[PATCH v2] drm/i915: fix screen flickering

Thomas Gummerer
2015-05-14T07:16:49Z

Commit c9f038a1a592 ("drm/i915: Don't assume primary & cursor are
always on for wm calculation (v4)") fixes a null pointer dereference.
Setting the primary and cursor panes to false in
ilk_compute_wm_parameters to false does however give the following
errors in the kernel log and causes the screen to flicker.

[ 101.133716] [drm:intel_set_cpu_fifo_underrun_reporting [i915]]
*ERROR* uncleared fifo underrun on pipe A
[ 101.133725] [drm:intel_cpu_fifo_underrun_irq_handler [i915]]
*ERROR* CPU pipe A FIFO underrun

Always setting the panes to enabled fixes this error.

Helped-by: Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
---

> Sorry, I missed your patch when you first sent it. That type of fix
> looks like an okay workaround while we do a more in-depth rework of the
> watermark system. However I think your patch could cause a crash if we
> disable the primary plane via the universal plane interface; if we do
> that, p->pri.bytes_per_pixel is set to 0, but since we're now pretending
> the primary plane is always enabled, ilk_wm_fbc() can eventually get
> called and use that 0 in the denominator of a division operation.
>
> If you just squash the following change into your patch, I think it should be
> safe:
> [...]

Thank you very much for the suggestion, here is an updated version of the
patch.

drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c | 24 +++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
index fa4ccb3..555b896 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
@@ -2045,22 +2045,20 @@ static void ilk_compute_wm_parameters(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
p->pipe_htotal = intel_crtc->config->base.adjusted_mode.crtc_htotal;
p->pixel_rate = ilk_pipe_pixel_rate(dev, crtc);

- if (crtc->primary->state->fb) {
- p->pri.enabled = true;
+ if (crtc->primary->state->fb)
p->pri.bytes_per_pixel =
crtc->primary->state->fb->bits_per_pixel / 8;
- } else {
- p->pri.enabled = false;
- p->pri.bytes_per_pixel = 0;
- }
+ else
+ p->pri.bytes_per_pixel = 4;
+
+ p->cur.bytes_per_pixel = 4;
+ /*
+ * TODO: for now, assume primary and cursor planes are always enabled.
+ * Setting them to false makes the screen flicker.
+ */
+ p->pri.enabled = true;
+ p->cur.enabled = true;

- if (crtc->cursor->state->fb) {
- p->cur.enabled = true;
- p->cur.bytes_per_pixel = 4;
- } else {
- p->cur.enabled = false;
- p->cur.bytes_per_pixel = 0;
- }
p->pri.horiz_pixels = intel_crtc->config->pipe_src_w;
p->cur.horiz_pixels = intel_crtc->base.cursor->state->crtc_w;

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