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Message-ID: <06736479f36918a58d6b4986b697ddb7569c920e.camel@collabora.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 09:31:46 -0300
From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@...labora.com>
To: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@...labora.com>,
David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
Cc: dnicoara@...omium.org, alexandros.frantzis@...labora.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org>,
Sean Paul <seanpaul@...gle.com>, kernel@...labora.com,
Stéphane Marchesin <marcheu@...gle.com>,
Sean Paul <seanpaul@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] drm/atomic: add ASYNC_UPDATE flag to the Atomic
IOCTL.
Hi Maarten,
On Thu, 2018-06-28 at 10:31 +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> Op 27-06-18 om 23:25 schreef Enric Balletbo i Serra:
> > From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@...labora.com>
> >
> > This flag tells core to jump ahead the queued update if the
> > conditions
> > in drm_atomic_async_check() are met. That means we are only able to
> > do an
> > async update if no modeset is pending and update for the same plane
> > is
> > not queued.
> >
> > It uses the already in place infrastructure for async updates.
> >
> > It is useful for cursor updates and async PageFlips over the atomic
> > ioctl, otherwise in some cases updates may be delayed to the point
> > the
> > user will notice it.
> >
> > DRM_MODE_ATOMIC_ASYNC_UPDATE should be passed to the Atomic IOCTL
> > to use
> > this feature.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@...labora.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@...labora.com
> > >
> > ---
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is an attempt to introduce the new ASYNC_UPDATE flag for
> > atomic
> > operations, see the commit message for a more detailed description.
> >
> > To test this patch we have created an IGT test that we plan to send
> > to
> > the ML but also was tested using a small program that exercises the
> > uAPI
> > for easy sanity testing. The program created by Alexandros can be
> > found here
> > [2]. To test, just build the program and use the --atomic flag to
> > use the
> > cursor plane in normal (blocking mode), and --atomic-async to use
> > the cursor
> > plane with the ASYNC_UPDATE flag.E.g.
> >
> > drm_cursor --atomic
> >
> > or
> >
> > drm_cursor --atomic-async
> >
> > The test worked on a Samsung Chromebook Plus on top of mainline
> > plus
> > the patch to update cursors asynchronously through atomic for the
> > drm/rockchip driver [3].
> >
> > Alexandros also did a proof-of-concept to use this flag and draw
> > cursors
> > using atomic if possible on ozone [1].
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Enric
> >
> > [1] https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/10927
> > 11
> > [2] https://gitlab.collabora.com/alf/drm-cursor
> > [3] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10492693/
> >
> >
> > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c | 6 ++++++
> > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c | 9 ++++++---
> > include/uapi/drm/drm_mode.h | 4 +++-
> > 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c
> > index c825c76edc1d..15b799f46982 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c
> > @@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ drm_atomic_state_init(struct drm_device *dev,
> > struct drm_atomic_state *state)
> > * setting this appropriately?
> > */
> > state->allow_modeset = true;
> > + state->async_update = true;
>
> Do we really want this by default?
>
> Wouldn't it make more sense to only enable it if userspace requests
> it?
This value is rewritten when we check for the ASYNC_UPDATE flag, so it
disable by default. I guess this line could be removed then.
> >
> > state->crtcs = kcalloc(dev->mode_config.num_crtc,
> > sizeof(*state->crtcs), GFP_KERNEL);
> > @@ -2320,6 +2321,10 @@ int drm_mode_atomic_ioctl(struct drm_device
> > *dev,
> > (arg->flags & DRM_MODE_PAGE_FLIP_EVENT))
> > return -EINVAL;
> >
> > + if ((arg->flags & DRM_MODE_ATOMIC_ALLOW_MODESET) &&
> > + (arg->flags &
> > DRM_MODE_ATOMIC_ASYNC_UPDATE))
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > drm_modeset_acquire_init(&ctx,
> > DRM_MODESET_ACQUIRE_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> >
> > state = drm_atomic_state_alloc(dev);
>
> We should probably move it to be a flag only enabled when requested,
> and reject with the error returned by drm_atomic_helper_async_check()
> when things fail.
>
> ~Maarten
> > @@ -2328,6 +2333,7 @@ int drm_mode_atomic_ioctl(struct drm_device
> > *dev,
> >
> > state->acquire_ctx = &ctx;
> > state->allow_modeset = !!(arg->flags &
> > DRM_MODE_ATOMIC_ALLOW_MODESET);
> > + state->async_update = !!(arg->flags &
> > DRM_MODE_ATOMIC_ASYNC_UPDATE);
> >
> > retry:
> > plane_mask = 0;
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> > index c35654591c12..aeb0523d3bcf 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> > @@ -891,7 +891,7 @@ int drm_atomic_helper_check(struct drm_device
> > *dev,
> > if (ret)
> > return ret;
> >
> > - if (state->legacy_cursor_update)
> > + if (state->async_update || state->legacy_cursor_update)
> > state->async_update =
> > !drm_atomic_helper_async_check(dev, state);
> >
> > return ret;
> > @@ -1526,13 +1526,16 @@ int drm_atomic_helper_async_check(struct
> > drm_device *dev,
> > if (new_plane_state->fence)
> > return -EINVAL;
> >
> > + /* Only do an async update if there is a pending commit.
> > */
> > + if (!old_plane_state->commit)
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > /*
> > * Don't do an async update if there is an outstanding
> > commit modifying
> > * the plane. This prevents our async update's changes
> > from getting
> > * overridden by a previous synchronous update's state.
> > */
> > - if (old_plane_state->commit &&
> > - !try_wait_for_completion(&old_plane_state->commit-
> > >hw_done))
> > + if (!try_wait_for_completion(&old_plane_state->commit-
> > >hw_done))
> > return -EBUSY;
> >
> > return funcs->atomic_async_check(plane, new_plane_state);
> > diff --git a/include/uapi/drm/drm_mode.h
> > b/include/uapi/drm/drm_mode.h
> > index 50bcf4214ff9..772e84f0edeb 100644
> > --- a/include/uapi/drm/drm_mode.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/drm/drm_mode.h
> > @@ -718,13 +718,15 @@ struct drm_mode_destroy_dumb {
> > #define DRM_MODE_ATOMIC_TEST_ONLY 0x0100
> > #define DRM_MODE_ATOMIC_NONBLOCK 0x0200
> > #define DRM_MODE_ATOMIC_ALLOW_MODESET 0x0400
> > +#define DRM_MODE_ATOMIC_ASYNC_UPDATE 0x0800
> >
> > #define DRM_MODE_ATOMIC_FLAGS (\
> > DRM_MODE_PAGE_FLIP_EVENT |\
> > DRM_MODE_PAGE_FLIP_ASYNC |\
> > DRM_MODE_ATOMIC_TEST_ONLY |\
> > DRM_MODE_ATOMIC_NONBLOCK |\
> > - DRM_MODE_ATOMIC_ALLOW_MODESET)
> > + DRM_MODE_ATOMIC_ALLOW_MODESET |\
> > + DRM_MODE_ATOMIC_ASYNC_UPDATE)
> >
> > struct drm_mode_atomic {
> > __u32 flags;
>
>
--
Gustavo Padovan
Collabora Ltd.
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