Re: [PATCH 4/6] drm: Fix treatment of drm_vblank_offdelay in drm_vblank_on()

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On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 03:41:28PM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 02:29:49PM +0100, Mario Kleiner wrote:
> > On 02/09/2016 12:10 PM, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 11:06:18AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > >> On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 02:13:27AM +0100, Mario Kleiner wrote:
> > >>> drm_vblank_offdelay can have three different types of values:
> > >>>
> > >>> < 0 is to be always treated the same as dev->vblank_disable_immediate
> > >>> = 0 is to be treated as "never disable vblanks"
> > >>>> 0 is to be treated as disable immediate if kms driver wants it
> > >>>      that way via dev->vblank_disable_immediate. Otherwise it is
> > >>>      a disable timeout in msecs.
> > >>>
> > >>> This got broken in Linux 3.18+ for the implementation of
> > >>> drm_vblank_on. If the user specified a value of zero which should
> > >>> always reenable vblank irqs in this function, a kms driver could
> > >>> override the users choice by setting vblank_disable_immediate
> > >>> to true. This patch fixes the regression and keeps the user in
> > >>> control.
> > >>>
> > >>> Signed-off-by: Mario Kleiner <mario.kleiner.de@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >>> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.18+
> > >>> Cc: michel@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > >>> Cc: vbabka@xxxxxxx
> > >>> Cc: ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >>> Cc: daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx
> > >>> Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >>> Cc: alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx
> > >>> Cc: christian.koenig@xxxxxxx
> > >>> ---
> > >>>   drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c | 4 ++--
> > >>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >>>
> > >>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c
> > >>> index 5c27ad3..fb17c45 100644
> > >>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c
> > >>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c
> > >>> @@ -1492,8 +1492,8 @@ void drm_vblank_on(struct drm_device *dev, unsigned int pipe)
> > >>>   	 * re-enable interrupts if there are users left, or the
> > >>>   	 * user wishes vblank interrupts to be enabled all the time.
> > >>>   	 */
> > >>> -	if (atomic_read(&vblank->refcount) != 0 ||
> > >>> -	    (!dev->vblank_disable_immediate && drm_vblank_offdelay == 0))
> > >>> +	if (atomic_read(&vblank->refcount) != 0 || drm_vblank_offdelay == 0 ||
> > >>> +	    (!dev->vblank_disable_immediate && drm_vblank_offdelay > 0))
> > >>
> > >> Hm, shouldn't we change this to only enable the vblank irq if we need it,
> > >> i.e. offdelay == 0? For delayed disabling there's kinda no need to enable
> > >> it superflously after a modeset, if userspace didn't yet ask for vblank
> > >> timestamps. But then is was specifically added by Ville in cd19e52aee922,
> > >> so I guess someone really wants this.
> > >
> > > IIRC what I wanted was to just re-enable the interrupt for the offdelay==0
> > > case. I think it just ended up as a mess due to changing some of the
> > > semantics of offdelay<0 vs. offdelay==0 vs. disable_immediate during the
> > > review of the series. So yeah, given how drm_vblank_put() works now, I'd
> > > just make this check for offdelay==0.
> > >
> > >>
> > >> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> > >>
> > 
> > I can change that to offdelay==0 only, if you want. It was mostly about 
> > preserving what's there while at the same time fixing the important 
> > offdelay==0 user override.
> 
> Yeah, just offdelay==0 seems best. Otherwise I think we could actually
> leave the interrupt enabled indefinitely w/ offdelay>0 since there's not
> going to be a drm_vblank_put() to arm the disable timer.

Yeah, r-b on that, after Ville clarified the intention of his commit. When
you respin pls cite that commit, and explain why intention/implementation
diverged quickly.

Thanks, Daniel

> 
> > 
> > -mario
> > 
> > >>>   		WARN_ON(drm_vblank_enable(dev, pipe));
> > >>>   	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->vbl_lock, irqflags);
> > >>>   }
> > >>> --
> > >>> 1.9.1
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Daniel Vetter
> > >> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> > >> http://blog.ffwll.ch
> > >
> 
> -- 
> Ville Syrjälä
> Intel OTC

-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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