Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 08/16] drm/i915: Query the vswing levels per-lane for icl combo phy

["Souza, Jose" <jose.souza@intel.com>]

On Mon, 2021-11-01 at 12:11 +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 09:57:02PM +0000, Souza, Jose wrote:
> > On Wed, 2021-10-06 at 23:49 +0300, Ville Syrjala wrote:
> > > From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
> > > 
> > > Prepare for per-lane drive settings by querying the desired vswing
> > > level per-lane.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_ddi.c | 7 ++++++-
> > >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_ddi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_ddi.c
> > > index aa789cabc55b..4c400f0e7347 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_ddi.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_ddi.c
> > > @@ -1039,7 +1039,6 @@ static void icl_ddi_combo_vswing_program(struct intel_encoder *encoder,
> > >  					 const struct intel_crtc_state *crtc_state)
> > >  {
> > >  	struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = to_i915(encoder->base.dev);
> > > -	int level = intel_ddi_level(encoder, crtc_state, 0);
> > >  	const struct intel_ddi_buf_trans *trans;
> > >  	enum phy phy = intel_port_to_phy(dev_priv, encoder->port);
> > >  	int n_entries, ln;
> > > @@ -1069,6 +1068,8 @@ static void icl_ddi_combo_vswing_program(struct intel_encoder *encoder,
> > >  
> > >  	/* Program PORT_TX_DW2 */
> > >  	for (ln = 0; ln < 4; ln++) {
> > > +		int level = intel_ddi_level(encoder, crtc_state, ln);
> > > +
> > >  		val = intel_de_read(dev_priv, ICL_PORT_TX_DW2_LN(ln, phy));
> > >  		val &= ~(SWING_SEL_LOWER_MASK | SWING_SEL_UPPER_MASK |
> > >  			 RCOMP_SCALAR_MASK);
> > > @@ -1082,6 +1083,8 @@ static void icl_ddi_combo_vswing_program(struct intel_encoder *encoder,
> > >  	/* Program PORT_TX_DW4 */
> > >  	/* We cannot write to GRP. It would overwrite individual loadgen. */
> > >  	for (ln = 0; ln < 4; ln++) {
> > > +		int level = intel_ddi_level(encoder, crtc_state, ln);
> > > +
> > >  		val = intel_de_read(dev_priv, ICL_PORT_TX_DW4_LN(ln, phy));
> > >  		val &= ~(POST_CURSOR_1_MASK | POST_CURSOR_2_MASK |
> > >  			 CURSOR_COEFF_MASK);
> > > @@ -1093,6 +1096,8 @@ static void icl_ddi_combo_vswing_program(struct intel_encoder *encoder,
> > >  
> > >  	/* Program PORT_TX_DW7 */
> > >  	for (ln = 0; ln < 4; ln++) {
> > > +		int level = intel_ddi_level(encoder, crtc_state, ln);
> > > +
> > >  		val = intel_de_read(dev_priv, ICL_PORT_TX_DW7_LN(ln, phy));
> > >  		val &= ~N_SCALAR_MASK;
> > >  		val |= N_SCALAR(trans->entries[level].icl.dw7_n_scalar);
> > 
> > The cover letter or one of the earlier patches should have some explanation about the reasons of this the group to lane conversion.
> 
> They do say it's for per-lane drive setings. Not rally sure what to add
> to that.
> 
> > Reading one of the later patches I understood is because DP 2.0 allows different level per lane but would be nice to know for sure the reason.
> 
> It has always been a feature of DP, we just never implemented it for
> whatever reason.
> 
> > 
> > What if it is only using 2 lanes? Programming disabled lanes will cause any issue?
> 
> Depends on whether the registers are available or not. For CHV I know
> the unused lanes will be fully powered off and you can't actually access
> the registers (and vlv_dpio_read() will actually WARN when it sees the
> ~0 value from an inaccessible register). For later platforms I don't
> actually know what happens. We don't have an equivalent of that CHV WARN
> but I would hope that we'd get an unclaimed reg warning if the register
> is inaccessible.
> 
> Although I suppose there's isn't any real harm in poking inaccssible
> registers. The reads should just return all 0s or all 1s, and the
> writes go to /dev/null.
> 

Fair enough.

Reviewed-by: José Roberto de Souza <jose.souza@intel.com>