Re: [PATCH 01/11] drm/fb-helper: do a generic fb_setcmap helper in terms of crtc .gamma_set

[Daniel Vetter]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:40:52AM +0200, Peter Rosin wrote:
> On 2017-06-21 09:38, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 09:25:25PM +0200, Peter Rosin wrote:
> >> This makes the redundant fb helpers .load_lut, .gamma_set and .gamma_get
> >> totally obsolete.
> >>
> >> I think the gamma_store can end up invalid on error. But the way I read
> >> it, that can happen in drm_mode_gamma_set_ioctl as well, so why should
> >> this pesky legacy fbdev stuff be any better?
> >>
> >> drm_fb_helper_save_lut_atomic justs saves the gamma lut for later. However,
> >> it saves it to the gamma_store which should already be up to date with what
> >> .gamma_get would return and is thus a nop. So, zap it.
> > 
> > Removing drm_fb_helper_save_lut_atomic should be a separate patch I
> > think.
> 
> Then 3 patches would be needed, first some hybrid thing that does it the
> old way, but also stores the lut in .gamma_store, then the split-out that
> removes drm_fb_helper_save_lut_atomic, then whatever is needed to get
> to the desired code. I can certainly do that, but do you want me to?

Explain that in the commit message and it's fine.

> > It's a pre-existing bug, but should we also try to restore the fbdev lut
> > in drm_fb_helper_restore_fbdev_mode_unlocked()? Would be yet another bug,
> > but might be relevant for your use-case. Just try to run both an fbdev
> > application and some kms-native thing, and then SIGKILL the native kms
> > app.
> > 
> > But since pre-existing not really required, and probably too much effort.
> 
> Good thing too, because I don't really know my way around this code...

Btw I cc'ed you on one of my patches in the fbdev locking series, we might
need to do the same legacy vs. atomic split for the new lut code as I did
for dpms. The rule with atomic is that you can't do multiple commits under
drm_modeset_lock_all, you either have to do one overall atomic commit
(preferred) or drop&reacquire locks again. This matters for LUT since
you're updating the LUT on all CRTCs, which when using the gamma_set
atomic helper would be multiple commits :-/

Using the dpms patch as template it shouldn't be too hard to address that
for your patch here too.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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