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    drm/i915: Use vblank workers for gamma updates · 2bbc6fca
    Ville Syrjälä authored
    The pipe gamma registers are single buffered so they should only
    be updated during the vblank to avoid screen tearing. In fact they
    really should only be updated between start of vblank and frame
    start because that is the only time the pipe is guaranteed to be
    empty. Already at frame start the pipe begins to fill up with
    data for the next frame.
    
    Unfortunately frame start happens ~1 scanline after the start
    of vblank which in practice doesn't always leave us enough time to
    finish the gamma update in time (gamma LUTs can be several KiB of
    data we have to bash into the registers). However we must try our
    best and so we'll add a vblank work for each pipe from where we
    can do the gamma update. Additionally we could consider pushing
    frame start forward to the max of ~4 scanlines after start of
    vblank. But not sure that's exactly a validated configuration.
    As it stands the ~100 first pixels tend to make it through with
    the old gamma values.
    
    Even though the vblank worker is running on a high prority thread
    we still have to contend with C-states. If the CPU happens be in
    a deep C-state when the vblank interrupt arrives even the irq
    handler gets delayed massively (I've observed dozens of scanlines
    worth of latency). To avoid that problem we'll use the qos mechanism
    to keep the CPU awake while the vblank work is scheduled.
    
    With all this hooked up we can finally enjoy near atomic gamma
    updates. It even works across several pipes from the same atomic
    commit which previously was a total fail because we did the
    gamma updates for each pipe serially after waiting for all
    pipes to have latched the double buffered registers.
    
    In the future the DSB should take over this responsibility
    which will hopefully avoid some of these issues.
    
    Kudos to Lyude for finishing the actual vblank workers.
    Works like the proverbial train toilet.
    
    v2: Add missing intel_atomic_state fwd declaration
    v3: Clean up properly when not scheduling the worker
    v4: Clean up the rest and add tracepoints
    v5: s/intel_wait_for_vblank_works/intel_wait_for_vblank_workers/ (Jani,Uma)
    
    CC: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVille Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
    Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20211020223339.669-4-ville.syrjala@linux.intel.comReviewed-by: default avatarUma Shankar <uma.shankar@intel.com>
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