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The explicit out-fences in crtc are signaled as part of vblank event, indicating all framebuffers present on the Atomic Commit request are scanned out on the screen. Though the fence signal and the vblank event notification happens at the same time, triggered by the same hardware vsync event, the timestamp set in both are different. With drivers supporting precise vblank timestamp the difference between the two timestamps would be even higher. This might have an impact on use-mode frameworks using these fence timestamps for purposes other than simple buffer usage. For instance, the Android framework [1] uses the retire-fences as an alternative to vblank when frame-updates are in progress. Set the fence timestamp during send vblank event using a new drm_send_event_timestamp_locked variant to avoid discrepancies. [1] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/native/+/master/ services/surfaceflinger/Scheduler/Scheduler.cpp#397 Changes in v2: - Use drm_send_event_timestamp_locked to update fence timestamp - add more information to commit text Changes in v3: - use same backend helper function for variants of drm_send_event to avoid code duplications Changes in v4: - remove WARN_ON from drm_send_event_timestamp_locked Signed-off-by: Veera Sundaram Sankaran <veeras@codeaurora.org> Reviewed-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org> [sumits: minor parenthesis alignment correction] Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1610757107-11892-2-git-send-email-veeras@codeaurora.org (cherry picked from commit a78e7a51d2fa9d2f482b462be4299784c884d988) Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.