[PATCH 1/6] drm: allow real encoder to be passed for drm_writeback_connector

[Daniel Vetter]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 10:05:53AM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 10:46:13AM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Mar 2022 at 04:50, Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk at quicinc.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > For some vendor driver implementations, display hardware can
> > > be shared between the encoder used for writeback and the physical
> > > display.
> > >
> > > In addition resources such as clocks and interrupts can
> > > also be shared between writeback and the real encoder.
> > >
> > > To accommodate such vendor drivers and hardware, allow
> > > real encoder to be passed for drm_writeback_connector.
> > >
> > > Co-developed-by: Kandpal Suraj <suraj.kandpal at intel.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk at quicinc.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_writeback.c |  8 ++++----
> > >  include/drm/drm_writeback.h     | 13 +++++++++++--
> > >  2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_writeback.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_writeback.c
> > > index dccf4504..4dad687 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_writeback.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_writeback.c
> > > @@ -189,8 +189,8 @@ int drm_writeback_connector_init(struct drm_device *dev,
> > >         if (IS_ERR(blob))
> > >                 return PTR_ERR(blob);
> > >
> > > -       drm_encoder_helper_add(&wb_connector->encoder, enc_helper_funcs);
> > > -       ret = drm_encoder_init(dev, &wb_connector->encoder,
> > > +       drm_encoder_helper_add(wb_connector->encoder, enc_helper_funcs);
> > > +       ret = drm_encoder_init(dev, wb_connector->encoder,
> > >                                &drm_writeback_encoder_funcs,
> > >                                DRM_MODE_ENCODER_VIRTUAL, NULL);
> > 
> > If the encoder is provided by a separate driver, it might use a
> > different set of encoder funcs.
> 
> More than that, if the encoder is provided externally but doesn't have
> custom operations, I don't really see the point of having an external
> encoder in the first place.
> 
> Has this series been tested with a driver that needs to provide an
> encoder, to make sure it fits the purpose ?

Also, can we not force all drivers to do this setup that don't need it? We
have a ton of kms drivers, forcing unnecessary busiwork on drivers is
really not good.
-Daniel

> 
> > I'd suggest checking whether the wb_connector->encoder is NULL here.
> > If it is, allocate one using drmm_kzalloc and init it.
> > If it is not NULL, assume that it has been initialized already, so
> > skip the drm_encoder_init() and just call the drm_encoder_helper_add()
> > 
> > >         if (ret)
> > > @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ int drm_writeback_connector_init(struct drm_device *dev,
> > >                 goto connector_fail;
> > >
> > >         ret = drm_connector_attach_encoder(connector,
> > > -                                               &wb_connector->encoder);
> > > +                                               wb_connector->encoder);
> > >         if (ret)
> > >                 goto attach_fail;
> > >
> > > @@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ int drm_writeback_connector_init(struct drm_device *dev,
> > >  attach_fail:
> > >         drm_connector_cleanup(connector);
> > >  connector_fail:
> > > -       drm_encoder_cleanup(&wb_connector->encoder);
> > > +       drm_encoder_cleanup(wb_connector->encoder);
> > >  fail:
> > >         drm_property_blob_put(blob);
> > >         return ret;
> > > diff --git a/include/drm/drm_writeback.h b/include/drm/drm_writeback.h
> > > index 9697d27..0ba266e 100644
> > > --- a/include/drm/drm_writeback.h
> > > +++ b/include/drm/drm_writeback.h
> > > @@ -25,13 +25,22 @@ struct drm_writeback_connector {
> > >         struct drm_connector base;
> > >
> > >         /**
> > > -        * @encoder: Internal encoder used by the connector to fulfill
> > > +        * @encoder: handle to drm_encoder used by the connector to fulfill
> > >          * the DRM framework requirements. The users of the
> > >          * @drm_writeback_connector control the behaviour of the @encoder
> > >          * by passing the @enc_funcs parameter to drm_writeback_connector_init()
> > >          * function.
> > > +        *
> > > +        * For some vendor drivers, the hardware resources are shared between
> > > +        * writeback encoder and rest of the display pipeline.
> > > +        * To accommodate such cases, encoder is a handle to the real encoder
> > > +        * hardware.
> > > +        *
> > > +        * For current existing writeback users, this shall continue to be the
> > > +        * embedded encoder for the writeback connector.
> > > +        *
> > >          */
> > > -       struct drm_encoder encoder;
> > > +       struct drm_encoder *encoder;
> > >
> > >         /**
> > >          * @pixel_formats_blob_ptr:
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Laurent Pinchart

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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch