From: <sunpeng.li@amd.com>
To: <amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>, <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
Cc: <Harry.Wentland@amd.com>, <simona@ffwll.ch>, <airlied@gmail.com>,
<jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>, <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>,
<superm1@kernel.org>, Leo Li <sunpeng.li@amd.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/5] drm/amd/display: Implement deferred vblanks on IPS platforms
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:27:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260323202755.315929-5-sunpeng.li@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260323202755.315929-1-sunpeng.li@amd.com>
From: Leo Li <sunpeng.li@amd.com>
[Why]
Newer generations of Display Core Next (DCN) hardware allow for the
entire DCN block to be power-gated in a feature called Idle Power States
(IPS). Once DCN is in IPS, HW register access will timeout. Therefore,
allowing/disallowing IPS requires synchronization with the rest of the
driver through the big dc_lock mutex. It happens that writing vblank
interrupt control and reading counter/scanout position registers
requires IPS disallow. Since that requires the dc_lock, it turns into a
blocking operation.
The immediately obvious (not)solution is to disable IPS. But since it
provides sizable power savings, and it's not going away for future APUs,
it's not a good option.
The other (non)solution is to get rid of the dc_lock or make it not
block. But since all hardware (HW) and Display Micro-controller (DMCU)
access is invalid when DCN is in IPS (because everything is gated), it
needs to be synchronized with all other HW/DMCU access. It happens that
the dc_lock is responsible for that. I don't think replacing it with a
spinlock is a valid solution either. Consider link training: IPS cannot
be allowed while that is happening, yet the timescale of link training
can be in the 100ms. A spinlock would spin too long here.
So let's implement the newly introduced deferred vblank enable/disable
callbacks in DRM vblank core.
[How]
Implement the deferred CRTC callbacks to request the DRM vblank core to
defer vblank enable/disable. Only implement for ASICs that have IPS
support. Otherwise, keep the non-deferred behavior.
To ensure interrupts are enabled before programming flips (otherwise the
page flip interrupt for event delivery may not fire), call
drm_crtc_vblank_wait_deferred_enable() in the commit_planes code when
getting a reference on vblanks.
Signed-off-by: Leo Li <sunpeng.li@amd.com>
---
.../gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c | 8 +
.../amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_crtc.c | 178 +++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 185 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
index fc5e0bf121d22..76cd50036db92 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
@@ -10208,6 +10208,14 @@ static void amdgpu_dm_commit_planes(struct drm_atomic_state *state,
&acrtc_attach->dm_irq_params.vrr_params.adjust);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pcrtc->dev->event_lock, flags);
}
+
+ /*
+ * If vblank is being enabled in worker thread, wait for it to
+ * enable interrupts before programming pflips, otherwise the
+ * interrupt may not fire.
+ */
+ drm_crtc_vblank_wait_deferred_enable(pcrtc);
+
mutex_lock(&dm->dc_lock);
update_planes_and_stream_adapter(dm->dc,
acrtc_state->update_type,
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_crtc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_crtc.c
index e6727d5098863..6ea99ad9c4b36 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_crtc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_crtc.c
@@ -453,6 +453,141 @@ static void amdgpu_dm_crtc_disable_vblank(struct drm_crtc *crtc)
acrtc_state, false);
}
+/*
+ * Deferred vblank enable/disable works differently: the drm vblank core manages
+ * the workqueue instead of amdgpu_dm, sandwiching the vblank_enable/disable()
+ * with the crtc pre/post callbacks. Therefore, they need to be sequenced
+ * differently from their non-deferred variants.
