[Nouveau] [PATCH] drm/nouveau: Fix pre-nv50 pageflip events (v3)

[Thierry Reding]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 03:54:52PM +0100, Mario Kleiner wrote:
> From: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> 
> Apparently pre-nv50 pageflip events happen before the actual vblank
> period. Therefore that functionality got semi-disabled in
> 
> commit af4870e406126b7ac0ae7c7ce5751f25ebe60f28
> Author: Mario Kleiner <mario.kleiner.de at gmail.com>
> Date:   Tue May 13 00:42:08 2014 +0200
> 
>     drm/nouveau/kms/nv04-nv40: fix pageflip events via special case.
> 
> Unfortunately that hack got uprooted in
> 
> commit cc1ef118fc099295ae6aabbacc8af94d8d8885eb
> Author: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
> Date:   Wed Aug 12 17:00:31 2015 +0200
> 
>     drm/irq: Make pipe unsigned and name consistent
> 
> Trigering a warning when trying to sample the vblank timestamp for a
> non-existing pipe. There's a few ways to fix this:
> 
> - Open-code the old behaviour, which just enshrines this slight
>   breakage of the userspace ABI.
> 
> - Revert Mario's commit and again inflict broken timestamps, again not
>   pretty.
> 
> - Fix this for real by delaying the pageflip TS until the next vblank
>   interrupt, thereby making it accurate.
> 
> This patch implements the third option. Since having a page flip
> interrupt that happens when the pageflip gets armed and not when it
> completes in the next vblank seems to be fairly common (older i915 hw
> works very similarly) create a new helper to arm vblank events for
> such drivers.
> 
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106431
> Cc: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
> Cc: Mario Kleiner <mario.kleiner.de at gmail.com>
> Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs at redhat.com>
> Cc: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu>
> 
> v2 (mario): Integrate my own review comments into Daniels patch.
>    - Fix function prototypes in drmP.h
>    - Add missing vblank_put() for pageflip completion without
>      pageflip event.
>    - Initialize sequence number for queued pageflip event to avoid
>      trouble in drm_handle_vblank_events().
>    - Remove dead code and spelling fix.
> 
> v3 (mario): Add a signed-off-by and cc stable tag per Ilja's advice.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> (v1) Reviewed-by: Mario Kleiner <mario.kleiner.de at gmail.com>
> (v2/v3) Signed-off-by: Mario Kleiner <mario.kleiner.de at gmail.com>
> 
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # v4.3
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c                 | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_display.c | 19 ++++++-----
>  include/drm/drmP.h                        |  4 +++
>  3 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

This looks good to me. Let me clean this up a little and submit it to
Dave.

Thierry
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