[Freedreno] [PATCH 05/12] drm/msm/dpu: Stop copying around mode->private_flags

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Thu Feb 20 18:14:42 UTC 2020


On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 05:33:09PM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 11:24:20AM +0000, Emil Velikov wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 20:36, Ville Syrjala
> > <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> > >
> > > The driver never sets mode->private_flags so copying
> > > it back and forth is entirely pointless. Stop doing it.
> > >
> > > Also drop private_flags from the tracepoint.
> > >
> > > Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com>
> > > Cc: Sean Paul <sean at poorly.run>
> > > Cc: linux-arm-msm at vger.kernel.org
> > > Cc: freedreno at lists.freedesktop.org
> > > Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> > 
> > Perhaps the msm team has a WIP which makes use of it ?
> 
> Maybe if it's one of them five year projects. But anyways, 
> with an atomic driver there are certainly better ways to
> handle this.

Yeah with atomic you have your display mode in drm_crtc_state, which
you're subposed to subclass so that you can have terabytes of private
state. At least in theory :-)

->private_flags was really only useful in pre-atomic drivers.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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