[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Wait for vblank after enabling the primary plane on BDW

Ville Syrjälä ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com
Tue Aug 12 10:24:11 CEST 2014


On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 04:44:23PM -0300, Paulo Zanoni wrote:
> 2014-06-30 7:10 GMT-03:00 Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at linux.intel.com>:
> > On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I'm sure this might affect Wayne, so, cc'ing him here.
> >>
> >> from my point of view this is right so:
> >> Reviewed-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>
> >
> > Pushed to -fixes, thanks for the patch and review.
> >
> > BR,
> > Jani.
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 3:59 AM, <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> >>>
> >>> BDW signals the flip done interrupt immediately after the DSPSURF write
> >>> when the plane is disabled. This is true even if we've already armed
> >>> DSPCNTR to enable the plane at the next vblank. This causes major
> >>> problems for our page flip code which relies on the flip done interrupts
> >>> happening at vblank time.
> >>>
> >>> So what happens is that we enable the plane, and immediately allow
> >>> userspace to submit a page flip. If the plane is still in the process
> >>> of being enabled when the page flip is issued, the flip done gets
> >>> signalled immediately. Our DSPSURFLIVE check catches this to prevent
> >>> premature flip completion, but it also means that we don't get a flip
> >>> done interrupt when the plane actually gets enabled, and so the page
> >>> flip is never completed.
> >>>
> >>> Work around this by re-introducing blocking vblank waits on BDW
> >>> whenever we enable the primary plane.
> >>>
> >>> I removed some of the vblank waits here:
> >>>  commit 6304cd91e7f05f8802ea6f91287cac09741d9c46
> >>>  Author: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> >>>  Date:   Fri Apr 25 13:30:12 2014 +0300
> >>>
> >>>     drm/i915: Drop the excessive vblank waits from modeset codepaths
> >>>
> >>> To avoid these blocking vblank waits we should start using the vblank
> >>> interrupt instead of the flip done interrupt to complete page flips.
> >>> But that's material for another patch.
> >>>
> >>> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79354
> >>> Tested-by: Guo Jinxian <jinxianx.guo at intel.com>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 9 +++++++++
> >>>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_sprite.c  | 8 ++++++++
> >>>  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> >>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> >>> index 9188fed..f92efc6 100644
> >>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> >>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> >>> @@ -2087,6 +2087,7 @@ void intel_flush_primary_plane(struct
> >>> drm_i915_private *dev_priv,
> >>>  static void intel_enable_primary_hw_plane(struct drm_i915_private
> >>> *dev_priv,
> >>>                                           enum plane plane, enum pipe pipe)
> >>>  {
> >>> +       struct drm_device *dev = dev_priv->dev;
> >>>         struct intel_crtc *intel_crtc =
> >>>                 to_intel_crtc(dev_priv->pipe_to_crtc_mapping[pipe]);
> >>>         int reg;
> >>> @@ -2106,6 +2107,14 @@ static void intel_enable_primary_hw_plane(struct
> >>> drm_i915_private *dev_priv,
> >>>
> >>>         I915_WRITE(reg, val | DISPLAY_PLANE_ENABLE);
> >>>         intel_flush_primary_plane(dev_priv, plane);
> >>> +
> >>> +       /*
> >>> +        * BDW signals flip done immediately if the plane
> >>> +        * is disabled, even if the plane enable is already
> >>> +        * armed to occur at the next vblank :(
> >>> +        */
> >>> +       if (IS_BROADWELL(dev))
> >>> +               intel_wait_for_vblank(dev, intel_crtc->pipe);
> 
> This chunk triggers "WARN(ret == 0)" from drm_wait_one_vblank when
> using HDMI on BDW.

Are we still calling drm_vblank_off() too soon or something?

> 
> 
> >>>  }
> >>>
> >>>  /**
> >>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_sprite.c
> >>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_sprite.c
> >>> index 1b66ddc..9a17b4e 100644
> >>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_sprite.c
> >>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_sprite.c
> >>> @@ -691,6 +691,14 @@ intel_post_enable_primary(struct drm_crtc *crtc)
> >>>         struct intel_crtc *intel_crtc = to_intel_crtc(crtc);
> >>>
> >>>         /*
> >>> +        * BDW signals flip done immediately if the plane
> >>> +        * is disabled, even if the plane enable is already
> >>> +        * armed to occur at the next vblank :(
> >>> +        */
> >>> +       if (IS_BROADWELL(dev))
> >>> +               intel_wait_for_vblank(dev, intel_crtc->pipe);
> >>> +
> >>> +       /*
> >>>          * FIXME IPS should be fine as long as one plane is
> >>>          * enabled, but in practice it seems to have problems
> >>>          * when going from primary only to sprite only and vice
> >>> --
> >>> 1.8.5.5
> >>>
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Rodrigo Vivi
> >> Blog: http://blog.vivi.eng.br
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> >
> > --
> > Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Paulo Zanoni

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel OTC



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