[PATCH v4 1/6] drm: allow DRM_MODE_PAGE_FLIP_ASYNC for atomic commits

[Michel Dänzer]

On 7/4/23 19:06, Sebastian Wick wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 1, 2023 at 4:09 AM André Almeida <andrealmeid at igalia.com> wrote:
>>
>> @@ -949,6 +949,15 @@ struct hdr_output_metadata {
>>   * Request that the page-flip is performed as soon as possible, ie. with no
>>   * delay due to waiting for vblank. This may cause tearing to be visible on
>>   * the screen.
>> + *
>> + * When used with atomic uAPI, the driver will return an error if the hardware
>> + * doesn't support performing an asynchronous page-flip for this update.
>> + * User-space should handle this, e.g. by falling back to a regular page-flip.
>> + *
>> + * Note, some hardware might need to perform one last synchronous page-flip
>> + * before being able to switch to asynchronous page-flips. As an exception,
>> + * the driver will return success even though that first page-flip is not
>> + * asynchronous.
> 
> What would happen if one commits another async KMS update before the
> first page flip? Does one receive EAGAIN, does it amend the previous
> commit?

Should be the former. DRM_MODE_PAGE_FLIP_ASYNC just means the flip may complete outside of vertical blank, it doesn't change anything else.


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