From: Vivek Das Mohapatra <vivek@collabora.com>
To: superm1@kernel.org
Cc: airlied@gmail.com, alexander.deucher@amd.com,
amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, christian.koenig@amd.com,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, harry.wentland@amd.com,
kernel@collabora.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
simona@ffwll.ch, siqueira@igalia.com, sunpeng.li@amd.com,
vivek@collabora.com
Subject: [PATCH v2] drm/amd/display: Initialise backlight level values from hw
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:28:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260112152856.2616532-1-vivek@collabora.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7ec7b4ae-6186-4961-a857-f97afcfc3ded@kernel.org>
Internal backlight levels are initialised from ACPI but the values
are sometimes out of sync with the levels in effect until there has
been a read from hardware (eg triggered by reading from sysfs).
This means that the first drm_commit can cause the levels to be set
to a different value than the actual starting one, which results in
a sudden change in brightness.
This path shows the problem (when the values are out of sync):
amdgpu_dm_atomic_commit_tail()
-> amdgpu_dm_commit_streams()
-> amdgpu_dm_backlight_set_level(..., dm->brightness[n])
This patch calls the backlight ops get_brightness explicitly
at the end of backlight registration to make sure dm->brightness[n]
is in sync with the actual hardware levels.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Das Mohapatra <vivek@collabora.com>
---
.../gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
index 354e359c4507..9e8cbfeee915 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
@@ -5258,6 +5258,8 @@ amdgpu_dm_register_backlight_device(struct amdgpu_dm_connector *aconnector)
struct amdgpu_dm_backlight_caps *caps;
char bl_name[16];
int min, max;
+ int real_brightness;
+ int init_brightness;
if (aconnector->bl_idx == -1)
return;
@@ -5282,6 +5284,8 @@ amdgpu_dm_register_backlight_device(struct amdgpu_dm_connector *aconnector)
} else
props.brightness = props.max_brightness = MAX_BACKLIGHT_LEVEL;
+ init_brightness = props.brightness;
+
if (caps->data_points && !(amdgpu_dc_debug_mask & DC_DISABLE_CUSTOM_BRIGHTNESS_CURVE)) {
drm_info(drm, "Using custom brightness curve\n");
props.scale = BACKLIGHT_SCALE_NON_LINEAR;
@@ -5300,8 +5304,20 @@ amdgpu_dm_register_backlight_device(struct amdgpu_dm_connector *aconnector)
if (IS_ERR(dm->backlight_dev[aconnector->bl_idx])) {
drm_err(drm, "DM: Backlight registration failed!\n");
dm->backlight_dev[aconnector->bl_idx] = NULL;
- } else
+ } else {
+ /*
+ * dm->brightness[x] can be inconsistent just after startup until
+ * ops.get_brightness is called.
+ */
+ real_brightness =
+ amdgpu_dm_backlight_ops.get_brightness(dm->backlight_dev[aconnector->bl_idx]);
+
+ if (real_brightness != init_brightness) {
+ dm->actual_brightness[aconnector->bl_idx] = real_brightness;
+ dm->brightness[aconnector->bl_idx] = real_brightness;
+ }
drm_dbg_driver(drm, "DM: Registered Backlight device: %s\n", bl_name);
+ }
}
static int initialize_plane(struct amdgpu_display_manager *dm,
--
2.39.5
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-13 8:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-12 12:20 [PATCH v1] drm/amd/display: Initialise backlight level values from hw Vivek Das Mohapatra
2026-01-12 14:10 ` Mario Limonciello
2026-01-12 15:28 ` Vivek Das Mohapatra [this message]
2026-01-12 15:52 ` [PATCH v2] " Mario Limonciello
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