Re: [PATCH] drm/i915/tgl: Set drm_crtc_state.active=false for all added disconnected CRTCs sharing MST stream.

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On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 11:25:53PM +0000, Souza, Jose wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-10-20 at 15:41 +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 12:45:55AM -0700, Khaled Almahallawy wrote:
> > > This patch avoids failing atomic commits sent by user space by making sure CRTC/Connector added to drm_atomic_state by the driver are in valid state.
> > > 
> > > When disconnecting MST hub with two or more connected displays. The user space sends IOCTL for each MST pipe to disable.
> > > drm_atomic_state object sent from user space contains only the state of the crtc/pipe intended to disable.
> > > In TGL, intel_dp_mst_atomic_master_trans_check will add all other CRTC and connectors that share the MST stream to drm_atomic_state:
> > > 
> > > drm_atomic_commit
> > >    drm_atomic_helper_check_modeset
> > >        update_connector_routing
> > >        intel_dp_mst_atomic_check = funcs->atomic_check(connector, state);
> > >        	   intel_dp_mst_atomic_master_trans_check
> > > 		intel_atomic_get_digital_connector_state
> > > 			drm_atomic_get_connector_state   <-- Add all Connectors
> > > 			    drm_atomic_get_crtc_state <-- Add all CRTCs
> > >        update_connector_routing <-- Check added Connector/CRTCs - Will fail
> > > 
> > > However the added crtc/connector pair will be in invalid state (enabled state for a removed connector)
> > > triggering this condition in drm_atomic_helper.c/update_connector_routing:
> > > 
> > > 	if (!state->duplicated && drm_connector_is_unregistered(connector) &&
> > > 	    crtc_state->active) {
> > > 		DRM_DEBUG_ATOMIC("[CONNECTOR:%d:%s] is not registered\n",
> > > 				 connector->base.id, connector->name);
> > > 		return -EINVAL;
> > > 	}
> > 
> > Yeah, I think that "reject modeset on unregistered connectors" idea is
> > a bit broken given how the uapi has worked in the past. Cc:ing danvet
> > and lyude who IIRC were involved with that.
> > 
> > Hmm. Maybe we could add the other stuff to the state only after the
> > connector .atomic_check() stuff has been done? I don't quite remember
> > why we decided to do it here. José do you recall the details?
> 
> Because the connector check function runs twice in drm_atomic_helper_check_modeset(), in the first iteration it will add all connectors that share the
> same MST stream to state, the second one will make sure all other checks passed in all connectors of the MST stream.
> 
> To me looks like the Chrome userspace is not doing the right thing, it is sending asynchronous atomic commits with conflicting state between each
> commit.
> If it had a pool that dispatch one atomic state at time waiting for completion before dispatch the next one it would not be a issue.

Yeah, with atomic userspace could avoid this potentially. Though it
may be racy depending on whether it has noticed all the MST connectors
disappearing yet or not. Either way it's still an issue for legacy
uapi.

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel
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