2013/10/23 Stéphane Marchesin stephane.marchesin@gmail.com:
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Inki Dae inki.dae@samsung.com wrote:
2013/10/22 Sean Paul seanpaul@chromium.org:
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Inki Dae inki.dae@samsung.com wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Sean Paul [mailto:seanpaul@chromium.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 6:18 AM To: Inki Dae Cc: dri-devel; Dave Airlie; Tomasz Figa; Stéphane Marchesin Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 12/26] drm/exynos: Split manager/display/subdrv
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Sean Paul seanpaul@chromium.org wrote:
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Inki Dae inki.dae@samsung.com wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Sean Paul [mailto:seanpaul@chromium.org] >> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 11:37 PM >> To: Inki Dae >> Cc: dri-devel; Dave Airlie; Tomasz Figa; Stéphane Marchesin >> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 12/26] drm/exynos: Split >> manager/display/subdrv >> >> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Inki Dae inki.dae@samsung.com
wrote:
>> > >> > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: Sean Paul [mailto:seanpaul@chromium.org] >> >> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 4:27 AM >> >> To: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org; inki.dae@samsung.com >> >> Cc: airlied@linux.ie; tomasz.figa@gmail.com; >> >> marcheu@chromium.org;
Sean
>> >> Paul >> >> Subject: [PATCH v2 12/26] drm/exynos: Split >> >> manager/display/subdrv >> >> >> >> This patch splits display and manager from subdrv. The result >> >> is
that
>> >> crtc functions can directly call into manager callbacks and >> >> encoder >> >> functions can directly call into display callbacks. This will >> >> allow >> >> us to remove the exynos_drm_hdmi shim and support mixer/hdmi &
fimd/dp
>> >> with common code. >> >> >> >> Signed-off-by: Sean Paul seanpaul@chromium.org >> >> --- >> >> >> >> Changes in v2: >> >> - Pass display into display_ops instead of context >> > >> > Sorry but it seems like more reasonable to pass device object >> > into >> > display_ops and manager_ops. >> > >> >> >> So you've changed your mind from when you said the following? >> >> >>> manager->ops->xxx(manager, ...); >> >>> display->ops->xxx(display, ...); >> >>> >> >>> Agree. >> > > > True. Before that, My comment was to pass device object into
display_ops and
> manager_ops, and then you said the good solution is to pass manager > and > display to each driver. At that time, I thought no matter how the
callback
> is called if the framework doesn't call callbacks of each driver > with
ctx.
> So I agreed. > > >> It would have been nice if you had changed your mind *before* I >> reworked everything. At any rate, I think it's still the right >> thing >> to do. > > Really sorry about that. And I will add new patch for it so you > don't
need
> to concern about that. > >> >> >> > I'm not sure but display_ops could be implemented in other >> > framework >> based >> > driver such as CDF based lcd panel driver. So if you pass >> > display -
it's
>> > specific to exynos drm framework - into display_ops, the other
framework
>> > based driver should include specific exynos drm header. >> > >> >> AFAIK, CDF will not land in its current separate-from-drm form, we >> don't need to worry about this. Furthermore, these ops should just >> go >> away and become drm_crtc/drm_encoder/drm_connector funcs anyways. >> > > Can you assure the display_ops never implemented in other framework
based
> driver, not CDF? At any rate, I think all possibilities should be
opened.
>
I don't think we should let an RFC framework make the code more complicated for unclear benefit. By removing manager/display entirely, we can get rid of a *lot* of other code that is basically just plumbing drm hooks (exynos_drm_connector is a good example).
I hacked this up today to prove it out. Check out the top 5 commits in
https://github.com/crseanpaul/exynos-drm-next/commits/linux-next-exynos- staging. It removes exynos_drm_connector in favor of just implementing drm_connector directly. This same treatment should be done for exynos_drm_encoder and exynos_drm_crtc, but I didn't get around to doing this.
As you can see, it cuts out a lot of code and removes an entire abstraction layer. Much nicer :)
It seems that you implements connector in each device driver. Can't they be combined as common spot, exynos_connector, again to avoid codes from duplicated? :)
There's nothing of substance being duplicated.
Not true. xxx_create_connector is duplicated.
In fact, by getting rid of the exynos_drm_connector layer, we deleted 150 lines. If you really take a look at exynos_drm_connector, it's not doing anything useful.
No, That is for each driver has no any dependency of drm framework.
All it does is translate the drm callbacks into display callbacks, so I think it's much better to just implement the drm callbacks directly.
No, It has strongly dependency of drm framework. Assume that we implemented the drm callbacks directly, and then some features are added to drm framework, drm_connector side. At this time, we will have to take care of each device driver according to the change. That is really not good. Why device drivers should have dependency of drm framework? Just to reduce line counts?
