Re: [PATCH] drm/amd/display: use correct scale for actual_brightness

[Alexander Monakov]

On Tue, 4 Aug 2020, Kazlauskas, Nicholas wrote:

> This is a cleaner change the other proposed patch since it doesn't need to

Can you give a URL to the other patch please?

> modify the exist conversion functions but I'd be worried about broken
> userspace relying on 0-255 as the only acceptable range.

Not sure what you mean by this. Userspace simply reads the maximum value from
max_brightness sysfs file. On other gpu/firmware combinations it can be 7 or 9
for example, it just happens to be 255 with modern amdgpu. Minimum value is
always zero.

Value seen in max_brightness remains 255 with this patch, so as far as userspace
is concerned nothing is changed apart from value given by actual_brightness file.

Alexander

> 
> Not an expert on existing implementations to point out a specific one though.
> 
> Regards,
> Nicholas Kazlauskas
> 
> On 2020-08-03 4:02 p.m., Alexander Monakov wrote:
> > Documentation for sysfs backlight level interface requires that
> > values in both 'brightness' and 'actual_brightness' files are
> > interpreted to be in range from 0 to the value given in the
> > 'max_brightness' file.
> > 
> > With amdgpu, max_brightness gives 255, and values written by the user
> > into 'brightness' are internally rescaled to a wider range. However,
> > reading from 'actual_brightness' gives the raw register value without
> > inverse rescaling. This causes issues for various userspace tools such
> > as PowerTop and systemd that expect the value to be in the correct
> > range.
> > 
> > Introduce a helper to retrieve internal backlight range. Extend the
> > existing 'convert_brightness' function to handle conversion in both
> > directions.
> > 
> > Bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203905
> > Bug: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1242
> > Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Monakov <amonakov@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   .../gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c | 73 ++++++++-----------
> >   1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
> > index 710edc70e37e..03e21e7b7917 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
> > @@ -2881,51 +2881,42 @@ static int set_backlight_via_aux(struct dc_link
> > *link, uint32_t brightness)
> >   	return rc ? 0 : 1;
> >   }
> >   -static u32 convert_brightness(const struct amdgpu_dm_backlight_caps
> > *caps,
> > -			      const uint32_t user_brightness)
> > +static int get_brightness_range(const struct amdgpu_dm_backlight_caps
> > *caps,
> > +				unsigned *min, unsigned *max)
> >   {
> > -	u32 min, max, conversion_pace;
> > -	u32 brightness = user_brightness;
> > -
> >   	if (!caps)
> > -		goto out;
> > +		return 0;
> >   -	if (!caps->aux_support) {
> > -		max = caps->max_input_signal;
> > -		min = caps->min_input_signal;
> > -		/*
> > -		 * The brightness input is in the range 0-255
> > -		 * It needs to be rescaled to be between the
> > -		 * requested min and max input signal
> > -		 * It also needs to be scaled up by 0x101 to
> > -		 * match the DC interface which has a range of
> > -		 * 0 to 0xffff
> > -		 */
> > -		conversion_pace = 0x101;
> > -		brightness =
> > -			user_brightness
> > -			* conversion_pace
> > -			* (max - min)
> > -			/ AMDGPU_MAX_BL_LEVEL
> > -			+ min * conversion_pace;
> > +	if (caps->aux_support) {
> > +		// Firmware limits are in nits, DC API wants millinits.
> > +		*max = 1000 * caps->aux_max_input_signal;
> > +		*min = 1000 * caps->aux_min_input_signal;
> >   	} else {
> > -		/* TODO
> > -		 * We are doing a linear interpolation here, which is OK but
> > -		 * does not provide the optimal result. We probably want
> > -		 * something close to the Perceptual Quantizer (PQ) curve.
> > -		 */
> > -		max = caps->aux_max_input_signal;
> > -		min = caps->aux_min_input_signal;
> > -
> > -		brightness = (AMDGPU_MAX_BL_LEVEL - user_brightness) * min
> > -			       + user_brightness * max;
> > -		// Multiple the value by 1000 since we use millinits
> > -		brightness *= 1000;
> > -		brightness = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(brightness,
> > AMDGPU_MAX_BL_LEVEL);
> > +		// Firmware limits are 8-bit, PWM control is 16-bit.
> > +		*max = 0x101 * caps->max_input_signal;
> > +		*min = 0x101 * caps->min_input_signal;
> >   	}
> > +	return 1;
> > +}
> >   -out:
> > -	return brightness;
> > +static u32 convert_brightness(const struct amdgpu_dm_backlight_caps *caps,
> > +			      const uint32_t brightness, int from_user)
> > +{
> > +	unsigned min, max;
> > +
> > +	if (!get_brightness_range(caps, &min, &max))
> > +		return brightness;
> > +
> > +	if (from_user)
> > +		// Rescale 0..255 to min..max
> > +		return min + DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST((max - min) * brightness,
> > +					       AMDGPU_MAX_BL_LEVEL);
> > +
> > +	if (brightness < min)
> > +		return 0;
> > +	// Rescale min..max to 0..255
> > +	return DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(AMDGPU_MAX_BL_LEVEL * (brightness - min),
> > +				 max - min);
> >   }
> >     static int amdgpu_dm_backlight_update_status(struct backlight_device
> > *bd)
> > @@ -2941,7 +2932,7 @@ static int amdgpu_dm_backlight_update_status(struct
> > backlight_device *bd)
> >     	link = (struct dc_link *)dm->backlight_link;
> >   -	brightness = convert_brightness(&caps, bd->props.brightness);
> > +	brightness = convert_brightness(&caps, bd->props.brightness, 1);
> >   	// Change brightness based on AUX property
> >   	if (caps.aux_support)
> >   		return set_backlight_via_aux(link, brightness);
> > @@ -2958,7 +2949,7 @@ static int amdgpu_dm_backlight_get_brightness(struct
> > backlight_device *bd)
> >     	if (ret == DC_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)
> >   		return bd->props.brightness;
> > -	return ret;
> > +	return convert_brightness(&dm->backlight_caps, ret, 0);
> >   }
> >     static const struct backlight_ops amdgpu_dm_backlight_ops = {
> > 
> > base-commit: bcf876870b95592b52519ed4aafcf9d95999bc9c
> > 
> 
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