[PATCH 5.3 064/148] drm/atomic: Take the atomic toys away from X

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Oct 10 2019 - 05:02:13 EST


From: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>

commit 26b1d3b527e7bf3e24b814d617866ac5199ce68d upstream.

The -modesetting ddx has a totally broken idea of how atomic works:
- doesn't disable old connectors, assuming they get auto-disable like
with the legacy setcrtc
- assumes ASYNC_FLIP is wired through for the atomic ioctl
- not a single call to TEST_ONLY

Iow the implementation is a 1:1 translation of legacy ioctls to
atomic, which is a) broken b) pointless.

We already have bugs in both i915 and amdgpu-DC where this prevents us
from enabling neat features.

If anyone ever cares about atomic in X we can easily add a new atomic
level (req->value == 2) for X to get back the shiny toys.

Since these broken versions of -modesetting have been shipping,
there's really no other way to get out of this bind.

v2:
- add an informational dmesg output (Rob, Ajax)
- reorder after the DRIVER_ATOMIC check to avoid useless noise (Ilia)
- allow req->value > 2 so that X can do another attempt at atomic in
the future

v3: Go with paranoid, insist that the X should be first (suggested by
Rob)

Cc: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (v1)
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Kazlauskas <nicholas.kazlauskas@xxxxxxx> (v1)
Cc: Michel DÃnzer <michel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Adam Jackson <ajax@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Adam Jackson <ajax@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sean Paul <sean@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190905185318.31363-1-daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c
@@ -336,7 +336,12 @@ drm_setclientcap(struct drm_device *dev,
case DRM_CLIENT_CAP_ATOMIC:
if (!drm_core_check_feature(dev, DRIVER_ATOMIC))
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
- if (req->value > 1)
+ /* The modesetting DDX has a totally broken idea of atomic. */
+ if (current->comm[0] == 'X' && req->value == 1) {
+ pr_info("broken atomic modeset userspace detected, disabling atomic\n");
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ }
+ if (req->value > 2)
return -EINVAL;
file_priv->atomic = req->value;
file_priv->universal_planes = req->value;