[PATCH v4 1/6] drm/atomic: initial support for asynchronous plane update

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Mon Jul 3 08:06:05 UTC 2017


On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 03:03:17PM -0300, Gustavo Padovan wrote:
> From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan at collabora.com>
> 
> In some cases, like cursor updates, it is interesting to update the
> plane in an asynchronous fashion to avoid big delays. The current queued
> update could be still waiting for a fence to signal and thus block any
> subsequent update until its scan out. In cases like this if we update the
> cursor synchronously through the atomic API it will cause significant
> delays that would even be noticed by the final user.
> 
> This patch creates a fast path to jump ahead the current queued state and
> do single planes updates without going through all atomic steps in
> drm_atomic_helper_commit(). We take this path for legacy cursor updates.
> 
> For now only single plane updates are supported, but we plan to support
> multiple planes updates and async PageFlips through this interface as well
> in the near future.
> 
> v6:	- move check code to drm_atomic_helper.c (Daniel Vetter)
> 
> v5:
> 	- improve comments (Eric Anholt)
> 
> v4:
> 	- fix state->crtc NULL check (Archit Taneja)
> 
> v3:
> 	- fix iteration on the wrong crtc state
> 	- put back code to forbid updates if there is a queued update for
> 	the same plane (Ville Syrjälä)
> 	- move size checks back to drivers (Ville Syrjälä)
> 	- move ASYNC_UPDATE flag addition to its own patch (Ville Syrjälä)
> 
> v2:
> 	- allow updates even if there is a queued update for the same
> 	plane.
>         - fixes on the documentation (Emil Velikov)
>         - unconditionally call ->atomic_async_update (Emil Velikov)
>         - check for ->atomic_async_update earlier (Daniel Vetter)
>         - make ->atomic_async_check() the last step (Daniel Vetter)
>         - add ASYNC_UPDATE flag (Eric Anholt)
>         - update state in core after ->atomic_async_update (Eric Anholt)
> 	- update docs (Eric Anholt)
> 
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com>
> Cc: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan at collabora.com>
> Reviewed-by: Archit Taneja <architt at codeaurora.org> (v5)
> Acked-by: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> (v5)
> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>

Applied to drm-misc-next, I think this is a very good base to build more
async commit on top. We'll probably have to clarify what exactly this
means (and encode that in more helpers) in the future ...

