Re: [PATCH] drm/crtc: Add a helper func to get a registered crtc from its index

[Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 04:07:16PM +0800, Xinliang Liu wrote:
> On 25 August 2015 at 17:36, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> Thank you very much for reply. Sorry, I just come back from vacation.
> Very happy that you have a good idea to solve the mess.
> Looking forward to see your patch soon!
> 
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:13:51AM +0800, Xinliang Liu wrote:
> > > This patch add a helper func to get a registered crtc from its index.
> > > In some case, where we know the crtc's index and we want to know the
> > > crtc too.
> > >
> > > For example, the enable_vblank func of struct drm_driver:
> > > In the implementation of this func, we know the index of the crtc but
> > > we want to know the crtc. This helper func can get the crtc easily.
> > > A sample impelmentation of enable_vblank is as shown as bellow:
> > >
> > > int hisi_drm_crtc_enable_vblank(struct drm_device *dev, int c)
> > > {
> > >       struct drm_crtc *crtc = drm_get_crtc_from_index(dev, c);
> > >       struct hisi_crtc *hcrtc = to_hisi_crtc(crtc);
> > >       struct hisi_crtc_ops *ops = hcrtc->ops;
> > >       int ret = 0;
> > >
> > >       if (ops->enable_vblank)
> > >               ret = ops->enable_vblank(hcrtc);
> > >
> > >       return ret;
> > > }
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Xinliang Liu <xinliang.liu@linaro.org>
> >
> > Yeah unfortunately drm_irq.c is still stick in the old pre-KMS days. I
> > think we should go a bit further here though to allow new drivers to be
> > completely free of int pipe:
> >
> > - add a new array pointer dev->mode_conifg.crtc_arr, which is
> >   (re-)allocated in drm_crtc_init_with_planes. Then a pipe->crtc lookup
> >   will be just
> >
> >         crtc = dev->mode_config.crtc_arr[pipe];
> >
> > - add new hooks for vblank handling int drm_crtc_helper_funcs for
> >   enable_vblanke, disable_vblank, get_vblank_timestamp and get_scanoutpos.
> >   Ofc also anotate the docs for the existing hooks and make it clear new
> >   drivers should use the new ones. Ofc these new hooks should directly
> >   take a struct drm_crtc * instead of inte pipe.
> >
> I agree too.  It seems that vblank is a part of crtc.
> 
> 
> > - change the code in drm_irq.c to wrap all callbacks and first check
> >   whether the new ones are there and only if that's not the case call the
> >   old ones.
> >
> > With these changes drivers can be completely free of int pipe and use
> > struct drm_crtc exclusivly I think, and the mess would be fully restricted
> > to drm_irq.c.
> >
> For the drm_irq_install(struct drm_device *dev, int irq) function,  I
> suggest to add one param such as "void *data" to pass crtc
> so that in the irq_handler we can find crtc easily.

Imo there's no need to change drm_irq_install at all, this is just a
convenience wrapper for (mostly pci) devices which only have 1 interrupt.
If this doesn't fit your hw (e.g. per-crtc interrupt sources) then just
don't use it, it's purely optional and there's a bunch of drivers which
don't use it.

I have a long-term plan to split the vblank handling code out from the
optional irq handling parts into a new drm_vblank.c file, so that this
split between optional irq helpers and core vblank infrastructure is
clearer.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch