On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 04:56:25PM +0200, Imre Deak wrote:
> The Panel Power Sequencer lock held on an eDP port (a) blocks a DP AUX
> transfer on another port (b), since the PPS lock is device global, thus
> shared by all ports. The PPS lock can be held on port (a) for a longer
> period due to the various PPS delays (panel/backlight on/off,
> power-cycle delays). This in turn can cause an MST down-message request
> on port (b) time out, if the above PPS delay defers the handling of the
> reply to the request by more than 100ms: the MST branch device sending
> the reply (signaling this via the DP_DOWN_REP_MSG_RDY flag in the
> DP_DEVICE_SERVICE_IRQ_VECTOR DPCD register) may cancel the reply
> (clearing DP_DOWN_REP_MSG_RDY and the reply message buffer) after 110
> ms, if the reply is not processed by that time.
>
> Avoid MST down-message timeouts described above, by locking the PPS
> state for AUX transfers only if this is actually required: on eDP ports,
> where the VDD power depends on the PPS state and on all DP and eDP ports
> on VLV/CHV, where the PPS is a pipe instance and hence a modeset on any
> port possibly affecting the PPS state.
>
> Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_pps.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_pps.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_pps.c
> index 3c078fd53fbfa..7d7157983f25e 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_pps.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_pps.c
> @@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ static void vlv_steal_power_sequencer(struct intel_display *display,
> static void pps_init_delays(struct intel_dp *intel_dp);
> static void pps_init_registers(struct intel_dp *intel_dp, bool force_disable_vdd);
>
> +static bool intel_pps_is_pipe_instance(struct intel_display *display)
> +{
> + return display->platform.valleyview || display->platform.cherryview;
> +}
> +
> static const char *pps_name(struct intel_dp *intel_dp)
> {
> struct intel_display *display = to_intel_display(intel_dp);
> @@ -955,10 +960,32 @@ void intel_pps_vdd_off(struct intel_dp *intel_dp)
> intel_pps_vdd_off_unlocked(intel_dp, false);
> }
>
> +static bool aux_needs_pps_lock(struct intel_dp *intel_dp)
> +{
> + struct intel_display *display = to_intel_display(intel_dp);
> +
> + /*
> + * The PPS state needs to be locked for:
> + * - eDP on all platforms, since AUX transfers on eDP need VDD power
> + * (either forced or via panel power) which depends on the PPS
> + * state.
> + * - non-eDP on platforms where the PPS is a pipe instance (VLV/CHV),
> + * since changing the PPS state (via a parallel modeset for
> + * instance) may interfere with the AUX transfers on a non-eDP
> + * output as well.
> + */
> + return intel_dp_is_edp(intel_dp) || intel_pps_is_pipe_instance(display);
> +}
> +
> intel_wakeref_t intel_pps_lock_for_aux(struct intel_dp *intel_dp, bool *vdd_ref)
> {
> intel_wakeref_t wakeref;
>
> + if (!aux_needs_pps_lock(intel_dp)) {
> + *vdd_ref = false;
> + return NULL;
I was pondering if we need a define for this since intel_wakeref_t
doesn't look like a pointer, but apparently we use NULLs elsewhere
as well for this stuff.
> + }
> +
> wakeref = intel_pps_lock(intel_dp);
>
> /*
> @@ -976,6 +1003,13 @@ intel_wakeref_t intel_pps_lock_for_aux(struct intel_dp *intel_dp, bool *vdd_ref)
>
> void intel_pps_unlock_for_aux(struct intel_dp *intel_dp, intel_wakeref_t wakeref, bool vdd_ref)
> {
> + struct intel_display *display = to_intel_display(intel_dp);
> +
> + if (!wakeref) {
> + drm_WARN_ON(display->drm, vdd_ref || aux_needs_pps_lock(intel_dp));
> + return;
> + }
> +
> if (vdd_ref)
> intel_pps_vdd_off_unlocked(intel_dp, false);
>
> --
> 2.44.2
--
Ville Syrjälä
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