On Mon Mar 2, 2026 at 4:17 PM CET, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 02, 2026 at 03:35:36PM +0100, Luca Weiss wrote:
>> On Fri Feb 27, 2026 at 8:05 PM CET, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
>> > On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 12:34:04PM +0100, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>> >> On 2/27/26 4:48 AM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
>> >> > On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 02:35:52PM +0100, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>> >> >> On 1/12/26 9:25 AM, yuanjiey wrote:
>> >> >>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 09:38:41AM +0200, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
>> >> >>>> On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 at 08:23, yuanjiey 
>> >> >>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>> On Fri, Jan 09, 2026 at 05:22:37PM +0200, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
>> >> >>>>>> On Fri, Jan 09, 2026 at 04:38:07PM +0800, yuanjie yang wrote:
>> >> >>>>>>> From: Yuanjie Yang <[email protected]>
>> >> 
>> >> [...]
>> >> 
>> >> > Please correct me if I'm wrong, if we drop dev_pm_opp_set() from
>> >> > dpu_runtime_suspend, then we should be able to also skip setting OPP
>> >> > corner in dpu_runtime_resume(), because the previously set corner should
>> >> > be viable until drm/msm driver commits new state / new modes.
>> >> 
>> >> That matches my understanding.
>> >> 
>> >> > The only important issue is to set the corner before starting up the
>> >> > DPU, where we already have code to set MDP_CLK to the max frequency.
>> >> > 
>> >> > Which means, we only need to drop the dev_pm_set_rate call from the
>> >> > dpu_runtime_suspend().
>> >> 
>> >> I concur.
>> >> 
>> >> >> For MDSS, we're currently generally describing the MDSS_AHB clock, the
>> >> >> GCC_AHB clock and the MDP clock (sounds wrong?) - there's not even an 
>> >> >> OPP
>> >> > 
>> >> > No. As far as I remember, MDP_CLK is necessary to access MDSS registers
>> >> > (see commit d2570ee67a47 ("drm/msm/mdss: generate MDSS data for MDP5
>> >> > platforms")), I don't remember if accessing HW_REV without MDP_CLK
>> >> > resulted in a zero reads or in a crash. At the same time it needs to be
>> >> > enabled to any rate, which means that for most of the operations
>> >> > msm_mdss.c can rely on DPU keeping the clock up and running.
>> >> > 
>> >> >> table.. The GCC clock is sourced from (and scaled by) the NoC, but the
>> >> >> MDSS_AHB one seems to have 3 actually configurable performance points
>> >> >> that neither we nor seemingly the downstream driver seem to really care
>> >> >> about (i.e. both just treat it as on/off). If we need to scale it, we
>> >> >> should add an OPP table, if we don't, we should at least add 
>> >> >> required-opps.
>> >> > 
>> >> > I think, dispcc already has a minimal vote on the MMCX, which fulfill
>> >> > these needs.
>> >> 
>> >> I have slightly mixed feelings, but I suppose that as we accepted Commit
>> >> e3e56c050ab6 ("soc: qcom: rpmhpd: Make power_on actually enable the 
>> >> domain"),
>> >> we can generally agree that it makes sense that calling genpd->on() 
>> >> actually
>> >> turns on the power indeed
>> >> 
>> >> What I'm worried about is if the clock is pre-configured to run at a high
>> >> frequency from the bootloader (prepare_enable only sets the EN bit in the 
>> >> RCG,
>> >> and doesn't impact the state of M/N/D at a glance), we may get a brownout
>> >> 
>> >> This rings the "downstream really did it better with putting clock dvfs 
>> >> states
>> >> into the clk driver" bell, but I suppose the way to fight this would be to
>> >> simply set_rate(fmax) there too..
>> >> 
>> >> I attempted an experiment with pulling out the plug. MMCX enabled with the
>> >> AHB clock off results in a read-as-zero. I tried really hard to disable 
>> >> the
>> >> mdp clock, but it seems like the "shared_ops" reflect some sort of "you
>> >> *really* can't just disable it" type behavior (verified with debugcc)
>> >
>> > I think, in 8996 it was possible to disable it. Not sure about
>> > 8998/630/660.
>> >
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> There's a possible race condition if we don't do it:
>> >> 
>> >> ------- bootloader --------
>> >> configure display, mdp_clk=turbo
>> >> ------- linux -------------
>> >> load rpmhpd     |
>> >> load venus      |
>> >> set mmcx=lowsvs | mdp_clk is @ turbo
>> >>                 | brownout
>> >>                 | 
>> >>                 | <mdss would only probe here>
