Re: OMAPDSS: DISPC: horizontal timing too tight errors

From: Ivaylo Dimitrov
Date: Tue Jan 07 2014 - 15:26:04 EST


On 07.01.2014 14:35, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
On 2014-01-06 11:43, Ivaylo Dimitrov wrote:
Hi,

commit 7faa92339bbb1e6b9a80983b206642517327eb75 "OMAPDSS: DISPC: Handle
synclost errors in OMAP3" introduces some limits check to prevent
SYNCLOST errors on OMAP3 in a specific usecase. The problem I see here
(on Nokia N900, Maemo 5, linux 3.13-rc6, DSP accel video decoding) is
that those checks effectively prevent fullscreen video playback of
anything above lets say 640x350 with "horizontal timing too tight"
errors spit in dmesg log. If I hack check_horiz_timing_omap3 function to
always return true, I can happily play videos up to (and including) 720p
resolutions, with no SYNCLOST errors.

I never worked with the patch in question, but my understanding is that
the core issue is quite difficult to solve optimally for all cases.
There are so many variables involved. So it may well be that the patch
in question does it a bit over-safely. Then again, it might as well have
a bug =).

One option is also to increase the blanking timings and pixel clock,
presuming the panel is fine with it. That would allow some more time for
the DISPC to manage scaling.

So are you saying that you can't even play any video in the LCD's native
resolution (i.e. no scaling needed) with fullscreen?

So, a couple of questions:

Where do the values in static const u8 limits[3] come from? Are those
documented somewhere?

If I remember right, these horizontal check timings information came
from some non-public TI guides. Not from the TRM.

Commit message says "This code is written based on code written by Ville
Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxx> in Linux OMAP kernel.", is that code
publicly available and where (if it is).

It should be in the Nokia's kernel for N9.

Besides compiling DSS driver with DEBUG enabled and providing the log
(yeah, I know I should've done it already and have the logs included in
this mail, but... :) ), is there anything else I can do to find the
culprit for those errors.

You could look at the original patch in the Nokia kernel to see if the
mainline version is ok. Or maybe even better, try the same use case on
Nokia's kernel to see if it works.

Tomi



Ok, after looking at what both N900 and N9 Nokia kernels do, I came up with the patch bellow. If you are ok with the changes, I'll submit the patch as it should. With that patch I tried more than 20 videos of different resolutions(including 720p), not a single failure :) . Basically it changes the core clock calculation to be done in the same way as in the Nokia kernels.

Regards,
Ivo



diff --git a/drivers/video/omap2/dss/dispc.c b/drivers/video/omap2/dss/dispc.c
index 67e413e..ab5aa05 100644
--- a/drivers/video/omap2/dss/dispc.c
+++ b/drivers/video/omap2/dss/dispc.c
@@ -1999,7 +1999,8 @@ static void calc_tiler_rotation_offset(u16 screen_width, u16 width,
*/
static int check_horiz_timing_omap3(unsigned long pclk, unsigned long lclk,
const struct omap_video_timings *t, u16 pos_x,
- u16 width, u16 height, u16 out_width, u16 out_height)
+ u16 width, u16 height, u16 out_width, u16 out_height,
+ bool five_taps)
{
const int ds = DIV_ROUND_UP(height, out_height);
unsigned long nonactive;
@@ -2019,6 +2020,10 @@ static int check_horiz_timing_omap3(unsigned long pclk, unsigned long lclk,
if (blank <= limits[i])
return -EINVAL;

+ /* FIXME add checks for 3-tap filter once the limitations are known */
+ if (!five_taps)
+ return 0;
+
/*
* Pixel data should be prepared before visible display point starts.
* So, atleast DS-2 lines must have already been fetched by DISPC
@@ -2191,24 +2196,33 @@ static int dispc_ovl_calc_scaling_34xx(unsigned long pclk, unsigned long lclk,
const int maxsinglelinewidth =
dss_feat_get_param_max(FEAT_PARAM_LINEWIDTH);

+ *five_taps = height > out_height;
+
do {
in_height = DIV_ROUND_UP(height, *decim_y);
in_width = DIV_ROUND_UP(width, *decim_x);
- *core_clk = calc_core_clk_five_taps(pclk, mgr_timings,
- in_width, in_height, out_width, out_height, color_mode);
-
- error = check_horiz_timing_omap3(pclk, lclk, mgr_timings,
- pos_x, in_width, in_height, out_width,
- out_height);

if (in_width > maxsinglelinewidth)
if (in_height > out_height &&
in_height < out_height * 2)
*five_taps = false;
- if (!*five_taps)
+again:
+ if(*five_taps)
+ *core_clk = calc_core_clk_five_taps(pclk, mgr_timings,
+ in_width, in_height, out_width,
+ out_height, color_mode);
+ else
*core_clk = dispc.feat->calc_core_clk(pclk, in_width,
- in_height, out_width, out_height,
- mem_to_mem);
+ in_height, out_width, out_height,
+ mem_to_mem);
+
+ error = check_horiz_timing_omap3(pclk, lclk, mgr_timings,
+ pos_x, in_width, in_height, out_width,
+ out_height, *five_taps);
+ if(*five_taps && error) {
+ *five_taps = false;
+ goto again;
+ }

error = (error || in_width > maxsinglelinewidth * 2 ||
(in_width > maxsinglelinewidth && *five_taps) ||
@@ -2226,7 +2240,7 @@ static int dispc_ovl_calc_scaling_34xx(unsigned long pclk, unsigned long lclk,
} while (*decim_x <= *x_predecim && *decim_y <= *y_predecim && error);

if (check_horiz_timing_omap3(pclk, lclk, mgr_timings, pos_x, width,
- height, out_width, out_height)){
+ height, out_width, out_height, *five_taps)){
DSSERR("horizontal timing too tight\n");
return -EINVAL;
}

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