[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/5] drm/i915/dp: Fix link retraining comment in intel_dp_long_pulse()

[Rodrigo Vivi]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:20:05AM -0700, Dhinakaran Pandiyan wrote:
> Comment claims link needs to be retrained because the connected sink raised
> a long pulse to indicate link loss. If the sink did so,
> intel_dp_hotplug() would have handled link retraining. Looking at the
> logs in Bugzilla referenced in commit '3cf71bc9904d ("drm/i915: Re-apply
> Perform link quality check, unconditionally during long pulse"")', the
> issue is that the sink does not trigger an interrupt. We want the
> ->detect() from user space to check link status and retrain. Ville's
> review for the original patch also indicates the same root cause.
> 
> I have also renamed long_pulse() to full_detect().

have you?!
I just see the comment change on this patch ;)


> v2: Patch split and rewrote comment..
> 
> Cc: Lyude Paul <lyude at redhat.com>
> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>
> Cc: Jan-Marek Glogowski <glogow at fbihome.de>
> References: 3cf71bc9904d ("drm/i915: Re-apply "Perform link quality check, unconditionally during long pulse"")
> Signed-off-by: Dhinakaran Pandiyan <dhinakaran.pandiyan at intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c | 12 ++----------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
> index 436c22de33b6..cac1c7c6cbfd 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
> @@ -5074,16 +5074,8 @@ intel_dp_long_pulse(struct intel_connector *connector,
>  		goto out;
>  	} else {
>  		/*
> -		 * If display is now connected check links status,
> -		 * there has been known issues of link loss triggering
> -		 * long pulse.
> -		 *
> -		 * Some sinks (eg. ASUS PB287Q) seem to perform some
> -		 * weird HPD ping pong during modesets. So we can apparently
> -		 * end up with HPD going low during a modeset, and then
> -		 * going back up soon after. And once that happens we must
> -		 * retrain the link to get a picture. That's in case no
> -		 * userspace component reacted to intermittent HPD dip.
> +		 * Some monitors do not signal loss of link synchronization
> +		 * with an IRQ_HPD, so force a link status check.
>  		 */
>  		struct intel_encoder *encoder = &dp_to_dig_port(intel_dp)->base;
>  
> -- 
> 2.14.1
> 
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