hda driver initialization takes too much time on the machine with coffeelake audio controller [8086:a348]

[Hui Wang]

[Impact]

We have a couple of laptop and desktop computers, all of them are cfl platforms
and all of them have cfl audio controller [8086:a348], and these computers have
different realtek codecs on them (alc256, alc255, alc289 and ...). The hda
driver takes too much time (3 secs - 8 secs) to initialize on these machines.
This problem never happened on kbl, skl, bdw, ... before.

Sometimes this can make pulseaudio can't work well.

pulseaudio starts, but the driver (as kernel modules) initialization has not
finished, then there is no valid sink in the pulseaudio. At this moment, some UI
Apps already start using pulseaudio to play sound, but users can't hear the sound
as expected. This problem never happened before, it is exposed on cfl platforms,
and all cfl platforms (with audio controller 8086:a348) have this problem.

[Fix]
Set the polling mode can fix this problem, and this workaround is in the
mainline kernel.

[Test Case]
Boot the machine and check the dmesg, from the hda log, we can see the driver
initialization is finished within 0.1s and pulseaudio works well.

[Regression Potential]
No regression, this fix is only for CFL audio controller (8086:a348), and
in theory, polling mode is safe for all audio controllers, using interrupt
mode rather than polling mode on other platforms just wants to save polling
overhead for CPUs, since interrupt mode can't work well on CFL platform, we
have to use polling mode.

[Stefan Bader (smb)]

Please also set status for main linux task (Bionic) will the change be needed there or is (or will) it included already.

[Ubuntu Kernel Bot (ubuntu-kernel-bot)]

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.13.0-39.44

---------------
linux (4.13.0-39.44) artful; urgency=medium

  * linux: 4.13.0-39.44 -proposed tracker (LP: #1761456)

  * intel-microcode 3.20180312.0 causes lockup at login screen(w/ linux-
    image-4.13.0-37-generic) (LP: #1759920) // CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre v2
    Intel) // CVE-2017-5754
    - x86/mm: Reinitialize TLB state on hotplug and resume

  * intel-microcode 3.20180312.0 causes lockup at login screen(w/ linux-
    image-4.13.0-37-generic) (LP: #1759920) // CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre v2 Intel)
    - Revert "x86/mm: Only set IBPB when the new thread cannot ptrace current
      thread"
    - x86/speculation: Use Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier in context switch

  * DKMS driver builds fail with: Cannot use CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION=y, please
    install libelf-dev, libelf-devel or elfutils-libelf-devel (LP: #1760876)
    - [Packaging] include the retpoline extractor in the headers

  * retpoline hints: primary infrastructure and initial hints (LP: #1758856)
    - [Packaging] retpoline-extract: flag *0xNNN(%reg) branches
    - x86/speculation, objtool: Annotate indirect calls/jumps for objtool
    - x86/speculation, objtool: Annotate indirect calls/jumps for objtool on 32bit
    - x86/paravirt, objtool: Annotate indirect calls
    - [Packaging] retpoline -- add safe usage hint support
    - [Packaging] retpoline-check -- only report additions
    - [Packaging] retpoline -- widen indirect call/jmp detection
    - [Packaging] retpoline -- elide %rip relative indirections
    - [Packaging] retpoline -- clear hint information from packages
    - KVM: x86: Make indirect calls in emulator speculation safe
    - KVM: VMX: Make indirect call speculation safe
    - x86/boot, objtool: Annotate indirect jump in secondary_startup_64()
    - SAUCE: early/late -- annotate indirect calls in early/late initialisation
      code
    - SAUCE: vga_set_mode -- avoid jump tables
    - [Config] retpoline -- switch to new format
    - [Packaging] retpoline hints -- handle missing files when RETPOLINE not
      enabled
    - [Packaging] final-checks -- remove check for empty retpoline files

  * retpoline: ignore %cs:0xNNN constant indirections (LP: #1752655)
    - [Packaging] retpoline -- elide %cs:0xNNNN constants on i386

  * zfs system process hung on container stop/delete (LP: #1754584)
    - SAUCE: Fix non-prefaulted page deadlock (LP: #1754584)

  * zfs-linux 0.6.5.11-1ubuntu5 ADT test failure with linux 4.15.0-1.2
    (LP: #1737761)
    - SAUCE: (noup) Update zfs to 0.6.5.11-1ubuntu3.2

