Constant kernel panics and freezes on Lenovo Thinkpad T14 Gen5 AMD

andrejr · 2026-11-10 09:50:05

Hi everyone, I've been having this issue for a while, and it's driving me nuts.

I constantly either get freezes (the machine completely freezes), or kernel panics (sometimes even w/ a QR code).

Here are the QR code variants: 1 and 2

It usually takes a while, but they can also repeat quite frequently.

I have a Thinkpad T14 Gen5 AMD, which is connected to a Lenovo Thinkpad TB4 dock. The dock is connected to 2 monitors (daisy-chained) via usb-c; the monitors are slightly-above-4k.
I can't be sure, but I think the issues started appearing once I switched to USB connection for monitors, which requires MST.

These are my boot flags:

options rw quiet loglevel=3
options udev.log_priority=3 rd.udev.log_priority=3
options vga=current
options systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1 acpi.ec_no_wakeup=1
options amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x10
options amdgpu.gpu_recovery=1
options amdgpu.gfx_off=0 amdgpu.runpm=0 amdgpu.tmz=0

seth · 2026-11-10 14:00:03

[10955.980424]  dsc_prepare_config+0x3bc/0x580 [amdgpu c05f8e65d103f2dc93eeac6c5b2458d8a423ec36]
[10955.980813]  dsc2_validate_stream+0x3a/0x60 [amdgpu c05f8e65d103f2dc93eeac6c5b2458d8a423ec36]
[10955.981140]  dcn20_validate_dsc+0x211/0x260 [amdgpu c05f8e65d103f2dc93eeac6c5b2458d8a423ec36]
[10955.981456]  dcn30_internal_validate_bw+0x9ec/0xae0 [amdgpu c05f8e65d103f2dc93eeac6c5b2458d8a423ec36]
[10955.981758]  dcn314_validate_bandwidth+0xc9/0x310 [amdgpu c05f8e65d103f2dc93eeac6c5b2458d8a423ec36]
[10955.982047]  create_validate_stream_for_sink+0x507/0x540 [amdgpu c05f8e65d103f2dc93eeac6c5b2458d8a423ec36]
[10955.982437]  pre_validate_dsc+0x38b/0x510 [amdgpu c05f8e65d103f2dc93eeac6c5b2458d8a423ec36]

dcn30_internal_validate_bw is commented "do not support self refresh only" so you're likely(?) hitting that path b/c of "amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x10", https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.17. … ce.c#L1698

can also repeat quite frequently

Can you run w/o the dock for a while to see whether the frequency drops out in return?

started appearing once I switched to USB connection for monitors, which requires MST

That would fit the pattern of the backtrace - does either of the outputs support https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Variable_refresh_rate ?
Have you tried to just swap master and slave?

andrejr · 2026-11-10 15:38:07

The monitors are Benq RD280UG, and they support Freesync Premium, so yes.

It has happened a couple of times even disconnected from the monitors and the dock, but at those times I didn't get the QR code, so I can't be 100% sure it's the same issue.

I think I'll try to remove the dcdebugmask thing for a while as the first thing.

I think I can run it without the dock in between, will try that as the next diagnostic step.

seth · 2026-11-10 20:06:21

I think I can run it without the dock in between, will try that as the next diagnostic step.

seth wrote:

Have you tried to just swap master and slave?

And

they support Freesync Premium, so yes

can you disable that (in the monitors OSD)?

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#1 2026-11-10 09:50:05

Constant kernel panics and freezes on Lenovo Thinkpad T14 Gen5 AMD

#2 2026-11-10 14:00:03

Re: Constant kernel panics and freezes on Lenovo Thinkpad T14 Gen5 AMD

#3 2026-11-10 15:38:07

Re: Constant kernel panics and freezes on Lenovo Thinkpad T14 Gen5 AMD

#4 2026-11-10 20:06:21

Re: Constant kernel panics and freezes on Lenovo Thinkpad T14 Gen5 AMD

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