4K at 60 YCbCr420 missing mode in usermode

Mike Lothian mike at fireburn.co.uk
Tue Jun 26 16:40:58 UTC 2018


With AMDGPU DDX I'm not seeing 4k at 60Hz with this patch and allowing >8bpc

With modesetting X doesn't start and I get the following in dmesg:

[  105.397875] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  105.397877] kernel BUG at
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c:4796!
[  105.397882] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[  105.397884] CPU: 0 PID: 334 Comm: Xorg Tainted: G        W
 4.18.0-rc1-agd5f+ #187
[  105.397885] Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/ROG
STRIX X470-I GAMING, BIOS 0601 04/19/2018
[  105.397890] RIP: 0010:dm_update_crtcs_state+0x45b/0x4e0
[  105.397890] Code: ff ff 48 85 db 0f 84 ea fe ff ff 48 c7 44 24 18 00 00
00 00 48 c7 44 24 08 00 00 00 00 48 c7 04 24 00 00 00 00 e9 34 fe ff ff
<0f> 0b 48 83 c4 30 b8 ea ff ff ff 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3
[  105.397908] RSP: 0018:ffffc9000063b8f8 EFLAGS: 00010246
[  105.397910] RAX: ffff880819942001 RBX: ffff88081b317000 RCX:
0000000000000000
[  105.397911] RDX: 0000000000007690 RSI: 0000000000007690 RDI:
ffff880819943800
[  105.397911] RBP: ffff880805bd0a80 R08: 0000000000022ac0 R09:
ffffffff815bf6f4
[  105.397912] R10: ffffea0020665000 R11: ffff88083e806e80 R12:
0000000000000000
[  105.397913] R13: ffff880819942400 R14: ffff880819940400 R15:
ffff88081b32e800
[  105.397914] FS:  00007f0374519f80(0000) GS:ffff88083ec00000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
[  105.397914] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  105.397915] CR2: 0000561ac61e0e10 CR3: 000000081acc6000 CR4:
00000000003406b0
[  105.397916] Call Trace:
[  105.397920]  ? amdgpu_dm_atomic_check+0x1b7/0x3d0
[  105.397922]  ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x12/0x40
[  105.397923]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xf/0x30
[  105.397926]  ? drm_atomic_check_only+0x44d/0x640
[  105.397928]  ? drm_atomic_commit+0xe/0x50
[  105.397930]  ? restore_fbdev_mode_atomic+0x1b9/0x1d0
[  105.397932]  ? drm_fb_helper_restore_fbdev_mode_unlocked+0x40/0x90
[  105.397933]  ? drm_fb_helper_set_par+0x24/0x50
[  105.397936]  ? fb_set_var+0x20f/0x3e0
[  105.397938]  ? sugov_should_update_freq+0x42/0x60
[  105.397940]  ? sugov_update_single+0x6e/0x1f0
[  105.397942]  ? fbcon_blank+0x246/0x320
[  105.397944]  ? try_to_wake_up+0x1f1/0x370
[  105.397948]  ? do_unblank_screen+0x96/0x150
[  105.397949]  ? vt_ioctl+0x35e/0x10f0
[  105.397952]  ? path_parentat.isra.63+0x40/0x80
[  105.397954]  ? tty_ioctl+0x217/0x890
[  105.397956]  ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x9f/0x610
[  105.397957]  ? dput.part.36+0x9a/0x120
[  105.397959]  ? __fput+0x11a/0x1e0
[  105.397960]  ? ksys_ioctl+0x35/0x70
[  105.397962]  ? __x64_sys_ioctl+0x11/0x20
[  105.397963]  ? do_syscall_64+0x43/0xf0
[  105.397965]  ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
[  105.397966] Modules linked in:
[  105.397967] ---[ end trace 82b2adbb705155c8 ]---


On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 at 17:27 Mike Lothian <mike at fireburn.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm happy to test this when I get home
>
> I'm currently reverting that patch that enables >8bit colour to get 60Hz
> back
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike
>
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 at 17:23 Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:
>
>> On 2018-06-26 05:43 PM, Emil Velikov wrote:
>> > Hi Jerry,
>> >
>> > On 25 June 2018 at 22:45, Zuo, Jerry <Jerry.Zuo at amd.com> wrote:
>> >> Hello all:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> We are working on an issue affecting 4K at 60 HDMI display not to light
>> up, but
>> >> only showing up 4K at 30 from:
>> >> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106959 and others.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Some displays (e.g., ASUS PA328) HDMI port shows YCbCr420 CEA extension
>> >> block with 4K at 60 supported. Such HDMI 4K at 60 is not real HDMI 2.0, but
>> still
>> >> following HDMI 1.4 spec. with maximum TMDS clock of 300MHz instead of
>> >> 600MHz.
>> >>
>> >> To get such 4K at 60 supported, it needs to limit the bandwidth by
>> reducing the
>> >> color space to YCbCr420 only. We’ve already raised YCbCr420 only flag
>> >> (attached patch) from kernel side to pass the mode validation, and
>> expose it
>> >> to user space.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>     We think that one of the issues that causes this problem is due to
>> >> usermode pruning the 4K at 60 mode from the modelist (attached
>> Xorg.0.log). It
>> >> seems like when usermode receives all the modes, it doesn't take in
>> account
>> >> the 4K at 60 YCbCr4:2:0 specific mode. In order to pass validation of
>> being
>> >> added to usermode modelist, its pixel clk needs to be divided by 2 so
>> that
>> >> it won't exceed TMDS max physical pixel clk (300MHz). That might
>> explain the
>> >> difference in modes between our usermode and modeset.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>     Such YCbCr4:2:0 4K at 60 special mode is marked in DRM by raising a
>> flag
>> >> (y420_vdb_modes) inside connector's display_info which can be seen in
>> >> do_y420vdb_modes(). Usermode could rely on that flag to pick up such
>> mode
>> >> and halve the required pclk to prevent such mode getting pruned out.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> We were hoping for someone helps to look at it from usermode
>> perspective.
>> >> Thanks a lot.
>> >>
>> > Just some observations, while going through some coffee. Take them
>> > with a pinch of salt.
>> >
>> > Currently the kernel edid parser (in drm core) handles the
>> > EXT_VIDEO_DATA_BLOCK_420 extended block.
>> > Additionally, the kernel allows such modes only as the (per connector)
>> > ycbcr_420_allowed bool is set by the driver.
>> >
>> > Quick look shows that it's only enabled by i915 on gen10 && geminilake
>> hardware.
>> >
>> > At the same time, X does it's own fairly partial edid parsing and
>> > doesn't handle any(?) extended blocks.
>> >
>> > One solution is to update the X parser, although it seems like a
>> > endless game of cat and mouse.
>> > IMHO a much better approach is to not use edid codepaths for KMS
>> > drivers (where AMDGPU is one).
>> > On those, the supported modes is advertised by the kernel module via
>> > drmModeGetConnector.
>>
>> We are getting the modes from the kernel; the issue is they are then
>> pruned (presumably by xf86ProbeOutputModes => xf86ValidateModesClocks)
>> due to violating the clock limits, as described by Jerry above.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Earthling Michel Dänzer               |               http://www.amd.com
>> Libre software enthusiast             |             Mesa and X developer
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