Re: [RFC] drm/atomic+msm: add helper to implement legacy dirtyfb

From: Daniel Vetter
Date: Wed Apr 04 2018 - 08:26:22 EST


On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 2:05 PM, Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 7:49 AM, Maarten Lankhorst
> <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Op 04-04-18 om 13:37 schreef Rob Clark:
>>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 6:36 AM, Maarten Lankhorst
>>> <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Op 04-04-18 om 12:21 schreef Daniel Vetter:
>>>>> On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 12:03:00PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 06:42:23PM -0400, Rob Clark wrote:
>>>>>>> Add an atomic helper to implement dirtyfb support. This is needed to
>>>>>>> support DSI command-mode panels with x11 userspace (ie. when we can't
>>>>>>> rely on pageflips to trigger a flush to the panel).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> To signal to the driver that the async atomic update needs to
>>>>>>> synchronize with fences, even though the fb didn't change, the
>>>>>>> drm_atomic_state::dirty flag is added.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>> Background: there are a number of different folks working on getting
>>>>>>> upstream kernel working on various different phones/tablets with qcom
>>>>>>> SoC's.. many of them have command mode panels, so we kind of need a
>>>>>>> way to support the legacy dirtyfb ioctl for x11 support.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I know there is work on a proprer non-legacy atomic property for
>>>>>>> userspace to communicate dirty-rect(s) to the kernel, so this can
>>>>>>> be improved from triggering a full-frame flush once that is in
>>>>>>> place. But we kinda needa a stop-gap solution.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I had considered an in-driver solution for this, but things get a
>>>>>>> bit tricky if userspace ands up combining dirtyfb ioctls with page-
>>>>>>> flips, because we need to synchronize setting various CTL.FLUSH bits
>>>>>>> with setting the CTL.START bit. (ie. really all we need to do for
>>>>>>> cmd mode panels is bang CTL.START, but is this ends up racing with
>>>>>>> pageflips setting FLUSH bits, then bad things.) The easiest soln
>>>>>>> is to wrap this up as an atomic commit and rely on the worker to
>>>>>>> serialize things. Hence adding an atomic dirtyfb helper.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I guess at least the helper, with some small addition to translate
>>>>>>> and pass-thru the dirty rect(s) is useful to the final atomic dirty-
>>>>>>> rect property solution. Depending on how far off that is, a stop-
>>>>>>> gap solution could be useful.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>> drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_atomic.c | 5 ++-
>>>>>>> drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_fb.c | 1 +
>>>>>>> include/drm/drm_atomic_helper.h | 4 +++
>>>>>>> include/drm/drm_plane.h | 9 +++++
>>>>>>> 5 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
>>>>>>> index c35654591c12..a578dc681b27 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
>>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
>>>>>>> @@ -3504,6 +3504,7 @@ void __drm_atomic_helper_plane_duplicate_state(struct drm_plane *plane,
>>>>>>> if (state->fb)
>>>>>>> drm_framebuffer_get(state->fb);
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> + state->dirty = false;
>>>>>>> state->fence = NULL;
>>>>>>> state->commit = NULL;
>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>> @@ -3847,6 +3848,71 @@ int drm_atomic_helper_legacy_gamma_set(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_atomic_helper_legacy_gamma_set);
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> +/**
>>>>>>> + * drm_atomic_helper_dirtyfb - helper for dirtyfb
>>>>>>> + *
>>>>>>> + * A helper to implement drm_framebuffer_funcs::dirty
>>>>>>> + */
>>>>>>> +int drm_atomic_helper_dirtyfb(struct drm_framebuffer *fb,
>>>>>>> + struct drm_file *file_priv, unsigned flags,
>>>>>>> + unsigned color, struct drm_clip_rect *clips,
>>>>>>> + unsigned num_clips)
>>>>>>> +{
>>>>>>> + struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx ctx;
>>>>>>> + struct drm_atomic_state *state;
>>>>>>> + struct drm_plane *plane;
>>>>>>> + int ret = 0;
