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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 17:52:09 +0100
From: neil.armstrong@...aro.org
To: Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>, Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
 Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
 Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@...omium.org>, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
 eizan@...omium.org, Ankit Nautiyal <ankit.k.nautiyal@...el.com>,
 Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>, David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
 Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>, Imre Deak <imre.deak@...el.com>,
 Jessica Zhang <quic_jesszhan@...cinc.com>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
 Stanislav Lisovskiy <stanislav.lisovskiy@...el.com>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/dp: Don't attempt AUX transfers when eDP panels are
 not powered

On 28/02/2024 17:40, Doug Anderson wrote:
> Neil,
> 
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 8:53 AM Neil Armstrong
> <neil.armstrong@...aro.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Doug,
>>
>> On 15/02/2024 16:08, Doug Anderson wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 2:24 AM Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 14 Feb 2024, Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 10:25 PM Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@...omium.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 2:23 PM Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If an eDP panel is not powered on then any attempts to talk to it over
>>>>>>> the DP AUX channel will timeout. Unfortunately these attempts may be
>>>>>>> quite slow. Userspace can initiate these attempts either via a
>>>>>>> /dev/drm_dp_auxN device or via the created i2c device.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Making the DP AUX drivers timeout faster is a difficult proposition.
>>>>>>> In theory we could just poll the panel's HPD line in the AUX transfer
>>>>>>> function and immediately return an error there. However, this is
>>>>>>> easier said than done. For one thing, there's no hard requirement to
>>>>>>> hook the HPD line up for eDP panels and it's OK to just delay a fixed
>>>>>>> amount. For another thing, the HPD line may not be fast to probe. On
>>>>>>> parade-ps8640 we need to wait for the bridge chip's firmware to boot
>>>>>>> before we can get the HPD line and this is a slow process.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The fact that the transfers are taking so long to timeout is causing
>>>>>>> real problems. The open source fwupd daemon sometimes scans DP busses
>>>>>>> looking for devices whose firmware need updating. If it happens to
>>>>>>> scan while a panel is turned off this scan can take a long time. The
>>>>>>> fwupd daemon could try to be smarter and only scan when eDP panels are
>>>>>>> turned on, but we can also improve the behavior in the kernel.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Let's let eDP panels drivers specify that a panel is turned off and
>>>>>>> then modify the common AUX transfer code not to attempt a transfer in
>>>>>>> this case.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@...omium.org>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the review!
>>>>>
>>>>> Given that this touches core DRM code and that I never got
>>>>> confirmation that Jani's concerns were addressed with my previous
>>>>> response, I'm still going to wait a little while before applying. I'm
>>>>> on vacation for most of next week, but if there are no further replies
>>>>> between now and then I'll plan to apply this to "drm-misc-next" the
>>>>> week of Feb 26th. If someone else wants to apply this before I do then
>>>>> I certainly won't object. Jani: if you feel this needs more discussion
>>>>> or otherwise object to this patch landing then please yell. Likewise
>>>>> if anyone else in the community wants to throw in their opinion, feel
>>>>> free.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for dropping the ball after my initial response. I simply have not
>>>> had the time to look into this.
>>>>
>>>> It would be great to get, say, drm-misc maintainer ack on this before
>>>> merging. It's not fair for me to stall this any longer, I'll trust their
>>>> judgement.
>>>>
>>>> Reasonable?
>>>
>>> I'd be more than happy for one of the drm-misc maintainers to Ack.
>>> I'll move Maxime, Thomas, and Maarten to the "To:" line to see if that
>>> helps get through their filters.
>>
>> I'll like some test reports to be sure it doesn't break anything,
>> then I'll be happy to give my ack !
> 
> Are you looking for any more test reports at this point? Eizan did
> some testing and provided a tag, though this was also on ChromeOS.
> Steev also tested on two non-ChromeOS environments and provided his
> tag. It's also been another two weeks of this being rolled out to some
> Chromebook users and I haven't heard any reports of problems. If
> somehow something was missed, I'm happy to follow-up and provide
> additional fixes if some report comes in later.

Sure, thx I think you can apply it now

Acked-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@...aro.org>

Thanks,
Neil

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Doug

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