[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/2] drm/crtc-helper: clamp unknown connector status in the poll work

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Thu Jun 6 00:17:26 CEST 2013


On some chipset we try to avoid possibly invasive output detection
methods (like load detect which can cause flickering elsewhere) in the
output poll work. Drivers could hence return unknown when a previous
full ->detect call returned a different state.

This change will generate a hotplug event, forcing userspace to do a
full scan. This in turn updates the connector->status field so that we
will _again_ get a state change when the hotplug work re-runs in 10
seconds.

To avoid this ping-pong loop detect this situation and clamp the
connector state to the old value.

Patch is inspired by a patch from Knut Peterson. Knut's patch
completely ignored connector state changes if either the old or new
status was unknown, which seemed to be a bit too agressive to me.

References: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2012-August/025975.html
Cc: Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen at t-online.de>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc_helper.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc_helper.c
index 1c0c0bc..9985a17 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc_helper.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc_helper.c
@@ -1040,6 +1040,24 @@ static void output_poll_execute(struct work_struct *work)
 		if (old_status != connector->status) {
 			const char *old, *new;
 
+			/*
+			 * The poll work sets force=false when calling detect so
+			 * that drivers can avoid to do disruptive tests (e.g.
+			 * when load detect cycles could cause flickering on
+			 * other, running displays). This bears the risk that we
+			 * flip-flop between unknown here in the poll work and
+			 * the real state when userspace forces a full detect
+			 * call after receiving a hotplug event due to this
+			 * change.
+			 *
+			 * Hence clamp an unknown detect status to the old
+			 * value.
+			 */
+			if (connector->status == connector_status_unknown) {
+				connector->status = old_status;
+				continue;
+			}
+
 			old = drm_get_connector_status_name(old_status);
 			new = drm_get_connector_status_name(connector->status);
 
-- 
1.7.11.7




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