[PATCH v2] drm/msm/dp: remove fail safe mode related code

Abhinav Kumar quic_abhinavk at quicinc.com
Tue Apr 26 17:36:45 UTC 2022



On 4/25/2022 11:00 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Kuogee Hsieh (2022-04-25 22:56:35)
>> Current DP driver implementation has adding safe mode done at
>> dp_hpd_plug_handle() which is expected to be executed under event
>> thread context.
>>
>> However there is possible circular locking happen (see blow stack trace)
>> after edp driver call dp_hpd_plug_handle() from dp_bridge_enable() which
>> is executed under drm_thread context.
>>
>> After review all possibilities methods and as discussed on
>> https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/483155/, supporting EDID
>> compliance tests in the driver is quite hacky. As seen with other
>> vendor drivers, supporting these will be much easier with IGT. Hence
>> removing all the related fail safe code for it so that no possibility
>> of circular lock will happen.
> [...]
>>
>> Changes in v2:
>> -- re text commit title
>> -- remove all fail safe mode
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kuogee Hsieh <quic_khsieh at quicinc.com>
> 
> Should add some Fixes tags here, probably for the first introduction of
> this logic and the one that moved stuff around to try to avoid the
> lockdep warning.

Fixes: 8b2c181 ("drm/msm/dp: add fail safe mode outside of event_mutex 
context")


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