[Intel-gfx] [PATCH RESEND i-g-t 2/2] kms_frontbuffer_tracking: Don't poke compressing status for old cpus

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 02:57:49PM -0300, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni at intel.com> writes:
> 
> > Ouch... Good catch!
> >
> > Can you please move the logic to the setup_fbc() function?
> >
> > if (gen < 7)
> > 	opt.fbc_check_compression = false;
> >
> > This way we avoid redoing the same check a trillion times during
> > kms_frontbuffer_tracking execution.
> >
> > Also, I think this one also lacks a Bugzilla tag:
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100677
> 
> Hmm, yeah, I forgot CC'ing the list when resending. Sorry about that.
> 
> Thanks for reviewing.  Can you take a look at the following version
> instead?
> 
> >8
> Subject: [PATCH] kms_frontbuffer_tracking: Don't poke compressing status for
>  old cpus
> 
> Commit 2804afc606f8 ("kms_frontbuffer_tracking: fix compression
> checking") removes the check whether the kernel supports reporting the
> compression status before asserting on it.  This breaks the test for no
> good reason on old CPUs (SNB and earlier) where the kernel can't report
> the compression status.  Instead, we can check if the cpu doesn't
> support reporting and adopt the same behavior as if

I have a feeling I asked this before, but why aren't we just fixing
the kernel to report it correctly? For any platform with FBC2 it
should be trivial, for FBC1 slightly more complicate as you probably
have to check each individual tag.

> --no-fbc-compression-check was used.
> 
> Changes since v1:
>   - Move verification to setup_fbc (Paulo)
> 
> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100677
> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman at collabora.co.uk>
> ---
>  tests/kms_frontbuffer_tracking.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/kms_frontbuffer_tracking.c b/tests/kms_frontbuffer_tracking.c
> index b49f1abacae8..a655730b4ad3 100644
> --- a/tests/kms_frontbuffer_tracking.c
> +++ b/tests/kms_frontbuffer_tracking.c
> @@ -1524,6 +1524,7 @@ static bool fbc_supported_on_chipset(void)
>  static void setup_fbc(void)
>  {
>  	drmModeConnectorPtr c = get_connector(prim_mode_params.connector_id);
> +	int devid = intel_get_drm_devid(drm.fd);
>  
>  	if (!fbc_supported_on_chipset()) {
>  		igt_info("Can't test FBC: not supported on this chipset\n");
> @@ -1540,6 +1541,11 @@ static void setup_fbc(void)
>  			 "pipe A\n");
>  		return;
>  	}
> +
> +	/* Early Generations are not able to report compression status. */
> +	if (!AT_LEAST_GEN(devid, 7))
> +		opt.fbc_check_compression = false;
> +
>  	fbc.can_test = true;
>  
>  	fbc_setup_last_action();
> -- 
> 2.11.0
> 
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Ville Syrjälä
Intel OTC