linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/nouveau/dispnv50: Don't call drm_atomic_get_crtc_state() in prepare

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Message-ID: <e257e0a27d4b074d9096c77a57551ef0512e5bf9.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:58:35 -0500
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
Cc: dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	stable@...r.kernel.org, nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org, Faith Ekstrand	
 <faith.ekstrand@...labora.com>, Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>, Maarten
 Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>, Ben Skeggs
 <bskeggs@...dia.com>, Simona Vetter	 <simona@...ll.ch>, Thomas Zimmermann
 <tzimmermann@...e.de>, Maxime Ripard	 <mripard@...nel.org>, Danilo
 Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>, James Jones	 <jajones@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/nouveau/dispnv50: Don't call
 drm_atomic_get_crtc_state() in prepare_fb

On Wed, 2025-12-10 at 10:40 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Dec 2025 at 07:32, Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Since we recently started warning about uses of this function after the
> > atomic check phase completes, we've started getting warnings about this in
> > nouveau. It appears a misplaced drm_atomic_get_crtc_state() call has been
> > hiding in our .prepare_fb callback for a while.
> > 
> > So, fix this by adding a new nv50_head_atom_get_new() function and use that
> > in our .prepare_fb callback instead.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
> > 
> > Fixes: 1590700d94ac ("drm/nouveau/kms/nv50-: split each resource type into their own source files")
> > Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # v4.18+
> > Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv50/atom.h | 13 +++++++++++++
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv50/wndw.c |  2 +-
> >  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv50/atom.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv50/atom.h
> > index 93f8f4f645784..85b7cf70d13c4 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv50/atom.h
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv50/atom.h
> > @@ -152,8 +152,21 @@ static inline struct nv50_head_atom *
> >  nv50_head_atom_get(struct drm_atomic_state *state, struct drm_crtc *crtc)
> >  {
> >         struct drm_crtc_state *statec = drm_atomic_get_crtc_state(state, crtc);
> > +
> >         if (IS_ERR(statec))
> >                 return (void *)statec;
> > +
> > +       return nv50_head_atom(statec);
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline struct nv50_head_atom *
> > +nv50_head_atom_get_new(struct drm_atomic_state *state, struct drm_crtc *crtc)
> > +{
> > +       struct drm_crtc_state *statec = drm_atomic_get_new_crtc_state(state, crtc);
> > +
> > +       if (IS_ERR(statec))
> > +               return (void*)statec;
> > +
> 
> So I was at kernel summit and someone was talking about AI review
> prompts so I threw this patch at it, and it we shouldn't use IS_ERR
> here, and I think it is correct.

Seems like the magic 8 ball happened to be correct. This should just be a
check for NULL. Will respin in a bit

> 
> get_new_crtc_state only returns NULL not an error.
> 
> Dave.

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

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