[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Avoid stalling on pending flips for legacy cursor updates

[Chris Wilson]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 12:02:15PM +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> Op 17-04-16 om 21:42 schreef Chris Wilson:
> > The legacy cursor ioctl expects to be asynchronous with respect to other
> > screen updates, in particular page flips. As X updates the cursor from a
> > signal context, if the cursor blocks then it will stall both the input
> > and output chains causing bad stuttering and horrible UX.
> >
> > Reported-and-tested-by: Rafael Ristovski <rafael.ristovski at gmail.com>
> > Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94980
> > Fixes: 5008e874edd34 ("drm/i915: Make wait_for_flips interruptible.")
> > Suggested-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> > Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> > Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
> > Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> > index 4cca155376be..c5b9687091f4 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> > @@ -13446,6 +13446,9 @@ static int intel_atomic_prepare_commit(struct drm_device *dev,
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	for_each_crtc_in_state(state, crtc, crtc_state, i) {
> > +		if (state->legacy_cursor_update)
> > +			continue;
> > +
> >  		ret = intel_crtc_wait_for_pending_flips(crtc);
> >  		if (ret)
> >  			return ret;
> Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>

Thanks, pushed.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre