Re: [RFC PATCH] drm/edid: drm_add_modes_noedid() should set lowest resolution as preferred

[Abhinav Kumar]

Hi Doug

On 5/10/2022 1:53 PM, Doug Anderson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 9:33 AM Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Jani
> >
> > On 5/6/2022 4:16 AM, Jani Nikula wrote:
> > > On Thu, 05 May 2022, Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Ville,
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 1:21 PM Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > If we're unable to read the EDID for a display because it's corrupt /
> > > > > bogus / invalid then we'll add a set of standard modes for the
> > > > > display. When userspace looks at these modes it doesn't really have a
> > > > > good concept for which mode to pick and it'll likely pick the highest
> > > > > resolution one by default. That's probably not ideal because the modes
> > > > > were purely guesses on the part of the Linux kernel.
> > > > >
> > > > > Let's instead set 640x480 as the "preferred" mode when we have no EDID.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > ---
> > > > >
> > > > >    drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c | 9 +++++++++
> > > > >    1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> > > >
> > > > Someone suggested that you might have an opinion on this patch and
> > > > another one I posted recently [1]. Do you have any thoughts on it?
> > > > Just to be clear: I'm hoping to land _both_ this patch and [1]. If you
> > > > don't have an opinion, that's OK too.
> > > >
> > > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220426114627.2.I4ac7f55aa446699f8c200a23c10463256f6f439f@changeid
> > >
> > > There are a number of drivers with combos:
> > >
> > >        drm_add_modes_noedid()
> > >        drm_set_preferred_mode()
> > >
> > > which I think would be affected by the change. Perhaps you should just
> > > call drm_set_preferred_mode() in your referenced patch?
>
> I'm going to do that and I think it works out pretty well. Patch is at:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220510135101.v2.1.I31ec454f8d4ffce51a7708a8092f8a6f9c929092@changeid
>
>
> > So it seems like many drivers handle the !edid case within their
> > respective get_modes() call which probably is because they know the max
> > capability of their connector and because they know which mode should be
> > set as preferred. But at the same time, perhaps the code below which
> > handles the count == 0 case should be changed like below to make sure we
> > are within the max_width/height of the connector (to handle the first
> > condition)?
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_probe_helper.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_probe_helper.c
> > index 682359512996..6eb89d90777b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_probe_helper.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_probe_helper.c
> > @@ -517,7 +517,8 @@ int drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes(struct
> > drm_connector *connector,
> >
> >           if (count == 0 && (connector->status ==
> > connector_status_connected ||
> >                              connector->status == connector_status_unknown))
> > -               count = drm_add_modes_noedid(connector, 1024, 768);
> > +               count = drm_add_modes_noedid(connector,
> > connector->dev->mode_config.max_width,
> > +                               connector->dev->mode_config.max_height);
> >           count += drm_helper_probe_add_cmdline_mode(connector);
> >           if (count == 0)
> >                   goto prune;
> >
> >
> > > Alternatively, perhaps drm_set_preferred_mode() should erase the
> > > previous preferred mode(s) if it finds a matching new preferred mode.
> >
> > But still yes, even if we change it like above perhaps for other non-DP
> > cases its still better to allow individual drivers to pick their
> > preferred modes.
> >
> > If we call drm_set_preferred_mode() in the referenced patch, it will not
> > address the no EDID cases because the patch comes into picture when
> > there was a EDID with some modes but not with 640x480.
>
> I'm not sure I understand the above paragraph. I think the "there's an
> EDID but no 640x480" is handled by my other patch [1]. Here we're only
> worried about the "no EDID" case, right?
Yes, there are two fixes which have been done (OR have to be done).

1) Case when EDID read failed and count of modes was 0.

Here the DRM framework was already adding 640x480@60fps. The fix we had 
to make was making 640x480@60fps as the preferred mode. Which is what 
your current patch aims at addressing.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220510135101.v2.1.I31ec454f8d4ffce51a7708a8092f8a6f9c929092@changeid/

So I thought the suggestion which Jani was giving was to call 
drm_set_preferred_mode() on the referenced patch which was:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220510131309.v2.2.I4ac7f55aa446699f8c200a23c10463256f6f439f@changeid/

So that would not have fixed this case.

Perhaps, I misunderstood the patch which was being referenced?

2) Case where there were other modes, which got filtered out and in the 
end no modes were left and we had to end up adding 640x480.

No need to set the preferred mode in this case as this would have been 
the only mode in the list ( so becomes preferred by default ).

Thats this change

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220426114627.2.I4ac7f55aa446699f8c200a23c10463256f6f439f@changeid/

I agree with combination of these 2 it should work.



> > So i think the second proposal is a good one. It will cover existing
> > users of drm_set_preferred_mode() as typically its called after
> > drm_add_modes_noedid() which means the existing users want to "override"
> > their preferred mode.
>
> I looked at this, and I'm pretty sure that we can't clear the
> preferred modes. It looks like it's possible for there to be more than
> one preferred mode and I'm worried about borking that up.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220510131309.v2.2.I4ac7f55aa446699f8c200a23c10463256f6f439f@changeid
>
> -Doug