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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst index 2ea6ffc9b22b..2b281e3c75a4 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Audit each individual driver, make sure it'll work with the generic implementation (there's lots of outdated locking leftovers in various implementations), and then remove it. -Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers +Contact: Simona Vetter, respective driver maintainers Level: Intermediate @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ do by directly using the new atomic helper driver callbacks. .. [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/653071/ .. [3] https://lwn.net/Articles/653466/ -Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers +Contact: Simona Vetter, respective driver maintainers Level: Advanced @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ helper should also be moved from drm_plane_helper.c to the atomic helpers, to avoid confusion - the other helpers in that file are all deprecated legacy helpers. -Contact: Ville Syrjälä, Daniel Vetter, driver maintainers +Contact: Ville Syrjälä, Simona Vetter, driver maintainers Level: Advanced @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ with the current helpers: - Then we could go through all the drivers and remove the more-or-less confused checks for plane_state->fb and plane_state->crtc. -Contact: Daniel Vetter +Contact: Simona Vetter Level: Advanced @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ Somewhat related is the legacy_cursor_update hack, which should be replaced with the new atomic_async_check/commit functionality in the helpers in drivers that still look at that flag. -Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers +Contact: Simona Vetter, respective driver maintainers Level: Advanced @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ interfaces to fix these issues: ``_helper_funcs`` since they are not part of the core ABI. There's a ``FIXME`` comment in the kerneldoc for each such case in ``drm_crtc.h``. -Contact: Daniel Vetter +Contact: Simona Vetter Level: Intermediate @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ performance-critical drivers it might also be better to go with a more fine-grained per-buffer object and per-context lockings scheme. Currently only the ``msm`` and `i915` drivers use ``struct_mutex``. -Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers +Contact: Simona Vetter, respective driver maintainers Level: Advanced @@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ being rewritten without dependencies on the fbdev module. Some of the helpers could further benefit from using struct iosys_map instead of raw pointers. -Contact: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>, Daniel Vetter +Contact: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>, Simona Vetter Level: Advanced @@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ Various hold-ups: version of the varios drm_gem_fb_create functions. Maybe called drm_gem_fb_create/_with_dirty/_with_funcs as needed. -Contact: Daniel Vetter +Contact: Simona Vetter Level: Intermediate @@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ everything after it has done the write-protect/mkwrite trickery: Might be good to also have some igt testcases for this. -Contact: Daniel Vetter, Noralf Tronnes +Contact: Simona Vetter, Noralf Tronnes Level: Advanced @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ between setting up the &drm_driver structure and calling drm_dev_register(). - Once all drivers are converted, remove the load/unload callbacks. -Contact: Daniel Vetter +Contact: Simona Vetter Level: Intermediate @@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ The task is to use struct iosys_map where it makes sense. * TTM might benefit from using struct iosys_map internally. * Framebuffer copying and blitting helpers should operate on struct iosys_map. -Contact: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>, Christian König, Daniel Vetter +Contact: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>, Christian König, Simona Vetter Level: Intermediate @@ -475,25 +475,22 @@ Remove disable/unprepare in remove/shutdown in panel-simple and panel-edp As of commit d2aacaf07395 ("drm/panel: Check for already prepared/enabled in drm_panel"), we have a check in the drm_panel core to make sure nobody double-calls prepare/enable/disable/unprepare. Eventually that should probably -be turned into a WARN_ON() or somehow made louder, but right now we actually -expect it to trigger and so we don't want it to be too loud. - -Specifically, that warning will trigger for panel-edp and panel-simple at -shutdown time because those panels hardcode a call to drm_panel_disable() -and drm_panel_unprepare() at shutdown and remove time that they call regardless -of panel state. On systems with a properly coded DRM modeset driver that -calls drm_atomic_helper_shutdown() this is pretty much guaranteed to cause -the warning to fire. - -Unfortunately we can't safely remove the calls in panel-edp and panel-simple -until we're sure that all DRM modeset drivers that are used with those panels -properly call drm_atomic_helper_shutdown(). This TODO item is to validate -that all DRM modeset drivers used with panel-edp and panel-simple properly -call drm_atomic_helper_shutdown() and then remove the calls to -disable/unprepare from those panels. Alternatively, this TODO item could be -removed by convincing stakeholders that those calls are fine and downgrading -the error message in drm_panel_disable() / drm_panel_unprepare() to a -debug-level message. +be turned into a WARN_ON() or somehow made louder. + +At the moment, we expect that we may still encounter the warnings in the +drm_panel core when using panel-simple and panel-edp. Since those panel +drivers are used with a lot of different DRM modeset drivers they still +make an extra effort to disable/unprepare the panel themsevles at shutdown +time. Specifically we could still encounter those warnings if the panel +driver gets shutdown() _before_ the DRM modeset driver and the DRM modeset +driver properly calls drm_atomic_helper_shutdown() in its own shutdown() +callback. Warnings could be avoided in such a case by using something like +device links to ensure that the panel gets shutdown() after the DRM modeset +driver. + +Once all DRM modeset drivers are known to shutdown properly, the extra +calls to disable/unprepare in remove/shutdown in panel-simple and panel-edp +should be removed and this TODO item marked complete. Contact: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> @@ -561,7 +558,7 @@ This is a really varied tasks with lots of little bits and pieces: <https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1446217392-11981-1-git-send-email-alexandru.murtaza@intel.com/>`_ for some example code that could be reused. -Contact: Daniel Vetter +Contact: Simona Vetter Level: Advanced @@ -590,7 +587,7 @@ There's a bunch of issues with it: this (together with the drm_minor->drm_device move) would allow us to remove debugfs_init. -Contact: Daniel Vetter +Contact: Simona Vetter Level: Intermediate @@ -611,7 +608,7 @@ Both these problems can be solved by switching over to drmm_kzalloc(), and the various convenience wrappers provided, e.g. drmm_crtc_alloc_with_planes(), drmm_universal_plane_alloc(), ... and so on. -Contact: Daniel Vetter +Contact: Simona Vetter Level: Intermediate @@ -631,7 +628,7 @@ cache is also tied to &drm_gem_object.import_attach. Meanwhile we paper over this problem for USB devices by fishing out the USB host controller device, as long as that supports DMA. Otherwise importing can still needlessly fail. -Contact: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>, Daniel Vetter +Contact: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>, Simona Vetter Level: Advanced @@ -712,7 +709,7 @@ Plan to fix this: 2. In all, only look at one of the three status bits set by the above helpers. 3. Remove the other two status bits. -Contact: Daniel Vetter +Contact: Simona Vetter Level: Intermediate |