+ */
+
+static int amdgpu_dm_crtc_deferred_enable_vblank(struct drm_crtc *crtc)
+{
+ struct amdgpu_device *adev = drm_to_adev(crtc->dev);
+ struct amdgpu_display_manager *dm = &adev->dm;
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = amdgpu_dm_crtc_set_vblank(crtc, true);
+ if (!ret)
+ dm->active_vblank_irq_count++;
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
+static void amdgpu_dm_crtc_deferred_disable_vblank(struct drm_crtc *crtc)
+{
+ struct amdgpu_device *adev = drm_to_adev(crtc->dev);
+ struct amdgpu_display_manager *dm = &adev->dm;
+
+ amdgpu_dm_crtc_set_vblank(crtc, false);
+
+ if (dm->active_vblank_irq_count)
+ dm->active_vblank_irq_count--;
+}
+
+
+static void amdgpu_dm_crtc_pre_enable_vblank(struct drm_crtc *crtc)
+{
+ struct amdgpu_device *adev = drm_to_adev(crtc->dev);
+ struct amdgpu_display_manager *dm = &adev->dm;
+
+ mutex_lock(&dm->dc_lock);
+ dc_allow_idle_optimizations(dm->dc, false);
+}
+
+static void amdgpu_dm_crtc_post_enable_vblank(struct drm_crtc *crtc)
+{
+ struct amdgpu_device *adev = drm_to_adev(crtc->dev);
+ struct amdgpu_display_manager *dm = &adev->dm;
+ struct amdgpu_crtc *acrtc = to_amdgpu_crtc(crtc);
+ struct dm_crtc_state *acrtc_state = to_dm_crtc_state(crtc->state);
+ struct vblank_control_work vblank_work = { 0 };
+
+ /* If crtc disabled, skip panel optimizations exit */
+ if (!crtc->enabled) {
+ mutex_unlock(&dm->dc_lock);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ vblank_work.dm = dm;
+ vblank_work.acrtc = acrtc;
+ vblank_work.enable = true;
+ if (acrtc_state->stream) {
+ dc_stream_retain(acrtc_state->stream);
+ vblank_work.stream = acrtc_state->stream;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Control PSR based on vblank requirements from OS
+ *
+ * If panel supports PSR SU, there's no need to disable PSR when OS is
+ * submitting fast atomic commits (we infer this by whether the OS
+ * requests vblank events). Fast atomic commits will simply trigger a
+ * full-frame-update (FFU); a specific case of selective-update (SU)
+ * where the SU region is the full hactive*vactive region. See
+ * fill_dc_dirty_rects().
+ */
+ if (vblank_work.stream && vblank_work.stream->link && vblank_work.acrtc) {
+ amdgpu_dm_crtc_set_panel_sr_feature(
+ &vblank_work, true,
+ vblank_work.acrtc->dm_irq_params.allow_sr_entry);
+ }
+
+ if (vblank_work.stream)
+ dc_stream_release(vblank_work.stream);
+
+ mutex_unlock(&dm->dc_lock);
+}
+
+static void amdgpu_dm_crtc_pre_disable_vblank(struct drm_crtc *crtc)
+{
+ struct amdgpu_device *adev = drm_to_adev(crtc->dev);
+ struct amdgpu_display_manager *dm = &adev->dm;
+
+ mutex_lock(&dm->dc_lock);
+}
+
+static void amdgpu_dm_crtc_post_disable_vblank(struct drm_crtc *crtc)
+{
+ struct amdgpu_device *adev = drm_to_adev(crtc->dev);
+ struct amdgpu_display_manager *dm = &adev->dm;
+ struct amdgpu_crtc *acrtc = to_amdgpu_crtc(crtc);
+ struct dm_crtc_state *acrtc_state = to_dm_crtc_state(crtc->state);
+ struct vblank_control_work vblank_work = { 0 };
+ struct drm_vblank_crtc *vblank = drm_crtc_vblank_crtc(crtc);
+
+ /* If a vblank_get got ahead of us (can happen when !disable_immediate),
+ * skip panel optimizations
+ */
+ if (atomic_read(&vblank->refcount) > 0) {
+ mutex_unlock(&dm->dc_lock);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ vblank_work.dm = dm;
+ vblank_work.acrtc = acrtc;
+ vblank_work.enable = false;
+ if (acrtc_state->stream) {
+ dc_stream_retain(acrtc_state->stream);
+ vblank_work.stream = acrtc_state->stream;
+ }
+
+ if (vblank_work.stream && vblank_work.stream->link && vblank_work.acrtc) {
+ amdgpu_dm_crtc_set_panel_sr_feature(
+ &vblank_work, false,
+ vblank_work.acrtc->dm_irq_params.allow_sr_entry);
+ }
+
+ if (vblank_work.stream)
+ dc_stream_release(vblank_work.stream);
+