>> >> 
>> >> *but* that should be made impossible because of .sync_state().
>> >
>> > Yep, sync_state should prevent MMCX or CX from dropping under the boot
>> > level.
>> >
>> >> 
>> >> This may impact hacky setups like simplefb, but as the name implies,
>> >> that's hacky.
>> >> 
>> >> Relying on .sync_state() however will not cover the case if the mdss
>> >> module is removed and re-inserted later, possibly with mmcx disabled
>> >> entirely but the clock not parked at a sufficiently low rate.
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> TLDR: reassess whether MDSS needs the MDP clock, if so, we should just
>> >> plug the MDP opp table into it and set_rate(fmax) during mdss init
>> >
>> > And what will drop it afterwards? MDSS will still vote on the MMCX / CX
>> > level even though DPU will change the clock freq.
>> >
>> >> 
>> >> >> The MDP4/MDP5 drivers are probably wrong too in this regard, but many
>> >> >> targets supported by these may not even have OPP tables and are 
>> >> >> generally
>> >> >> not super high priority for spending time on.. that can, I'd kick down 
>> >> >> the
>> >> >> road unless someone really wants to step up
>> >> > 
>> >> > I'd really not bother with those two drivers, unless we start seing
>> >> > crashes. For MDP4 platforms we don't implement power domains at all, no
>> >> > interconnects, etc., which means that the system will never go to a
>> >> > lower power state.
>> >> 
>> >> Right. Might be that 2030-something arrives and armv7 is gone before 
>> >> someone
>> >> randomly decides to work on that!
>> >> 
>> >> > MDP5 platforms mostly don't have OPP tables. (I'm not counting MSM8998 /
>> >> > SDM630 / SDM660 here). MSM8917 / MSM8937 have only DSI tables, MSM8976
>> >> > has both MDP and DSI tables (my favourite MSM8996 has none). Probably we
>> >> > should start there by adding missing bits adding corresponding
>> >> > dev_pm_set_rate() calls as required (as demostrated by the DPU driver).
>> >> 
>> >> A bit off-topic, but:
>> >> 
>> >> drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/mdp5/mdp5_cfg.c
>> >> 
>> >> 96 is in DPU. any other candidates that should be moved over?
>> >
>> > Let's go through them.
>> >
>> > All SoC except those currently supported in DPU require SMP (shared
>> > memory pool) support to be ported from the MDP5 driver.
>> >
>> > Most of the remaining platforms (except MSM8994/92) also had HW cursor
>> > implemented in a fancy way, in the LM rather than in a separate pipe.
>> > I'd really like to postpone those, possibly first completing migration
>> > of the other platforms and dropping support for them from MDP5.
>> >
>> > 1.0  - old MSM8974
>> >        I'd rather not touch it, it had bugs and I don't have HW
>> > 1.1  - MSM8x26
>> >        Probably Luca can better comment on it. Should be doable, but I
>> >        don't see upstream devices using display on it.
>> 
>> I have at least two MSM8x26 (1x APQ8026 lg-lenok & 1x MSM8926 htc-memul)
>> devices working with MDP5 fine. I should've probably upstreamed panel
>> driver & dts but they haven't been high priority..
>
> I think I have been saying this: having a panel & dsi enabled in DT is
> the only way for me to know that the display is working on this
> platform. I'd really kindly ask you and other activists to get at least
> some panel drivers and corresponding DT bits upstream. It is really an
> important flag for me.
>
> I can propose some kind of bounty for those getting MDSS+panel supported
> in Qcom DT. (Beer at the next conf we meet? Some stickers for the
> laptops and phones? Mämmi?)

Hm I realized yesterday (through trying it), that also MDSS is broken
since the no-IOMMU codepath was removed from drm/msm. I thought this was
only affecting GPU but it's also affecting MDSS/MDP5 :(

So I guess no panel enablement anytime soon until the IOMMU situation is
sorted out, for both 8226 and 8974...

Regards
Luca

>
>> 
>> Btw IOMMU support is here missing as well, so no GPU support anymore
>> since 6.17 if I'm not mistaken.
>> 
>> > 1.2  - MSM8974
>> >        I think it also had issues, no IOMMU support in upstream, etc.
>> 
>> Plenty of 'issues' for sure ;) but apart from GPU driver having dropped
>> no-IOMMU codepath they should be fairly fine, for what's currently
>> upstream.
>> 
>> I think also here, plenty of devices that do have panel support but not
>> much upstream. It's kind of all the same though, nothing exciting. Panel
>> driver with init sequence plus the same dts enablement bits.

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