Re: [PATCH 4.19 regression fix 2/2] staging: vboxvideo: Change address of scanout buffer on page-flip

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Hi,

On 11-09-18 01:08, Steve Longerbeam wrote:
Hi Hans,


On 09/10/2018 11:30 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
Commit 2408898e3b6c ("staging: vboxvideo: Add page-flip support") only
calls vbox_crtc_do_set_base() on page-flips, but despite that function's
name it only pins the new fb, unpins the old fb and sets
vbox_crtc->fb_offset. It does not program the hardware to scan out at the
new vbox_crtc->fb_offset value.

Has that always been the case of vbox_crtc_do_set_base()? Or was
there a recent commit that changed that behavior?

I believe that always was the case.

I tested this patch using a Weston EGL mock navigation test app around
4.14 time-frame, that exercises page flip and it was scanning out the
new fb, but maybe what I was looking at was a scan-out of an old/now stale
fb from a previous page-flip.

Yes I think that is what you saw, this was not easy to notice, I noticed
that when typing slowly my letters would always appear 2 at a time, then
I deliberately typed: 'a' waited a couple of seconds and the 'a' would
not show up until I also typed 'b' and then both showed up at once.

This was with GNOME3 as Wayland compositor, which I believe stops
sending new frames when nothing changes which makes this very noticeable :)

In any case thanks for fixing.

You are welcome.

Regards,

Hans




Steve

This was causing only every other frame (assuming page-flipping between 2
buffers) to be shown since we kept scanning out of the old (now unpinned!)
buffer.

This commit fixes this by adding code to vbox_crtc_page_flip() to tell
the hardware to scanout from the new fb_offset.

Fixes: 2408898e3b6c ("staging: vboxvideo: Add page-flip support")
Cc: Steve Longerbeam <steve_longerbeam@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/staging/vboxvideo/vbox_mode.c | 5 +++++
  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/vboxvideo/vbox_mode.c b/drivers/staging/vboxvideo/vbox_mode.c
index a83eac8668d0..79836c8fb909 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vboxvideo/vbox_mode.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vboxvideo/vbox_mode.c
@@ -323,6 +323,11 @@ static int vbox_crtc_page_flip(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
      if (rc)
          return rc;
+    mutex_lock(&vbox->hw_mutex);
+    vbox_set_view(crtc);
+    vbox_do_modeset(crtc, &crtc->mode);
+    mutex_unlock(&vbox->hw_mutex);
+
      spin_lock_irqsave(&drm->event_lock, flags);
      if (event)

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