[Freedreno] [PATCH] drm/msm/dp: move add fail safe mode to dp_connector_get_mode()

Tue Apr 26 17:01:02 UTC 2022

On 26/04/2022 18:37, Abhinav Kumar wrote:
> Hi Doug
> 
> On 4/26/2022 8:20 AM, Doug Anderson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 8:35 PM Abhinav Kumar 
>> <quic_abhinavk at quicinc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 4/25/2022 7:18 PM, Doug Anderson wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 6:42 PM Abhinav Kumar 
>>>> <quic_abhinavk at quicinc.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2) When there was a valid EDID but no 640x480 mode
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is the equipment specific case and the one even I was a bit
>>>>>>> surprised. There is a DP compliance equipment we have in-house 
>>>>>>> and while
>>>>>>> validation, it was found that in its list of modes , it did not 
>>>>>>> have any
>>>>>>> modes which chromebook supported ( due to 2 lanes ). But my
>>>>>>> understanding was that, all sinks should have atleast 640x480 but
>>>>>>> apparently this one did not have that. So to handle this DP 
>>>>>>> compliance
>>>>>>> equipment behavior, we had to do this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That doesn't seem right. If there's a valid EDID and the valid EDID
>>>>>> doesn't contain 640x480, are you _sure_ you're supposed to be adding
>>>>>> 640x480? That doesn't sound right to me. I've got a tiny display in
>>>>>> front of me for testing that only has one mode:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      #0 800x480 65.68 800 840 888 928 480 493 496 525 32000
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> As I had wrote, DRM core kicks in only when the count of modes is 0.
>>>>> Here what is happening is the count was not 0 but 640x480 was not
>>>>> present in the EDID. So we had to add it explicitly.
>>>>>
>>>>> Your tiny display is a display port display?
>>>>>
>>>>> I am referring to only display port monitors. If your tiny display is
>>>>> DP, it should have had 640x480 in its list of modes.
>>>>
>>>> My tiny display is actually a HDMI display hooked up to a HDMI to DP
>>>> (active) adapter.
>>>>
>>>> ...but this is a legal and common thing to have. I suppose possibly my
>>>> HDMI display is "illegal"?
>>>>
>>>> OK, so reading through the spec more carefully, I do see that the DP
>>>> spec makes numerous mentions of the fact that DP sinks _must_ support
>>>> 640x480. Even going back to DP 1.4, I see section "5.2.1.2 Video
>>>> Timing Format" says that we must support 640x480. It seems like that's
>>>> _intended_ to be used only if the EDID read fails, though or if we
>>>> somehow have to output video without knowledge of the EDID. It seems
>>>> hard to believe that there's a great reason to assume a display will
>>>> support 640x480 if we have more accurate knowledge.
>>>>
>>>> In any case, I guess I would still say that adding this mode belongs
>>>> in the DRM core. The core should notice that it's a DP connection
>>>> (bridge->type == DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_DisplayPort) and that 640x480 was
>>>> left out and it should add it. We should also make sure it's not
>>>> "preferred" and is last in the list so we never accidentally pick it.
>>>> If DP truly says that we should always give the user 640x480 then
>>>> that's true for everyone, not just Qualcomm. We should add it in the
>>>> core. If, later, someone wants to hide this from the UI it would be
>>>> much easier if they only needed to modify one place.
>>>>
>>>
>>> So I debugged with kuogee just now using the DP compliance equipment.
>>> It turns out, the issue is not that 640x480 mode is not present.
>>>
>>> The issue is that it is not marked as preferred.
>>>
>>> Hence we missed this part during debugging this equipment failure.
>>>
>>> We still have to figure out the best way to either mark 640x480 as
>>> preferred or eliminate other modes during the test-case so that 640x480
>>> is actually picked by usermode.
>>>
>>> Now that being said, the fix still doesn't belong in the framework. It
>>> has to be in the msm/dp code.
>>>
>>> Different vendors handle this failure case differently looks like.
>>>
>>> Lets take below snippet from i915 as example.
>>>
>>> 3361    if (intel_connector->detect_edid == NULL ||
>>> 3362        connector->edid_corrupt ||
>>> 3363        intel_dp->aux.i2c_defer_count > 6) {
>>> 3364            /* Check EDID read for NACKs, DEFERs and corruption
>>> 3365             * (DP CTS 1.2 Core r1.1)
>>> 3366             *    4.2.2.4 : Failed EDID read, I2C_NAK
>>> 3367             *    4.2.2.5 : Failed EDID read, I2C_DEFER
>>> 3368             *    4.2.2.6 : EDID corruption detected
>>> 3369             * Use failsafe mode for all cases
>>> 3370             */
>>> 3371            if (intel_dp->aux.i2c_nack_count > 0 ||
>>> 3372                    intel_dp->aux.i2c_defer_count > 0)
>>> 3373                    drm_dbg_kms(&i915->drm,
