On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 03:30:58PM +0100, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> Op 20-02-17 om 14:38 schreef Ville Syrjälä:
> > On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 10:04:06AM +0100, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> >> Op 17-02-17 om 16:01 schreef [email protected]:
> >>> From: Ville Syrjälä <[email protected]>
> >>>
> >>> In order to make cursor updates actually safe wrt. watermark programming
> >>> we have to clear the legacy_cursor_update flag in the atomic state. That
> >>> will cause the regular atomic update path to do the necessary vblank
> >>> wait after the plane update if needed, otherwise the vblank wait would
> >>> be skipped and we'd feed the optimal watermarks to the hardware before
> >>> the plane update has actually happened.
> >>>
> >>> To make the slow vs. fast path determination in
> >>> intel_legacy_cursor_update() a little simpler we can ignore the actual
> >>> visibility of the plane (which can only get computed once we've already
> >>> chosen out path) and instead we simply check whether the fb is being
> >>> set or cleared by the user. This means a fully clipped but logically
> >>> visible cursor will be considered visible as far as watermark
> >>> programming is concerned. We can do that for the cursor since it's a
> >>> fixed size plane and the clipped size doesn't play a role in the
> >>> watermark computation.
> >>>
> >>> This should fix underruns that can occur when the cursor gets
> >>> enable/disabled or the size gets changed. Hopefully it's good enough
> >>> that only pure cursor movement and flips go through unthrottled.
> >>>
> >>> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <[email protected]>
> >>> Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
> >>> Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]>
> >>> Reported-by: Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]>
> >>> Fixes: f79f26921ee1 ("drm/i915: Add a cursor hack to allow converting 
> >>> legacy page flip to atomic, v3.")
> >>> Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <[email protected]>
> >>> ---
> >>>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++-----------
> >>>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c      | 20 ++++++++++++--------
> >>>  2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c 
> >>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> >>> index b05d9c85384b..356ac04093e8 100644
> >>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> >>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> >>> @@ -13031,6 +13031,17 @@ static int intel_atomic_commit(struct drm_device 
> >>> *dev,
> >>>   struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = to_i915(dev);
> >>>   int ret = 0;
> >>>  
> >>> + /*
> >>> +  * The intel_legacy_cursor_update() fast path takes care
> >>> +  * of avoiding the vblank waits for simple cursor
> >>> +  * movement and flips. For cursor on/off and size changes,
> >>> +  * we want to perform the vblank waits so that watermark
> >>> +  * updates happen during the correct frames. Gen9+ have
> >>> +  * double buffered watermarks and so shouldn't need this.
> >>> +  */
> >>> + if (INTEL_GEN(dev_priv) < 9)
> >>> +         state->legacy_cursor_update = false;
> >> Could we perhaps add a check in ilk_compute_pipe_wm which unsets the 
> >> legacy_cursor_update flag so we keep things unsynced as much as possible?
> > I'd have to sprinkle that stuff everywhere but the SKL code
> > eventually. Seems a little pointless when I can just plop it
> > there.
> Ah indeed. Lets hope it doesn't slow things down too much.
> >>>   ret = drm_atomic_helper_setup_commit(state, nonblock);
> >>>   if (ret)
> >>>           return ret;
> >>> @@ -13455,8 +13466,7 @@ intel_legacy_cursor_update(struct drm_plane 
> >>> *plane,
> >>>       old_plane_state->src_h != src_h ||
> >>>       old_plane_state->crtc_w != crtc_w ||
> >>>       old_plane_state->crtc_h != crtc_h ||
> >>> -     !old_plane_state->visible ||
> >>> -     old_plane_state->fb->modifier != fb->modifier)
> >>> +     !old_plane_state->fb != !fb)
> >>>           goto slow;
> >>>  
> >>>   new_plane_state = intel_plane_duplicate_state(plane);
> >>> @@ -13479,10 +13489,6 @@ intel_legacy_cursor_update(struct drm_plane 
> >>> *plane,
> >>>   if (ret)
> >>>           goto out_free;
> >>>  
> >>> - /* Visibility changed, must take slowpath. */
> >>> - if (!new_plane_state->visible)
> >>> -         goto slow_free;
> >>> -
> >>>   ret = mutex_lock_interruptible(&dev_priv->drm.struct_mutex);
> >>>   if (ret)
> >>>           goto out_free;
> >> Those 2 hunks are needed. If you move the cursor out of the visible area 
> >> or back you need to update.
> > No. I changed the wm code to consider a non-visible but logicall active
> > cursor as needing proper watermarks. That avoids needing this fallback
> > path here.
> Ah indeed. But one thing you dropped is the fb modifier check.
> I suppose there's no harm with no support for using prite planes as cursor 
> plane yet, but might be nice to keep it in.

We'd have bigger problems than the modifier if we want to use a sprite
plane as the cursor because for sprite planes the watermarks are
computed based on the clipped size. So the wm code would need some
surgery as well.

> 
> Cc'ing Ristovski for testing the patch. :)

17:57 < Ristovski> mlankhorst: So I tested the patch and it passed all my
manual tests, including vigorous_pointer_movement and
spastic_window_repositioning, good enough for me!

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel OTC
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