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[Why] MEDIUM or FULL updates can require global validation or affect bandwidth. By treating these all simply as surface updates we aren't actually passing this through DC global validation. [How] There's currently no way to pass surface updates through DC global validation, nor do I think it's a good idea to change the interface to accept these. DC global validation itself is currently stateless, and we can move our update type checking to be stateless as well by duplicating DC surface checks in DM based on DRM properties. We wanted to rely on DC automatically determining this since DC knows best, but DM is ultimately what fills in everything into DC plane state so it does need to know as well. There are basically only three paths that we exercise in DM today: 1) Cursor (async update) 2) Pageflip (fast update) 3) Full pipe programming (medium/full updates) Which means that anything that's more than a pageflip really needs to go down path #3. So this change duplicates all the surface update checks based on DRM state instead inside of should_reset_plane(). Next step is dropping dm_determine_update_type_for_commit and we no longer require the old DC state at all for global validation. Optimization can come later so we don't reset DC planes at all for MEDIUM udpates and avoid validation, but we might require some extra checks in DM to achieve this. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Kazlauskas <nicholas.kazlauskas@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Hersen Wu <hersenxs.wu@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Rodrigo Siqueira <Rodrigo.Siqueira@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
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.