[PATCH v2] drm/amd/display: use correct scale for actual_brightness

Kazlauskas, Nicholas nicholas.kazlauskas at amd.com
Tue Aug 18 16:48:56 UTC 2020


No objections from my side - and thanks for addressing my feedback.

Regards,
Nicholas Kazlauskas

On 2020-08-18 12:15 p.m., Alex Deucher wrote:
> Applied.  Thanks!
> 
> Alex
> 
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 1:59 PM Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 3:09 AM Alexander Monakov <amonakov at ispras.ru> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ping.
>>
>> Patch looks good to me:
>> Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
>>
>> Nick, unless you have any objections, I'll go ahead and apply it.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 4 Aug 2020, Alexander Monakov wrote:
>>>
>>>> Documentation for sysfs backlight level interface requires that
>>>> values in both 'brightness' and 'actual_brightness' files are
>>>> interpreted to be in range from 0 to the value given in the
>>>> 'max_brightness' file.
>>>>
>>>> With amdgpu, max_brightness gives 255, and values written by the user
>>>> into 'brightness' are internally rescaled to a wider range. However,
>>>> reading from 'actual_brightness' gives the raw register value without
>>>> inverse rescaling. This causes issues for various userspace tools such
>>>> as PowerTop and systemd that expect the value to be in the correct
>>>> range.
>>>>
>>>> Introduce a helper to retrieve internal backlight range. Use it to
>>>> reimplement 'convert_brightness' as 'convert_brightness_from_user' and
>>>> introduce 'convert_brightness_to_user'.
>>>>
>>>> Bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203905
>>>> Bug: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1242
>>>> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
>>>> Cc: Nicholas Kazlauskas <nicholas.kazlauskas at amd.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Monakov <amonakov at ispras.ru>
>>>> ---
>>>> v2: split convert_brightness to &_from_user and &_to_user (Nicholas)
>>>>
>>>>   .../gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c | 81 +++++++++----------
>>>>   1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
>>>> index 710edc70e37e..b60a763f3f95 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
>>>> @@ -2881,51 +2881,50 @@ static int set_backlight_via_aux(struct dc_link *link, uint32_t brightness)
>>>>        return rc ? 0 : 1;
>>>>   }
>>>>
>>>> -static u32 convert_brightness(const struct amdgpu_dm_backlight_caps *caps,
>>>> -                           const uint32_t user_brightness)
>>>> +static int get_brightness_range(const struct amdgpu_dm_backlight_caps *caps,
>>>> +                             unsigned *min, unsigned *max)
>>>>   {
>>>> -     u32 min, max, conversion_pace;
>>>> -     u32 brightness = user_brightness;
>>>> -
>>>>        if (!caps)
>>>> -             goto out;
>>>> +             return 0;
>>>>
>>>> -     if (!caps->aux_support) {
>>>> -             max = caps->max_input_signal;
>>>> -             min = caps->min_input_signal;
>>>> -             /*
>>>> -              * The brightness input is in the range 0-255
>>>> -              * It needs to be rescaled to be between the
>>>> -              * requested min and max input signal
>>>> -              * It also needs to be scaled up by 0x101 to
>>>> -              * match the DC interface which has a range of
>>>> -              * 0 to 0xffff
>>>> -              */
>>>> -             conversion_pace = 0x101;
>>>> -             brightness =
>>>> -                     user_brightness
>>>> -                     * conversion_pace
>>>> -                     * (max - min)
>>>> -                     / AMDGPU_MAX_BL_LEVEL
>>>> -                     + min * conversion_pace;
>>>> +     if (caps->aux_support) {
>>>> +             // Firmware limits are in nits, DC API wants millinits.
>>>> +             *max = 1000 * caps->aux_max_input_signal;
>>>> +             *min = 1000 * caps->aux_min_input_signal;
>>>>        } else {
>>>> -             /* TODO
>>>> -              * We are doing a linear interpolation here, which is OK but
>>>> -              * does not provide the optimal result. We probably want
>>>> -              * something close to the Perceptual Quantizer (PQ) curve.
>>>> -              */
>>>> -             max = caps->aux_max_input_signal;
>>>> -             min = caps->aux_min_input_signal;
>>>> -
>>>> -             brightness = (AMDGPU_MAX_BL_LEVEL - user_brightness) * min
>>>> -                            + user_brightness * max;
>>>> -             // Multiple the value by 1000 since we use millinits
>>>> -             brightness *= 1000;
>>>> -             brightness = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(brightness, AMDGPU_MAX_BL_LEVEL);
>>>> +             // Firmware limits are 8-bit, PWM control is 16-bit.
>>>> +             *max = 0x101 * caps->max_input_signal;
>>>> +             *min = 0x101 * caps->min_input_signal;
>>>>        }
>>>> +     return 1;
>>>> +}
>>>>
>>>> -out:
>>>> -     return brightness;
>>>> +static u32 convert_brightness_from_user(const struct amdgpu_dm_backlight_caps *caps,
>>>> +                                     uint32_t brightness)
>>>> +{
>>>> +     unsigned min, max;
>>>> +
>>>> +     if (!get_brightness_range(caps, &min, &max))
>>>> +             return brightness;
>>>> +
>>>> +     // Rescale 0..255 to min..max
>>>> +     return min + DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST((max - min) * brightness,
>>>> +                                    AMDGPU_MAX_BL_LEVEL);
>>>> +}
>>>> +
>>>> +static u32 convert_brightness_to_user(const struct amdgpu_dm_backlight_caps *caps,
>>>> +                                   uint32_t brightness)
>>>> +{
>>>> +     unsigned min, max;
>>>> +
>>>> +     if (!get_brightness_range(caps, &min, &max))
>>>> +             return brightness;
>>>> +
>>>> +     if (brightness < min)
>>>> +             return 0;
>>>> +     // Rescale min..max to 0..255
>>>> +     return DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(AMDGPU_MAX_BL_LEVEL * (brightness - min),
>>>> +                              max - min);
>>>>   }
>>>>
>>>>   static int amdgpu_dm_backlight_update_status(struct backlight_device *bd)
>>>> @@ -2941,7 +2940,7 @@ static int amdgpu_dm_backlight_update_status(struct backlight_device *bd)
>>>>
>>>>        link = (struct dc_link *)dm->backlight_link;
>>>>
>>>> -     brightness = convert_brightness(&caps, bd->props.brightness);
>>>> +     brightness = convert_brightness_from_user(&caps, bd->props.brightness);
>>>>        // Change brightness based on AUX property
>>>>        if (caps.aux_support)
>>>>                return set_backlight_via_aux(link, brightness);
>>>> @@ -2958,7 +2957,7 @@ static int amdgpu_dm_backlight_get_brightness(struct backlight_device *bd)
>>>>
>>>>        if (ret == DC_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)
>>>>                return bd->props.brightness;
>>>> -     return ret;
>>>> +     return convert_brightness_to_user(&dm->backlight_caps, ret);
>>>>   }
>>>>
>>>>   static const struct backlight_ops amdgpu_dm_backlight_ops = {
>>>>
>>>> base-commit: bcf876870b95592b52519ed4aafcf9d95999bc9c
>>>>
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