Re: [PATCH 01/20] drm/atomic: Fix remaining places where !funcs->best_encoder is valid

From: Daniel Vetter
Date: Fri Jun 03 2016 - 15:02:07 EST


On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 09:37:43AM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 23:57:02 +0200
> Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 11:05 PM, Laurent Pinchart
> > <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi Boris,
> > >
> > > Thank you for the patch.
> > >
> > > On Thursday 02 Jun 2016 16:31:28 Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > >> Adapt drm_pick_crtcs() and update_connector_routing() to fallback to
> > >> drm_atomic_helper_best_encoder() if funcs->best_encoder() is NULL so
> > >> that DRM drivers can leave this hook unassigned if they know they want
> > >> to use drm_atomic_helper_best_encoder().
> > >
> > > Could you please update include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h to document
> > > this new behaviour ?
> >
> > Thanks for reminding me. Please update hooks for both
> > atomic_best_encoder and best_encoder. Also mention that it's only
> > optional for atomic drivers. There's lots of examples in that file for
> > the wording usually used.
>
> Hm, I haven't changed anything for the ->atomic_best_encoder() hook, or
> am I missing something?

Before you needed atomic_best_encoder or best_encoder (well that's the
idea at least), now both are optional. Kerneldoc needs to be adjusted in
both places to match new reality after your patch.
-Daniel

>
> >
> > > The only drawback I see in this patch is the additional object lookup
> > > performed by drm_atomic_helper_best_encoder() at runtime. I wonder if we could
> > > somehow cache the information, as the assignment can't change when there's a
> > > 1:1 correspondence between encoders and connectors.
> >
> > drm_encoder_find is an idr lookup. That should be plenty fast,
> > especially for modeset code. Usually what's too expensive even for
> > modeset code is linear list walks. But Chris just submitted patches to
> > convert most of them into simple lookups.
> > -Daniel
> >
> > >>> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> ---
> > >> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c | 4 +++-
> > >> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
> > >> 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >>
> > >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> > >> b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c index f6a3350..849d029 100644
> > >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> > >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> > >> @@ -300,8 +300,10 @@ update_connector_routing(struct drm_atomic_state
> > >> *state, if (funcs->atomic_best_encoder)
> > >> new_encoder = funcs->atomic_best_encoder(connector,
> > >> connector_state);
> > >> - else
> > >> + else if (funcs->best_encoder)
> > >> new_encoder = funcs->best_encoder(connector);
> > >> + else
> > >> + new_encoder = drm_atomic_helper_best_encoder(connector);
> > >>
> > >> if (!new_encoder) {
> > >> DRM_DEBUG_ATOMIC("No suitable encoder found for [CONNECTOR:%d:%s]\n",
> > >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
> > >> b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c index 7c2eb75..d44389a 100644
> > >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
> > >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
> > >> @@ -2000,7 +2000,18 @@ static int drm_pick_crtcs(struct drm_fb_helper
> > >> *fb_helper, my_score++;
> > >>
> > >> connector_funcs = connector->helper_private;
> > >> - encoder = connector_funcs->best_encoder(connector);
> > >> +
> > >> + /*
> > >> + * If the DRM device implements atomic hooks and ->best_encoder() is
> > >> + * NULL we fallback to the default drm_atomic_helper_best_encoder()
> > >> + * helper.
> > >> + */
> > >> + if (fb_helper->dev->mode_config.funcs->atomic_commit &&
> > >> + !connector_funcs->best_encoder)
> > >> + encoder = drm_atomic_helper_best_encoder(connector);
> > >> + else
> > >> + encoder = connector_funcs->best_encoder(connector);
> > >> +
> > >> if (!encoder)
> > >> goto out;
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Laurent Pinchart
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Boris Brezillon, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> http://free-electrons.com

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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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