Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: fbdev_set_par reliably invalidating frontbuffer

[Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 03:46:17PM -0300, Paulo Zanoni wrote:
> 2015-07-09 13:56 GMT-03:00 Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>:
> > fbdev_set_par is called when fbcon is taking over control.
> > In the past frontbuffer was being invalidated on
> > set_to_gtt_domain, but it moved to set_domain fixing that case,
> > but left this behind.
> >
> > Commit that changed this fixing set_domain case was:
> >
> > commit 031b698a77a70a6c394568034437b5486a44e868
> > Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
> > Date:   Fri Jun 26 19:35:16 2015 +0200
> >
> >     drm/i915: Unconditionally do fb tracking invalidate in set_domain
> >
> > Since we are also invalidating in other fbdev cases this one
> > was masked here. At least until now that I found this corner
> > case: On boot with plymouth doing a splash screen
> > when returning to the console frontbuffer wans't being invalidated
> > causing missed screen updates with PSR enabled.
> >
> > So this patch fixes this issue.
> >
> > v2: Make invalidate directly and unconditionally and
> >     fix commit message indicating the set_domain fix
> >     as pointed out by Daniel.
> > v3: Remove unecessary if(obj) added by mistake
> 
> The commit message is a little confusing. Also, I'm not 100% sure of
> this since I'm not the fbcon specialist, but apparently this commit is
> needed for the FBC test i just submitted as a reply to patch 7. So:

I clarified the commit message a bit and pulled in all the remaining
patches from this series.

Thanks, Daniel
> 
> Reviewed-by: Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni@intel.com>
> 
> >
> > Cc: Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni@intel.com>
> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
> > Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c | 3 +--
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c
> > index 2a1724e..25ce7b6 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c
> > @@ -63,8 +63,7 @@ static int intel_fbdev_set_par(struct fb_info *info)
> >                  * now until we solve this for real.
> >                  */
> >                 mutex_lock(&fb_helper->dev->struct_mutex);
> > -               ret = i915_gem_object_set_to_gtt_domain(ifbdev->fb->obj,
> > -                                                       true);
> > +               intel_fb_obj_invalidate(ifbdev->fb->obj, ORIGIN_GTT);
> >                 mutex_unlock(&fb_helper->dev->struct_mutex);
> >         }
> >
> > --
> > 2.1.0
> >
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Paulo Zanoni

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Daniel Vetter
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