[PATCH 4/4] drm/radeon: unpin cursor BOs before suspend

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Fri Jul 3 03:01:39 PDT 2015


On 03.07.2015 17:16, Grigori Goronzy wrote:
> On 2015-07-03 05:30, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>>
>> On resume, the cursor BO is currently pinned again by
>> radeon_cursor_reset -> radeon_set_cursor. However, radeon_cursor_reset
>> is also called when changing the video mode, in which case it causes the
>> cursor BO pin count to increase by 1 for each CRTC using it. Presumably,
>> the mouse cursor would end up broken again on suspend/resume after that
>> for you.
>>
> 
> Indeed. It seems to be problematic overall that radeon_cursor_reset does
> unconditionally increment the pin count. As soon as a mode is switched
> with cursor enabled, the cursor BO will stay pinned forever.

Exactly, so we can't ignore that for this fix.


>> We need a solution which pins the BO again on resume but doesn't
>> increase the pin count during a mode change. I'm not sure right now what
>> the best way is to achieve that, I'll think about it more later.
> 
> How about this:
> 
> Never let radeon_set_cursor mess with the pin count, do that in
> radeon_crtc_cursor_set2 only, and make sure that the reference^Wpin
> count is updated accordingly (i.e. exactly one pin per crtc). Then add
> some explicit cursor resume code that traverses the crtc list and
> re-pins as needed. Maybe that that nice, but should work.

Sounds good. I probably won't get around to playing with this before
next week, feel free to give it a try in the meantime.


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