Thanks for the detailed notes! See reply inline.
On 2019-10-15 4:03 p.m., Lukáš Krejčí wrote:
> [Why]
> Having the rounding of the backlight value restored to the way it was
> seemingly gets rid of backlight flickering on certain Stoney Ridge
> laptops.
>
> [How]
> Rescale the backlight level between min and max input signal value and
> round it to a number between 0x0 and 0xFF. Then, use the rounding mode
> that was previously in driver_set_backlight_level() and
> dmcu_set_backlight_level(), i.e. rescale the backlight level between 0x0
> and 0x1000 by multiplying it by 0x101 and use the most significant bit
> of the fraction (or in this case the 8th bit of the value because it's
> the same thing, e.g. C3 * 0x101 = 0xC3C3 and C3 * 0x10101 = 0xC3C3C3) to
> round it.
>
> Fixes: 262485a50fd4 ("drm/amd/display: Expand dc to use 16.16 bit backlight")
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204957
> Signed-off-by: Lukáš Krejčí
> ---
>
> Notes:
> Bug:
> - Can be reproduced on HP 15-rb020nc (Stoney Ridge R2 E2-9000e APU) and
> Acer Aspire 3 A315-21G-91JL (Stoney Ridge R3 A4-9120 APU).
>
> - For me, the bug is inconsistent - it does not happen on every boot,
> but if it does happen, it's usually within three minutes after bootup.
>
> - It concerns the backlight. That means it can be reproduced on the
> framebuffer console.
>
> - Reproduces on Arch Linux (custom built) live CD, linux kernel v5.3.2
> and Ubuntu 19.04, kernel-ppa/mainline v5.0.0-rc1, v5.0.0, v5.3.2,
> v5.3.4,
> v5.4-rc2.
>
> - Can not be reproduced on kernel v5.3.4 with this patch applied or on
> v4.20.0, 4.20.17, 4.19.75 (this bug is a regression).
>
> - The other person that reproduced the issue (see the Bugzilla link
> above) confirmed that the patch works for them too.
>
> Patch:
> - Is the comment modified by this commit correct? Both
> driver_set_backlight_level() and dmcu_set_backlight_level() check the
> 17th bit of `brightness` aka `backlight_pwm_u16_16`, but
> 262485a50fd4532a8d71165190adc7a0a19bcc9e ("drm/amd/display: Expand dc
> to use 16.16 bit backlight") specifically mentions 0x as the max
> backlight value>
> - use_smooth_brightness is false (no DMCU firmware available) on my
> laptop, so the other code path (dmcu_set_backlight_level()) is
> untested.
>
> - I'm not sure why the rounding fixes the issue and whether this
> function is the right place to add back the rounding (and whether it
> even is the right way to solve the issue), so that's why this patch is
> RFC.
We've seen some similar issues when fractional duty cycles are enabled for
backlight pwm.
I attached a hack to the bugzilla ticket that disables it, please give that
patch a shot
first. I'd rather not change this calculation for all panels if the flickering
issue is
only a quirk for some.
Thanks,
Leo
>
> .../gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c | 17 +++--
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
> index a52f0b13a2c8..af9a5f46b671 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
> @@ -2083,17 +2083,22 @@ static int amdgpu_dm_backlight_update_status(struct
> backlight_device *bd)
>* The brightness input is in the range 0-255
>* It needs to be rescaled to be between the
>* requested min and max input signal
> - *
> - * It also needs to be scaled up by 0x101 to
> - * match the DC interface which has a range of
> - * 0 to 0x
>*/
> brightness =
> brightness
> - * 0x101
> + * 0x100
> * (caps.max_input_signal - caps.min_input_signal)
> / AMDGPU_MAX_BL_LEVEL
> - + caps.min_input_signal * 0x101;
> + + caps.min_input_signal * 0x100;
> +
> + brightness = (brightness >> 8) + ((brightness >> 7) & 1);
> + /*
> + * It also needs to be scaled up by 0x101 and
> + * rounded off to match the DC interface which
> + * has a range of 0 to 0x1
> + */
> + brightness *= 0x101;
> + brightness += (brightness >> 7) & 1;
>
> if (dc_link_set_backlight_level(dm->backlight_link,
> brightness, 0))
>
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