lock on I/O space indefinitely.  It looks like apple-gmux' current
  behavior is an abuse of the vgaarb API as locks are not meant to be
  held for longer periods:
  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88861#c11
  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=217541

* On dual GPU MacBook Pros introduced since 2013, the integrated GPU is
  powergated on boot und thus becomes invisible to Linux unless a custom
  EFI protocol is used to leave it powered on.  (A patch exists but is
  not in mainline yet due to several negative side effects.)  On these
  machines, locking I/O to the integrated GPU (as done by 4eebd5a4e7)
  fails and backlight control is therefore broken:
  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105051

So let's revert commit 4eebd5a4e7 please.  Users experiencing the
issue with the proprietary nvidia driver can comment out the above-
quoted problematic code as a workaround (or try updating the BIOS).

Cc: Petri Hodju <petrihodju@yahoo.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>
Cc: Andy Ritger <aritger@nvidia.com>
Cc: Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>
Tested-by: Wilfried Klaebe <linux-kernel@lebenslange-mailadresse.de>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>
2018-01-31 10:35:35 -08:00
arch platform/x86: intel_pmc_ipc: Add read64 API 2017-11-27 13:39:11 +02:00
block treewide: setup_timer() -> timer_setup() 2017-11-21 15:57:07 -08:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto Keys devel 2017-11-24 11:54:11 +11:00
Documentation platform/x86: samsung-laptop: Grammar s/are can/can/ 2017-12-21 14:56:27 +02:00
drivers Revert "apple-gmux: lock iGP IO to protect from vgaarb changes" 2018-01-31 10:35:35 -08:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-25 08:37:16 -10:00
include Input: add KEY_ROTATE_LOCK_TOGGLE 2017-12-08 13:54:43 -08:00
init EXPERT Kconfig menu: fix broken EXPERT menu 2017-11-17 16:10:05 -08:00
ipc Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-11-17 16:56:17 -08:00
kernel Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-26 14:39:20 -08:00
lib Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-25 08:37:16 -10:00
mm block/laptop_mode: Convert timers to use timer_setup() 2017-11-21 15:46:44 -08:00
net Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-25 08:37:16 -10:00
samples kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
scripts Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-25 08:37:16 -10:00
security Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-25 08:37:16 -10:00
sound Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-25 08:37:16 -10:00
tools Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-26 14:11:54 -08:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt Trimmed second batch of KVM changes for Linux 4.15 2017-11-24 19:44:25 -10:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild misc updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:51:33 -08:00
.mailmap Add Jason Gunthorpe as co-maintainer of the RDMA stack 2017-11-17 09:36:18 -08:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS platform/x86: Add driver for GPD pocket custom fan controller 2017-12-21 14:56:28 +02:00
Makefile Linux 4.15-rc1 2017-11-26 16:01:47 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.