Screen flickers video URL: http://youtu.be/yvKyowUghC0

Screen flickers on console mode video URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTbnUOPdlCo&feature=youtu.be

I believe Rodrigo has also encountered something like this.

HI All,

Does below commit causing the issue?

commit 3497c2a466ef2c72305180df5a09955ba95550cd
Author:     Deepak S <deepak.s@intel.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Aug 18 10:35:27 2014 -0700
Commit:     Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
CommitDate: Tue Aug 26 12:54:10 2014 +0200

    drm/i915: Bring UP Power Wells before disabling RC6.

Thanks
Deepak

(In reply to comment #4)
> HI All,
> 
> Does below commit causing the issue?
> 
> commit 3497c2a466ef2c72305180df5a09955ba95550cd
> Author:     Deepak S <deepak.s@intel.com>
> AuthorDate: Mon Aug 18 10:35:27 2014 -0700
> Commit:     Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
> CommitDate: Tue Aug 26 12:54:10 2014 +0200
> 
>     drm/i915: Bring UP Power Wells before disabling RC6.
> 
> Thanks
> Deepak
Rebisect. It's not your commit that cause this issue. Sorry for this.

I bisected this issue, again. And find it's below commit cause this issue.
commit d91a2cb8e5104233c02bbde539bd4ee455ec12ac
Author: Sonika Jindal <sonika.jindal@intel.com>
Date:   Fri Aug 22 14:06:04 2014 +0530

    drm/i915: Add 180 degree primary plane rotation support

    Primary planes support 180 degree rotation. Expose the feature
    through rotation drm property.

    v2: Calculating linear/tiled offsets based on pipe source width and
    height. Added 180 degree rotation support in ironlake_update_plane.

    v3: Checking if CRTC is active before issueing update_plane. Added
    wait for vblank to make sure we dont overtake page flips. Disabling
    FBC since it does not work with rotated planes.

    v4: Updated rotation checks for pending flips, fbc disable. Creating
    rotation property only for Gen4 onwards. Property resetting as part
    of lastclose.

    v5: Resetting property in i915_driver_lastclose properly for planes
    and crtcs. Fixed linear offset calculation that was off by 1 w.r.t
    width in i9xx_update_plane and ironlake_update_plane. Removed tab
    based indentation and unnecessary braces in intel_crtc_set_property
    and intel_update_fbc. FBC and flip related checks should be done only
    for valid crtcs.

    v6: Minor nits in FBC disable checks for comments in intel_crtc_set_property
    and positioning the disable code in intel_update_fbc.

    v7: In case rotation property on inactive crtc is updated, we return
    successfully printing debug log as crtc is inactive and only property change
    is preserved.

    v8: update_plane is changed to update_primary_plane, crtc->fb is changed to
    crtc->primary->fb  and return value of update_primary_plane is ignored.

    v9: added rotation property to primary plane instead of crtc. Removing reset
    of rotation property from lastclose. rotation_property is moved to
    drm_mode_config, so drm layer will take care of resetting. Adding updation o
    fbc when rotation is set to 0. Allowing rotation only if value is
different than old one.


    v10: Calling intel_primary_plane_setplane instead of update_primary_plane in
    set_property(Daniel).

    v11: Using same set_property function for both primary and sprite, Adding
    primary plane specific code in the same function (Matt).

    v12: Removing disabling/ enabling of fbc from set_property because it is don
    from intel_pipe_set_base. Other formatting

    v13: we need to call disable_fbc before changing the rotation to 180,
    disable_fbc from intel_pipe_set_base gets called very late, that will
    be used to re-enable fbc if rotation is set to 0 (Ville).

    Testcase: igt/kms_rotation_crc

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > HI All,
> > 
> > Does below commit causing the issue?
> > 
> > commit 3497c2a466ef2c72305180df5a09955ba95550cd
> > Author:     Deepak S <deepak.s@intel.com>
> > AuthorDate: Mon Aug 18 10:35:27 2014 -0700
> > Commit:     Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
> > CommitDate: Tue Aug 26 12:54:10 2014 +0200
> > 
> >     drm/i915: Bring UP Power Wells before disabling RC6.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Deepak
> Rebisect. It's not your commit that cause this issue. Sorry for this.
Thanks

Daniel, would you revert?

It does not revert cleanly anymore.

I tried to reproduce the issue with drm-intel-nightly on Broadwell and valleyview, but could not see any flicker when moving from console to X or vice versa.

Broadwell setup:
BDW – U
WPT F0 2+2 QH3G
BIOS: BDW-E1R1.86C.0092.R00.1408311942

Valleyview setup:
BYT-T
Bios: BLAKCRB1.X64.PR58.R22.1309101521

This is what I tried:
1. Boot the kernel from usb. This lands into fb console mode
2. startx. This started X term
3. Ctrl+Atl+F1 : Move back to fb console mode (No flicker)
4. Ctrl+c: to stop X (No flicker)

Can you please confirm with the latest drm-intel-nightly ?

(In reply to comment #10)
> I tried to reproduce the issue with drm-intel-nightly on Broadwell and
> valleyview, but could not see any flicker when moving from console to X or
> vice versa.
> 
> Broadwell setup:
> BDW – U
> WPT F0 2+2 QH3G
> BIOS: BDW-E1R1.86C.0092.R00.1408311942
> 
> Valleyview setup:
> BYT-T
> Bios: BLAKCRB1.X64.PR58.R22.1309101521
> 
> This is what I tried:
> 1. Boot the kernel from usb. This lands into fb console mode
> 2. startx. This started X term
> 3. Ctrl+Atl+F1 : Move back to fb console mode (No flicker)
> 4. Ctrl+c: to stop X (No flicker)
> 
> Can you please confirm with the latest drm-intel-nightly ?

This issue has gone on Latest drm-intel-nightly and on latest -fixes.

It would be interesting to see if reverting

commit 13a366ba834d6d7db70c339f056abb54ec0e168b
Author: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Date:   Tue Sep 9 11:25:13 2014 +0300

    drm/i915/edp: use lane count and link rate from DPCD for eDP

brings the flicker back.

Closing verified+fixed.