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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 18:13:27 +0100
From: Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>
To: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 09/10] drm/vc4: hdmi: stop rereading EDID in
 get_modes()

On Sun, Dec 08, 2024 at 01:06:46PM +0200, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 03:34:52PM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 12:16:03PM +0200, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> > > The vc4_hdmi_connector_detect_ctx() via vc4_hdmi_handle_hotplug()
> > > already reads EDID and propagates it to the drm_connector. Stop
> > > rereading EDID as a part of the .get_modes() callback and just update
> > > the list of modes. This matches the behaviour of the i915 driver.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_hdmi.c | 21 ---------------------
> > >  1 file changed, 21 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_hdmi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_hdmi.c
> > > index e5ab42f72f618b90f956482db6c9c8074c1e3bf1..3364ef90968dad3074800f02926300ffceb75c69 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_hdmi.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_hdmi.c
> > > @@ -470,31 +470,10 @@ static int vc4_hdmi_connector_detect_ctx(struct drm_connector *connector,
> > >  
> > >  static int vc4_hdmi_connector_get_modes(struct drm_connector *connector)
> > >  {
> > > -	struct vc4_hdmi *vc4_hdmi = connector_to_vc4_hdmi(connector);
> > >  	struct vc4_dev *vc4 = to_vc4_dev(connector->dev);
> > > -	const struct drm_edid *drm_edid;
> > >  	int ret = 0;
> > >  
> > > -	/*
> > > -	 * NOTE: This function should really take vc4_hdmi->mutex, but doing so
> > > -	 * results in reentrancy issues since cec_s_phys_addr() might call
> > > -	 * .adap_enable, which leads to that funtion being called with our mutex
> > > -	 * held.
> > > -	 *
> > > -	 * Concurrency isn't an issue at the moment since we don't share
> > > -	 * any state with any of the other frameworks so we can ignore
> > > -	 * the lock for now.
> > > -	 */
> > > -
> > > -	drm_edid = drm_edid_read_ddc(connector, vc4_hdmi->ddc);
> > > -	drm_edid_connector_update(connector, drm_edid);
> > > -	cec_s_phys_addr(vc4_hdmi->cec_adap,
> > > -			connector->display_info.source_physical_address, false);
> > > -	if (!drm_edid)
> > > -		return 0;
> > > -
> > >  	ret = drm_edid_connector_add_modes(connector);
> > > -	drm_edid_free(drm_edid);
> > 
> > I don't think that works though, for mostly two reasons:
> > 
> >  1) We're not sure we'll even have an hotplug interrupt if the system
> >     boots with the connector plugged in for example.
> > 
> >  2) afaik, the get_modes ioctl directly calls get_modes too.
> 
> I think both paths use .fill_modes, not get_modes.

The standard fill_modes helper calls get_modes.

> And fill_modes explicitly calls .detect / .detect_ctx. It would be
> nice if somebody can verify the change on the acual hw. But as I
> wrote, i915 driver does exactly the same: the EDID is read / updated
> in .detect_ctx(), while .get_modes() only performs
> drm_edid_connector_add_modes(). Okay, there is one significant
> difference which we should probably patch out: the .force() is also
> implemented to update EDID in the forced case. I should probably do
> the same for the drivers being handled in this patchset.

Ack. Worst case scenario we can fix it later on.

Maxime

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