Re: [PATCH] drm: imx: Move fbdev setup to before output polling

From: Thomas Zimmermann
Date: Wed Nov 18 2020 - 04:12:58 EST


Hi

Am 18.11.20 um 09:59 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 9:10 AM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi

Am 17.11.20 um 16:52 schrieb Mark Jonas:
From: Leo Ruan <tingquan.ruan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

The generic fbdev has to be setup before enabling output polling.
Otherwise the fbdev client is not ready to handle delayed events.

Since f53705fd, the generic fbdev is setup after the output polling
init. During fbdev setup, when fbdev probes attached outputs and a
status changes from unknown to connected, the delayed event is
marked and the output_poll_work thread is scheduled without delay.
If output_poll_execute() is runs immediately, the delayed event
is handled without actually polling the output because the fbdev is not
registered yet. So the delayed event is lost. This leads to a dark
screen until a KMS application (or fbcon) sets the screen mode.

This patch fixes the issue by moving the setup of generic fbdev before
initializing and enabling output polling.

Signed-off-by: Leo Ruan <tingquan.ruan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mark Jonas <mark.jonas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/imx/imx-drm-core.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/imx/imx-drm-core.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/imx/imx-drm-core.c
index 9bf5ad6d18a2..2665040e11c7 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/imx/imx-drm-core.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/imx/imx-drm-core.c
@@ -240,14 +240,18 @@ static int imx_drm_bind(struct device *dev)
legacyfb_depth = 16;
}

+ /*
+ * The generic fbdev has to be setup before enabling output polling.
+ * Otherwise the fbdev client is not ready to handle delayed events.
+ */
+ drm_fbdev_generic_setup(drm, legacyfb_depth);
+
drm_kms_helper_poll_init(drm);

ret = drm_dev_register(drm, 0);
if (ret)
goto err_poll_fini;

- drm_fbdev_generic_setup(drm, legacyfb_depth);
-

This does not work well. fbdev is supposed to be another regular DRM
client. It has to be enabled after registering the DRM device.

I'd rather improve fbdev or the driver to handle this gracefully.

Yeah I'm not understanding the point here. Once fbcon is running, you
have a screen. Any fbdev userspace client also should do a modeset
first. And if they dont and it's expected uapi for fbdev chardev that
the display boots up enabled, then we need to fix that in the fbdev
helpers, not through clever reordering in drivers so that a
side-effect causes a modeset.

Note that this is a bit tricky since fbdev shouldn't take over the
screen by default, so we'd need to delay this until first open of
/dev/fb0. And we should probably also delay the hotplug handling until
the first open. fbcon also fake-opens the fbdev file, so it's the same
code path.

As far as I understand the commit message, the problem is that the display blanks out after registering the driver. And fbdev somewhat mitigates this by doing an early modeset. Users with fbdev disabled (most of them in embedded, I guess) would still run into the issue until userspace makes a modeset.

Mark, if that's the case, an option might be to pick up the device settings instead of calling drm_mode_config_reset(). The driver would then continue to display whatever is on the screen.

Best regards
Thomas

-Daniel


Best regards
Thomas

return 0;

err_poll_fini:


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Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
(HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer




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Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
(HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer

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