[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/irq: wait a little before queuing the hotplug work function

Hugh Greenberg hugegreenbug at gmail.com
Thu Jun 11 09:13:26 PDT 2015


What if you fired the uevent regardless of the previous state?

> On Jun 11, 2015, at 2:35 AM, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> Currently it's possible this happens when a (non-DP) cable is unplugged:
> 
> - user starts unplugging cable
> - hotplug irq fires
> - hotplug work function runs
> - connector detect function runs
> - ddc pin is still connected, edid read succeeds
>  -> we decide nothing changed, no uevent
> - cable completely unplugged
>  -> our state is inconsistent with reality, no power save
> 
> The user plugs cable back in:
> 
> - most of the same at first
> - ddc pin connected, edid read succeeds
>  -> we decide nothing changed because we thought the cable was plugged
>     in all along, no uevent
> - cable completely plugged
>  -> our state is somewhat consistent, however monitor might be
>     different, the link might not recover?
> 
> With our current implementation we rely on the hotplug pin being *both*
> the last to be connected on plug *and* last to be disconnected on
> unplug. The educated guess is that this is not the case.
> 
> Per the logs in the case of the referenced bug, the hdmi detect code
> runs within a few *microseconds* after the hotplug irq, and the EDID has
> been successfully read within 25 ms of the irq. If the DDC lines are
> still connected when the hotplug irq fires, the user has to be blazingly
> fast to complete the unplug before the detect code runs.
> 
> We can afford to wait a little before queuing the work function for a
> bit more reliability. Obviously it's still possible for the user to
> unplug the cable really slowly, but let's at least give the user a
> fighting chance to unplug fast enough.
> 
> I'd love to claim the proposed delay of 400 ms is based on real life
> measured data and rigorous analysis, but in truth it is just a gut
> feeling based compromise between solving the issue and meeting some
> vague real time human interaction deadline for having a picture on
> screen. (However I expect any criticism to be more substantiated than
> "my gut feeling is better than yours".)
> 
> An alternative would be to check the hotplug state in the irq handler,
> but there have been reliability problems with it in the past, and we've
> opted not to use it. [citation needed]
> 
> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82593
> Tested-by: Hugh Greenberg <hugegreenbug at gmail.com>
> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c |  2 +-
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h |  2 +-
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c | 12 ++++++++----
> 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
> index 78ef0bb53c36..002767ddfe06 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
> @@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ void intel_hpd_cancel_work(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
>    spin_unlock_irq(&dev_priv->irq_lock);
> 
>    cancel_work_sync(&dev_priv->hotplug.dig_port_work);
> -    cancel_work_sync(&dev_priv->hotplug.hotplug_work);
> +    cancel_delayed_work_sync(&dev_priv->hotplug.hotplug_work);
>    cancel_delayed_work_sync(&dev_priv->hotplug.reenable_work);
> }
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> index 611fbd86c1cc..a8a99f658772 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ enum hpd_pin {
>    for ((__pin) = (HPD_NONE + 1); (__pin) < HPD_NUM_PINS; (__pin)++)
> 
> struct i915_hotplug {
> -    struct work_struct hotplug_work;
> +    struct delayed_work hotplug_work;
> 
>    struct {
>        unsigned long last_jiffies;
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c
> index 56db9e747464..bab67c279c22 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c
> @@ -828,6 +828,8 @@ static bool intel_hpd_irq_event(struct drm_device *dev,
>    return true;
> }
> 
> +#define HOTPLUG_DELAY_MS    400
> +
> static void i915_digport_work_func(struct work_struct *work)
> {
>    struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv =
> @@ -872,7 +874,8 @@ static void i915_digport_work_func(struct work_struct *work)
>        spin_lock_irq(&dev_priv->irq_lock);
>        dev_priv->hotplug.event_bits |= old_bits;
>        spin_unlock_irq(&dev_priv->irq_lock);
> -        schedule_work(&dev_priv->hotplug.hotplug_work);
> +        mod_delayed_work(system_wq, &dev_priv->hotplug.hotplug_work,
> +                 msecs_to_jiffies(HOTPLUG_DELAY_MS));
>    }
> }
> 
> @@ -884,7 +887,7 @@ static void i915_digport_work_func(struct work_struct *work)
> static void i915_hotplug_work_func(struct work_struct *work)
> {
>    struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv =
> -        container_of(work, struct drm_i915_private, hotplug.hotplug_work);
> +        container_of(work, struct drm_i915_private, hotplug.hotplug_work.work);
>    struct drm_device *dev = dev_priv->dev;
>    struct drm_mode_config *mode_config = &dev->mode_config;
>    struct intel_connector *intel_connector;
> @@ -1601,7 +1604,8 @@ static void intel_hpd_irq_handler(struct drm_device *dev,
>    if (queue_dig)
>        queue_work(dev_priv->hotplug.dp_wq, &dev_priv->hotplug.dig_port_work);
>    if (queue_hp)
> -        schedule_work(&dev_priv->hotplug.hotplug_work);
> +        mod_delayed_work(system_wq, &dev_priv->hotplug.hotplug_work,
> +                 msecs_to_jiffies(HOTPLUG_DELAY_MS));
> }
> 
> static void gmbus_irq_handler(struct drm_device *dev)
> @@ -4397,7 +4401,7 @@ void intel_irq_init(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
> {
>    struct drm_device *dev = dev_priv->dev;
> 
> -    INIT_WORK(&dev_priv->hotplug.hotplug_work, i915_hotplug_work_func);
> +    INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&dev_priv->hotplug.hotplug_work, i915_hotplug_work_func);
>    INIT_WORK(&dev_priv->hotplug.dig_port_work, i915_digport_work_func);
>    INIT_WORK(&dev_priv->rps.work, gen6_pm_rps_work);
>    INIT_WORK(&dev_priv->l3_parity.error_work, ivybridge_parity_work);
> -- 
> 2.1.4
> 


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