On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 05:18:16PM -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
The self-refresh helper framework overloads "disable" to sometimes mean "go into self-refresh mode," and this mode activates automatically (e.g., after some period of unchanging display output). In such cases, the display pipe is still considered "on", and user-space is not aware that we went into self-refresh mode. Thus, users may expect that vblank-related features (such as DRM_IOCTL_WAIT_VBLANK) still work properly.
However, we trigger the WARN_ONCE() here if a CRTC driver tries to leave vblank enabled.
Add a different expectation: that CRTCs *should* leave vblank enabled when going into self-refresh.
This patch is preparation for another patch -- "drm/rockchip: vop: Leave vblank enabled in self-refresh" -- which resolves conflicts between the above self-refresh behavior and the API tests in IGT's kms_vblank test module.
== Some alternatives discussed: ==
It's likely that on many display controllers, vblank interrupts will turn off when the CRTC is disabled, and so in some cases, self-refresh may not support vblank. To support such cases, we might consider additions to the generic helpers such that we fire vblank events based on a timer.
However, there is currently only one driver using the common self-refresh helpers (i.e., rockchip), and at least as of commit bed030a49f3e ("drm/rockchip: Don't fully disable vop on self refresh"), the CRTC hardware is powered enough to continue to generate vblank interrupts.
So we chose the simpler option of leaving vblank interrupts enabled. We can reevaluate this decision and perhaps augment the helpers if/when we gain a second driver that has different requirements.
v3:
- include discussion summary
v2:
- add 'ret != 0' warning case for self-refresh
- describe failing test case and relation to drm/rockchip patch better
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # dependency for "drm/rockchip: vop: Leave # vblank enabled in self-refresh" Signed-off-by: Brian Norris briannorris@chromium.org
Pushed both patches to drm-misc-next, thanks Brian
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c index d579fd8f7cb8..a22485e3e924 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c @@ -1209,7 +1209,16 @@ disable_outputs(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_atomic_state *old_state) continue; ret = drm_crtc_vblank_get(crtc);
WARN_ONCE(ret != -EINVAL, "driver forgot to call drm_crtc_vblank_off()\n");
/** Self-refresh is not a true "disable"; ensure vblank remains* enabled.*/if (new_crtc_state->self_refresh_active)WARN_ONCE(ret != 0,"driver disabled vblank in self-refresh\n");elseWARN_ONCE(ret != -EINVAL,"driver forgot to call drm_crtc_vblank_off()\n");-- 2.39.0.314.g84b9a713c41-goog