[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2 3/6] drm/i915: Enable async flips in i915

[Karthik B S]

On 4/20/2020 11:34 PM, Paulo Zanoni wrote:
> Em seg, 2020-04-20 às 15:17 +0530, Karthik B S escreveu:
>> Enable asynchronous flips in i915 for gen9+ platforms.
>>
>> v2: -Async flip enablement should be a stand alone patch (Paulo)
> 
> ... and at the very end of the series.
> 
> If someone is bisecting the Kernel for some problem unrelated to async
> flips, and they end up exactly at this commit, and their user space
> happens to try to do async flips, will their system be broken? A quick
> check at patches 4, 5 and 6 suggests they are necessary for the feature
> to work, so here we're enabling a feature that we know won't work
> because its support is not fully merged yet.
> 
> A patch series is not allowed to break the Kernel in the middle and
> then fix it later.
> 

Understood.
Moved this patch to the end of the series.

Thanks,
Karthik.B.S
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Karthik B S <karthik.b.s at intel.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c | 3 +++
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c
>> index cf8f5779dee4..8601b159f425 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c
>> @@ -17574,6 +17574,9 @@ static void intel_mode_config_init(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
>>   
>>   	mode_config->funcs = &intel_mode_funcs;
>>   
>> +	if (INTEL_GEN(i915) >= 9)
>> +		mode_config->async_page_flip = true;
>> +
>>   	/*
>>   	 * Maximum framebuffer dimensions, chosen to match
>>   	 * the maximum render engine surface size on gen4+.
>