Thanks for doing this.
-Daniel

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c      | 122 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/drm/drm_atomic.h                 |   2 +
>  include/drm/drm_atomic_helper.h          |   4 +
>  include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h |  50 +++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 178 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> index 23e4661..4f6e529 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> @@ -795,6 +795,9 @@ int drm_atomic_helper_check(struct drm_device *dev,
>  	if (ret)
>  		return ret;
>  
> +	if (state->legacy_cursor_update)
> +		state->async_update = !drm_atomic_helper_async_check(dev, state);
> +
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_atomic_helper_check);
> @@ -1353,6 +1356,114 @@ static void commit_work(struct work_struct *work)
>  }
>  
>  /**
> + * drm_atomic_helper_async_check - check if state can be commited asynchronously
> + * @dev: DRM device
> + * @state: the driver state object
> + *
> + * This helper will check if it is possible to commit the state asynchronously.
> + * Async commits are not supposed to swap the states like normal sync commits
> + * but just do in-place changes on the current state.
> + *
> + * It will return 0 if the commit can happen in an asynchronous fashion or error
> + * if not. Note that error just mean it can't be commited asynchronously, if it
> + * fails the commit should be treated like a normal synchronous commit.
> + */
> +int drm_atomic_helper_async_check(struct drm_device *dev,
> +				   struct drm_atomic_state *state)
> +{
> +	struct drm_crtc *crtc;
> +	struct drm_crtc_state *crtc_state;
> +	struct drm_crtc_commit *commit;
> +	struct drm_plane *__plane, *plane = NULL;
> +	struct drm_plane_state *__plane_state, *plane_state = NULL;
> +	const struct drm_plane_helper_funcs *funcs;
> +	int i, j, n_planes = 0;
> +
> +	for_each_new_crtc_in_state(state, crtc, crtc_state, i) {
> +		if (drm_atomic_crtc_needs_modeset(crtc_state))
> +			return -EINVAL;
> +	}
> +
> +	for_each_new_plane_in_state(state, __plane, __plane_state, i) {
> +		n_planes++;
> +		plane = __plane;
> +		plane_state = __plane_state;
> +	}
> +
> +	/* FIXME: we support only single plane updates for now */
> +	if (!plane || n_planes != 1)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	if (!plane_state->crtc)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	funcs = plane->helper_private;
> +	if (!funcs->atomic_async_update)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	if (plane_state->fence)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Don't do an async update if there is an outstanding commit modifying
> +	 * the plane.  This prevents our async update's changes from getting
> +	 * overridden by a previous synchronous update's state.
> +	 */
> +	for_each_new_crtc_in_state(state, crtc, crtc_state, i) {
> +		if (plane->crtc != crtc)
> +			continue;
> +
> +		spin_lock(&crtc->commit_lock);
> +		commit = list_first_entry_or_null(&crtc->commit_list,
> +						  struct drm_crtc_commit,
> +						  commit_entry);
> +		if (!commit) {
> +			spin_unlock(&crtc->commit_lock);
> +			continue;
> +		}
> +		spin_unlock(&crtc->commit_lock);
> +
> +		if (!crtc->state->state)
> +			continue;
> +
> +		for_each_plane_in_state(crtc->state->state, __plane,
> +					__plane_state, j) {
> +			if (__plane == plane)
> +				return -EINVAL;
> +		}
> +	}
> +
> +	return funcs->atomic_async_check(plane, plane_state);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_atomic_helper_async_check);
> +
> +/**
> + * drm_atomic_helper_async_commit - commit state asynchronously
> + * @dev: DRM device
> + * @state: the driver state object
> + *
> + * This function commits a state asynchronously, i.e., not vblank
> + * synchronized. It should be used on a state only when
> + * drm_atomic_async_check() succeeds. Async commits are not supposed to swap
> + * the states like normal sync commits, but just do in-place changes on the
> + * current state.
> + */
> +void drm_atomic_helper_async_commit(struct drm_device *dev,
> +				    struct drm_atomic_state *state)
> +{
> +	struct drm_plane *plane;
> +	struct drm_plane_state *plane_state;
> +	const struct drm_plane_helper_funcs *funcs;
> +	int i;
> +
> +	for_each_new_plane_in_state(state, plane, plane_state, i) {
> +		funcs = plane->helper_private;
> +		funcs->atomic_async_update(plane, plane_state);
> +	}
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_atomic_helper_async_commit);
> +
> +/**
>   * drm_atomic_helper_commit - commit validated state object
>   * @dev: DRM device
>   * @state: the driver state object
