Commit 9e9f605f authored by Daniel Vetter's avatar Daniel Vetter

drm/doc: Document that modifiers are always required for fb

Even for legacy userspace, since otherwise GETFB2 is broken and if you
switch between modifier-less and modifier-aware compositors, smooth
transitions break.

Also it's just best practice to make sure modifiers are invariant for
a given drm_fb, and that a modifier-aware kms drivers only has one
place to store them, ignoring any old implicit bo flags or whatever
else might float around.

Motivated by some irc discussion with Bas about amdgpu modifier
support.
Acked-by: default avatarBas Nieuwenhuizen <bas@basnieuwenhuizen.nl>
Acked-by: default avatarSimon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>
Acked-by: default avatarDaniel Stone <daniels@collabora.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.com>
Fixes: 455e00f1 ("drm: Add getfb2 ioctl")
Cc: Daniel Stone <daniels@collabora.com>
Cc: Juston Li <juston.li@intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Bas Nieuwenhuizen <bas@basnieuwenhuizen.nl>
Cc: Marek Olšák <maraeo@gmail.com>
Cc: "Wentland, Harry" <harry.wentland@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200917164721.2038541-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
parent db9c1734
......@@ -58,6 +58,12 @@ struct drm_mode_config_funcs {
* actual modifier used if the request doesn't have it specified,
* ie. when (@mode_cmd->flags & DRM_MODE_FB_MODIFIERS) == 0.
*
* IMPORTANT: These implied modifiers for legacy userspace must be
* stored in struct &drm_framebuffer, including all relevant metadata
* like &drm_framebuffer.pitches and &drm_framebuffer.offsets if the
* modifier enables additional planes beyond the fourcc pixel format
* code. This is required by the GETFB2 ioctl.
*
* If the parameters are deemed valid and the backing storage objects in
* the underlying memory manager all exist, then the driver allocates
* a new &drm_framebuffer structure, subclassed to contain
......@@ -915,6 +921,13 @@ struct drm_mode_config {
* @allow_fb_modifiers:
*
* Whether the driver supports fb modifiers in the ADDFB2.1 ioctl call.
*
* IMPORTANT:
*
* If this is set the driver must fill out the full implicit modifier
* information in their &drm_mode_config_funcs.fb_create hook for legacy
* userspace which does not set modifiers. Otherwise the GETFB2 ioctl is
* broken for modifier aware userspace.
*/
bool allow_fb_modifiers;
......
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