+ if (dm->active_vblank_irq_count == 0) {
+ dc_post_update_surfaces_to_stream(dm->dc);
+ dc_allow_idle_optimizations(dm->dc, true);
+ }
+
+ mutex_unlock(&dm->dc_lock);
+}
+
static void amdgpu_dm_crtc_destroy_state(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
struct drm_crtc_state *state)
{
@@ -622,6 +757,33 @@ static const struct drm_crtc_funcs amdgpu_dm_crtc_funcs = {
#endif
};
+static const struct drm_crtc_funcs amdgpu_dm_crtc_deferred_vblank_funcs = {
+ .reset = amdgpu_dm_crtc_reset_state,
+ .destroy = amdgpu_dm_crtc_destroy,
+ .set_config = drm_atomic_helper_set_config,
+ .page_flip = drm_atomic_helper_page_flip,
+ .atomic_duplicate_state = amdgpu_dm_crtc_duplicate_state,
+ .atomic_destroy_state = amdgpu_dm_crtc_destroy_state,
+ .set_crc_source = amdgpu_dm_crtc_set_crc_source,
+ .verify_crc_source = amdgpu_dm_crtc_verify_crc_source,
+ .get_crc_sources = amdgpu_dm_crtc_get_crc_sources,
+ .get_vblank_counter = amdgpu_get_vblank_counter_kms,
+ .enable_vblank = amdgpu_dm_crtc_deferred_enable_vblank,
+ .disable_vblank = amdgpu_dm_crtc_deferred_disable_vblank,
+ .get_vblank_timestamp = drm_crtc_vblank_helper_get_vblank_timestamp,
+#if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_FS)
+ .late_register = amdgpu_dm_crtc_late_register,
+#endif
+#ifdef AMD_PRIVATE_COLOR
+ .atomic_set_property = amdgpu_dm_atomic_crtc_set_property,
+ .atomic_get_property = amdgpu_dm_atomic_crtc_get_property,
+#endif
+ .pre_enable_vblank = amdgpu_dm_crtc_pre_enable_vblank,
+ .post_enable_vblank = amdgpu_dm_crtc_post_enable_vblank,
+ .pre_disable_vblank = amdgpu_dm_crtc_pre_disable_vblank,
+ .post_disable_vblank = amdgpu_dm_crtc_post_disable_vblank,
+};
+
static void amdgpu_dm_crtc_helper_disable(struct drm_crtc *crtc)
{
}
@@ -754,6 +916,7 @@ int amdgpu_dm_crtc_init(struct amdgpu_display_manager *dm,
struct drm_plane *plane,
uint32_t crtc_index)
{
+ const struct drm_crtc_funcs *crtc_funcs;
struct amdgpu_crtc *acrtc = NULL;
struct drm_plane *cursor_plane;
bool has_degamma;
@@ -770,12 +933,25 @@ int amdgpu_dm_crtc_init(struct amdgpu_display_manager *dm,
if (!acrtc)
goto fail;
+ /*
+ * Only enable deferred vblank enable/disable for ASICs with IPS
+ * support
+ */
+ if (dm->dc->caps.ips_support) {
+ crtc_funcs = &amdgpu_dm_crtc_deferred_vblank_funcs;
+ drm_dbg_driver(dm->ddev,
+ "Initializing CRTC %d with deferred vBlank enable/disable\n",
+ crtc_index);
+ } else {
+ crtc_funcs = &amdgpu_dm_crtc_funcs;
+ }
+
res = drm_crtc_init_with_planes(
dm->ddev,
&acrtc->base,
plane,
cursor_plane,
- &amdgpu_dm_crtc_funcs, NULL);
+ crtc_funcs, NULL);
if (res)
goto fail;
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-23 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-23 20:27 [PATCH v2 0/5] drm/vblank: Deferred Enable and Disable sunpeng.li
2026-03-23 20:27 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] drm/vblank: Add drm_crtc_vblank_is_off() helper sunpeng.li
2026-03-24 20:20 ` Mario Limonciello
2026-03-24 21:22 ` Claude review: " Claude Code Review Bot
2026-03-23 20:27 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] drm/vblank: Introduce deferred vblank enable/disable sunpeng.li
2026-03-24 21:22 ` Claude review: " Claude Code Review Bot
2026-03-23 20:27 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] drm/amd/display: Refactor amdgpu_dm_crtc_set_vblank sunpeng.li
2026-03-24 21:22 ` Claude review: " Claude Code Review Bot
2026-03-23 20:27 ` sunpeng.li [this message]
2026-03-24 21:22 ` Claude review: drm/amd/display: Implement deferred vblanks on IPS platforms Claude Code Review Bot
2026-03-23 20:27 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] drm/vblank: Add some debugging trace events sunpeng.li
2026-03-24 21:22 ` Claude review: " Claude Code Review Bot
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