On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 1:14 PM Marius Vlad <marius.vlad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 12:58:30PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 3:36 PM Marius Vlad <marius.vlad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 07:34:00AM +0000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > > On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 at 11:21, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > When doing an atomic modeset with ALLOW_MODESET drivers are allowed to > > > > > pull in arbitrary other resources, including CRTCs (e.g. when > > > > > reconfiguring global resources). > > > > > > > > > > But in nonblocking mode userspace has then no idea this happened, > > > > > which can lead to spurious EBUSY calls, both: > > > > > - when that other CRTC is currently busy doing a page_flip the > > > > > ALLOW_MODESET commit can fail with an EBUSY > > > > > - on the other CRTC a normal atomic flip can fail with EBUSY because > > > > > of the additional commit inserted by the kernel without userspace's > > > > > knowledge > > > > > > > > > > For blocking commits this isn't a problem, because everyone else will > > > > > just block until all the CRTC are reconfigured. Only thing userspace > > > > > can notice is the dropped frames without any reason for why frames got > > > > > dropped. > > > > > > > > > > Consensus is that we need new uapi to handle this properly, but no one > > > > > has any idea what exactly the new uapi should look like. As a stop-gap > > > > > plug this problem by demoting nonblocking commits which might cause > > > > > issues by including CRTCs not in the original request to blocking > > > > > commits. > > > Gentle ping. I've tried out Linus's master tree and, and like Pekka, > > > I've noticed this isn't integrated/added. > > > > > > Noticed this is fixing (also) DPMS when multiple outputs are in use. > > > Wondering if we can just use a _ONCE() variant instead of WARN_ON(). I'm seeing > > > the warning quite often. > > > > On which driver/chip does this happen? > I've tried it out on i915. lspci -nn please. Also adding Ville, who has an idea where this can all go wrong. The one he pointed out thus far is gen12+ only though. -Daniel > > -Daniel > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for writing this up Daniel, and for reminding me about it some > > > > time later as well ... > > > > > > > > Reviewed-by: Daniel Stone <daniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Daniel > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > dri-devel mailing list > > > > dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel > > > > > > > > -- > > Daniel Vetter > > Software Engineer, Intel Corporation > > http://blog.ffwll.ch -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
