Re: [PATCH] drm/atomic-helpers: remove legacy_cursor_update hacks

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 09:49:49AM +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi Daniel
> 
> Am 31.03.22 um 17:20 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
> > The stuff never really worked, and leads to lots of fun because it
> > out-of-order frees atomic states. Which upsets KASAN, among other
> > things.
> > 
> > For async updates we now have a more solid solution with the
> > ->atomic_async_check and ->atomic_async_commit hooks. Support for that
> > for msm and vc4 landed. nouveau and i915 have their own commit
> > routines, doing something similar.
> > 
> > For everyone else it's probably better to remove the use-after-free
> > bug, and encourage folks to use the async support instead. The
> > affected drivers which register a legacy cursor plane and don't either
> > use the new async stuff or their own commit routine are: amdgpu,
> > atmel, mediatek, qxl, rockchip, sti, sun4i, tegra, virtio, and vmwgfx.
> 
> A while ago, I received a patch for a bug in ast. Cursor movement interfered
> with modesetting. [1] I didn't really knew what to make of it. Could this be
> related to the problem you're describing here?

Maybe.

> I guess the correct fix would be to implement async operations for cursor
> planes? ast doesn't do this yet.

Yeah the async ops are the new attempt (since a few years) to make this
work and suck less.
-Daniel

> 
> Best regards
> Thomas
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20210917072226.17357-1-kuohsiang_chou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> > 
> > Inspired by an amdgpu bug report.
> > 
> > v2: Drop RFC, I think with amdgpu converted over to use
> > atomic_async_check/commit done in
> > 
> > commit 674e78acae0dfb4beb56132e41cbae5b60f7d662
> > Author: Nicholas Kazlauskas <nicholas.kazlauskas@xxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Wed Dec 5 14:59:07 2018 -0500
> > 
> >      drm/amd/display: Add fast path for cursor plane updates
> > 
> > we don't have any driver anymore where we have userspace expecting
> > solid legacy cursor support _and_ they are using the atomic helpers in
> > their fully glory. So we can retire this.
> > 
> > v3: Paper over msm and i915 regression. The complete_all is the only
> > thing missing afaict.
> > 
> > v4: Fixup i915 fixup ...
> > 
> > References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199425
> > References: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220221134155.125447-9-maxime@xxxxxxxxxx/
> > References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199425
> > Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Tested-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: mikita.lipski@xxxxxxx
> > Cc: Michel Dänzer <michel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: harry.wentland@xxxxxxx
> > Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "Kazlauskas, Nicholas" <nicholas.kazlauskas@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c          | 13 -------------
> >   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
> >   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_atomic.c             |  2 ++
> >   3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> > index 9603193d2fa1..a2899af82b4a 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> > @@ -1498,13 +1498,6 @@ drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks(struct drm_device *dev,
> >   	int i, ret;
> >   	unsigned int crtc_mask = 0;
> > -	 /*
> > -	  * Legacy cursor ioctls are completely unsynced, and userspace
> > -	  * relies on that (by doing tons of cursor updates).
> > -	  */
> > -	if (old_state->legacy_cursor_update)
> > -		return;
> > -
> >   	for_each_oldnew_crtc_in_state(old_state, crtc, old_crtc_state, new_crtc_state, i) {
> >   		if (!new_crtc_state->active)
> >   			continue;
> > @@ -2135,12 +2128,6 @@ int drm_atomic_helper_setup_commit(struct drm_atomic_state *state,
> >   			continue;
> >   		}
> > -		/* Legacy cursor updates are fully unsynced. */
> > -		if (state->legacy_cursor_update) {
> > -			complete_all(&commit->flip_done);
> > -			continue;
> > -		}
> > -
> >   		if (!new_crtc_state->event) {
> >   			commit->event = kzalloc(sizeof(*commit->event),
> >   						GFP_KERNEL);
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c
> > index d2abe0e430bf..6ca5a6e7703b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c
> > @@ -8799,6 +8799,20 @@ static int intel_atomic_commit(struct drm_device *dev,
> >   		intel_runtime_pm_put(&dev_priv->runtime_pm, state->wakeref);
> >   		return ret;
> >   	}
> > +
> > +	/*
> > +	 * FIXME: Cut over to (async) commit helpers instead of hand-rolling
> > +	 * everything.
> > +	 */
> > +	if (state->base.legacy_cursor_update) {
> > +		struct intel_crtc_state *new_crtc_state;
> > +		struct intel_crtc *crtc;
> > +		int i;
> > +
> > +		for_each_new_intel_crtc_in_state(state, crtc, new_crtc_state, i)
> > +			complete_all(&new_crtc_state->uapi.commit->flip_done);
> > +	}
> > +
> >   	intel_shared_dpll_swap_state(state);
> >   	intel_atomic_track_fbs(state);
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_atomic.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_atomic.c
> > index 1686fbb611fd..b3cfabebe5d6 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_atomic.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_atomic.c
> > @@ -222,6 +222,8 @@ void msm_atomic_commit_tail(struct drm_atomic_state *state)
> >   		/* async updates are limited to single-crtc updates: */
> >   		WARN_ON(crtc_mask != drm_crtc_mask(async_crtc));
> > +		complete_all(&async_crtc->state->commit->flip_done);
> > +
> >   		/*
> >   		 * Start timer if we don't already have an update pending
> >   		 * on this crtc:
> 
> -- 
> Thomas Zimmermann
> Graphics Driver Developer
> SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
> Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
> (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
> Geschäftsführer: Ivo Totev




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



[Index of Archives]     [AMD Graphics]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]

  Powered by Linux