Re: [PATCH] drm: override detected status for connectors which are forced on

[Michael Rodin]

Hi Maxime,

thank you for your feedback!
On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 06:40:54PM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 06:03:59PM +0100, Michael Rodin wrote:
> > The detected status of a connector should be ignored when a connector is
> > forced as hinted in the commit d50ba256b5f1 ("drm/kms: start
> > adding command line interface using fb."). One negative side effect of
> > not ignoring this is observed on the RCar3 SoCs which use the dw-hdmi
> > driver. It continues executing drm_helper_hpd_irq_event even if its
> > connector is forced to ON. As consequence drm_helper_hpd_irq_event calls
> > "detect" so the connector status is updated to "disconnected":
> > 
> > [  420.201527] [drm:drm_helper_hpd_irq_event] [CONNECTOR:76:HDMI-A-1] status updated from connected to disconnected
> > 
> > This status is corrected by drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes shortly
> > after this because this function checks if a connector is forced:
> > 
> > [  420.218703] [drm:drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes] [CONNECTOR:76:HDMI-A-1] status updated from disconnected to connected
> > 
> > To avoid similar issues this commit adapts functions which call "detect"
> > so they check additionally if a connector is forced and override the status
> > returned by "detect".
> > 
> > Fixes: 816da85a0990 ("drm: handle HPD and polled connectors separately")
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Rodin <mrodin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> As reported here, this breaks vc4, and probably i915:
> https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20221107123657.24vbgep3jqeklb2s@houat/
> 
> Maxime

My understanding from [1,2] was that the way to avoid such regressions is
to make sure that the "detect" callbacks of connector drivers are always
called even if a connector is forced. This is what I have implemented in my
second patch where "detect" is called first and then the return value is
adjusted based on the "force" status. If my understanding was wrong, I
would very much appreciate if you could give me some hints for the
implementation of an acceptable solution. Maybe it would be safer to simply
avoid calling drm_helper_hpd_irq_event in the dw-hdmi driver when the
connector is forced like mentioned by Laurent [3]? Although this would fix
this global problem only for one particular driver.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20221107123657.24vbgep3jqeklb2s@houat/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20221107122504.tejlb24bjbaxw5t6@houat/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/YzYrNJbfGcch1UtX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

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Best Regards,
Michael