From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755241AbcFQH2b (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2016 03:28:31 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f41.google.com ([74.125.82.41]:38165 "EHLO mail-wm0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754025AbcFQH2a (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2016 03:28:30 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 09:28:26 +0200 From: Daniel Vetter To: James Bottomley Cc: Daniel Vetter , Jani Nikula , intel-gfx , dri-devel , linux-kernel , Rodrigo Vivi Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] Bad flicker on skylake HQD due to code in the 4.7 merge window Message-ID: <20160617072826.GI23520@phenom.ffwll.local> Mail-Followup-To: James Bottomley , Jani Nikula , intel-gfx , dri-devel , linux-kernel , Rodrigo Vivi References: <1464638381.2240.3.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <871t4ibr7k.fsf@intel.com> <1464701638.2234.1.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <87mvmp9z03.fsf@intel.com> <1466111747.2311.1.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <1466112547.2311.3.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <1466116932.2257.4.camel@HansenPartnership.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1466116932.2257.4.camel@HansenPartnership.com> X-Operating-System: Linux phenom 4.6.0-rc5+ User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.0 (2016-04-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 03:42:12PM -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2016-06-16 at 14:29 -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > > On Thu, 2016-06-16 at 23:24 +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > > I guess we'll need the bisect on this one to make progress. > > > > Sigh, I was afraid that might be the next step. > > OK, I have a curious data point. I assumed the problem would be > somewhere in the drm update, so I started bisecting that at the top. > However, the top most commit: > > commit 1d6da87a3241deb13d073c4125d19ed0e5a0c62c > Merge: 1f40c49 a39ed68 > Author: Linus Torvalds > Date: Mon May 23 11:48:48 2016 -0700 > > Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux > > Isn't actually bad. There's no flicker here, so whatever caused the > problem came from some update after this. There was a fixes pull after this. Might be worth it to restrict to just the i915 changes, which are just 5b4fd5b1111b1230cd037..157d2c7fad0863222 Looking at those nothing seems to stick out which might explain what's happening for you. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch