[PATCH v2] drm/amdgpu: Do not change amdgpu framebuffer format during page flip

[Daniel Vetter]

On Sun, Jan 03, 2021 at 04:43:37PM +0100, Christian König wrote:
> Am 29.12.20 um 22:10 schrieb Zhan Liu:
> > [Why]
> > Driver cannot change amdgpu framebuffer (afb) format while doing
> > page flip. Force system doing so will cause ioctl error, and result in
> > breaking several functionalities including FreeSync.
> > 
> > If afb format is forced to change during page flip, following message
> > will appear in dmesg.log:
> > 
> > "[drm:drm_mode_page_flip_ioctl [drm]]
> > Page flip is not allowed to change frame buffer format."
> > 
> > [How]
> > Do not change afb format while doing page flip. It is okay to check
> > whether afb format is valid here, however, forcing afb format change
> > shouldn't happen here.
> 
> I don't think this we can do this.
> 
> It is perfectly valid for a page flip to switch between linear and tiled
> formats on an I+A or A+A laptop.

It is, but that's not the bug here. struct drm_framebuffer.format is
supposed to be invariant over the lifetime of a drm_fb object, you need to
set it when the fb is created and never change it afterwards. So the patch
here isn't yet the real deal.

Also this means the implicit tiling information cannot be changed after a
fb is created for a given bo, but we've discussed this at length and that
limitation should be all ok.
-Daniel

> 
> Christian.
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Zhan Liu <zhan.liu at amd.com>
> > ---
> >   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_display.c | 3 ++-
> >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > Thanks Nick and Bas. Here is my second patch for review.
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_display.c
> > index a638709e9c92..8a12e27ff4ec 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_display.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_display.c
> > @@ -832,7 +832,8 @@ static int convert_tiling_flags_to_modifier(struct amdgpu_framebuffer *afb)
> >   			if (!format_info)
> >   				return -EINVAL;
> > -			afb->base.format = format_info;
> > +			if (!afb->base.format)
> > +				afb->base.format = format_info;
> >   		}
> >   	}
> 
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Daniel Vetter
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