Bug#906526: firmware-amd-graphics: New updatream version available; includes important system hang fix.
Package: firmware-amd-graphics
Version: 20180518-1
Severity: important
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Dear Maintainer,
New firmware for amdpgu was pushed on 2018-07-17. I believe this new firmware
includes a fix for a kernel hang that I am encountering.
* What led up to the situation?
Two kernel hangs while trying to play a new steam game "Graveyard Keeper".
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
After the second system hang, I refiled through my kernel logs and found
some telltale messages:
Aug 16 20:08:54 monster kernel: [80382.429981] [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* ring gfx timeout, last signaled seq=596638, last emitted seq=596640
Aug 16 20:08:54 monster kernel: [80382.429986] [drm] No hardware hang detected. Did some blocks stall?
I seached the Internet for other reports of similar messages. I found a
few reports that are likely the same issue:
* https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106547
* https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105251#c10
* https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98874
* https://github.com/M-Bab/linux-kernel-amdgpu-binaries/issues/48
The final one indicated that a firmware upgrade resolved the issue for
multiple correspondants. It also led me to
<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/log/amdgpu>
where I found that firmware were updated on 2018-07-17.
* What was the outcome of this action?
Mostly, this bug report. Hopefully a new version for Sid.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
None; it's only been a month, and the PTS doesn't seem aware of / to be
monitoring the location I found new firmware at as an upstream.
Here is some system information selected by me to clarify exactly what device
I'm havig issues with, which will certainly indicate the right firmware that I
need:
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% lspci -vv -s 43:00.0
43:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Device 6863 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Device 6b76
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 80
Region 0: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Region 2: Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=2M]
Region 4: I/O ports at f000 [size=256]
Region 5: Memory at ed500000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: amdgpu
Kernel modules: amdgpu
% grep -i vega /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 7.838] (--) AMDGPU(0): Chipset: "Radeon Vega Frontier Edition" (ChipID = 0x6863)
[ 8.034] (II) AMDGPU(0): glamor X acceleration enabled on Radeon Vega Frontier Edition (VEGA10, DRM 3.23.0, 4.16.0-2-amd64, LLVM 6.0.1)
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- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (900, 'stable-updates'), (900, 'stable'), (850, 'proposed-updates'), (700, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
firmware-amd-graphics depends on no packages.
firmware-amd-graphics recommends no packages.
Versions of packages firmware-amd-graphics suggests:
ii initramfs-tools 0.130
- -- no debconf information
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