[PATCH 2/3] drm: Create a drm_connector_helper_funcs hook for Adaptive Sync support

[Manasi Navare]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 12:07:37PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2020, Manasi Navare <manasi.d.navare at intel.com> wrote:
> > This patch adds a hook in drm_connector_helper_funcs to get the
> > support of the driver for adaptive sync functionality.
> >
> > This can be called in the connector probe helper function after
> > the connector detect() and get_modes() hooks to also
> > query the adaptive sync support of the driver.
> 
> I can obviously see that from the patch. But this does not explain at
> all *why* we need another hook to begin with, and why it neeeds to be
> called from ->fill_modes that is set to
> drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes().
>

This needs to be called after get_modes that ends up populating the
monitor range after parsing the EDID.

I could have just modified the get_modes hook in the driver to set the
vrr capabilities but that doesnt go with the definition of get_modes() hook
which is purely to obtain modes from edid.

So i added a separate hook which will always return the vrr capabilities if this
hook exists in the driver everytime a connector probe happens.

Would you suggest this elsewhere or some other design?
I am open to better placement of this hook or reusing some other hook or
other suggestions for getting the vrr capabilities in the driver

Manasi
 
> > Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland at amd.com>
> > Cc: Nicholas Kazlauskas <Nicholas.Kazlauskas at amd.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Manasi Navare <manasi.d.navare at intel.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_probe_helper.c       |  4 ++++
> >  include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_probe_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_probe_helper.c
> > index 576b4b7dcd89..4403817bfb02 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_probe_helper.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_probe_helper.c
> > @@ -482,6 +482,10 @@ int drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes(struct drm_connector *connector,
> >  
> >  	count = (*connector_funcs->get_modes)(connector);
> >  
> > +	/* Get the Adaptive Sync Support if helper exists */
> > +	if (*connector_funcs->get_adaptive_sync_support)
> > +		(**connector_funcs->get_adaptive_sync_support)(connector);
> > +
> 
> This is in the middle of a sequence figuring out the modes. First
> ->get_modes, then fallback to other mechanisms. Certainly we don't want
> to do something else in the middle.
> 
> >  	/*
> >  	 * Fallback for when DDC probe failed in drm_get_edid() and thus skipped
> >  	 * override/firmware EDID.
> > diff --git a/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h b/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h
> > index 7c20b1c8b6a7..0b203fdd25df 100644
> > --- a/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h
> > +++ b/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h
> > @@ -1079,6 +1079,22 @@ struct drm_connector_helper_funcs {
> >  				     struct drm_writeback_job *job);
> >  	void (*cleanup_writeback_job)(struct drm_writeback_connector *connector,
> >  				      struct drm_writeback_job *job);
> > +
> > +	/**
> > +	 * @get_adaptive_sync_support:
> > +	 *
> > +	 * This hook is used by the probe helper to get the driver's support
> > +	 * for adaptive sync or variable refresh rate.
> > +	 * This is called from drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes()
> > +	 * This is called after the @get_modes hook so that the connector modes
> > +	 * are already obtained and EDID is parsed to obtain the monitor
> > +	 * range descriptor information.
> > +	 *
> > +	 * This hook is optional and defined only for the drivers and on
> > +	 * connectors that advertise adaptive sync support.
> > +	 *
> > +	 */
> > +	void (*get_adaptive_sync_support)(struct drm_connector *connector);
> >  };
> >  
> >  /**
> 
> -- 
> Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center