Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/nouveau/dispnv04: Grab/put runtime PM refs on DPMS on/off

[Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 2019-08-07 at 19:06 -0400, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 5:55 PM Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 05:33:00PM -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > > The code claims to grab a runtime PM ref when at least one CRTC is
> > > active, but that's not actually the case as we grab a runtime PM ref
> > > whenever a CRTC is enabled regardless of it's DPMS state. Meaning that
> > > we can end up keeping the GPU awake when there are no screens enabled,
> > > something we don't really want to do.
> > > 
> > > Note that we fixed this same issue for nv50 a while ago in:
> > > 
> > > commit e5d54f193572 ("drm/nouveau/drm/nouveau: Fix runtime PM leak in
> > > nv50_disp_atomic_commit()")
> > > 
> > > Since we're about to remove nouveau_drm->have_disp_power_ref in the next
> > > commit, let's also simplify the RPM code here while we're at it: grab a
> > > ref during a modeset, grab additional RPM refs for each CRTC enabled by
> > > said modeset, and drop an RPM ref for each CRTC disabled by said
> > > modeset. This allows us to keep the GPU awake whenever screens are
> > > turned on, without needing to use nouveau_drm->have_disp_power_ref.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv04/crtc.c | 18 ++++--------------
> > >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv04/crtc.c
> > > b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv04/crtc.c
> > > index f22f01020625..08ad8e3b9cd2 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv04/crtc.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv04/crtc.c
> > > @@ -183,6 +183,10 @@ nv_crtc_dpms(struct drm_crtc *crtc, int mode)
> > >               return;
> > > 
> > >       nv_crtc->last_dpms = mode;
> > > +     if (mode == DRM_MODE_DPMS_ON)
> > > +             pm_runtime_get_noresume(dev->dev);
> > > +     else
> > > +             pm_runtime_put_noidle(dev->dev);
> > 
> > it's after we filter out duplicate operations, so that part looks good.
> > But not all of nouveau's legacy helper crtc callbacks go throuh ->dpms I
> > think: nv_crtc_disable doesn't, and crtc helpers use that in preference
> > over ->dpms in some cases.
> > 
> > I think the only way to actually hit that path is if you switch an active
> > connector from an active CRTC to an inactive one. This implicitly disables
> > the crtc (well, should, nv_crtc_disable doesn't seem to shut down hw), and
> > I think would leak your runtime PM reference here. At least temporarily.
> > 
> > No idea how to best fix that. Aside from "use atomic" :-)
> 
> Not sure if this is relevant to the discussion at hand, but I'd like
> to point out that dispnv04 is for pre-nv50 things, which definitely
> didn't support any kind of ACPI-based runtime suspend.

I thought it was really suspicious that such an old chipset had any kind of
runtime PM, but didn't question the code lol. I guess a more appropriate patch
would be to just remove runtime PM support entirely for pre-nv50. Will respin
soon and do this.

> 
>   -ilia