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Mario Kleiner 753c66c91b drm/amd/display: Fix race between vblank irq and pageflip irq. (v2)
Since DC now uses CRTC_VERTICAL_INTERRUPT0 as VBLANK irq trigger
and vblank interrupts actually happen earliest at start of vblank,
instead of a bit before vblank, we no longer need some of the
fudging logic to deal with too early vblank irq handling (grep for
lb_vblank_lead_lines). This itself fixes a pageflip scheduling
bug in DC, caused by uninitialized  use of lb_vblank_lead_lines,
with a wrong startup value of 0. Thanks to the new vblank irq
trigger this value of zero is now actually correct for DC :).

A new problem is that vblank irq's race against pflip irq's,
and as both can fire at first line of vblank, it is no longer
guaranteed that vblank irq handling (therefore -> drm_handle_vblank()
-> drm_update_vblank_count()) executes before pflip irq handling
for a given vblank interval when a pageflip completes. Therefore
the vblank count and timestamps emitted to user-space as part of
the pageflip completion event will be often stale and cause new
timestamping and swap scheduling errors in user-space.

This was observed with large frequency on R9 380 Tonga Pro.

Fix this by enforcing a vblank count+timestamp update right
before emitting the pageflip completion event from the pflip
irq handler. The logic in core drm_update_vblank_count() makes
sure that no redundant or conflicting updates happen, iow. the
call turns into a no-op if it wasn't needed for that vblank,
burning a few microseconds of cpu time though.

Successfully tested on AMD R9 380 "Tonga Pro" (VI/DCE 10)
with DC enabled on the current DC staging branch. Independent
measurement of pageflip completion timing with special hardware
measurement equipment now confirms correct pageflip timestamps
and counts in the pageflip completion events.

v2: Review comments by Michel, drop outdated paragraph
    about problem already fixed in 2nd patch of the series.
    Add acked/r-b by Harry and Michel.

Signed-off-by: Mario Kleiner <mario.kleiner.de@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@amd.com> (v1)
Reviewed-by: Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer@amd.com>

Cc: Andrey Grodzovsky <Andrey.Grodzovsky@amd.com>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
2017-09-26 17:22:55 -04:00
arch ummary: 2017-08-29 10:37:36 +10:00
block block: Make blk_mq_delay_kick_requeue_list() rerun the queue at a quiet time 2017-08-09 20:24:38 -06:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: authencesn - Fix digest_null crash 2017-07-18 17:01:11 +08:00
Documentation dt-bindings: exynos5433-decon: remove i80-if-timings property 2017-08-25 11:58:08 +09:00
drivers drm/amd/display: Fix race between vblank irq and pageflip irq. (v2) 2017-09-26 17:22:55 -04:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs Some more NFS client bugfixes for 4.13 2017-08-11 13:54:09 -07:00
include drm/dp-helper: add missing defines needed by AMD display core. 2017-09-26 17:05:12 -04:00
init random: do not ignore early device randomness 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
ipc ipc: add missing container_of()s for randstruct 2017-08-02 17:16:12 -07:00
kernel mm: migrate: prevent racy access to tlb_flush_pending 2017-08-10 15:54:07 -07:00
lib Merge tag 'drm-intel-next-2017-08-18' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/drm-intel into drm-next 2017-08-22 10:03:07 +10:00
mm rmap: do not call mmu_notifier_invalidate_page() under ptl 2017-08-10 15:54:07 -07:00
net packet: fix tp_reserve race in packet_set_ring 2017-08-10 09:52:12 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: fix bpf tunnel cleanup 2017-07-31 22:02:47 -07:00
scripts parse-maintainers: Move matching sections from MAINTAINERS 2017-08-08 11:16:14 -07:00
security Now that IPC and other changes have landed, enable manual markings for 2017-07-19 08:55:18 -07:00
sound drm: omapdrm: hdmi: Pass HDMI core version as integer to HDMI audio 2017-08-16 12:52:41 +03:00
tools bpf: fix selftest/bpf/test_pkt_md_access on s390x 2017-08-07 10:06:27 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt KVM/ARM Fixes for v4.13-rc4 2017-08-03 17:59:58 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
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CREDITS avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture 2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS Merge tag 'drm-intel-next-2017-08-18' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/drm-intel into drm-next 2017-08-22 10:03:07 +10:00
Makefile Linux 4.13-rc5 2017-08-13 16:01:32 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.