From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
Paul Kocialkowski <paul.kocialkowski@bootlin.com>,
Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/fb-helper: Blacklist writeback when adding connectors to fbdev
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:40:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181121094017.GM4266@phenom.ffwll.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181119092835.3y2xqfclwlmk4cww@flea>
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 10:28:35AM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 05:32:48PM +0100, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
> > Writeback connectors do not produce any on-screen output and require
> > special care for use. Such connectors are hidden from enumeration in
> > DRM resources by default, but they are still picked-up by fbdev.
> > This makes rather little sense since fbdev is not really adapted for
> > dealing with writeback.
> >
> > Moreover, this is also a source of issues when userspace disables the
> > CRTC (and associated plane) without detaching the CRTC from the
> > connector (which is hidden by default). In this case, the connector is
> > still using the CRTC, leading to am "enabled/connectors mismatch" and
> > eventually the failure of the associated atomic commit. This situation
> > happens with VC4 testing under IGT GPU Tools.
> >
> > Filter out writeback connectors in the fbdev helper to solve this.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Kocialkowski <paul.kocialkowski@bootlin.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>
> Tested-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>
Applied with a cc: stable to drm-misc-fixes. Btw, 2 r-b from committers,
someone should have pushed this I think :-)
Thanks for patch&review.
-Daniel
--
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>
Cc: Paul Kocialkowski <paul.kocialkowski@bootlin.com>,
Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>,
David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/fb-helper: Blacklist writeback when adding connectors to fbdev
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:40:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181121094017.GM4266@phenom.ffwll.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181119092835.3y2xqfclwlmk4cww@flea>
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 10:28:35AM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 05:32:48PM +0100, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
> > Writeback connectors do not produce any on-screen output and require
> > special care for use. Such connectors are hidden from enumeration in
> > DRM resources by default, but they are still picked-up by fbdev.
> > This makes rather little sense since fbdev is not really adapted for
> > dealing with writeback.
> >
> > Moreover, this is also a source of issues when userspace disables the
> > CRTC (and associated plane) without detaching the CRTC from the
> > connector (which is hidden by default). In this case, the connector is
> > still using the CRTC, leading to am "enabled/connectors mismatch" and
> > eventually the failure of the associated atomic commit. This situation
> > happens with VC4 testing under IGT GPU Tools.
> >
> > Filter out writeback connectors in the fbdev helper to solve this.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Kocialkowski <paul.kocialkowski@bootlin.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>
> Tested-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>
Applied with a cc: stable to drm-misc-fixes. Btw, 2 r-b from committers,
someone should have pushed this I think :-)
Thanks for patch&review.
-Daniel
--
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-21 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-15 16:32 [PATCH] drm/fb-helper: Blacklist writeback when adding connectors to fbdev Paul Kocialkowski
2018-11-15 16:32 ` Paul Kocialkowski
2018-11-15 16:42 ` Boris Brezillon
2018-11-15 16:42 ` Boris Brezillon
2018-11-19 9:28 ` Maxime Ripard
2018-11-21 9:40 ` Daniel Vetter [this message]
2018-11-21 9:40 ` Daniel Vetter
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