[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915: Fix hw state verifier access to crtc->state.

[Maarten Lankhorst]

Op 15-05-17 om 15:52 schreef Daniel Vetter:
> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 11:41:22AM +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
>> Op 11-05-17 om 11:23 schreef Daniel Vetter:
>>> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:28:43AM +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
>>>> We shouldn't inspect crtc->state, instead grab the crtc state.
>>>> At this point the hw state verifier should be able to run even if
>>>> crtc->state has been updated (which cannot currently happen).
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
>>>
>>> pll state checking still looks at ->state directly, we might want to port
>>> that to the new private obj helpers perhaps, with the same new/old
>>> iterators?
>> That might be an excellent idea to do in the future. :)
>>
>> If I look at it though it's race safe in the current design,
>> but not necessarily against multiple nonblocking modesets,
>> which should probably be addressed at some point.
> I looked at this more from the pov of unifying state handling across all
> blocks. If everything works roughly the same, it's much easier to
> understand. And I do kinda like DK's private state stuff, that should help
> in aligning the various internal bits we have (like shared dpll, wms, and
> all that).
> -Daniel

Agreed, it should be something for unification.