drm: Document caveats around atomic event handling
It's not that obvious how a driver can all race the atomic commit with handling the completion event. And there's unfortunately a pile of drivers with rather bad event handling which misdirect people into the wrong direction. Try to remedy this by documenting everything better. v2: Type fixes Alex spotted. v3: More typos Alex spotted. Cc: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1475229896-6047-1-git-send-email-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
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@@ -109,8 +109,6 @@ struct drm_plane_helper_funcs;
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* @ctm: Transformation matrix
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* @gamma_lut: Lookup table for converting pixel data after the
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* conversion matrix
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* @event: optional pointer to a DRM event to signal upon completion of the
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* state update
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* @state: backpointer to global drm_atomic_state
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*
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* Note that the distinction between @enable and @active is rather subtile:
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@@ -159,6 +157,46 @@ struct drm_crtc_state {
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struct drm_property_blob *ctm;
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struct drm_property_blob *gamma_lut;
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/**
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* @event:
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*
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* Optional pointer to a DRM event to signal upon completion of the
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* state update. The driver must send out the event when the atomic
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* commit operation completes. There are two cases:
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*
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* - The event is for a CRTC which is being disabled through this
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* atomic commit. In that case the event can be send out any time
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* after the hardware has stopped scanning out the current
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* framebuffers. It should contain the timestamp and counter for the
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* last vblank before the display pipeline was shut off.
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*
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* - For a CRTC which is enabled at the end of the commit (even when it
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* undergoes an full modeset) the vblank timestamp and counter must
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* be for the vblank right before the first frame that scans out the
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* new set of buffers. Again the event can only be sent out after the
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* hardware has stopped scanning out the old buffers.
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*
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* - Events for disabled CRTCs are not allowed, and drivers can ignore
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* that case.
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*
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* This can be handled by the drm_crtc_send_vblank_event() function,
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* which the driver should call on the provided event upon completion of
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* the atomic commit. Note that if the driver supports vblank signalling
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* and timestamping the vblank counters and timestamps must agree with
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* the ones returned from page flip events. With the current vblank
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* helper infrastructure this can be achieved by holding a vblank
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* reference while the page flip is pending, acquired through
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* drm_crtc_vblank_get() and released with drm_crtc_vblank_put().
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* Drivers are free to implement their own vblank counter and timestamp
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* tracking though, e.g. if they have accurate timestamp registers in
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* hardware.
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*
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* For hardware which supports some means to synchronize vblank
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* interrupt delivery with committing display state there's also
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* drm_crtc_arm_vblank_event(). See the documentation of that function
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* for a detailed discussion of the constraints it needs to be used
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* safely.
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*/
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struct drm_pending_vblank_event *event;
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struct drm_atomic_state *state;
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@@ -835,17 +873,9 @@ struct drm_mode_config_funcs {
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* CRTC index supplied in &drm_event to userspace.
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*
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* The drm core will supply a struct &drm_event in the event
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* member of each CRTC's &drm_crtc_state structure. This can be handled by the
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* drm_crtc_send_vblank_event() function, which the driver should call on
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* the provided event upon completion of the atomic commit. Note that if
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* the driver supports vblank signalling and timestamping the vblank
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* counters and timestamps must agree with the ones returned from page
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* flip events. With the current vblank helper infrastructure this can
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* be achieved by holding a vblank reference while the page flip is
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* pending, acquired through drm_crtc_vblank_get() and released with
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* drm_crtc_vblank_put(). Drivers are free to implement their own vblank
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* counter and timestamp tracking though, e.g. if they have accurate
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* timestamp registers in hardware.
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* member of each CRTC's &drm_crtc_state structure. See the
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* documentation for &drm_crtc_state for more details about the precise
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* semantics of this event.
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*
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* NOTE:
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*
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