[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 28/28] drm/atomic-helper: Reject legacy flips on a disabled pipe

[Thierry Reding]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 09:46:09AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> We want this for consistency with existing page_flip semantics.
> 
> Since this spurred quite a discussion on IRC also document why we
> reject even generation when the pipe is off: It's not that it's hard
> to implement, but userspace has a track recording proofing that it's
> way too easy to accidentally abuse and cause havoc. We want to make
> sure userspace doesn't get away with that.
> 
> Cc: Daniel Stone <daniels at collabora.com>
> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c        | 9 +++++++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c | 8 ++++++++
>  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c
> index 7426d40017a0..06cdb52907da 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c
> @@ -1265,6 +1265,15 @@ int drm_atomic_check_only(struct drm_atomic_state *state)
>  	if (config->funcs->atomic_check)
>  		ret = config->funcs->atomic_check(state->dev, state);
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Reject event generation for when a CRTC is off and stays off. It
> +	 * wouldn't be hard to implement this, but userspace has a track record
> +	 * of happily burning through 100% cpu (or worse, crash) when the
> +	 * display pipe is suspended. To avoid all that fun just reject updates
> +	 * that ask for events since likely that indicates a bug in the
> +	 * compositors drawing loop. This is consistent with the vblank ioctl

"compositor's".

> +	 * which also rejects service on a disabled pipe.
> +	 */
>  	if (!state->allow_modeset) {
>  		for_each_crtc_in_state(state, crtc, crtc_state, i) {
>  			if (drm_atomic_crtc_needs_modeset(crtc_state)) {
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> index 110f3db8dd05..8e281a96c35f 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> @@ -2283,6 +2283,14 @@ retry:
>  		goto fail;
>  	drm_atomic_set_fb_for_plane(plane_state, fb);
>  
> +	state->allow_modeset = false;

Perhaps explain the reason for setting this?

Thierry
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