You seem to miss the point here and elsewhere in the discussion. drm/exynos is a drm driver, and as such it should use the drm framework,
Hm.. you seem to miss something. Exynos drm based drivers are based on exynos drm framework, not drm framework directly. So I mean that Exynos drm framework based drivers should include only Exynos drm headers, _not drm header_ directly.
especially if this reduces the line count and the code complexity (as is the case for this patch series). If you don't want to maintain a drm driver, it simply should be moved away from drm/, and it should be replaced by a real drm driver in my opinion.
So those drivers should be in drm/exynos. Isn't that you really mean those drivers should be driver/gpu/drm? If so, That would really be horrible. :(
Please, know that only Exynos drm framework, _not device drivers_, has all dependencies of drm framework, and also I know that other ARM based drm drivers are using same way.
Thanks, Inki Dae
Stéphane
There are a bunch of real bugs that we've found as a result of having these abstraction layers. Take, for example, dpms. Before this patchset, dpms for fimd was being tracked separately in fimd driver, exynos_drm_encoder, exynos_drm_crtc, and exynos_drm_connector. Furthermore, during suspend, only fimd driver's dpms state was updated, so the others were incorrect. There was also this weird gymnastics that had to happen when dpms was changed in the encoder since it had to walk up to the connector level to change its dpms state. If fimd just directly implemented drm_crtc/drm_encoder/drm_connector (before dp was moved in), this problem wouldn't exist. The same goes for HDMI/mixer.
That is a issue we should take care of by using the independent layer. Then, aren't you take care of that well with the re-factoring patch set? :) It seems that you are outside real point.
Take a look at exynos_drm_encoder.c in my tree
(https://github.com/crseanpaul/exynos-drm-next/blob/linux-next-exynos-staging...), what does it do that's useful to abstract? All that it does is just call display ops, it's completely useless. The same is true for exynos_drm_connector, it's just dead weight. There is some useful stuff in exynos_drm_crtc for page flipping, that would be better served as a helper library, though.
The abstraction layer you mentioned also means a common spot. Another one, you patch also makes each sub driver have strongly dependency of drm framework. So how we can support existing backlight and lcd class based lcd panel drivers if the connector is implemented in each device driver later? the drm header files should be included in drivers/video/backlight/xxx_lcd.c?
drm_bridge or drm_panel seem like good candidates for this.
Yes, exynos_drm_display could be replaced with drm_panel later if the drm_panel can be merged to mainline.
And, I will introduce a new framework to support existing lcd panel drivers and display bus drivers soon; as of now for Exynos drm, and the framework is being tested internally. With this framework, encoder and connector will be created when lcd panel or display bus driver such as eDP is probed: it doesn’t really need to create encoder and connector in advance if lcd panel or display bus driver isn't probed yet. Regardless of crtc, and encoder and connector creation order, when last one is created, crtc and connector will be connected each other. And exynos_drm_display could be implemented in other frameworks if we have common structure for display device driver. And also the framework will support lvds driver according to Linux device driver model.
I don't really follow what you're trying to do here, but I think we should be moving in the direction of fewer abstractions in the exynos driver, not more :)
Not abstraction layer, just a bridge for connecting crtc and its corresponding encoder/connector, and lvds regardless of creation order, and for connecting drm connector and other framework based display ops such as drm_panel later.
Sean
Thanks, Inki Dae
Sean
>> >> > And another one, the patch 6 passes manager object to >> > manager_ops,
and
>> for >> > this, you made the manager object to be set to driver data; >> > platform_set_drvdata(pdev, &manager). That isn't reasonable.
Generally,
>> > driver_data would point to device driver's context object. >> > >> >> I'm not sure why this isn't reasonable, but it's a moot point. The >> driver data is only used up until we get rid of the pm ops, it >> needn't >> be set at all once things go through dpms. >> > > Generally, device drivers can call its own internal functions, and > they
will
> call that functions with ctx. However, if you set manager to
driver_data
> then that functions should be called with manager object and also
internally
> that functions should get ctx from the manager object. What is the
purpose
> of manager? Do you think it's reasonable? >
So, to avoid setting the manager as the drvdata, we could implement something like fimd_dpms_ctx(ctx, mode) that takes ctx and the manager callback calls it fimd_dpms(mgr, mode) { ctx = mgr->ctx; fimd_dpms_ctx(ctx, mode); }. Alternatively, you can save a pointer to mgr in ctx, but that creates a circular link between the two. IMO, both of those solutions suck :)
I'd much rather just set drvdata to the manager and call the hook directly. Like I said earlier, this is just a temporary step since we remove these pm ops later in the patch series.
Sean
> Anyway, I'd like to say really sorry about inconvenient again. So I
will fix
> it. > > Thanks, > Inki Dae > >> Sean >> >> >> > Thanks, >> > Inki Dae >> > >
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