[Intel-gfx] [PATCH RESEND v4 1/6] drm/i915: Add DPCD preferred mode for backlight control

Pandiyan, Dhinakaran dhinakaran.pandiyan at intel.com
Wed May 3 01:19:34 UTC 2017


On Wed, 2017-05-03 at 00:54 +0000, Pandiyan, Dhinakaran wrote:
> Sorry for the wait. This is not a complete review, just some quick
> comments for now.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2017-04-18 at 16:48 -0700, Puthikorn Voravootivat wrote:
> > Currently the intel_dp_aux_backlight driver requires eDP panel
> > to not also support backlight adjustment via PWM pin to use
> > this driver.
> > 
> > This force the eDP panel that support both ways of backlight
> > adjustment to do it via PWM pin.
> > 
> > This patch adds the new prefer DPCD mode in the i915_param
> > to make it enable to prefer DPCD over the PWM via kernel param.
> > 
> > This patch also add a check to DP_EDP_BACKLIGHT_AUX_ENABLE_CAP
> > in set_aux_backlight_enable() since the backlight enablement
> > can be done via BL_ENABLE eDP connector pin in the case that
> > it does not support doing that via AUX.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Puthikorn Voravootivat <puthik at chromium.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.c            |  6 ++---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.h            |  2 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++--------
> >  3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.c
> > index b6a7e363d076..960393dd5edf 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.c
> > @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ struct i915_params i915 __read_mostly = {
> >  	.huc_firmware_path = NULL,
> >  	.enable_dp_mst = true,
> >  	.inject_load_failure = 0,
> > -	.enable_dpcd_backlight = false,
> > +	.enable_dpcd_backlight = 0,
> >  	.enable_gvt = false,
> >  };
> >  
> > @@ -246,9 +246,9 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(enable_dp_mst,
> >  module_param_named_unsafe(inject_load_failure, i915.inject_load_failure, uint, 0400);
> >  MODULE_PARM_DESC(inject_load_failure,
> >  	"Force an error after a number of failure check points (0:disabled (default), N:force failure at the Nth failure check point)");
> > -module_param_named(enable_dpcd_backlight, i915.enable_dpcd_backlight, bool, 0600);
> > +module_param_named(enable_dpcd_backlight, i915.enable_dpcd_backlight, int, 0600);
> >  MODULE_PARM_DESC(enable_dpcd_backlight,
> > -	"Enable support for DPCD backlight control (default:false)");
> > +	"Enable support for DPCD backlight control (0:disable (default), 1:prefer PWM pin, 2: prefer DPCD)");
> 
> I looked at other int parameters, -1=default, 0=disable(prefer PWM in
> your case), 1=enable(prefer DPCD) seems like the more common way to do
> this.
> 
> 
> >  
> >  module_param_named(enable_gvt, i915.enable_gvt, bool, 0400);
> >  MODULE_PARM_DESC(enable_gvt,
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.h
> > index 34148cc8637c..bf6e2c60f697 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.h
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.h
> > @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
> >  	func(int, use_mmio_flip); \
> >  	func(int, mmio_debug); \
> >  	func(int, edp_vswing); \
> > +	func(int, enable_dpcd_backlight); \
> >  	func(unsigned int, inject_load_failure); \
> >  	/* leave bools at the end to not create holes */ \
> >  	func(bool, alpha_support); \
> > @@ -66,7 +67,6 @@
> >  	func(bool, verbose_state_checks); \
> >  	func(bool, nuclear_pageflip); \
> >  	func(bool, enable_dp_mst); \
> > -	func(bool, enable_dpcd_backlight); \
> >  	func(bool, enable_gvt)
> >  
> >  #define MEMBER(T, member) T member
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c
> > index 6532e226db29..42f73d9a3ccf 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c
> > @@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ static void set_aux_backlight_enable(struct intel_dp *intel_dp, bool enable)
> >  {
> >  	uint8_t reg_val = 0;
> >  
> > +	/* Early return when display use other mechanism to enable backlight. */
> > +	if (!(intel_dp->edp_dpcd[1] & DP_EDP_BACKLIGHT_AUX_ENABLE_CAP))
> > +		return;
> > +
> >  	if (drm_dp_dpcd_readb(&intel_dp->aux, DP_EDP_DISPLAY_CONTROL_REGISTER,
> >  			      &reg_val) < 0) {
> >  		DRM_DEBUG_KMS("Failed to read DPCD register 0x%x\n",
> > @@ -138,27 +142,36 @@ static bool
> >  intel_dp_aux_display_control_capable(struct intel_connector *connector)
> >  {
> >  	struct intel_dp *intel_dp = enc_to_intel_dp(&connector->encoder->base);
> > +	bool supported;
> >  
> >  	/* Check the  eDP Display control capabilities registers to determine if
> >  	 * the panel can support backlight control over the aux channel
> >  	 */
> > -	if (intel_dp->edp_dpcd[1] & DP_EDP_TCON_BACKLIGHT_ADJUSTMENT_CAP &&
> > -	    (intel_dp->edp_dpcd[1] & DP_EDP_BACKLIGHT_AUX_ENABLE_CAP) &&
> > -	    !((intel_dp->edp_dpcd[1] & DP_EDP_BACKLIGHT_PIN_ENABLE_CAP) ||
> > -	      (intel_dp->edp_dpcd[2] & DP_EDP_BACKLIGHT_BRIGHTNESS_PWM_PIN_CAP))) {
> > -		DRM_DEBUG_KMS("AUX Backlight Control Supported!\n");
> > -		return true;
> > +	switch (i915.enable_dpcd_backlight) {
> > +	case 1: /* prefer PWM pin */
> > +		supported = (intel_dp->edp_dpcd[1] & DP_EDP_TCON_BACKLIGHT_ADJUSTMENT_CAP) &&
> > +			    (intel_dp->edp_dpcd[1] & DP_EDP_BACKLIGHT_AUX_ENABLE_CAP) &&
> > +			    !(intel_dp->edp_dpcd[1] & DP_EDP_BACKLIGHT_PIN_ENABLE_CAP) &&
> > +			    !(intel_dp->edp_dpcd[2] & DP_EDP_BACKLIGHT_BRIGHTNESS_PWM_PIN_CAP);
> > +		break;
> > +	case 2: /* prefer DPCD */
> > +		supported = (intel_dp->edp_dpcd[1] & DP_EDP_TCON_BACKLIGHT_ADJUSTMENT_CAP) &&
> > +			    (intel_dp->edp_dpcd[2] & DP_EDP_BACKLIGHT_BRIGHTNESS_AUX_SET_CAP);
> > +		break;
> > +	default:
> > +		supported = false;
> >  	}
> > -	return false;
> > +
> > +	if (supported)
> > +		DRM_DEBUG_KMS("AUX Backlight Control Supported!\n");
> > +
> > +	return supported;
> 
> 
> If i915.enable_dpcd_backlight = 0, aren't you returning an uninitialized
> variable here?
> 
> -DK
> 

Ignore that, time for coffee. 

 
> 
> >  }
> >  
> >  int intel_dp_aux_init_backlight_funcs(struct intel_connector *intel_connector)
> >  {
> >  	struct intel_panel *panel = &intel_connector->panel;
> >  
> > -	if (!i915.enable_dpcd_backlight)
> > -		return -ENODEV;
> > -
> >  	if (!intel_dp_aux_display_control_capable(intel_connector))
> >  		return -ENODEV;
> >  
> 
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