[PATCH] drm/vmwgfx: Don't look at state->allow_modeset

[Daniel Vetter]

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 02:58:36PM +0000, Deepak Singh Rawat wrote:
> Reviewed-by: Deepak Rawat <drawat at vmware.com>

Thanks for your review, I've merged this into drm-misc-next so it won't
get lost again. Should land for 5.4.
-Daniel

> 
> On Tue, 2019-05-21 at 00:35 +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > That's purely for the uapi layer to implement the ALLOW_MODESET flag.
> > 
> > Drivers should instead look at the state, e.g. through
> > drm_atomic_crtc_needs_modeset(), which vmwgfx already does. Also
> > remove
> > the confusing comment, since checking allow_modeset is at best a
> > micro
> > optimization.
> > 
> > v2: Rebase
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> > Cc: VMware Graphics <linux-graphics-maintainer at vmware.com>
> > Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c | 8 --------
> >  1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c
> > index b97bc8e5944b..34284f0f5084 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c
> > @@ -1704,14 +1704,6 @@ vmw_kms_atomic_check_modeset(struct drm_device
> > *dev,
> >  	if (ret)
> >  		return ret;
> >  
> > -	if (!state->allow_modeset)
> > -		return ret;
> > -
> > -	/*
> > -	 * Legacy path do not set allow_modeset properly like
> > -	 * @drm_atomic_helper_update_plane, This will result in
> > unnecessary call
> > -	 * to vmw_kms_check_topology. So extra set of check.
> > -	 */
> >  	for_each_new_crtc_in_state(state, crtc, crtc_state, i) {
> >  		if (drm_atomic_crtc_needs_modeset(crtc_state))
> >  			need_modeset = true;
> 

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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch