The legacy cursor ioctl expects to be asynchronous with respect to other screen updates, in particular page flips. As X updates the cursor from a signal context, if the cursor blocks then it will stall both the input and output chains causing bad stuttering and horrible UX.
Reported-and-tested-by: Rafael Ristovski <[email protected]> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94980 Fixes: 5008e874edd34 ("drm/i915: Make wait_for_flips interruptible.") Suggested-by: Maarten Lankhorst <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <[email protected]> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <[email protected]> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <[email protected]> Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]> Cc: Jani Nikula <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c index 4cca155376be..c5b9687091f4 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c @@ -13446,6 +13446,9 @@ static int intel_atomic_prepare_commit(struct drm_device *dev, } for_each_crtc_in_state(state, crtc, crtc_state, i) { + if (state->legacy_cursor_update) + continue; + ret = intel_crtc_wait_for_pending_flips(crtc); if (ret) return ret; -- 2.8.0.rc3 _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
