[PATCH 1/9] drm/format-helper: Pass destination pitch to drm_fb_memcpy_dstclip()
Thomas Zimmermann
tzimmermann at suse.de
Tue Sep 29 09:39:21 UTC 2020
Hi
Am 29.09.20 um 11:19 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 11:13:06AM +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Am 28.09.20 um 10:53 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
>>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 9:22 AM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> Am 26.09.20 um 18:42 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
>>>>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 4:55 PM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Am 29.06.20 um 10:40 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
>>>>>>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 02:00:03PM +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
>>>>>>>> The memcpy's destination buffer might have a different pitch than the
>>>>>>>> source. Support different pitches as function argument.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But I do have questions ... why did we allocate a source drm_framebuffer
>>>>>>> with mismatching pitch? That sounds backwards, especially for simplekms.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There's userspace that allocates framebuffers in tiles of 64x64 pixels.
>>>>>> I think I've seen this with Gnome. So if you have a 800x600 display
>>>>>> mode, the allocated framebuffer has a scanline pitch of 832 pixels and
>>>>>> the final 32 pixels are ignored.
>>>>>
>>>>> At least with dumb buffer allocation ioctls userspace should not do
>>>>> that. If it wants 800x600, it needs to allocate 800x600, not something
>>>>
>>>> That ship has sailed.
>>>
>>> Not really, right now that ship is simply leaking and sinking. If we
>>> decide to patch this up from the kernel side, then indeed it has
>>> sailed. And I'm not sure that's a good idea.
>>
>> We have code in at least cirrus, ast and mgag200 to support this. And
>> userspace has been behaving like this since at least when I got involved
>> (2017).
>
> Hm where do these drivers copy stuff around and rematch the stride?
They don't. These drivers adopt their HW stride to match whatever
userspace framebuffers tell them. [1] And that's because userspace gives
them framebuffer sizes like 832*640. And then they do a memcpy with the
given width.
My sole point here was that userspace already relies on this behavior.
Best regards
Thomas
[1]
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/cirrus.c#n285
>
>>>>> else. The driver is supposed to apply any rounding necessary for the
>>>>> size. Or is this a buffer allocated somewhere else and then shared?
>>>>
>>>> I don't quite remember where exactly this was implemented. It was not a
>>>> shared buffer, though. IIRC the buffer allocation code in one of the
>>>> libs rounded the size towards multiples of 64. I remember thinking that
>>>> it was probably done for tiled rendering.
>>>
>>> Yeah, but you don't do rendering on dumb buffers. Like ever. So this
>>> smells like a userspace bug.
>>
>> It's also part of the software rendering. It is not a bug, but
>> implemented deliberately in one of the userspace components that
>> allocates framebuffers (but I cannot remember which one.)
>
> I think it would be good to document this.
>
> We already fake xrgb8888 everywhere because userspace is not flexible
> enough, I guess having to fake 64b stride support everywhere isn't that
> much worse.
>
> But it's definitely not great either :-/
> -Daniel
>
>>
>> Best regards
>> Thomas
>>
>>>
>>> If it's for shared buffers then I think that sounds more reasonable.
>>> -Daniel
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>> Thomas
>>>>
>>>>> -Daniel
>>>>>
>>>>>> In regular drivers, we can handle this with the VGA offset register [1]
>>>>>> or some equivalent. That's obviously not an option with simplekms, so
>>>>>> the different pitch is required.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>> Thomas
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1]
>>>>>> https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs140/projects/pintos/specs/freevga/vga/crtcreg.htm#13
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Would be good to add the reasons why we need this to the commit message,
>>>>>>> I'm sure I'll discover it later on eventually.
>>>>>>> -Daniel
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_format_helper.c | 9 +++++----
>>>>>>>> drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_mode.c | 2 +-
>>>>>>>> drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/cirrus.c | 2 +-
>>>>>>>> include/drm/drm_format_helper.h | 2 +-
>>>>>>>> 4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_format_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_format_helper.c
>>>>>>>> index c043ca364c86..8d5a683afea7 100644
>>>>>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_format_helper.c
>>>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_format_helper.c
>>>>>>>> @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_fb_memcpy);
>>>>>>>> /**
>>>>>>>> * drm_fb_memcpy_dstclip - Copy clip buffer
>>>>>>>> * @dst: Destination buffer (iomem)
>>>>>>>> + * @dst_pitch: Number of bytes between two consecutive scanlines within dst
>>>>>>>> * @vaddr: Source buffer
>>>>>>>> * @fb: DRM framebuffer
>>>>>>>> * @clip: Clip rectangle area to copy
>>>>>>>> @@ -59,12 +60,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_fb_memcpy);
>>>>>>>> * This function applies clipping on dst, i.e. the destination is a
>>>>>>>> * full (iomem) framebuffer but only the clip rect content is copied over.
