Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] drm/komeda: Expose side_by_side by sysfs/config_id

["james qian wang (Arm Technology China)" <james.qian.wang@arm.com>]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 10:49:26AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 07:12:55AM +0000, james qian wang (Arm Technology China) wrote:
> > There are some restrictions if HW works on side_by_side, expose it via
> > config_id to user.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: James Qian Wang (Arm Technology China) <james.qian.wang@arm.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/include/malidp_product.h | 3 ++-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/komeda/komeda_dev.c      | 1 +
> >  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/include/malidp_product.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/include/malidp_product.h
> > index 1053b11352eb..96e2e4016250 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/include/malidp_product.h
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/include/malidp_product.h
> > @@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ union komeda_config_id {
> >                     n_scalers:2, /* number of scalers per pipeline */
> >                     n_layers:3, /* number of layers per pipeline */
> >                     n_richs:3, /* number of rich layers per pipeline */
> > -                   reserved_bits:6;
> > +                   side_by_side:1, /* if HW works on side_by_side mode */
> > +                   reserved_bits:5;
> >     };
> >     __u32 value;
> >  };
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/komeda/komeda_dev.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/komeda/komeda_dev.c
> > index c3fa4835cb8d..4dd4699d4e3d 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/komeda/komeda_dev.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/komeda/komeda_dev.c
> > @@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ config_id_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
>
> Uh, this sysfs file here looks a lot like uapi for some compositor to
> decide what to do. Do you have the userspace for this?

Yes, our HWC driver uses this config_id and product_id for identifying the
HW caps.

> Also a few more thoughts on this:
> - You can't just add more fields to uapi structs.
> - This doesn't really feel like it was ever reviewed to fit into atomic.
> - sysfs should be one value per file, not a smorgasbrod of things stuffed
>   into a binary structure.

I will sent a series and split this struct to multiple files.

| This doesn't really feel like it was ever reviewed to fit into atomic

These values don't have atomic problem, since config_id is for
representing the HW caps info, which are not configurable.

Thanks
James

> -Daniel
>
> >     memset(&config_id, 0, sizeof(config_id));
> >
> >     config_id.max_line_sz = pipe->layers[0]->hsize_in.end;
> > +   config_id.side_by_side = mdev->side_by_side;
> >     config_id.n_pipelines = mdev->n_pipelines;
> >     config_id.n_scalers = pipe->n_scalers;
> >     config_id.n_layers = pipe->n_layers;
> > --
> > 2.20.1
> >
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> --
> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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