[PATCH v2] drm/atomic: Fix bookkeeping with TEST_ONLY, v2.

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 02:50:34PM +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> Op 27-08-15 om 14:48 schreef Ville Syrjälä:
> > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 02:43:35PM +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> >> Op 27-08-15 om 14:19 schreef Daniel Stone:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> On 4 August 2015 at 12:34, Maarten Lankhorst
> >>> <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >>>> Commit ec9f932ed41622d120de52a5b525e4d77b9ef17e
> >>>> "drm/atomic: Cleanup on error properly in the atomic ioctl."
> >>>> cleaned up some error paths, but didn't fix the TEST_ONLY path.
> >>>> In the check only case plane->fb shouldn't be updated, and
> >>>> the vblank events should be cleared as on failure.
> >>> Bikeshedding a bit ...
> >>>
> >>> An early test precludes TEST_ONLY | PAGE_FLIP_EVENT, so you don't need
> >>> to mention this in the commit message; in this case, the main change
> >>> is about plane->{,old_}fb.
> >> Even testing with PAGE_FLIP_EVENT would be useful because
> >> event && !crtc_state->active should not be allowed. In that case test
> >> could succeed but commit could fail.
> > Why would commit fail when the we're in DPMS off? I would suggest it
> > should be allowed. The operation would just a be a nop from a HW point
> > of view, all the calculation/checks would still be performed.
> >
> You can commit, just not with PAGE_FLIP_EVENT set when crtc is inactive.

What's so special about the event here? Just send it out as soon as the
state has been swapped.

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel OTC