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    drm/atomic: document and enforce rules around "spurious" EBUSY · fb6473a4
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    When doing an atomic modeset with ALLOW_MODESET drivers are allowed to
    pull in arbitrary other resources, including CRTCs (e.g. when
    reconfiguring global resources).
    
    But in nonblocking mode userspace has then no idea this happened,
    which can lead to spurious EBUSY calls, both:
    - when that other CRTC is currently busy doing a page_flip the
      ALLOW_MODESET commit can fail with an EBUSY
    - on the other CRTC a normal atomic flip can fail with EBUSY because
      of the additional commit inserted by the kernel without userspace's
      knowledge
    
    For blocking commits this isn't a problem, because everyone else will
    just block until all the CRTC are reconfigured. Only thing userspace
    can notice is the dropped frames without any reason for why frames got
    dropped.
    
    Consensus is that we need new uapi to handle this properly, but no one
    has any idea what exactly the new uapi should look like. Since this
    has been shipping for years already compositors need to deal no matter
    what, so as a first step just try to enforce this across drivers
    better with some checks.
    
    v2: Add comments and a WARN_ON to enforce this only when allowed - we
    don't want to silently convert page flips into blocking plane updates
    just because the driver is buggy.
    
    v3: Fix inverted WARN_ON (Pekka).
    
    v4: Drop the uapi changes, only add a WARN_ON for now to enforce some
    rules for drivers.
    
    v5: Make the WARNING more informative (Daniel)
    
    v6: Add unconditional debug output for compositor hackers to figure
    out what's going on when they get an EBUSY (Daniel)
    
    v7: Fix up old/new_crtc_state confusion for real (Pekka/Ville)
    Acked-by: default avatarPekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDaniel Stone <daniels@collabora.com>
    References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2018-July/182281.html
    Bugzilla: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/issues/24#note_9568
    Cc: Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>
    Cc: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
    Cc: Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>
    Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
    Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200925084651.3250104-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
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