On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 09:59:28AM +0100, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> On 3/17/26 9:07 AM, Luca Weiss wrote:
> > 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...
> 
> If you're sure the panel drivers are good (e.g. they worked on 6.whatever
> prior to drm/msm saying sayonara to carveout), I think no one would object
> to have them merged separately, so that you don't have to wait until
> who-knows-when and keep rebasing them by hand

+1. Please submit them and cc me so that I don't miss those.

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With best wishes
Dmitry

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