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Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS

From Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS
Date 2016-08-30 20:20 +0200
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On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Roland Singer
<roland.singer@desertbit.com> wrote:
> I configured bbswitch to not set any states automatically...
> So it's possible to obtain and verify the GPU power state.
>
> However I removed the bbswitch module and booted with nouveau.
>
> Kernel 4.7.2: nouveau switches the discrete GPU off.
>               I can't trigger the freeze, because bbswitch is missing.
>               I'll work with the system and see if it will freeze.
>
> Kernel 4.8-rc4: nouveau does not care about the power state and
>                 the discrete GPU is never switched off. I will notice
>                 this, because the second cooling FAN will stop...
>                 Same log messages as send before.

That's surprising. I believe there's an issue with the new logic when
there's an HDMI audio subdevice. However that only appears if there's
a cable plugged in, at least in the systems Peter tested. You should
be able to see whether it's there or not with 'lspci'.

You can check for sure by looking in the vgaswitcheroo state. It
should say DynOff when it's powered off.

Either way, I think using bbswitch + nouveau isn't supported by
anyone, so if you want to use it that way, you're on your own. (You
may want to load nouveau with runpm=0 so that nouveau doesn't try to
manage the GPU suspend stuff.)

  -ilia

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Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> - 2016-08-29 18:10 +0200
  Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Roland Singer <roland.singer@desertbit.com> - 2016-08-29 21:10 +0200
    Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> - 2016-08-29 21:10 +0200
      Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Roland Singer <roland.singer@desertbit.com> - 2016-08-29 22:00 +0200
        Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> - 2016-08-30 02:00 +0200
          Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Roland Singer <roland.singer@desertbit.com> - 2016-08-30 12:20 +0200
            Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> - 2016-08-30 15:10 +0200
              Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com> - 2016-08-30 16:10 +0200
                Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Roland Singer <roland.singer@desertbit.com> - 2016-08-30 17:30 +0200
                Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu> - 2016-08-30 17:50 +0200
                Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu> - 2016-08-30 17:50 +0200
                Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com> - 2016-08-30 17:50 +0200
                Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Roland Singer <roland.singer@desertbit.com> - 2016-08-30 19:40 +0200
                Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu> - 2016-08-30 19:50 +0200
                Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Roland Singer <roland.singer@desertbit.com> - 2016-08-30 20:10 +0200
                Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu> - 2016-08-30 20:20 +0200
                Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl> - 2016-08-30 21:30 +0200
                Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Roland Singer <roland.singer@desertbit.com> - 2016-08-31 13:20 +0200
                Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Roland Singer <roland.singer@desertbit.com> - 2016-08-31 13:20 +0200
                Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com> - 2016-08-30 20:10 +0200
                Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com> - 2016-08-30 20:20 +0200
                Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Roland Singer <roland.singer@desertbit.com> - 2016-08-31 13:00 +0200
  Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl> - 2016-08-30 22:00 +0200
    Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Roland Singer <roland.singer@desertbit.com> - 2016-08-31 13:30 +0200
      Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl> - 2016-08-31 13:50 +0200
        Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Roland Singer <roland.singer@desertbit.com> - 2016-08-31 14:30 +0200
          Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl> - 2016-08-31 14:40 +0200
            Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Roland Singer <roland.singer@desertbit.com> - 2016-08-31 15:20 +0200
              Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Roland Singer <roland.singer@desertbit.com> - 2016-08-31 22:10 +0200
                Re: Kernel Freeze with American Megatrends BIOS Roland Singer <roland.singer@desertbit.com> - 2016-08-31 22:20 +0200

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