  * AT_BASE_PLATFORM in AUXV is absent on kernels available on Ubuntu 17.10
    (LP: #1759312)
    - powerpc/64s: Fix NULL AT_BASE_PLATFORM when using DT CPU features

  * btrfs and tar sparse truncate archives (LP: #1757565)
    - Btrfs: move definition of the function btrfs_find_new_delalloc_bytes
    - Btrfs: fix reported number of inode blocks after buffered append writes

  * efifb broken on ThunderX-based Gigabyte nodes (LP: #1758375)
    - drivers/fbdev/efifb: Allow BAR to be moved instead of claiming it

  * Intel i40e PF reset due to incorrect MDD detection (continues...)
    (LP: #1723127)
    - i40e/i40ev...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-oem - 4.13.0-1024.27

---------------
linux-oem (4.13.0-1024.27) xenial; urgency=medium

  * linux-oem: 4.13.0-1024.27 -proposed tracker (LP: #1763296)

  * [8086:3e92] display becomes blank after S3 (LP: #1763271)
    - drm/i915/edp: Allow alternate fixed mode for eDP if available.
    - drm/i915/dp: rename intel_dp_is_edp to intel_dp_is_port_edp
    - drm/i915/dp: make is_edp non-static and rename to intel_dp_is_edp
    - drm/i915/edp: Do not do link training fallback or prune modes on EDP

  * No network with e1000e driver on 4.13.0-38-generic (LP: #1762693)
    - e1000e: Fix e1000_check_for_copper_link_ich8lan return value.

linux-oem (4.13.0-1023.25) xenial; urgency=medium

  * linux-oem: 4.13.0-1023.25 -proposed tracker (LP: #1761464)

  * Fix Runtime PM for r8169 (LP: #1757422)
    - r8169: only enable PCI wakeups when WOL is active
    - PCI: Add pcim_set_mwi(), a device-managed pci_set_mwi()
    - r8169: switch to device-managed functions in probe
    - r8169: remove netif_napi_del in probe error path
    - r8169: remove unneeded rpm ops in rtl_shutdown
    - r8169: improve runtime pm in rtl8169_check_link_status
    - r8169: improve runtime pm in general and suspend unused ports

  * Ryzen/Raven Ridge USB ports do not work (LP: #1756700)
    - xhci: Fix front USB ports on ASUS PRIME B350M-A
    - SAUCE: xhci: Fix USB ports for Dell Inspiron 5775

  * Miscellaneous Ubuntu changes
    - Rebase to 4.13.0-39.44

  [ Ubuntu: 4.13.0-39.44 ]

  * linux: 4.13.0-39.44 -proposed tracker (LP: #1761456)
  * intel-microcode 3.20180312.0 causes lockup at login screen(w/ linux-
    image-4.13.0-37-generic) (LP: #1759920) // CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre v2
    Intel) // CVE-2017-5754
    - x86/mm: Reinitialize TLB state on hotplug and resume
  * intel-microcode 3.20180312.0 causes lockup at login screen(w/ linux-
    image-4.13.0-37-generic) (LP: #1759920) // CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre v2 Intel)
    - Revert "x86/mm: Only set IBPB when the new thread cannot ptrace current
      thread"
    - x86/speculation: Use Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier in context switch
  * DKMS driver builds fail with: Cannot use CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION=y, please
    install libelf-dev, libelf-devel or elfutils-libelf-devel (LP: #1760876)
    - [Packaging] include the retpoline extractor in the headers
  * retpoline hints: primary infrastructure and initial hints (LP: #1758856)
    - [Packaging] retpoline-extract: flag *0xNNN(%reg) branches
    - x86/speculation, objtool: Annotate indirect calls/jumps for objtool
    - x86/speculation, objtool: Annotate indirect calls/jumps for objtool on 32bit
    - x86/paravirt, objtool: Annotate indirect calls
    - [Packaging] retpoline -- add safe usage hint support
    - [Packaging] retpoline-check -- only report additions
    - [Packaging] retpoline -- widen indirect call/jmp detection
    - [Packaging] retpoline -- elide %rip relative indirections
    - [Packaging] retpoline -- clear hint information from packages
    - KVM: x86: Make indirect calls in emulator speculation safe
    - KVM: VMX: Make indirect call speculation safe
    - x86/boot, objtool: Annotate indirect jump in secondary_startup_64...