From b7703726251191cd9f3ef3a80b2d9667901eec95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Vetter Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 08:45:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] drm/probe-helper: clamp unknown connector status in the poll work On some chipset we try to avoid possibly invasive output detection methods (like load detect which can cause flickering elsewhere) in the output poll work. Drivers could hence return unknown when a previous full ->detect call returned a different state. This change will generate a hotplug event, forcing userspace to do a full scan. This in turn updates the connector->status field so that we will _again_ get a state change when the hotplug work re-runs in 10 seconds. To avoid this ping-pong loop detect this situation and clamp the connector state to the old value. Patch is inspired by a patch from Knut Peterson. Knut's patch completely ignored connector state changes if either the old or new status was unknown, which seemed to be a bit too agressive to me. v2: Rebased onto the drm_probe_helper.c extraction. References: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2012-August/025975.html Cc: Knut Petersen Cc: Alex Deucher Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson Acked-by: Alex Deucher Cc: Rob Clark Reviewed-by: Rob Clark Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_probe_helper.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_probe_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_probe_helper.c index 33bf550a1d3f..6591d48c1b9d 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_probe_helper.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_probe_helper.c @@ -335,6 +335,24 @@ static void output_poll_execute(struct work_struct *work) if (old_status != connector->status) { const char *old, *new; + /* + * The poll work sets force=false when calling detect so + * that drivers can avoid to do disruptive tests (e.g. + * when load detect cycles could cause flickering on + * other, running displays). This bears the risk that we + * flip-flop between unknown here in the poll work and + * the real state when userspace forces a full detect + * call after receiving a hotplug event due to this + * change. + * + * Hence clamp an unknown detect status to the old + * value. + */ + if (connector->status == connector_status_unknown) { + connector->status = old_status; + continue; + } + old = drm_get_connector_status_name(old_status); new = drm_get_connector_status_name(connector->status); -- 2.11.0