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Nicholas Kazlauskas 674e78acae drm/amd/display: Add fast path for cursor plane updates
[Why]
Legacy cursor plane updates from drm helpers go through the full
atomic codepath. A high volume of cursor updates through this slow
code path can cause subsequent page-flips to skip vblank intervals
since each individual update is slow.

This problem is particularly noticeable for the compton compositor.

[How]
A fast path for cursor plane updates is added by using DRM asynchronous
commit support provided by async_check and async_update. These don't do
a full state/flip_done dependency stall and they don't block other
commit work.

However, DC still expects itself to be single-threaded for anything
that can issue register writes. Screen corruption or hangs can occur
if write sequences overlap. Every call that potentially perform
register writes needs to be guarded for asynchronous updates to work.
The dc_lock mutex was added for this.

Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106175

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Kazlauskas <nicholas.kazlauskas@amd.com>
Acked-by: Andrey Grodzovsky <andrey.grodzovsky@amd.com>
Reviewed-by Leo Li <sunpeng.li@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
2018-12-12 15:32:10 -05:00
Documentation drm: Document variable refresh properties 2018-11-28 15:55:34 -05:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
arch Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-11-18 10:54:59 -08:00
block SCSI: fix queue cleanup race before queue initialization is done 2018-11-14 08:19:10 -07:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: user - Zeroize whole structure given to user space 2018-11-09 17:35:43 +08:00
drivers drm/amd/display: Add fast path for cursor plane updates 2018-12-12 15:32:10 -05:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs ocfs2: free up write context when direct IO failed 2018-11-18 10:15:09 -08:00
include drm/amdkfd: Add DMABuf import functionality 2018-12-07 18:13:54 -05:00
init memblock: stop using implicit alignment to SMP_CACHE_BYTES 2018-10-31 08:54:16 -07:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-11-18 11:31:26 -08:00
lib lib/ubsan.c: don't mark __ubsan_handle_builtin_unreachable as noreturn 2018-11-18 10:15:10 -08:00
mm mm/memblock.c: fix a typo in __next_mem_pfn_range() comments 2018-11-18 10:15:10 -08:00
net NFS client bugfixes for Linux 4.20 2018-11-15 10:59:37 -06:00
samples VFIO updates for v4.20 2018-10-31 11:01:38 -07:00
scripts scripts/spdxcheck.py: make python3 compliant 2018-11-18 10:15:10 -08:00
security selinux/stable-4.20 PR 20181115 2018-11-15 11:26:09 -06:00
sound ALSA: hda - Fix incorrect clearance of thinkpad_acpi hooks 2018-11-06 16:33:53 +01:00
tools libnvdimm 4.20-rc3 2018-11-18 12:21:09 -08:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt Revert "mm, mmu_notifier: annotate mmu notifiers with blockable invalidate callbacks" 2018-10-26 16:25:19 -07:00
.clang-format page cache: Convert find_get_pages_contig to XArray 2018-10-21 10:46:34 -04:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap mailmap: Update email for Punit Agrawal 2018-11-05 10:02:11 +00:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update OMAP MMC entry 2018-11-18 10:15:09 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS drm-misc-next for v4.21, part 1: 2018-11-19 10:40:33 +10:00
Makefile Linux 4.20-rc3 2018-11-18 13:33:44 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

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.