Re: [PATCH] drm/vkms: Extend todo

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On 10/03, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> Typed up all the items Rodrigo capture at the vkms workshop at
> xdc2018:
> 
> https://etherpad.net/p/vkms_todo
> 
> v2: Review from Rodrigo.
> - Add eBPF for atomic check, I forgot it.
> - Improve spelling.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sean Paul <sean@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rodrigo Siqueira <rodrigosiqueiramelo@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/gpu/vkms.rst | 101 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 99 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/vkms.rst b/Documentation/gpu/vkms.rst
> index 0a6ea6216e41..7dfc349a4508 100644
> --- a/Documentation/gpu/vkms.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/gpu/vkms.rst
> @@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
>  TODO
>  ====
>  
> -CRC API
> --------
> +CRC API Improvements
> +--------------------
>  
>  - Optimize CRC computation ``compute_crc()`` and plane blending ``blend()``
>  
> @@ -22,3 +22,100 @@ CRC API
>  
>  - Add igt test to check extreme alpha values i.e. fully opaque and fully
>    transparent (intermediate values are affected by hw-specific rounding modes).
> +
> +Vblank issues
> +-------------
> +
> +Some IGT test cases are failing. Need to analyze why and fix the issues:
> +
> +- plain-flip-fb-recreate
> +- plain-flip-ts-check
> +- flip-vs-blocking-wf-vblank
> +- plain-flip-fb-recreate-interruptible
> +- flip-vs-wf_vblank-interruptible
> +
> +Runtime Configuration
> +---------------------
> +
> +We want to be able to reconfigure vkms instance without having to reload the
> +module. Use/Test-cases:
> +
> +- Hotplug/hotremove connectors on the fly (to be able to test DP MST handling of
> +  compositors).
> +
> +- Configure planes/crtcs/connectors (we'd need some code to have more than 1 of
> +  them first).
> +
> +- Change output configuration: Plug/unplug screens, change EDID, allow changing
> +  the refresh rate.
> +
> +The currently proposed solution is to expose vkms configuration through
> +configfs.  All existing module options should be supported through configfs too.
> +
> +Add Plane Features
> +------------------
> +
> +There's lots of plane features we could add support for:
> +
> +- Real overlay planes, not just cursor.
> +
> +- Full alpha blending on all planes.
> +
> +- Rotation, scaling.
> +
> +- Additional buffer formats, especially YUV formats for video like NV12.
> +  Low/high bpp RGB formats would also be interesting.
> +
> +- Async updates (currently only possible on cursor plane using the legacy cursor
> +  api).
> +
> +For all of these, we also want to review the igt test coverage and make sure all
> +relevant igt testcases work on vkms.
> +
> +Writeback support
> +-----------------
> +
> +Currently vkms only computes a CRC for each frame. Once we have additional plane
> +features, we could write back the entire composited frame, and expose it as:
> +
> +- Writeback connector. This is useful for testing compositors if you don't have
> +  hardware with writeback support.
> +
> +- As a v4l device. This is useful for debugging compositors on special vkms
> +  configurations, so that developers see what's really going on.
> +
> +Prime Buffer Sharing
> +--------------------
> +
> +We already have vgem, which is a gem driver for testing rendering, similar to
> +how vkms is for testing the modeset side. Adding buffer sharing support to vkms
> +allows us to test them together, to test synchronization and lots of other
> +features. Also, this allows compositors to test whether they work correctly on
> +SoC chips, where the display and rendering is very often split between 2
> +drivers.
> +
> +Output Features
> +---------------
> +
> +- Variable refresh rate/freesync support. This probably needs prime buffer
> +  sharing support, so that we can use vgem fences to simulate rendering in
> +  testing. Also needs support to specify the EDID.
> +
> +- Add support for link status, so that compositors can validate their runtime
> +  fallbacks when e.g. a Display Port link goes bad.
> +
> +- All the hotplug handling describe under "Runtime Configuration".
> +
> +Atomic Check using eBPF
> +-----------------------
> +
> +Atomic drivers have lots of restrictions which are not exposed to userspace in
> +any explicit form through e.g. possible property values. Userspace can only
> +inquiry about these limits through the atomic IOCTL, possibly using the
> +TEST_ONLY flag. Trying to add configurable code for all these limits, to allow
> +compositors to be tested against them, would be rather futile exercise. Instead
> +we could add support for eBPF to validate any kind of atomic state, and
> +implement a library of different restrictions.
> +
> +This needs a bunch of features (plane compositing, multiple outputs, ...)
> +enabled already to make sense.
> -- 
> 2.19.0.rc2
> 

Reviewed-by: Rodrigo Siqueira <rodrigosiqueiramelo@xxxxxxxxx>

-- 
Rodrigo Siqueira
http://siqueira.tech
Graduate Student
Department of Computer Science
University of São Paulo
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