Revert "drm/i915/xe2lpd: Treat cursor plane as regular plane for DDB allocation"
authorVille Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 13 Dec 2023 10:25:19 +0000 (12:25 +0200)
committerVille Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:05:48 +0000 (19:05 +0200)
commit6bc41f9cf252385d3a24e63ce6e2c955dd35c0b2
treedd1d0e07335d4b06e25ab6f38efffe03a3837eca
parent1de63528e728f0ebb1782d976737672ca8adceea
Revert "drm/i915/xe2lpd: Treat cursor plane as regular plane for DDB allocation"

This reverts commit cfeff354f70bb1d0deb0279506e3f7989bc16e28.

A core design consideration with legacy cursor updates is that the
cursor must not touch any other plane, even if we were to force it
to take the slow path. That is the real reason why the cursor uses
a fixed ddb allocation, not because bspec says so.

Treating cursors as any other plane during ddb allocation
violates that, which means we can now pull other planes into
fully unsynced legacy cursor mailbox commits. That is
definitely not something we've ever considered when designing
the rest of the code. The noarm+arm register write split in
particular makes that dangerous as previous updates can get
disarmed pretty much at any random time, and not necessarily
in an order that is actually safe (eg. against ddb overlaps).

So if we were to do this then:
- someone needs to expend the appropriate amount of brain
  cells thinking through all the tricky details
- we should do it for all skl+ platforms since all
  of those have double buffered wm/ddb registers. The current
  arbitrary mtl+ cutoff doesn't really make sense

For the moment just go back to the original behaviour where
the cursor's ddb alloation does not change outside of
modeset/fastset. As of now anything else isn't safe.

Cc: Stanislav Lisovskiy <stanislav.lisovskiy@intel.com>
Cc: Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper@intel.com>
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20231213102519.13500-10-ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com
Reviewed-by: Stanislav Lisovskiy <stanislav.lisovskiy@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Uma Shankar <uma.shankar@intel.com>
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_atomic_plane.c
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/skl_watermark.c