Re: [RFT PATCH 6/6] drm/hisilicon/kirin: Call drm_atomic_helper_shutdown() at shutdown/unbind time

[Doug Anderson]

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 4:41 PM Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Based on grepping through the source code this driver appears to be
> missing a call to drm_atomic_helper_shutdown() at system shutdown time
> and at driver unbind time. Among other things, this means that if a
> panel is in use that it won't be cleanly powered off at system
> shutdown time.
>
> The fact that we should call drm_atomic_helper_shutdown() in the case
> of OS shutdown/restart and at driver remove (or unbind) time comes
> straight out of the kernel doc "driver instance overview" in
> drm_drv.c.
>
> I have attempted to put this in the right place at unbind time. In
> most other DRM drivers the call is made right after the call to
> drm_kms_helper_poll_fini(), so I've put it there. That means that this
> call will also be made in the case that we hit errors in bind, since
> kirin_drm_kms_cleanup() is called both in the bind error path and in
> unbind. I believe this is harmless even though it's not needed in the
> bind error path.
>
> For handling shutdown, we rely on the common technique of seeing if
> the drvdata is NULL to know whether we need to call
> drm_atomic_helper_shutdown(). This makes it important to make sure
> that the drvdata is NULL if bind failed or if unbind was called. We
> don't need the actual check for NULL and we'll rely on the patch
> ("drm/atomic-helper: drm_atomic_helper_shutdown(NULL) should be a
> noop").
>
> Suggested-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This commit is only compile-time tested.
>
>  drivers/gpu/drm/hisilicon/kirin/kirin_drm_drv.c | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

Landed in drm-misc-next:

918ce0906dcd drm/hisilicon/kirin: Call drm_atomic_helper_shutdown() at
shutdown/unbind time