Re: [PATCH] drm/atomic: Check new_crtc_state->active to determine if CRTC needs disable in self refresh mode

From: Alex Deucher
Date: Tue Jan 11 2022 - 10:47:44 EST


Pushed out to drm-misc-next-fixes.

Alex

On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 9:07 PM Liu Ying <victor.liu@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2022-01-07 at 14:53 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 11:07 PM Liu Ying <victor.liu@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Actual hardware state of CRTC is controlled by the member 'active'
> > > in
> > > struct drm_crtc_state instead of the member 'enable', according to
> > > the
> > > kernel doc of the member 'enable'. In fact, the drm client modeset
> > > and atomic helpers are using the member 'active' to do the control.
> > >
> > > Referencing the member 'enable' of new_crtc_state, the function
> > > crtc_needs_disable() may fail to reflect if CRTC needs disable in
> > > self refresh mode, e.g., when the framebuffer emulation will be
> > > blanked
> > > through the client modeset helper with the next commit, the member
> > > 'enable' of new_crtc_state is still true while the member 'active'
> > > is
> > > false, hence the relevant potential encoder and bridges won't be
> > > disabled.
> > >
> > > So, let's check new_crtc_state->active to determine if CRTC needs
> > > disable
> > > in self refresh mode instead of new_crtc_state->enable.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 1452c25b0e60 ("drm: Add helpers to kick off self refresh
> > > mode in drivers")
> > > Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: David Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Liu Ying <victor.liu@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Do you need someone to push this for you?
>
> Yes, please. Thanks.
>
> Liu Ying
>
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > > ---
> > > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c | 2 +-
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> > > b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> > > index a7a05e1e26bb..9603193d2fa1 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> > > @@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@ crtc_needs_disable(struct drm_crtc_state
> > > *old_state,
> > > * it's in self refresh mode and needs to be fully
> > > disabled.
> > > */
> > > return old_state->active ||
> > > - (old_state->self_refresh_active && !new_state-
> > > >enable) ||
> > > + (old_state->self_refresh_active && !new_state-
> > > >active) ||
> > > new_state->self_refresh_active;
> > > }
> > >
> > > --
> > > 2.25.1
> > >
>