Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm: Move crtc->{x, y, mode, enabled} to legacy sub-structure

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Le 03/10/24 - 18:29, Ville Syrjälä a écrit :
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2024 at 05:07:35PM +0200, Louis Chauvet wrote:
> > 
> > > > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_crtc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_crtc.c
> > > > > index a40295c18b48..780681ea77e4 100644
> > > > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_crtc.c
> > > > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_crtc.c
> > > > > @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ static int vkms_enable_vblank(struct drm_crtc *crtc)
> > > > >  	struct drm_vblank_crtc *vblank = drm_crtc_vblank_crtc(crtc);
> > > > >  	struct vkms_output *out = drm_crtc_to_vkms_output(crtc);
> > > > >  
> > > > > -	drm_calc_timestamping_constants(crtc, &crtc->mode);
> > > > > +	drm_calc_timestamping_constants(crtc, &crtc->legacy.mode);
> > > > 
> > > > 	drm_calc_timestamping_constants(crtc, &crtc->state->mode);
> > > 
> > > This one doesn't look safe. You want to call that during your atomic
> > > commit already.
> > > 
> > 
> > This was already not safe with the previous implementation? Or it is only 
> > unsafe because now I use state->mode instead of legacy.mode?
> 
> Yeah, if you want to look at obj->state then you need the corresponding
> lock.
> 
> obj->state is also not necessarily the correct state you want because
> a parallel commit could have already swapped in a new state but the
> hardware is still on the old state.
> 
> Basically 99.9% of code should never even look at obj->state, and
> instead should always use the for_each_new_<obj>_in_state()
> and drm_atomic_get_new_<obj>_state() stuff. Currently that is a
> pipe dream though because a lot of drivers haven't been fixed to
> do things properly. If we ever manage to fix everything then we
> could remove the stall hacks from drm_atomic_helper_swap_state()
> and allow a commit pipeline of arbitrary length.
>
> > 
> > After inspecting the code, I think I don't need to call it as:
> > 
> > In `vkms_atomic_commit_tail` (used in 
> > `@vkms_mode_config_helpers.atomic_commit_tail`), we call 
> > `drm_atomic_helper_commit_modeset_disables`, which call 
> > `drm_atomic_helper_calc_timestamping_constants` which call 
> > `drm_calc_timestamping_constants` for every CRTC.
> 
> Slightly odd place for it, but I think that's just because it was
> originally part of drm_atomic_helper_update_legacy_modeset_state()
> and I didn't bother looking for a better home for it when I split
> it out. But seems like it should work fine as is.

I just send a patch for this! Thanks for your help!

[1]:https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241003-remove-legacy-v1-1-0b7db1f1a1a6@xxxxxxxxxxx/
 
> > 
> > I tested kms_vblank, all of them are SUCCESS/SKIP, do you know other tests 
> > that can trigger bugs?
> 
> You would explicitly have to race commits against vblank_enable.
> Could of course sprinkle sleep()s around to widen the race window
> if you're really keen to hit it.
> 
> -- 
> Ville Syrjälä
> Intel

-- 
Louis Chauvet, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com




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