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authorLyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>2020-03-07 02:46:20 +0300
committerLyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>2020-03-13 02:07:24 +0300
commitfcf4638075964268bf8a0e212407096c6aab6fd3 (patch)
tree8001504f79d039497f17c028891bb423aea385c7 /include
parentb2feb1d6d34844c5c56eb34008c3e516664c5410 (diff)
downloadlinux-fcf4638075964268bf8a0e212407096c6aab6fd3.tar.xz
drm/dp_mst: Use full_pbn instead of available_pbn for bandwidth checks
DisplayPort specifications are fun. For a while, it's been really unclear to us what available_pbn actually does. There's a somewhat vague explanation in the DisplayPort spec (starting from 1.2) that partially explains it: The minimum payload bandwidth number supported by the path. Each node updates this number with its available payload bandwidth number if its payload bandwidth number is less than that in the Message Transaction reply. So, it sounds like available_pbn represents the smallest link rate in use between the source and the branch device. Cool, so full_pbn is just the highest possible PBN that the branch device supports right? Well, we assumed that for quite a while until Sean Paul noticed that on some MST hubs, available_pbn will actually get set to 0 whenever there's any active payloads on the respective branch device. This caused quite a bit of confusion since clearing the payload ID table would end up fixing the available_pbn value. So, we just went with that until commit cd82d82cbc04 ("drm/dp_mst: Add branch bandwidth validation to MST atomic check") started breaking people's setups due to us getting erroneous available_pbn values. So, we did some more digging and got confused until we finally looked at the definition for full_pbn: The bandwidth of the link at the trained link rate and lane count between the DP Source device and the DP Sink device with no time slots allocated to VC Payloads, represented as a Payload Bandwidth Number. As with the Available_Payload_Bandwidth_Number, this number is determined by the link with the lowest lane count and link rate. That's what we get for not reading specs closely enough, hehe. So, since full_pbn is definitely what we want for doing bandwidth restriction checks - let's start using that instead and ignore available_pbn entirely. Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com> Fixes: cd82d82cbc04 ("drm/dp_mst: Add branch bandwidth validation to MST atomic check") Cc: Mikita Lipski <mikita.lipski@amd.com> Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Cc: Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run> Reviewed-by: Mikita Lipski <mikita.lipski@amd.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200306234623.547525-3-lyude@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Tested-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/drm/drm_dp_mst_helper.h4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/drm/drm_dp_mst_helper.h b/include/drm/drm_dp_mst_helper.h
index bcb39da9adb4..41725d88d27e 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_dp_mst_helper.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_dp_mst_helper.h
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ struct drm_dp_vcpi {
* &drm_dp_mst_topology_mgr.base.lock.
* @num_sdp_stream_sinks: Number of stream sinks. Protected by
* &drm_dp_mst_topology_mgr.base.lock.
- * @available_pbn: Available bandwidth for this port. Protected by
+ * @full_pbn: Max possible bandwidth for this port. Protected by
* &drm_dp_mst_topology_mgr.base.lock.
* @next: link to next port on this branch device
* @aux: i2c aux transport to talk to device connected to this port, protected
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ struct drm_dp_mst_port {
u8 dpcd_rev;
u8 num_sdp_streams;
u8 num_sdp_stream_sinks;
- uint16_t available_pbn;
+ uint16_t full_pbn;
struct list_head next;
/**
* @mstb: the branch device connected to this port, if there is one.