Hey, I'm not entirely sold on the design, it's way more complicated than it should be, it should be trivial to add any amount of error messages.
Replace return -EINVAL; with return drm_atomic_error_einval(state, class, "string"); Where class may be an enum, but in a way more generic way than currently specified, for example "invalid use of api", "requires modeset", "invalid arguments", "driver limitations", "async flip not possible". The drm_atomic_error_einval() would set class and str as appropriate, and then return -EINVAL. That's probably all we should need here. Kind regards, ~Maarten Den 2025-08-22 kl. 09:00, skrev Arun R Murthy: > For failures in async flip atomic check/commit path return user readable > error codes in struct drm_atomic_state. > > Signed-off-by: Arun R Murthy <arun.r.mur...@intel.com> > --- > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c | 4 ++++ > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c > index > c1a3a95c65f0b66c24ddd64f47dfdc67bbde86c9..5e23f4fc747bd01fa05eba63661bf7279b083317 > 100644 > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c > @@ -5950,6 +5950,7 @@ static int intel_async_flip_check_uapi(struct > intel_atomic_state *state, > drm_dbg_kms(display->drm, > "[CRTC:%d:%s] modeset required\n", > crtc->base.base.id, crtc->base.name); > + state->base.error_code->failure_flags = > DRM_MODE_ATOMIC_CRTC_NEED_FULL_MODESET; > return -EINVAL; > } > > @@ -6019,6 +6020,7 @@ static int intel_async_flip_check_hw(struct > intel_atomic_state *state, struct in > drm_dbg_kms(display->drm, > "[CRTC:%d:%s] modeset required\n", > crtc->base.base.id, crtc->base.name); > + state->base.error_code->failure_flags = > DRM_MODE_ATOMIC_CRTC_NEED_FULL_MODESET; > return -EINVAL; > } > > @@ -6061,6 +6063,8 @@ static int intel_async_flip_check_hw(struct > intel_atomic_state *state, struct in > plane->base.base.id, plane->base.name, > &new_plane_state->hw.fb->format->format, > new_plane_state->hw.fb->modifier); > + state->base.error_code->failure_flags = > + DRM_MODE_ATOMIC_ASYNC_MODIFIER_NOT_SUPPORTED; > return -EINVAL; > } > >