Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/3] drm: Add infrastructure to allow seamless mode switches

["Ville Syrjälä" <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 12:22:03PM -0700, José Roberto de Souza wrote:
> Intel hardware supports change between modes with different refresh
> rates without any glitches or visual artifacts, that feature is called
> seamless DRRS.
> 
> So far i915 driver was automatically changing between preferred panel
> mode and lower refresh rate mode based on idleness but ChromeOS
> compositor team is requesting to be in control of the mode switch.
> So for a certain types of content it can switch to mode with a lower
> refresh rate without user noticing a thing and saving power.
> 
> This seamless mode switch will be triggered when user-space dispatch
> a atomic commit with the new mode and clears the
> DRM_MODE_ATOMIC_ALLOW_MODESET flag.
> 
> A driver that don't implement atomic_seamless_mode_switch_check
> function will continue to fail in the atomic check phase with
> "[CRTC:%d:%s] requires full modeset" debug message.
> While a driver that implements it and support the seamless change
> between old and new mode will return 0 otherwise it should return the
> appropried errno.
> 
> So here adding basic drm infrastructure to that be supported by i915
> and other drivers.

I don't see the need for any extra infrastructure for this.

I think we just need:
- fix the fastset code to not suck
- reprogram M/N during fastset
- calculate eDP link params using panel's highest refresh rate mode
  to make sure we get the same link params for all refresh rates

> 
> Cc: Vidya Srinivas <vidya.srinivas@intel.com>
> Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: José Roberto de Souza <jose.souza@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c              |  1 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c       | 16 +++++++++++++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_state_helper.c |  1 +
>  include/drm/drm_crtc.h                    | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 43 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c
> index 58c0283fb6b0c..21525f9f4b4c1 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c
> @@ -437,6 +437,7 @@ static void drm_atomic_crtc_print_state(struct drm_printer *p,
>  	drm_printf(p, "\tself_refresh_active=%d\n", state->self_refresh_active);
>  	drm_printf(p, "\tplanes_changed=%d\n", state->planes_changed);
>  	drm_printf(p, "\tmode_changed=%d\n", state->mode_changed);
> +	drm_printf(p, "\tseamless_mode_changed=%d\n", state->seamless_mode_changed);
>  	drm_printf(p, "\tactive_changed=%d\n", state->active_changed);
>  	drm_printf(p, "\tconnectors_changed=%d\n", state->connectors_changed);
>  	drm_printf(p, "\tcolor_mgmt_changed=%d\n", state->color_mgmt_changed);
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> index 9603193d2fa13..e6f3a966f7b86 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> @@ -631,6 +631,22 @@ drm_atomic_helper_check_modeset(struct drm_device *dev,
>  			drm_dbg_atomic(dev, "[CRTC:%d:%s] mode changed\n",
>  				       crtc->base.id, crtc->name);
>  			new_crtc_state->mode_changed = true;
> +
> +			if (!state->allow_modeset &&
> +			    crtc->funcs->atomic_seamless_mode_switch_check) {
> +				ret = crtc->funcs->atomic_seamless_mode_switch_check(state, crtc);
> +				if (ret == -EOPNOTSUPP) {
> +					drm_dbg_atomic(dev, "[CRTC:%d:%s] Seamless mode switch not supported\n",
> +						       crtc->base.id, crtc->name);
> +					return ret;
> +				}
> +
> +				if (ret < 0)
> +					return ret;
> +
> +				new_crtc_state->seamless_mode_changed = true;
> +				new_crtc_state->mode_changed = false;
> +			}
>  		}
>  
>  		if (old_crtc_state->enable != new_crtc_state->enable) {
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_state_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_state_helper.c
> index 3b6d3bdbd0996..c093073ea6e11 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_state_helper.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_state_helper.c
> @@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ void __drm_atomic_helper_crtc_duplicate_state(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
>  	if (state->gamma_lut)
>  		drm_property_blob_get(state->gamma_lut);
>  	state->mode_changed = false;
> +	state->seamless_mode_changed = false;
>  	state->active_changed = false;
>  	state->planes_changed = false;
>  	state->connectors_changed = false;
> diff --git a/include/drm/drm_crtc.h b/include/drm/drm_crtc.h
> index a70baea0636ca..b7ce378d679d3 100644
> --- a/include/drm/drm_crtc.h
> +++ b/include/drm/drm_crtc.h
> @@ -140,6 +140,16 @@ struct drm_crtc_state {
>  	 */
>  	bool mode_changed : 1;
>  
> +	/**
> +	 * @seamless_mode_changed: @mode has been changed but user-space
> +	 * is requesting to change to the new mode with a fastset and driver
> +	 * supports this request.
> +	 * To be used by drivers to steer the atomic commit control flow to
> +	 * appropriate paths to change mode without any visual corruption.
> +	 * Never set together with @mode_changed.
> +	 */
> +	bool seamless_mode_changed : 1;
> +
>  	/**
>  	 * @active_changed: @active has been toggled. Used by the atomic
>  	 * helpers and drivers to steer the atomic commit control flow. See also
> @@ -939,6 +949,21 @@ struct drm_crtc_funcs {
>  				     int *max_error,
>  				     ktime_t *vblank_time,
>  				     bool in_vblank_irq);
> +
> +	/**
> +	 * @atomic_seamless_mode_switch_check
> +	 *
> +	 * Called when user-space wants to change mode without do a modeset.
> +	 * Drivers can optionally support do a mode switch without any visual
> +	 * corruption when changing between certain modes.
> +	 *
> +	 * Returns:
> +	 * Zero if possible to seamless switch mode, -EOPNOTSUPP if not
> +	 * supported seamless mode change or appropriate errno if an error
> +	 * happened.
> +	 */
> +	int (*atomic_seamless_mode_switch_check)(struct drm_atomic_state *state,
> +						 struct drm_crtc *crtc);
>  };
>  
>  /**
> -- 
> 2.36.0

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Ville Syrjälä
Intel