[PATCH] drm/i915/display: Add upper limit check for pixel clock

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 09:42:04AM +0000, Borah, Chaitanya Kumar wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at linux.intel.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2025 2:01 PM
> > To: Borah, Chaitanya Kumar <chaitanya.kumar.borah at intel.com>; intel-
> > xe at lists.freedesktop.org; intel-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
> > Cc: Deak, Imre <imre.deak at intel.com>; ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com; Shankar,
> > Uma <uma.shankar at intel.com>; Borah, Chaitanya Kumar
> > <chaitanya.kumar.borah at intel.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915/display: Add upper limit check for pixel clock
> > 
> > On Wed, 02 Jul 2025, Chaitanya Kumar Borah
> > <chaitanya.kumar.borah at intel.com> wrote:
> > > Add upper limit check for pixel clock by platform. Limits don't apply
> > > when DSC is enabled.
> > >
> > > For the currently supported versions of HDMI, pixel clock is already
> > > limited to 600Mhz so nothing needs to be done there as of now.
> > >
> > > BSpec: 49199, 68912
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kumar Borah <chaitanya.kumar.borah at intel.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> > > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.h |  1 +
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp.c      |  3 +++
> > >  3 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c
> > > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c
> > > index 456fc4b04cda..bf0faff50c2e 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c
> > > @@ -7902,6 +7902,18 @@ void intel_setup_outputs(struct intel_display
> > *display)
> > >  	drm_helper_move_panel_connectors_to_head(display->drm);
> > >  }
> > >
> > > +int intel_dotclock_limit(struct intel_display *display) {
> > > +	if (DISPLAY_VERx100(display) == 3002)
> > > +		return 937500;
> > > +	else if (DISPLAY_VER(display) >= 30)
> > > +		return 1350000;
> > > +	else if (DISPLAY_VER(display) >= 13)
> > > +		return 1200000;
> > > +	else
> > > +		return 1100000;
> > > +}
> > 
> > How does this relate to display->cdclk.max_dotclk_freq that's computed in
> > intel_compute_max_dotclk(display)?
> > 
> 
> The Bspec defines this limit as "maximum validated frequency" and asks to limit the pixel clock accordingly when DSC is not enabled.
> At least for PTL it is 97.65 % of the mathematically calculated maximum pixel clock (pixel per clock * max cdclk).
> 
> I am not sure if intel_cdclk_guardband() used in intel_compute_max_dotclk() was intended for something similar. However, since the limit only applies
> when dsc is not enabled it made sense to me that we apply this limit during intel_dp_mode_valid () instead of doing it in intel_compute_max_dotclk().

I think what we need is something like:
- implement the DSC bubble stuff and account for it in both
  cdclk calculations and mode validation
- implement this non-dsc cdclk limit checks also in a way that
  covers both (also needs to cover all output types, not just DP).
  I suspect the DSC bubble stuff might always end up more restrictive
  than this, so perhaps this could just be covered by adjusting the
  cdclk guardband

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Ville Syrjälä
Intel