Date:   Tue, 14 Sep 2021 17:03:50 +0200
From:   Maxime Ripard <maxime@...no.tech>
To:     dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        Emma Anholt <emma@...olt.net>,
        linux-rpi-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Dave Stevenson <dave.stevenson@...pberrypi.com>,
        Phil Elwell <phil@...pberrypi.com>,
        Tim Gover <tim.gover@...pberrypi.com>,
        Dom Cobley <dom@...pberrypi.com>,
        Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
        Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenz@...nel.org>,
        bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] drm/vc4: hdmi: Actually check for the connector
 status in hotplug

Hi Daniel,

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 04:34:08PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 12:17:24PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > The drm_helper_hpd_irq_event() documentation states that this function
> > is "useful for drivers which can't or don't track hotplug interrupts for
> > each connector." and that "Drivers which support hotplug interrupts for
> > each connector individually and which have a more fine-grained detect
> > logic should bypass this code and directly call
> > drm_kms_helper_hotplug_event()". This is thus what we ended-up doing.
> > 
> > However, what this actually means, and is further explained in the
> > drm_kms_helper_hotplug_event() documentation, is that
> > drm_kms_helper_hotplug_event() should be called by drivers that can
> > track the connection status change, and if it has changed we should call
> > that function.
> > 
> > This underlying expectation we failed to provide is that the caller of
> > drm_kms_helper_hotplug_event() should call drm_helper_probe_detect() to
> > probe the new status of the connector.
> > 
> > Since we didn't do it, it meant that even though we were sending the
> > notification to user-space and the DRM clients that something changed we
> > never probed or updated our internal connector status ourselves.
> > 
> > This went mostly unnoticed since the detect callback usually doesn't
> > have any side-effect. Also, if we were using the DRM fbdev emulation
> > (which is a DRM client), or any user-space application that can deal
> > with hotplug events, chances are they would react to the hotplug event
> > by probing the connector status eventually.
> > 
> > However, now that we have to enable the scrambler in detect() if it was
> > enabled it has a side effect, and an application such as Kodi or
> > modetest doesn't deal with hotplug events. This resulted with a black
> > screen when Kodi or modetest was running when a screen was disconnected
> > and then reconnected, or switched off and on.
> 
> Uh, why are you running this scrambler restore in your probe function? I
> guess it works, but most drivers that do expensive hotplug restore to
> handle the "no black screen for replug" use-case handle that in their own
> dedicated code.

That's what I got from our discussion back in June (I think?). The
discussion was about an issue we were having back then where one would
disconnect / reconnect the display while it had been setup through SCDC
to use the scrambler and higher bit ratio.

During that power cycle (that also happens when you turn a TV off and
on), the display would obviously reset its SCDC status. But if there's
nothing to handle the uevent, then the same mode remains applied
resulting in a blank screen.

If we're not supposed to set the SCDC status again in detect(), how
would we deal with this?

> But those also tend to have per-output hpd interrupt sources, so maybe
> that's why?

We do have an per-output HPD interrupt here

Maximey

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