[PATCH] drm/sun4i: mixer: Enable register value caching

[PATCH] drm/sun4i: mixer: Enable register value caching

[Jernej Skrabec]

It was discovered in the past by Ondrej Jirman that mixer register read
may occasionally return wrong value, most likely zero. It turns out
that all mixer units are affected by this issue. This becomes especially
obvious with applications like video player. After a few minutes of a
playback visual glitches appeared but not always in the same way. After
register inspection it was clear that some bits are not set even when
they should be.

Best solution would be to shuffle the code a bit to avoid
read-modify-write operations and use only register writes. However,
quicker solution is to enable caching support in regmap which is also
used here. Such fix is also easier to backport in stable kernels.

Fixes: 9d75b8c0b999 ("drm/sun4i: add support for Allwinner DE2 mixers")
Signed-off-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@siol.net>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun8i_mixer.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun8i_mixer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun8i_mixer.c
index cc4fb916318f..f8f17c51c96d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun8i_mixer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun8i_mixer.c
@@ -303,11 +303,23 @@ static const struct sunxi_engine_ops sun8i_engine_ops = {
 	.layers_init	= sun8i_layers_init,
 };
 
+static bool sun8i_mixer_volatile_reg(struct device *dev, unsigned int reg)
+{
+	switch (reg) {
+	case SUN8I_MIXER_GLOBAL_STATUS:
+	case SUN8I_MIXER_GLOBAL_DBUFF:
+		return true;
+	}
+	return false;
+}
+
 static struct regmap_config sun8i_mixer_regmap_config = {
+	.cache_type	= REGCACHE_FLAT,
 	.reg_bits	= 32,
 	.val_bits	= 32,
 	.reg_stride	= 4,
 	.max_register	= 0xbfffc, /* guessed */
+	.volatile_reg	= sun8i_mixer_volatile_reg,
 };
 
 static int sun8i_mixer_of_get_id(struct device_node *node)
-- 
2.27.0

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Re: [PATCH] drm/sun4i: mixer: Enable register value caching

[Maxime Ripard]

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Hi,

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 10:35:49PM +0200, Jernej Skrabec wrote:
> It was discovered in the past by Ondrej Jirman that mixer register read
> may occasionally return wrong value, most likely zero. It turns out
> that all mixer units are affected by this issue. This becomes especially
> obvious with applications like video player. After a few minutes of a
> playback visual glitches appeared but not always in the same way. After
> register inspection it was clear that some bits are not set even when
> they should be.

There was a similar issue on the earlier backend stuff, and it turned
out to be because we were accessing registers while the registers
"commit" wasn't completed yet.

It looks that in the DE2, it's the register GLB_DBUFFER that controls it
(offset 0x08). It would be worth looking into whether it happens only
when the bit 0 is still high.

I ended up writing a small program using devmem back then to write a
known value in known to be faulty register and checking it in a tight
loop (and then with a poll on that bit) to see if that fixed it or not.

> Best solution would be to shuffle the code a bit to avoid
> read-modify-write operations and use only register writes. However,
> quicker solution is to enable caching support in regmap which is also
> used here. Such fix is also easier to backport in stable kernels.

It only partially fixes the issue though. None of the volatile registers
would be covered, and this includes GLB_CTL too at least.

Maxime

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