>>> 3374                                "EDID read had %d NACKs, %d 
>>> DEFERs\n",
>>> 3375                                intel_dp->aux.i2c_nack_count,
>>> 3376                                intel_dp->aux.i2c_defer_count);
>>> 3377            intel_dp->compliance.test_data.edid = 
>>> INTEL_DP_RESOLUTION_FAILSAFE;
>>
> 
> The reason I pointed to this code is to give an example of how other 
> drivers handle this test-case.
> 
> We added this patch for 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.6 EDID test cases.
> 
> The challenge here as found out from our discussion here was to mark a 
> particular mode as preferred so that the Chrome usermode can pick it.
> 
> Now whats happening with that there was always a possibility of two 
> modes being marked as preferred due to this and so-on.
> 
> We had a pretty long discussion last night and thought of all possible 
> solutions but all of them look like a hack to us in the driver because 
> we end up breaking other things due to this.
> 
> So we decided that driver is not the place to handle this test case.
> Since we do have IGT support for chromebooks, we will handle both these 
> test cases there as other vendors do the same way and it works.
> 
> 
>> Just because Intel DRM has its own solution for something doesn't mean
>> everyone else should copy them and implement their own solution. Up
>> until recently DP AUX backlights were baked into different DRM
>> drivers. A recent effort was made to pull it out. I think the Intel
>> DRM code was the "first one" to the party and it wasn't clear how
>> things should be broken up to share with other drivers, so mostly it
>> did everything itself, but that's not the long term answer.
>>
>> I'm not saying that we need to block your change on a full re-design
>> or anything, but I'm just saying that:
>>
>> * You're trying to implement a generic DP rule, not something specific
>> to Qualcomm hardware. That implies that, if possible, it shouldn't be
>> in a Qualcomm driver.
>>
>> * It doesn't seem like it would be terrible to handle this in the core.
>>
>>
>>> This marks the fail safe mode and IGT test case reads this to set this
>>> mode and hence the test passes.
>>>
>>> We rely on the chromeOS usermode to output pixel data for this test-case
>>> and not IGT. We use IGT only for video pattern CTS today but this is a
>>> different test-case which is failing.
>>>
>>> ChromeOS usermode will not pick 640x480 unless we mark it as preferred
>>> or other modes are eliminated.
>>>
>>> So we have to come up with the right way for the usermode to pick 
>>> 640x480.
>>>
>>> We will discuss this a bit more and come up with a different change.
>>
>> Can you provide the exact EDID from the failing test case? Maybe that
>> will help shed some light on what's going on. I looked at the original
>> commit and it just referred to 4.2.2.1, which I assume is "EDID Read
>> upon HPD Plug Event", but that doesn't give details that seem relevant
>> to the discussion here.
> 
> Yes so it is 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.6.
> 
> That alone wont give the full picture.
> 
> So its a combination of things.
> 
> While running the test, the test equipment published only one mode.
> But we could not support that mode because of 2 lanes.
> Equipment did not add 640x480 to the list of modes.
> DRM fwk will also not add it because count_modes is not 0 ( there was 
> one mode ).
> So we ended up making these changes.

I think a proper solution might be to rewrite 
drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes() in the following way:
- call get_modes()
- validate the result
- prune invalid

- if the number of modes is 0, call drm_add_override_edid_modes()
- validate the result
- prune invalid

- if the number of modes is still 0, call drm_add_modes_noedid()
- validate the result
- prune invalid

[A separate change might happen here after all the checks: if the number 
of modes is still 0 and if it is a DP, enforce adding 640x480 even w/o 
validation. But generally I feel that this shouldn't be necessary 
because the previous step should have added it.]

This way we can be sure that all modes are validated, but still to do 
our best to add something supported to the list of modes.

> 
> 
>>
>> I guess maybe what's happening is that the test case is giving an EDID
>> where all the modes are not supportable by the current clock rate /
>> lanes? ...and then somehow we're not falling back to 640x480. It's
>> always possible that this is a userspace problem.
>>
>> In any case, would you object to a revert of the patches in the short 
>> term?
> 
> Not sure, if you saw this change kuogee posted last night.
> https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/483415/
> We did decided to remove all the code related to these test cases and 
> handle them in IGT.
> 
>>
>> -Doug

-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry