[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] i915: Introduce quirk for shifting eDP brightness.

Puthikorn Voravootivat puthik at chromium.org
Fri Sep 18 18:15:55 UTC 2020


I'll defer to Ville & Lyude.

I dug up more on the bug report and found that both Thinkpad and
Galaxy Chromebook use the same Samsung OLED.
So my 2 vs 1 argument is actually not valid.

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 10:59 AM Kevin Chowski <chowski at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Apologies once again, some of my emails were bouncing for some
> addresses yesterday. Hopefully it was a temporary condition; I'll
> continue trying to dig into it on my end if it happens again for this
> email.
>
> Since there's evidence that some models want lsb and some (well, at
> least one) want msb, my understanding is that we'll need a quirk one
> way or the other (please correct if I'm mistaken). I unfortunately
> don't have the ability to test anything other than the Pixelbook, so
> if we decide the msb is the "right" way, then I will have to rely on
> others to test (and find the OUI of) other models which require lsb.
>
> I am happy to make any changes requested, but I do not at all have
> enough background here to make the decision on whether the msb
> functionality deserves the quirk or if the lsb one does. How can I
> help you all come to an agreement here?
>
> * It seems like Ville feels strongly about the msb being the correct
> interpretation of the spec.
> * It's unclear to me on which side of the fence Lyude falls, I
> couldn't pick up a strong opinion in her clarifying question.
> * Puthikorn seems to be on the side of lsb being correct, but maybe
> was swayed by Ville's argument.
>
> If no one feels that Ville's argument is not strong in some way, and
> we go with that, I will get to work on the requested changes. I am
> concerned, though, about changing the default functionality without
> testing it widely to find the set of laptops which require the lsb
> quirk. I'd appreciate any advice people might have about making this
> change safely.
>
> Thank you for your time,
> Kevin
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 2:11 PM Ville Syrjälä
> <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 09:25:35PM +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 11:14:43AM -0700, Puthikorn Voravootivat wrote:
> > > > The Lyude fde7266fb2f6 change is actually based on Chromium change
> > > > (https://crrev.com/c/1650325) that fixes the brightness for Samsung
> > > > Galaxy Chromebook. So currently we have 2 examples that use LSB
> > > > interpretation and 1 that use MSB.
> > >
> > > "If field 4:0 of the EDP_PWMGEN_BIT_COUNT register represents a value
> > > of greater than 8 and the BACKLIGHT_BRIGHTNESS_BYTE_COUNT bit
> > > is cleared to 0, only the 8 MSB of the brightness control value can be
> > > controlled.
> > > (See Note below.)
> > > Assigned bits are allocated to the MSB of the enabled register
> > > combination."
> > >
> > > I think that's pretty clear the assigned bits are supposed to be
> > > msb aligned.
> >
> > I guess there's some email issues happening, but just to clarify:
> >
> > When the spec says MSB in caps here it clearly means
> > "most significant-bit(s)" since otherwise "8 MSB" would not make
> > any sense in the context of a 2 byte value.
> >
> > Granted the spec is crap here since "Table 1-1: Acronyms and
> > Initialism" does claim "MSB" should be byte(s) and "msb" bit(s).
> >
> > Also I can't imagine anyone would allocate the bits starting
> > from the lsb when the whole thing is clearly supposed to be a
> > 16bit big endian integer. So with >8 assigned bits you'd end
> > up with crazy stuff like this:
> >
> > [ 7 ... 0 ][7   ...   0]
> > [ 8 MSB   ][XXXX][N LSB]
> >
> > so you couldn't even treat the value as a regular big endian
> > thing. Instead, if you squint a bit, it now looks like a funky
> > little endian value. So we're deep into some mixed endian land
> > where nothing makes sense anymore.
> >
> > Anyways I think the code should simply do this to match the spec:
> > u16 value = brightness << (16 - num_assigned_bits);
> > val[0] = value >> 8;
> > val[1] = value & 0xff;
> >
> >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:55 AM Kevin Chowski <chowski at chromium.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Apologies for being too vague. To be as precise I can be, here is the
> > > > > specific code delta I tested: https://crrev.com/c/2406616 . To answer
> > > > > your other question, the code I tested against is indeed including the
> > > > > fde7266fb2f6 (despite ostensibly being called 5.4 in my commit
> > > > > message): our current top-of-tree for our 5.4 branch includes the
> > > > > intel_dp_aux_calc_max_backlight logic. Further, I'll note that change
> > > > > is exactly the change which breaks my Pixelbook model: prior to the
> > > > > change, the max_brightness was hard-coded to 0xFFFF and the math
> > > > > worked out that it didn't matter that the hardware cared about the MSB
> > > > > despite the driver code caring about the LSB.
> > > > >
> > > > > To answer Ville's question: the fde7266fb2f6 change which fixes one
> > > > > laptop (I believe Thinkpad X1 extreme Gen 2, from some bug reports I
> > > > > dug up) and breaks another (Pixelbook); so unfortunately I believe we
> > > > > need a quirk at least for some laptop. Reading through the copy of the
> > > > > datasheet I have, it wasn't clear to me which was the correct
> > > > > interpretation. I'm cc'ing puthik@, who was leaning toward the current
> > > > > kernel code (caring about LSB) being the correct interpretation. I
> > > > > believe we have other chromebooks which do rely on LSB functionality,
> > > > > so unless we can find more examples of laptops wanting MSB it
> > > > > currently looks like Pixelbook is the outlier.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 11:28 AM Jani Nikula
> > > > > <jani.nikula at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Thu, 17 Sep 2020, Kevin Chowski <chowski at chromium.org> wrote:
> > > > > > > We have observed that Google Pixelbook's backlight hardware is
> > > > > > > interpretting these backlight bits from the most-significant side of the
> > > > > > > 16 bit word (if DP_EDP_PWMGEN_BIT_COUNT < 16), whereas the driver code
> > > > > > > assumes the peripheral cares about the least-significant bits.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Testing was done from within Chrome OS's build environment when the
> > > > > > > patch is backported to 5.4 (the version we are newly targeting for the
> > > > > > > Pixelbook); for the record:
> > > > > > >    $ emerge-eve-kernelnext sys-kernel/chromeos-kernel-5_4 && \
> > > > > > >       ./update_kernel.sh --remote=$IP
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I used `/sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/eDP-1/i915_dpcd` on my laptop to verify
> > > > > > > that the registers were being set according to what the actual hardware
> > > > > > > expects; I also observe that the backlight is noticeably brighter with
> > > > > > > this patch.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It's unclear to me what kernel version this is against, and what you've
> > > > > > actually tested.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Have you tried v5.7 kernel with Lyude's fde7266fb2f6 ("drm/i915: Fix eDP
> > > > > > DPCD aux max backlight calculations")?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I just want to make sure you've tested with all the relevant fixes
> > > > > > before adding quirks.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > BR,
> > > > > > Jani.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Kevin Chowski <chowski at chromium.org>
> > > > > > > ---
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >  .../drm/i915/display/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++
> > > > > > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_quirks.c   | 13 +++++++
> > > > > > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h               |  1 +
> > > > > > >  3 files changed, 48 insertions(+)
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c
> > > > > > > index acbd7eb66cbe3..99c98f217356d 100644
> > > > > > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c
> > > > > > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c
> > > > > > > @@ -91,6 +91,23 @@ static u32 intel_dp_aux_get_backlight(struct intel_connector *connector)
> > > > > > >       if (intel_dp->edp_dpcd[2] & DP_EDP_BACKLIGHT_BRIGHTNESS_BYTE_COUNT)
> > > > > > >               level = (read_val[0] << 8 | read_val[1]);
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > +     if (i915->quirks & QUIRK_SHIFT_EDP_BACKLIGHT_BRIGHTNESS) {
> > > > > > > +             if (!drm_dp_dpcd_readb(&intel_dp->aux, DP_EDP_PWMGEN_BIT_COUNT,
> > > > > > > +                                             &read_val[0])) {
> > > > > > > +                     DRM_DEBUG_KMS("Failed to read DPCD register 0x%x\n",
> > > > > > > +                                     DP_EDP_PWMGEN_BIT_COUNT);
> > > > > > > +                     return 0;
> > > > > > > +             }
> > > > > > > +             // Only bits 4:0 are used, 7:5 are reserved.
> > > > > > > +             read_val[0] = read_val[0] & 0x1F;
