On Fri, 2018-09-07 at 17:32 +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 03:39:24PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> > On Thu, 06 Sep 2018, Dhinakaran Pandiyan <dhinakaran.pandiyan@intel
> > .com> wrote:
> > > Comment claims link needs to be retrained because the connected
> > > sink raised
> > > a long pulse to indicate link loss. If the sink did so,
> > > intel_dp_hotplug() would have handled link retraining. Looking at
> > > the
> > > logs in Bugzilla referenced in commit '3cf71bc9904d ("drm/i915:
> > > Re-apply
> > > Perform link quality check, unconditionally during long
> > > pulse"")', the
> > > issue is that the sink does not trigger an interrupt. We want the
> > > ->detect() from user space to check link status and retrain.
> > > Ville's
> > > review for the original patch also indicates the same root cause.
> > >
> > > I have also renamed long_pulse() to full_detect().
> >
> > Since intel_dp_detect() doesn't actually do *anything* except skip
> > detect sometimes, I think "full detect" is a misnomer.
> >
> > Arguably you could merge intel_dp_long_pulse() into its only
> > caller,
> > intel_dp_detect(), and do an early return on skipping detect. You
> > have
> > to look at the functions, and wonder if the current split is the
> > right
> > one.
>
> That's pretty much what I suggested earlier.
I had mixed feelings when I wrote it, but merging the functions does
sound like a better idea now.
> Although someone should
> double check to make sure the detect_done flag even makes sense these
> days. Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't, I don't recall.
It doesn't afaict. The only place where detect_done gets set to true is
followed by resetting of the flag to false.
-DK
>
> >
> > Please let others chime in too before making changes.
> >
> > BR,
> > Jani.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Cc: Lyude Paul <ly...@redhat.com>
> > > Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrj...@linux.intel.com>
> > > Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nik...@linux.intel.com>
> > > Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.v...@intel.com>
> > > Cc: Jan-Marek Glogowski <glo...@fbihome.de>
> > > References: 3cf71bc9904d ("drm/i915: Re-apply "Perform link
> > > quality check, unconditionally during long pulse"")
> > > Signed-off-by: Dhinakaran Pandiyan <dhinakaran.pandi...@intel.com
> > > >
> > > ---
> > > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c | 17 +++++------------
> > > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
> > > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
> > > index 436c22de33b6..befdaa076d8c 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
> > > @@ -5012,7 +5012,7 @@ intel_dp_unset_edid(struct intel_dp
> > > *intel_dp)
> > > }
> > >
> > > static int
> > > -intel_dp_long_pulse(struct intel_connector *connector,
> > > +intel_dp_full_detect(struct intel_connector *connector,
> > > struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx)
> > > {
> > > struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = to_i915(connector-
> > > >base.dev);
> > > @@ -5074,16 +5074,8 @@ intel_dp_long_pulse(struct intel_connector
> > > *connector,
> > > goto out;
> > > } else {
> > > /*
> > > - * If display is now connected check links
> > > status,
> > > - * there has been known issues of link loss
> > > triggering
> > > - * long pulse.
> > > - *
> > > - * Some sinks (eg. ASUS PB287Q) seem to perform
> > > some
> > > - * weird HPD ping pong during modesets. So we
> > > can apparently
> > > - * end up with HPD going low during a modeset,
> > > and then
> > > - * going back up soon after. And once that
> > > happens we must
> > > - * retrain the link to get a picture. That's in
> > > case no
> > > - * userspace component reacted to intermittent
> > > HPD dip.
> > > + * Check link status in case the link went out
> > > of
> > > + * synchronization and the sink did not tell us.
> > > */
> > > struct intel_encoder *encoder =
> > > &dp_to_dig_port(intel_dp)->base;
> > >
> > > @@ -5149,7 +5141,8 @@ intel_dp_detect(struct drm_connector
> > > *connector,
> > > return ret;
> > > }
> > >
> > > - status = intel_dp_long_pulse(intel_dp-
> > > >attached_connector, ctx);
> > > + status = intel_dp_full_detect(intel_dp-
> > > >attached_connector,
> > > + ctx);
> > > }
> > >
> > > intel_dp->detect_done = false;
> >
> > --
> > Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center
>
>
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