[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v3 3/3] drm/i915/display/fbc: Make fences a nice-to-have for GEN9+

Ville Syrjälä ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com
Thu Feb 20 17:26:02 UTC 2020


On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 05:42:30PM -0800, José Roberto de Souza wrote:
> dGFX have local memory so it do not have aperture and do not support
> CPU fences but even for iGFX it have a small number of fences.
> 
> As replacement for fences to track frontbuffer modifications by CPU
> we have a software tracking that is already in used by FBC and PSR.
> PSR don't support fences so it shows that this tracking is reliable.
> 
> So lets make fences a nice-to-have to activate FBC for GEN9+, this
> will allow us to enable FBC for dGFXs and iGFXs even when there is no
> available fence.
> 
> We do not set fences to rotated planes but FBC only have restrictions
> against 16bpp, so adding it here.
> 
> Also adding a new check for the tiling format, fences are only set
> to X and Y tiled planes but again FBC don't have any restrictions
> against tiling so adding linear as supported as well, other formats
> should be added after tested but IGT only supports drawing in thse
> 3 formats.
> 
> intel_fbc_hw_tracking_covers_screen() maybe can also have the same
> treatment as fences but BSpec is not clear if the size limitation is
> for hardware tracking or general use of FBC and I don't have a 5K
> display to test it, so keeping as is for safety.
> 
> v2:
> - Added tiling and pixel format rotation checks
> - Changed the GEN version not requiring fences to 11 from 9, DDX
> needs some changes but it don't have support for GEN11+
> 
> v3:
> - Changed back to GEN9+
> - Moved GEN test to inside of tiling_is_valid()
> 
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> Cc: Dhinakaran Pandiyan <dhinakaran.pandiyan at intel.com>
> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: José Roberto de Souza <jose.souza at intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_fbc.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++----
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h          |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_fbc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_fbc.c
> index 1d76e3646a25..a0d1d661a006 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_fbc.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_fbc.c
> @@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ static bool stride_is_valid(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv,
>  }
>  
>  static bool pixel_format_is_valid(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv,
> -				  u32 pixel_format)
> +				  u32 pixel_format, unsigned int rotation)
>  {
>  	switch (pixel_format) {
>  	case DRM_FORMAT_XRGB8888:
> @@ -599,6 +599,9 @@ static bool pixel_format_is_valid(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv,
>  		/* WaFbcOnly1to1Ratio:ctg */
>  		if (IS_G4X(dev_priv))
>  			return false;
> +		if ((rotation & (DRM_MODE_ROTATE_90 | DRM_MODE_ROTATE_270)) &&
> +		    INTEL_GEN(dev_priv) >= 9)
> +			return false;

Would still would prefer a rotations_is_valid() or some such thing.

>  		return true;
>  	default:
>  		return false;
> @@ -639,6 +642,22 @@ static bool intel_fbc_hw_tracking_covers_screen(struct intel_crtc *crtc)
>  	return effective_w <= max_w && effective_h <= max_h;
>  }
>  
> +static bool tiling_is_valid(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv,
> +			    uint64_t modifier)
> +{
> +	switch (modifier) {
> +	case DRM_FORMAT_MOD_LINEAR:
> +		if (INTEL_GEN(dev_priv) >= 9)
> +			return true;

Have we checked that eg. fbcon cursor still blinks correctly
with FBC active and all?

> +		return false;
> +	case I915_FORMAT_MOD_X_TILED:
> +	case I915_FORMAT_MOD_Y_TILED:
> +		return true;
> +	default:
> +		return false;
> +	}
> +}
> +
>  static void intel_fbc_update_state_cache(struct intel_crtc *crtc,
>  					 const struct intel_crtc_state *crtc_state,
>  					 const struct intel_plane_state *plane_state)
> @@ -672,6 +691,7 @@ static void intel_fbc_update_state_cache(struct intel_crtc *crtc,
>  
>  	cache->fb.format = fb->format;
>  	cache->fb.stride = fb->pitches[0];
> +	cache->fb.modifier = fb->modifier;
>  
>  	drm_WARN_ON(&dev_priv->drm, plane_state->flags & PLANE_HAS_FENCE &&
>  		    !plane_state->vma->fence);
> @@ -720,23 +740,33 @@ static bool intel_fbc_can_activate(struct intel_crtc *crtc)
>  		return false;
>  	}
>  
> -	/* The use of a CPU fence is mandatory in order to detect writes
> -	 * by the CPU to the scanout and trigger updates to the FBC.
> +	/* The use of a CPU fence is one of two ways to detect writes by the
> +	 * CPU to the scanout and trigger updates to the FBC.
> +	 *
> +	 * The other method is by software tracking(see
> +	 * intel_fbc_invalidate/flush()), it will manually notify FBC and nuke
> +	 * the current compressed buffer and recompress it.
>  	 *
>  	 * Note that is possible for a tiled surface to be unmappable (and
> -	 * so have no fence associated with it) due to aperture constaints
> +	 * so have no fence associated with it) due to aperture constraints
>  	 * at the time of pinning.
>  	 *
>  	 * FIXME with 90/270 degree rotation we should use the fence on
>  	 * the normal GTT view (the rotated view doesn't even have a
>  	 * fence). Would need changes to the FBC fence Y offset as well.
> -	 * For now this will effecively disable FBC with 90/270 degree
> +	 * For now this will effectively disable FBC with 90/270 degree
>  	 * rotation.
>  	 */
> -	if (cache->fence_id < 0) {
> +	if (INTEL_GEN(dev_priv) < 9 && cache->fence_id < 0) {
>  		fbc->no_fbc_reason = "framebuffer not tiled or fenced";
>  		return false;
>  	}
> +
> +	if (!tiling_is_valid(dev_priv, cache->fb.modifier)) {
> +		fbc->no_fbc_reason = "tiling unsupported";
> +		return false;
> +	}
> +
>  	if (INTEL_GEN(dev_priv) <= 4 && !IS_G4X(dev_priv) &&
>  	    cache->plane.rotation != DRM_MODE_ROTATE_0) {
>  		fbc->no_fbc_reason = "rotation unsupported";
> @@ -748,7 +778,8 @@ static bool intel_fbc_can_activate(struct intel_crtc *crtc)
>  		return false;
>  	}
>  
> -	if (!pixel_format_is_valid(dev_priv, cache->fb.format->format)) {
> +	if (!pixel_format_is_valid(dev_priv, cache->fb.format->format,
> +				   cache->plane.rotation)) {
>  		fbc->no_fbc_reason = "pixel format is invalid";
>  		return false;
>  	}
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> index 3330b538d379..bf88663d8217 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> @@ -413,6 +413,7 @@ struct intel_fbc {
>  		struct {
>  			const struct drm_format_info *format;
>  			unsigned int stride;
> +			u64 modifier;
>  		} fb;
>  		u16 gen9_wa_cfb_stride;
>  		s8 fence_id;
> -- 
> 2.25.1

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel


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