[PATCH 1/2] drm/atomic: Allow vblank-enabled + self-refresh "disable"

Ville Syrjälä ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com
Wed Jan 11 15:03:30 UTC 2023


On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 09:30:56PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 11:33:06AM -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 07:17:53PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > - fake vblanks with hrtimer, because on most hw when you turn off the crtc
> > >   the vblanks are also turned off, and so your compositor would still
> > >   hang. The vblank machinery already has all the code to make this happen
> > >   (and if it's not all, then i915 psr code should have it).
> > 
> > Is a timer better than an interrupt? I'm pretty sure the vblank
> > interrupts still can fire on Rockchip CRTC (VOP) (see also the other
> > branch of this thread), so this isn't really necessary. (IGT vblank
> > tests pass without hanging.) Unless you simply prefer a fake timer for
> > some reason.
> > 
> > Also, I still haven't found that fake timer machinery, but maybe I just
> > don't know what I'm looking for.
> 
> I ... didn't find it either. I'm honestly not sure whether this works for
> intel, or whether we do something silly like disable self-refresh when a
> vblank interrupt is pending :-/

Intel hardware doesn't enter PSR while the vblank interrupt is enabled.

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel


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