linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] drm/vblank: estimate vblank while disabling vblank if interrupt disabled

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Message-ID: <20190626132732.GP5942@intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:27:32 +0300
From:   Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Robert Beckett <bob.beckett@...labora.com>
Cc:     dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...tlin.com>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@....com>,
        Sean Paul <sean@...rly.run>,
        Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] drm/vblank: estimate vblank while disabling
 vblank if interrupt disabled

On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 06:59:14PM +0100, Robert Beckett wrote:
> If interrupts are disabled (e.g. via vblank_disable_fn) and we come to
> disable vblank, update the vblank count to best guess as to what it
> would be had the interrupts remained enabled, and update the timesamp to
> now.
> 
> This avoids a stale vblank event being sent while disabling crtcs during
> atomic modeset.
> 
> Fixes: 68036b08b91bc ("drm/vblank: Do not update vblank count if interrupts
> are already disabled.")

I don't understand that commit. drm_vblank_off() should be called
when the power is still present, so it looks to me like that
commit is actually wrong. So I think we may want to just revert
it and figure out what the actual bug was.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert Beckett <bob.beckett@...labora.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vblank.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vblank.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vblank.c
> index 7dabb2bdb733..db68b8cbf797 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vblank.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vblank.c
> @@ -375,9 +375,23 @@ void drm_vblank_disable_and_save(struct drm_device *dev, unsigned int pipe)
>  	 * interrupts were enabled. This avoids calling the ->disable_vblank()
>  	 * operation in atomic context with the hardware potentially runtime
>  	 * suspended.
> +	 * If interrupts are disabled (e.g. via blank_disable_fn) then make
> +	 * best guess as to what it would be now and make sure we have an up
> +	 * to date timestamp.
>  	 */
> -	if (!vblank->enabled)
> +	if (!vblank->enabled) {
> +		ktime_t now = ktime_get();
> +		u32 diff = 0;
> +		if (vblank->framedur_ns) {
> +			u64 diff_ns = ktime_to_ns(ktime_sub(now, vblank->time));
> +			diff = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST_ULL(diff_ns,
> +						     vblank->framedur_ns);
> +		}
> +
> +		store_vblank(dev, pipe, diff, now, vblank->count);
> +
>  		goto out;
> +	}
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Update the count and timestamp to maintain the
> -- 
> 2.18.0
> 
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Ville Syrjälä
Intel

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