drm/dp_mst: Kill the second sideband tx slot, save the world
While we support using both tx slots for sideband transmissions, it appears that DisplayPort devices in the field didn't end up doing a very good job of supporting it. From section 5.2.1 of the DP 2.0 specification: There are MST Sink/Branch devices in the field that do not handle interleaved message transactions. To facilitate message transaction handling by downstream devices, an MST Source device shall generate message transactions in an atomic manner (i.e., the MST Source device shall not concurrently interleave multiple message transactions). Therefore, an MST Source device shall clear the Message_Sequence_No value in the Sideband_MSG_Header to 0. This might come as a bit of a surprise since the vast majority of hubs will support using both tx slots even if they don't support interleaved message transactions, and we've also been using both tx slots since MST was introduced into the kernel. However, there is one device we've had trouble getting working consistently with MST for so long that we actually assumed it was just broken: the infamous Dell P2415Qb. Previously this monitor would appear to work sometimes, but in most situations would end up timing out LINK_ADDRESS messages almost at random until you power cycled the whole display. After reading section 5.2.1 in the DP 2.0 spec, some closer investigation into this infamous display revealed it was only ever timing out on sideband messages in the second TX slot. Sure enough, avoiding the second TX slot has suddenly made this monitor function perfectly for the first time in five years. And since they explicitly mention this in the specification, I doubt this is the only monitor out there with this issue. This might even explain explain the seemingly harmless garbage sideband responses we would occasionally see with MST hubs! So - rewrite our sideband TX handlers to only support one TX slot. In order to simplify our sideband handling now that we don't support transmitting to multiple MSTBs at once, we also move all state tracking for down replies from mstbs to the topology manager. Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com> Fixes: ad7f8a1f ("drm/helper: add Displayport multi-stream helper (v0.6)") Cc: Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run> Cc: "Lin, Wayne" <Wayne.Lin@amd.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.17+ Reviewed-by: Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200424181308.770749-1-lyude@redhat.com
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