• Brian Norris's avatar
    drm/atomic: Allow vblank-enabled + self-refresh "disable" · 9d0e3cac
    Brian Norris authored
    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
    bed030a4 ("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: default avatarBrian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
    Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230109171809.v3.1.I3904f697863649eb1be540ecca147a66e42bfad7@changeid
    9d0e3cac
drm_atomic_helper.c 114 KB