Re: [PATCH v2] drm/i915/hsw: Add display Audio codec disable sequence for Haswell

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On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 03:21:01PM +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 01:45:47PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 02:33:20PM +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 08:50:13PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:50 AM,  <mengdong.lin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > +       /* Wait for 2 vertical blanks */
> > > > > +       intel_wait_for_vblank(dev, pipe);
> > > > > +       intel_wait_for_vblank(dev, pipe);
> > > > > +
> > > > > +       /* Disable audio PD. This is optional as per Bspec.  */
> > > > > +       temp = I915_READ(HSW_AUD_PIN_ELD_CP_VLD);
> > > > > +       temp &= ~(AUDIO_OUTPUT_ENABLE_A << (pipe * 4));
> > > > > +       I915_WRITE(HSW_AUD_PIN_ELD_CP_VLD, temp);
> > > > 
> > > > If this is optional do we really need the two vblank waits above?
> > > > Adding them just for fun when we generally try to rip out as many
> > > > vblank waits as possible from the modeset code isn't all that great
> > > > ...
> > > 
> > > One idea I had for these kinds of vblank waits (there also one required
> > > for IPS for instance) is that we might just sample a vblank counter
> > > after the first step, then at the latest point we can, we'd wait for the
> > > frame counter to have passed the sampled vaoue + whatever extra is
> > > needed. That might allow us to do other stuff in parallel while the
> > > required number of vblanks will elapese.
> > 
> > My solution for this is to have vblank work items that we can use to chain
> > off all these things. We also need them for pageflips e.g. when
> > re-enabling fbc or similar stuff. The problem is a bit that for switching
> > things off like in a modeset the synchronization can get hairy and will be
> > little-tested. For enabling as long as we share the code with the nuclear
> > pageflip code we should be fine though ...
> > 
> > Hence why I think we should try rather hard to avoid these vblank waits in
> > the first place.
> 
> Yeah, for enabling we definitely want to execute all that stuff
> asynchronously.
> 
> The disable case is more problematic. For atomic pageflip we might get
> away with returning -EAGAIN or something, but we have to block in the
> full modeset case unless we want to move the entire modeset to a work
> queue. So this trick would mostly be relevant for the disable during
> modeset case.
> 
> But of course we could do that stuff via some kind of
> schedule_vblank_work(currentl_vbl_count + X) and synchronize_vblank_work()
> just before the critical step that needs the vblank work to be done. But
> the locking and bugs might be more complicated in this case.

Yeah we'll end up doing a maze of what will essentially be async tasklets
and callbacks. A declarative way to do that would imo be a requirement,
but such fanciness is hard to pull of in C without turning into something
really ugly ...
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
+41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch
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