> @@ -1376,6 +1487,17 @@ int drm_atomic_helper_commit(struct drm_device *dev,
>  {
>  	int ret;
>  
> +	if (state->async_update) {
> +		ret = drm_atomic_helper_prepare_planes(dev, state);
> +		if (ret)
> +			return ret;
> +
> +		drm_atomic_helper_async_commit(dev, state);
> +		drm_atomic_helper_cleanup_planes(dev, state);
> +
> +		return 0;
> +	}
> +
>  	ret = drm_atomic_helper_setup_commit(state, nonblock);
>  	if (ret)
>  		return ret;
> diff --git a/include/drm/drm_atomic.h b/include/drm/drm_atomic.h
> index 0196f26..dcc8e0c 100644
> --- a/include/drm/drm_atomic.h
> +++ b/include/drm/drm_atomic.h
> @@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ struct __drm_private_objs_state {
>   * @dev: parent DRM device
>   * @allow_modeset: allow full modeset
>   * @legacy_cursor_update: hint to enforce legacy cursor IOCTL semantics
> + * @async_update: hint for asynchronous plane update
>   * @planes: pointer to array of structures with per-plane data
>   * @crtcs: pointer to array of CRTC pointers
>   * @num_connector: size of the @connectors and @connector_states arrays
> @@ -221,6 +222,7 @@ struct drm_atomic_state {
>  	struct drm_device *dev;
>  	bool allow_modeset : 1;
>  	bool legacy_cursor_update : 1;
> +	bool async_update : 1;
>  	struct __drm_planes_state *planes;
>  	struct __drm_crtcs_state *crtcs;
>  	int num_connector;
> diff --git a/include/drm/drm_atomic_helper.h b/include/drm/drm_atomic_helper.h
> index 3bfeb2b..dd196cc 100644
> --- a/include/drm/drm_atomic_helper.h
> +++ b/include/drm/drm_atomic_helper.h
> @@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ void drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail(struct drm_atomic_state *state);
>  int drm_atomic_helper_commit(struct drm_device *dev,
>  			     struct drm_atomic_state *state,
>  			     bool nonblock);
> +int drm_atomic_helper_async_check(struct drm_device *dev,
> +				  struct drm_atomic_state *state);
> +void drm_atomic_helper_async_commit(struct drm_device *dev,
> +				    struct drm_atomic_state *state);
>  
>  int drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_fences(struct drm_device *dev,
>  					struct drm_atomic_state *state,
> diff --git a/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h b/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h
> index c85124f..0656984 100644
> --- a/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h
> +++ b/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h
> @@ -1135,6 +1135,56 @@ struct drm_plane_helper_funcs {
>  	 */
>  	void (*atomic_disable)(struct drm_plane *plane,
>  			       struct drm_plane_state *old_state);
> +
> +	/**
> +	 * @atomic_async_check:
> +	 *
> +	 * Drivers should set this function pointer to check if the plane state
> +	 * can be updated in a async fashion. Here async means "not vblank
> +	 * synchronized".
> +	 *
> +	 * This hook is called by drm_atomic_async_check() to establish if a
> +	 * given update can be committed asynchronously, that is, if it can
> +	 * jump ahead of the state currently queued for update.
> +	 *
> +	 * RETURNS:
> +	 *
> +	 * Return 0 on success and any error returned indicates that the update
> +	 * can not be applied in asynchronous manner.
> +	 */
> +	int (*atomic_async_check)(struct drm_plane *plane,
> +				  struct drm_plane_state *state);
> +
> +	/**
> +	 * @atomic_async_update:
> +	 *
> +	 * Drivers should set this function pointer to perform asynchronous
> +	 * updates of planes, that is, jump ahead of the currently queued
> +	 * state and update the plane. Here async means "not vblank
> +	 * synchronized".
> +	 *
> +	 * This hook is called by drm_atomic_helper_async_commit().
> +	 *
> +	 * An async update will happen on legacy cursor updates. An async
> +	 * update won't happen if there is an outstanding commit modifying
> +	 * the same plane.
> +	 *
> +	 * Note that unlike &drm_plane_helper_funcs.atomic_update this hook
> +	 * takes the new &drm_plane_state as parameter. When doing async_update
> +	 * drivers shouldn't replace the &drm_plane_state but update the
> +	 * current one with the new plane configurations in the new
> +	 * plane_state.
> +	 *
> +	 * FIXME:
> +	 *  - It only works for single plane updates
> +	 *  - Async Pageflips are not supported yet
> +	 *  - Some hw might still scan out the old buffer until the next
> +	 *  vblank, however we let go of the fb references as soon as
> +	 *  we run this hook. For now drivers must implement their own workers
> +	 *  for deferring if needed, until a common solution is created.
> +	 */
> +	void (*atomic_async_update)(struct drm_plane *plane,
> +				    struct drm_plane_state *new_state);
>  };
>  
>  /**
> -- 
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