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> + /*
>>>>>>> + * When called from ioctl, we are interruptable, but not when
>>>>>>> + * called internally (ie. defio worker)
>>>>>>> + */
>>>>>>> + drm_modeset_acquire_init(&ctx,
>>>>>>> + file_priv ? DRM_MODESET_ACQUIRE_INTERRUPTIBLE : 0);
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> + state = drm_atomic_state_alloc(fb->dev);
>>>>>>> + if (!state) {
>>>>>>> + ret = -ENOMEM;
>>>>>>> + goto out;
>>>>>>> + }
>>>>>>> + state->acquire_ctx = &ctx;
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +retry:
>>>>>>> + drm_for_each_plane(plane, fb->dev) {
>>>>>>> + struct drm_plane_state *plane_state;
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> + if (plane->state->fb != fb)
>>>>>>> + continue;
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> + plane_state = drm_atomic_get_plane_state(state, plane);
>>>>>>> + if (IS_ERR(plane_state)) {
>>>>>>> + ret = PTR_ERR(plane_state);
>>>>>>> + goto out;
>>>>>>> + }
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> + plane_state->dirty = true;
>>>>>>> + }
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> + ret = drm_atomic_nonblocking_commit(state);
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +out:
>>>>>>> + if (ret == -EDEADLK) {
>>>>>>> + drm_atomic_state_clear(state);
>>>>>>> + ret = drm_modeset_backoff(&ctx);
>>>>>>> + if (!ret)
>>>>>>> + goto retry;
>>>>>>> + }
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> + drm_atomic_state_put(state);
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> + drm_modeset_drop_locks(&ctx);
>>>>>>> + drm_modeset_acquire_fini(&ctx);
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> + return ret;
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +}
>>>>>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_atomic_helper_dirtyfb);
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> /**
>>>>>>> * __drm_atomic_helper_private_duplicate_state - copy atomic private state
>>>>>>> * @obj: CRTC object
>>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_atomic.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_atomic.c
>>>>>>> index bf5f8c39f34d..bb55a048e98b 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_atomic.c
>>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_atomic.c
>>>>>>> @@ -201,7 +201,10 @@ int msm_atomic_commit(struct drm_device *dev,
>>>>>>> * Figure out what fence to wait for:
>>>>>>> */
>>>>>>> for_each_oldnew_plane_in_state(state, plane, old_plane_state, new_plane_state, i) {
>>>>>>> - if ((new_plane_state->fb != old_plane_state->fb) && new_plane_state->fb) {
>>>>>>> + bool sync_fb = new_plane_state->fb &&
>>>>>>> + ((new_plane_state->fb != old_plane_state->fb) ||
>>>>>>> + new_plane_state->dirty);
>>>>>> Why do you have this optimization even here? Imo flipping to the same fb
>>>>>> should result in the fb getting fully uploaded, whether you're doing a
>>>>>> legacy page_flip, and atomic one or just a plane update.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Iirc some userspace does use that as essentially a full-plane frontbuffer
>>>>>> rendering flush already. IOW I don't think we need your
>>>>>> plane_state->dirty, it's implied to always be true - why would userspace
>>>>>> do a flip otherwise?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The helper itself to map dirtyfb to a nonblocking atomic commit looks
>>>>>> reasonable, but misses a bunch of the trickery discussed with Noralf and
>>>>>> others I think.
>>>>> Ok, I've done some history digging:
>>>>>
>>>>> - i915 and nouveau unconditionally wait for fences, even for same-fb
>>>>> flips.
>>>>> - no idea what amdgpu and vmwgfx are doing, they're not using
>>>>> plane_state->fence for implicit fences.
>>>> I thought plane_state->fence was used for explicit fences, so its use by drivers
>>>> would interfere with it? I don't think fencing would work on msm or vc4..
>>> for implicit fencing we fish out the implicit fence and stuff it in
>>> plane_state->fence..
>> What happens when userspace passes a fence fd to in_fence_fd?
>
> mixing implicit sync and explicit sync is undefined

It's very well-defined, explicit sync wins. See the kerneldoc for
drm_atomic_set_fence_for_plane. Since a pile of drivers don't use that
the reality might be undefined though :-)
-Daniel

>
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