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 v2: Review comments by Michel, drop outdated paragraph about problem already fixed in 2nd patch of the series.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>
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