Re: [PATCH] drm/msm/dpu: Delete bonkers code

[Stephen Boyd]

Quoting Rob Clark (2021-04-30 10:17:39)
> From: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> dpu_crtc_atomic_flush() was directly poking it's attached planes in a
> code path that ended up in dpu_plane_atomic_update(), even if the plane
> was not involved in the current atomic update.  While a bit dubious,
> this worked before because plane->state would always point to something
> valid.  But now using drm_atomic_get_new_plane_state() we could get a
> NULL state pointer instead, leading to:
>
>    [   20.873273] Call trace:
>    [   20.875740]  dpu_plane_atomic_update+0x5c/0xed0
>    [   20.880311]  dpu_plane_restore+0x40/0x88
>    [   20.884266]  dpu_crtc_atomic_flush+0xf4/0x208
>    [   20.888660]  drm_atomic_helper_commit_planes+0x150/0x238
>    [   20.894014]  msm_atomic_commit_tail+0x1d4/0x7a0
>    [   20.898579]  commit_tail+0xa4/0x168
>    [   20.902102]  drm_atomic_helper_commit+0x164/0x178
>    [   20.906841]  drm_atomic_commit+0x54/0x60
>    [   20.910798]  drm_atomic_connector_commit_dpms+0x10c/0x118
>    [   20.916236]  drm_mode_obj_set_property_ioctl+0x1e4/0x440
>    [   20.921588]  drm_connector_property_set_ioctl+0x60/0x88
>    [   20.926852]  drm_ioctl_kernel+0xd0/0x120
>    [   20.930807]  drm_ioctl+0x21c/0x478
>    [   20.934235]  __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xa8/0xe0
>    [   20.938193]  invoke_syscall+0x64/0x130
>    [   20.941977]  el0_svc_common.constprop.3+0x5c/0xe0
>    [   20.946716]  do_el0_svc+0x80/0xa0
>    [   20.950058]  el0_svc+0x20/0x30
>    [   20.953145]  el0_sync_handler+0x88/0xb0
>    [   20.957014]  el0_sync+0x13c/0x140
>
> The reason for the codepath seems dubious, the atomic suspend/resume
> heplers should handle the power-collapse case.  If not, the CRTC's
> atomic_check() should be adding the planes to the atomic update.
>
> Reported-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx>

Maybe better to use swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx for this one.

> Reported-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 37418bf14c13 drm: Use state helper instead of the plane state pointer

Should be

Fixes: 37418bf14c13 ("drm: Use state helper instead of the plane state pointer")

to match the preferred format.

> Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Otherwise looks good, thanks.