> > > > > > > +             if (read_val[0] > 16) {
> > > > > > > +                     DRM_DEBUG_KMS("Invalid DP_EDP_PWNGEN_BIT_COUNT 0x%X, expected at most 16\n",
> > > > > > > +                                             read_val[0]);
> > > > > > > +                     return 0;
> > > > > > > +             }
> > > > > > > +             level >>= 16 - read_val[0];
> > > > > > > +     }
> > > > > > > +
> > > > > > >       return level;
> > > > > > >  }
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > @@ -106,6 +123,23 @@ intel_dp_aux_set_backlight(const struct drm_connector_state *conn_state, u32 lev
> > > > > > >       struct drm_i915_private *i915 = dp_to_i915(intel_dp);
> > > > > > >       u8 vals[2] = { 0x0 };
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > +     if (i915->quirks & QUIRK_SHIFT_EDP_BACKLIGHT_BRIGHTNESS) {
> > > > > > > +             if (!drm_dp_dpcd_readb(&intel_dp->aux, DP_EDP_PWMGEN_BIT_COUNT,
> > > > > > > +                                             &vals[0])) {
> > > > > > > +                     DRM_DEBUG_KMS("Failed to write aux backlight level: Failed to read DPCD register 0x%x\n",
> > > > > > > +                                       DP_EDP_PWMGEN_BIT_COUNT);
> > > > > > > +                     return;
> > > > > > > +             }
> > > > > > > +             // Only bits 4:0 are used, 7:5 are reserved.
> > > > > > > +             vals[0] = vals[0] & 0x1F;
> > > > > > > +             if (vals[0] > 16) {
> > > > > > > +                     DRM_DEBUG_KMS("Failed to write aux backlight level: Invalid DP_EDP_PWNGEN_BIT_COUNT 0x%X, expected at most 16\n",
> > > > > > > +                                             vals[0]);
> > > > > > > +                     return;
> > > > > > > +             }
> > > > > > > +             level <<= (16 - vals[0]) & 0xFFFF;
> > > > > > > +     }
> > > > > > > +
> > > > > > >       vals[0] = level;
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >       /* Write the MSB and/or LSB */
> > > > > > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_quirks.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_quirks.c
> > > > > > > index 46beb155d835f..63b27d49b2864 100644
> > > > > > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_quirks.c
> > > > > > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_quirks.c
> > > > > > > @@ -53,6 +53,16 @@ static void quirk_increase_ddi_disabled_time(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
> > > > > > >       drm_info(&i915->drm, "Applying Increase DDI Disabled quirk\n");
> > > > > > >  }
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > +/*
> > > > > > > + * Some eDP backlight hardware uses the most-significant bits of the brightness
> > > > > > > + * register, so brightness values must be shifted first.
> > > > > > > + */
> > > > > > > +static void quirk_shift_edp_backlight_brightness(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
> > > > > > > +{
> > > > > > > +     i915->quirks |= QUIRK_SHIFT_EDP_BACKLIGHT_BRIGHTNESS;
> > > > > > > +     DRM_INFO("Applying shift eDP backlight brightness quirk\n");
> > > > > > > +}
> > > > > > > +
> > > > > > >  struct intel_quirk {
> > > > > > >       int device;
> > > > > > >       int subsystem_vendor;
> > > > > > > @@ -156,6 +166,9 @@ static struct intel_quirk intel_quirks[] = {
> > > > > > >       /* ASRock ITX*/
> > > > > > >       { 0x3185, 0x1849, 0x2212, quirk_increase_ddi_disabled_time },
> > > > > > >       { 0x3184, 0x1849, 0x2212, quirk_increase_ddi_disabled_time },
> > > > > > > +
> > > > > > > +     /* Google Pixelbook */
> > > > > > > +     { 0x591E, 0x8086, 0x2212, quirk_shift_edp_backlight_brightness },
> > > > > > >  };
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >  void intel_init_quirks(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
> > > > > > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> > > > > > > index e4f7f6518945b..cc93bede4fab8 100644
> > > > > > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> > > > > > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> > > > > > > @@ -525,6 +525,7 @@ struct i915_psr {
> > > > > > >  #define QUIRK_PIN_SWIZZLED_PAGES (1<<5)
> > > > > > >  #define QUIRK_INCREASE_T12_DELAY (1<<6)
> > > > > > >  #define QUIRK_INCREASE_DDI_DISABLED_TIME (1<<7)
> > > > > > > +#define QUIRK_SHIFT_EDP_BACKLIGHT_BRIGHTNESS (1<<8)
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >  struct intel_fbdev;
> > > > > > >  struct intel_fbc_work;
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ville Syrjälä
> > > Intel
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> >
> > --
> > Ville Syrjälä
> > Intel


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