On 1/23/26 15:44, Hamza Mahfooz wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 02:52:44PM +0100, Christian König wrote: >> I can only see two reasons why you could run into a timeout: >> >> 1. A dma_fence never signals. >> How that should be handled is already well documented and doesn't >> require any of this. >> >> 2. A coding error in the vblank or page flip handler leading to waiting >> forever. >> In that case calling back into the driver doesn't help either. >> >> So as far as I can see the whole approach doesn't make any sense at all. > > It appears that resetting display firmware is able to put at least a > subset of these systems back into a consistent (usable) state. Though, I > don't have a reliable way to reproduce the issue that I'm seeing so I > can't say for sure what it boils down to.
Well there is no way to only reset the display firmware. So I'm not sure what you are testing here. What could be is that the DC code has bugs and a normal ASIC reset unblocked some endless loop or similar somehow, but that is absolutely not the right thing TODO. Regards, Christian.
