Re: [RFC v4 00/17] drm/display/dp_mst: Drop Radeon MST support, make MST atomic-only

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Would anyone have any issues if I merged this today? The whole series is
acked, but I'm not sure if we would like to wait for R-b's?


On Wed, 2022-08-17 at 15:38 -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> For quite a while we've been carrying around a lot of legacy modesetting
> code in the MST helpers that has been rather annoying to keep around,
> and very often gets in the way of trying to implement additional
> functionality in MST such as fallback link rate retraining, dynamic BPC
> management and DSC support, etc. because of the fact that we can't rely
> on atomic for everything.
> 
> Luckily, we only actually have one user of the legacy MST code in the
> kernel - radeon. Originally I was thinking of trying to maintain this
> code and keep it around in some form, but I'm pretty unconvinced anyone
> is actually using this. My reasoning for that is because I've seen
> nearly no issues regarding MST on radeon for quite a while now - despite
> the fact my local testing seems to indicate it's quite broken. This
> isn't too surprising either, as MST support in radeon.ko is gated behind
> a module parameter that isn't enabled by default. This isn't to say I
> wouldn't be open to alternative suggestions, but I'd rather not be the
> one to have to spend time on that if at all possible! Plus, I already
> floated the idea of dropping this code by AMD folks a few times and
> didn't get much resistance.
> 
> As well, this series has some basic refactoring that I did along the way
> and some bugs I had to fix in order to get my atomic-only MST code
> working. Most of this is pretty straight forward and simply renaming
> things to more closely match the DisplayPort specification, as I think
> this will also make maintaining this code a lot easier in the long run
> (I've gotten myself confused way too many times because of this).
> 
> So far I've tested this on all three MST drivers: amdgpu, i915 and
> nouveau, along with making sure that removing the radeon MST code
> doesn't break anything else. The one thing I very much could use help
> with regarding testing though is making sure that this works with
> amdgpu's DSC support on MST.
> 
> So, with this we should be using the atomic state as much as possible
> with MST modesetting, hooray!
> 
> V4:
> * Get rid of fix that Wayne pointed out isn't needed
> 
> Cc: Wayne Lin <Wayne.Lin@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Fangzhi Zuo <Jerry.Zuo@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Imre Deak <imre.deak@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sean Paul <sean@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Lyude Paul (17):
>   drm/amdgpu/dc/mst: Rename dp_mst_stream_allocation(_table)
>   drm/amdgpu/dm/mst: Rename get_payload_table()
>   drm/display/dp_mst: Rename drm_dp_mst_vcpi_allocation
>   drm/display/dp_mst: Call them time slots, not VCPI slots
>   drm/display/dp_mst: Fix confusing docs for
>     drm_dp_atomic_release_time_slots()
>   drm/display/dp_mst: Add some missing kdocs for atomic MST structs
>   drm/display/dp_mst: Add helper for finding payloads in atomic MST
>     state
>   drm/display/dp_mst: Add nonblocking helpers for DP MST
>   drm/display/dp_mst: Don't open code modeset checks for releasing time
>     slots
>   drm/display/dp_mst: Fix modeset tracking in
>     drm_dp_atomic_release_vcpi_slots()
>   drm/nouveau/kms: Cache DP encoders in nouveau_connector
>   drm/nouveau/kms: Pull mst state in for all modesets
>   drm/display/dp_mst: Add helpers for serializing SST <-> MST
>     transitions
>   drm/display/dp_mst: Drop all ports from topology on CSNs before
>     queueing link address work
>   drm/display/dp_mst: Maintain time slot allocations when deleting
>     payloads
>   drm/radeon: Drop legacy MST support
>   drm/display/dp_mst: Move all payload info into the atomic state
> 
>  .../gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c |   68 +-
>  .../amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_helpers.c |  108 +-
>  .../display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_mst_types.c   |  125 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_link.c |   10 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dm_helpers.h   |    4 +-
>  .../amd/display/include/link_service_types.h  |   14 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_mst_topology.c | 1137 ++++++++---------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c  |    6 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp.c       |    9 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_mst.c   |   91 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_hdcp.c     |   24 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv50/disp.c       |  197 ++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv50/disp.h       |    2 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_connector.c   |   18 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_connector.h   |    3 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/Makefile               |    2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_crtc.c        |   11 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_encoders.c    |   59 -
>  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_atombios.c      |    2 -
>  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_connectors.c    |   61 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c        |    1 -
>  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_dp_mst.c        |  778 -----------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_drv.c           |    4 -
>  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_encoders.c      |   14 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_irq_kms.c       |   10 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_mode.h          |   40 -
>  include/drm/display/drm_dp_mst_helper.h       |  234 ++--
>  27 files changed, 955 insertions(+), 2077 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_dp_mst.c
> 

-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat




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