On Tue, 2017-11-07 at 13:39 +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 10:47:00AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On 07/11/17 07:26 AM, Dhinakaran Pandiyan wrote: > > > Some HW vblank counters reset due to power management events, which messes > > > up the vblank counting logic. This leads to screen freezes with user space > > > waiting on vblank events that may not occur if the counter keeps > > > resetting. > > > > > > For e.g., After the HW vblank counter resets > > > [ 9.007359] [drm:drm_update_vblank_count [drm]] updating vblank count > > > on crtc 0: current=297, diff=4294965389, hw=5 hw_last=1912 > > > > > > So, fall back to the SW counter, computed using vblank timestamps > > > and frame duration, when the HW counter value deviates by 50% of the SW > > > computed value. > > > > > > I have tested this patch on my SKL laptop with i915.enable_psr=1 and it > > > *seems* to solve the screen freeze issue seen with PSR when DMC is loaded. > > > > > > Known issues: > > > 1) The 50% deviation margin is arbitrary. > > > 2) "Redundant vblirq ignored" messages are more frequent. > > > > > > I am sending this as an RFC to get feedback on whether the fall back > > > approach is sane and if it should be implemented in the core. > > > > Is there no way for the driver to know under which circumstances the > > reset to 0 might happen?
Not precisely, but the driver does need to allow the firmware to go into lower power states. > If there is, maybe it could be solved by > > calling drm_crtc_vblank_off() before it might happen and > > drm_crtc_vblank_on() after it might have happened. > > > > Otherwise, might it be better not to use the HW counter at all when it's > > known not to be reliable? > > We know when it happens, so agreed this isn't a good/workable solution > really. I thought the plan to fix that was to fix up our runtime pm to > make sure the vblank counter doesn't get reset while we need it (pending > flip or vblank). And in-between (when the vblank counter is totally off) > we'd fix any mismatch by adjusting the sw vblank counter with an explicit > call (where we can use the elapsed time to estimate the elapsed vblank > counts well enough). Adding a magic hack like this doesn't sound like a > good plan to me indeed. > -Daniel Thanks for the feedback, I wasn't aware of an agreed plan. I just went through patchwork history now and realized that the full-time SW counter approach was tried earlier, but not much information on why it was abandoned. Allowing runtime PM (PSR + DMC) to do it's job while letting the SW estimate vblanks if the hardware counter is unreliable didn't seem like a terrible plan. It could save more power fwiw. But, I understand your concerns, will see what I can do. -DK _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
