Re: [PATCH v3] drm/i915: Wait for PSR exit before checking for vblank evasion

[Dhinakaran Pandiyan <dhinakaran.pandiyan@intel.com>]

On Thu, 2018-06-21 at 18:03 -0700, Tarun Vyas wrote:
> The PIPEDSL freezes on PSR entry and if PSR hasn't fully exited, then
> the pipe_update_start call schedules itself out to check back later.
> 
> On ChromeOS-4.4 kernel, which is fairly up-to-date w.r.t drm/i915 but
> lags w.r.t core kernel code, hot plugging an external display
> triggers
> tons of "potential atomic update errors" in the dmesg, on *pipe A*. A
> closer analysis reveals that we try to read the scanline 3 times and
> eventually timeout, b/c PSR hasn't exited fully leading to a PIPEDSL
> stuck @ 1599. This issue is not seen on upstream kernels, b/c for
> *some*
> reason we loop inside intel_pipe_update start for ~2+ msec which in
> this
> case is more than enough to exit PSR fully, hence an *unstuck*
> PIPEDSL
> counter, hence no error. On the other hand, the ChromeOS kernel
> spends
> ~1.1 msec looping inside intel_pipe_update_start and hence errors out
> b/c the source is still in PSR.
> 
> Regardless, we should wait for PSR exit (if PSR is disabled, we incur
> a ~1-2 usec penalty) before reading the PIPEDSL, b/c if we haven't
> fully exited PSR, then checking for vblank evasion isn't actually
> applicable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tarun Vyas <tarun.vyas@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_sprite.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_sprite.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_sprite.c
> index 344c0e709b19..34754771d7a7 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_sprite.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_sprite.c
> @@ -107,14 +107,16 @@ void intel_pipe_update_start(const struct
> intel_crtc_state *new_crtc_state)
>  						      VBLANK_EVASION
> _TIME_US);
>  	max = vblank_start - 1;
>  
> -	local_irq_disable();
> -
>  	if (min <= 0 || max <= 0)
>  		return;
>  
>  	if (WARN_ON(drm_crtc_vblank_get(&crtc->base)))
>  		return;
>  
> +	psr_wait_for_idle_lockless(dev_priv);

Document the implicit requirement that we enable vblank interrupts
before waiting for PSR idle. Looks good to me, I'll wait for others to
chime in.

The hope is https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106678 gets
fixed with this patch.

> +
> +	local_irq_disable();
> +
>  	crtc->debug.min_vbl = min;
>  	crtc->debug.max_vbl = max;
>  	trace_i915_pipe_update_start(crtc);
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