>>>>>>>> */
>>>>>>>> -void drm_fb_memcpy_dstclip(void __iomem *dst, void *vaddr,
>>>>>>>> - struct drm_framebuffer *fb,
>>>>>>>> +void drm_fb_memcpy_dstclip(void __iomem *dst, unsigned int dst_pitch,
>>>>>>>> + void *vaddr, struct drm_framebuffer *fb,
>>>>>>>> struct drm_rect *clip)
>>>>>>>> {
>>>>>>>> unsigned int cpp = fb->format->cpp[0];
>>>>>>>> - unsigned int offset = clip_offset(clip, fb->pitches[0], cpp);
>>>>>>>> + unsigned int offset = clip_offset(clip, dst_pitch, cpp);
>>>>>>>> size_t len = (clip->x2 - clip->x1) * cpp;
>>>>>>>> unsigned int y, lines = clip->y2 - clip->y1;
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> @@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ void drm_fb_memcpy_dstclip(void __iomem *dst, void *vaddr,
>>>>>>>> for (y = 0; y < lines; y++) {
>>>>>>>> memcpy_toio(dst, vaddr, len);
>>>>>>>> vaddr += fb->pitches[0];
>>>>>>>> - dst += fb->pitches[0];
>>>>>>>> + dst += dst_pitch;
>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_fb_memcpy_dstclip);
>>>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_mode.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_mode.c
>>>>>>>> index f16bd278ab7e..7d4f3a62d885 100644
>>>>>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_mode.c
>>>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_mode.c
>>>>>>>> @@ -1586,7 +1586,7 @@ mgag200_handle_damage(struct mga_device *mdev, struct drm_framebuffer *fb,
>>>>>>>> if (drm_WARN_ON(dev, !vmap))
>>>>>>>> return; /* BUG: SHMEM BO should always be vmapped */
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> - drm_fb_memcpy_dstclip(mdev->vram, vmap, fb, clip);
>>>>>>>> + drm_fb_memcpy_dstclip(mdev->vram, fb->pitches[0], vmap, fb, clip);
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> drm_gem_shmem_vunmap(fb->obj[0], vmap);
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/cirrus.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/cirrus.c
>>>>>>>> index 744a8e337e41..2dd9e5e31e3d 100644
>>>>>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/cirrus.c
>>>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/cirrus.c
>>>>>>>> @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ static int cirrus_fb_blit_rect(struct drm_framebuffer *fb,
>>>>>>>> goto out_dev_exit;
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> if (cirrus->cpp == fb->format->cpp[0])
>>>>>>>> - drm_fb_memcpy_dstclip(cirrus->vram,
>>>>>>>> + drm_fb_memcpy_dstclip(cirrus->vram, fb->pitches[0],
>>>>>>>> vmap, fb, rect);
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> else if (fb->format->cpp[0] == 4 && cirrus->cpp == 2)
>>>>>>>> diff --git a/include/drm/drm_format_helper.h b/include/drm/drm_format_helper.h
>>>>>>>> index 5f9e37032468..2b5036a5fbe7 100644
>>>>>>>> --- a/include/drm/drm_format_helper.h
>>>>>>>> +++ b/include/drm/drm_format_helper.h
>>>>>>>> @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ struct drm_rect;
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> void drm_fb_memcpy(void *dst, void *vaddr, struct drm_framebuffer *fb,
>>>>>>>> struct drm_rect *clip);
>>>>>>>> -void drm_fb_memcpy_dstclip(void __iomem *dst, void *vaddr,
>>>>>>>> +void drm_fb_memcpy_dstclip(void __iomem *dst, unsigned int dst_pitch, void *vaddr,
>>>>>>>> struct drm_framebuffer *fb,
>>>>>>>> struct drm_rect *clip);
>>>>>>>> void drm_fb_swab(void *dst, void *src, struct drm_framebuffer *fb,
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> 2.27.0
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Thomas Zimmermann
>>>>>> Graphics Driver Developer
>>>>>> SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
>>>>>> Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
>>>>>> (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
>>>>>> Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Thomas Zimmermann
>>>> Graphics Driver Developer
>>>> SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
>>>> Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
>>>> (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
>>>> Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Thomas Zimmermann
>> Graphics Driver Developer
>> SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
>> Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
>> (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
>> Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer
>>
>
>
>
>
--
Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
(HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer
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