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Message-ID: <5ef027e0d74b4784bd7bf736759fd3373a703e77.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:07:35 -0500
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>, simona@...ll.ch,
 airlied@...il.com, 	alexander.deucher@....com, christian.koenig@....com,
 dakr@...nel.org, 	deller@....de, mripard@...nel.org,
 maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com, 	jason.wessel@...driver.com,
 danielt@...nel.org, dianders@...omium.org
Cc: dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, 
	nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] drm/nouveau: Do not implement mode_set_base_atomic
 callback

Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>

On Tue, 2025-11-25 at 13:52 +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Remove the implementation of the CRTC helper mode_set_base_atomic
> from nouveau. It pretends to provide mode setting for kdb debugging,
> but has been broken for some time.
> 
> Kdb output has been supported only for non-atomic mode setting since
> commit 9c79e0b1d096 ("drm/fb-helper: Give up on kgdb for atomic drivers")
> from 2017.
> 
> While nouveau provides non-atomic mode setting for some devices, kdb
> assumes that the GEM buffer object is at a fixed location in video
> memory. This has not been the case since
> commit 4a16dd9d18a0 ("drm/nouveau/kms: switch to drm fbdev helpers")
> from 2022. Fbdev-ttm helpers use a shadow buffer with a movable GEM
> buffer object. Triggering kdb does therefore not update the display.
> 
> Hence remove the whole kdb support from nouveau.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv04/crtc.c | 24 ++++--------------------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv04/crtc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv04/crtc.c
> index c063756eaea3..80493224eb6c 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv04/crtc.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv04/crtc.c
> @@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ nv_crtc_gamma_set(struct drm_crtc *crtc, u16 *r, u16 *g, u16 *b,
>  static int
>  nv04_crtc_do_mode_set_base(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
>  			   struct drm_framebuffer *passed_fb,
> -			   int x, int y, bool atomic)
> +			   int x, int y)
>  {
>  	struct nouveau_crtc *nv_crtc = nouveau_crtc(crtc);
>  	struct drm_device *dev = crtc->dev;
> @@ -850,19 +850,12 @@ nv04_crtc_do_mode_set_base(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
>  	NV_DEBUG(drm, "index %d\n", nv_crtc->index);
>  
>  	/* no fb bound */
> -	if (!atomic && !crtc->primary->fb) {
> +	if (!crtc->primary->fb) {
>  		NV_DEBUG(drm, "No FB bound\n");
>  		return 0;
>  	}
>  
> -	/* If atomic, we want to switch to the fb we were passed, so
> -	 * now we update pointers to do that.
> -	 */
> -	if (atomic) {
> -		drm_fb = passed_fb;
> -	} else {
> -		drm_fb = crtc->primary->fb;
> -	}
> +	drm_fb = crtc->primary->fb;
>  
>  	nvbo = nouveau_gem_object(drm_fb->obj[0]);
>  	nv_crtc->fb.offset = nvbo->offset;
> @@ -920,15 +913,7 @@ nv04_crtc_mode_set_base(struct drm_crtc *crtc, int x, int y,
>  	int ret = nv_crtc_swap_fbs(crtc, old_fb);
>  	if (ret)
>  		return ret;
> -	return nv04_crtc_do_mode_set_base(crtc, old_fb, x, y, false);
> -}
> -
> -static int
> -nv04_crtc_mode_set_base_atomic(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
> -			       struct drm_framebuffer *fb,
> -			       int x, int y, enum mode_set_atomic state)
> -{
> -	return nv04_crtc_do_mode_set_base(crtc, fb, x, y, true);
> +	return nv04_crtc_do_mode_set_base(crtc, old_fb, x, y);
>  }
>  
>  static void nv04_cursor_upload(struct drm_device *dev, struct nouveau_bo *src,
> @@ -1274,7 +1259,6 @@ static const struct drm_crtc_helper_funcs nv04_crtc_helper_funcs = {
>  	.commit = nv_crtc_commit,
>  	.mode_set = nv_crtc_mode_set,
>  	.mode_set_base = nv04_crtc_mode_set_base,
> -	.mode_set_base_atomic = nv04_crtc_mode_set_base_atomic,
>  	.disable = nv_crtc_disable,
>  	.get_scanout_position = nouveau_display_scanoutpos,
>  };

-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat

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