On Wed, 2022-12-21 at 11:49 +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi
>
> Am 29.11.22 um 13:43 schrieb Jouni Högander:
> > After splitting generic drm_fb_helper into it's own file it's left
> > to
> > helper implementation to have fb_dirty function. Currently intel
> > fb doesn't have it. This is causing problems when PSR is enabled.
> >
> > Implement simple fb_dirty callback to deliver notifications to psr
> > about updates in fb console.
>
> I'm a bit confused about i915's use of fb_dirty here. How is this
> supposed to interact with mmap? i915 doesn't use deferred I/O so
> fbdev
> mmap will never call fb_dirty if userspace writes to mmap'ed pages.
> Is
> this only required for the kernel's graphics console?
Yes, this fix is targeted for kernel's graphics console.
Please check new set I just sent.
> Best regards
> Thomas
>
> >
> > Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Jouni Högander <jouni.hogander@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_fbdev.c | 9 +++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_fbdev.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_fbdev.c
> > index 5575d7abdc09..7c7fba3fe69e 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_fbdev.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_fbdev.c
> > @@ -328,8 +328,17 @@ static int intelfb_create(struct drm_fb_helper
> > *helper,
> > return ret;
> > }
> >
> > +static int intelfb_dirty(struct drm_fb_helper *helper, struct
> > drm_clip_rect *clip)
> > +{
> > + if (helper->fb->funcs->dirty)
> > + return helper->fb->funcs->dirty(helper->fb, NULL,
> > 0, 0, clip, 1);
> > +
> > + return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > static const struct drm_fb_helper_funcs intel_fb_helper_funcs = {
> > .fb_probe = intelfb_create,
> > + .fb_dirty = intelfb_dirty,
> > };
> >
> > static void intel_fbdev_destroy(struct intel_fbdev *ifbdev)
>
> --
> Thomas Zimmermann
> Graphics Driver Developer
> SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
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BR,
Jouni Högander
