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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst | 52 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gpu/i915.rst | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 19 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gpu/vkms.rst | 82 |
5 files changed, 140 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst index 3c5ae4f6dfd2..87e5023e3f55 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst @@ -319,6 +319,15 @@ CRTC Functions Reference .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c :export: +Color Management Functions Reference +------------------------------------ + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_color_mgmt.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_color_mgmt.h + :internal: + Frame Buffer Abstraction ======================== @@ -370,6 +379,21 @@ Plane Functions Reference .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c :export: +Plane Composition Functions Reference +------------------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_blend.c + :export: + +Plane Damage Tracking Functions Reference +----------------------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_damage_helper.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_damage_helper.h + :internal: + Display Modes Function Reference ================================ @@ -436,6 +460,9 @@ KMS Locking KMS Properties ============== +This section of the documentation is primarily aimed at user-space developers. +For the driver APIs, see the other sections. + Property Types and Blob Property Support ---------------------------------------- @@ -466,39 +493,30 @@ Standard CRTC Properties .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c :doc: standard CRTC properties +Standard Plane Properties +------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c + :doc: standard plane properties + Plane Composition Properties ---------------------------- .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_blend.c :doc: overview -.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_blend.c - :export: - -FB_DAMAGE_CLIPS -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Damage Tracking Properties +-------------------------- .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_damage_helper.c :doc: overview -.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_damage_helper.c - :export: - -.. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_damage_helper.h - :internal: - Color Management Properties --------------------------- .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_color_mgmt.c :doc: overview -.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_color_mgmt.c - :export: - -.. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_color_mgmt.h - :internal: - Tile Group Property ------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst index 7dce175f6d75..04bdc7a91d53 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst @@ -457,5 +457,8 @@ Userspace API Structures .. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/drm/drm_mode.h :doc: overview +.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/drm/drm.h + :internal: + .. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/drm/drm_mode.h :internal: diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/i915.rst b/Documentation/gpu/i915.rst index 20868f3d0123..486c720f3890 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/i915.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/i915.rst @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ User Batchbuffer Execution Logical Rings, Logical Ring Contexts and Execlists -------------------------------------------------- -.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_execlists_submission.c :doc: Logical Rings, Logical Ring Contexts and Execlists Global GTT views diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst index d42c22567c5d..40ccac61137e 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ Advanced: Tricky tasks that need fairly good understanding of the DRM subsystem and graphics topics. Generally need the relevant hardware for development and testing. +Expert: Only attempt these if you've successfully completed some tricky +refactorings already and are an expert in the specific area + Subsystem-wide refactorings =========================== @@ -168,6 +171,22 @@ Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers Level: Advanced +Move Buffer Object Locking to dma_resv_lock() +--------------------------------------------- + +Many drivers have their own per-object locking scheme, usually using +mutex_lock(). This causes all kinds of trouble for buffer sharing, since +depending which driver is the exporter and importer, the locking hierarchy is +reversed. + +To solve this we need one standard per-object locking mechanism, which is +dma_resv_lock(). This lock needs to be called as the outermost lock, with all +other driver specific per-object locks removed. The problem is tha rolling out +the actual change to the locking contract is a flag day, due to struct dma_buf +buffer sharing. + +Level: Expert + Convert logging to drm_* functions with drm_device paramater ------------------------------------------------------------ diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/vkms.rst b/Documentation/gpu/vkms.rst index 13bab1d93bb3..2c9b376da5ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/vkms.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/vkms.rst @@ -7,6 +7,88 @@ .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.c :doc: vkms (Virtual Kernel Modesetting) +Setup +===== + +The VKMS driver can be setup with the following steps: + +To check if VKMS is loaded, run:: + + lsmod | grep vkms + +This should list the VKMS driver. If no output is obtained, then +you need to enable and/or load the VKMS driver. +Ensure that the VKMS driver has been set as a loadable module in your +kernel config file. Do:: + + make nconfig + + Go to `Device Drivers> Graphics support` + + Enable `Virtual KMS (EXPERIMENTAL)` + +Compile and build the kernel for the changes to get reflected. +Now, to load the driver, use:: + + sudo modprobe vkms + +On running the lsmod command now, the VKMS driver will appear listed. +You can also observe the driver being loaded in the dmesg logs. + +The VKMS driver has optional features to simulate different kinds of hardware, +which are exposed as module options. You can use the `modinfo` command +to see the module options for vkms:: + + modinfo vkms + +Module options are helpful when testing, and enabling modules +can be done while loading vkms. For example, to load vkms with cursor enabled, +use:: + + sudo modprobe vkms enable_cursor=1 + +To disable the driver, use :: + + sudo modprobe -r vkms + +Testing With IGT +================ + +The IGT GPU Tools is a test suite used specifically for debugging and +development of the DRM drivers. +The IGT Tools can be installed from +`here <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/igt-gpu-tools>`_ . + +The tests need to be run without a compositor, so you need to switch to text +only mode. You can do this by:: + + sudo systemctl isolate multi-user.target + +To return to graphical mode, do:: + + sudo systemctl isolate graphical.target + +Once you are in text only mode, you can run tests using the --device switch +or IGT_DEVICE variable to specify the device filter for the driver we want +to test. IGT_DEVICE can also be used with the run-test.sh script to run the +tests for a specific driver:: + + sudo ./build/tests/<name of test> --device "sys:/sys/devices/platform/vkms" + sudo IGT_DEVICE="sys:/sys/devices/platform/vkms" ./build/tests/<name of test> + sudo IGT_DEVICE="sys:/sys/devices/platform/vkms" ./scripts/run-tests.sh -t <name of test> + +For example, to test the functionality of the writeback library, +we can run the kms_writeback test:: + + sudo ./build/tests/kms_writeback --device "sys:/sys/devices/platform/vkms" + sudo IGT_DEVICE="sys:/sys/devices/platform/vkms" ./build/tests/kms_writeback + sudo IGT_DEVICE="sys:/sys/devices/platform/vkms" ./scripts/run-tests.sh -t kms_writeback + +You can also run subtests if you do not want to run the entire test:: + + sudo ./build/tests/kms_flip --run-subtest basic-plain-flip --device "sys:/sys/devices/platform/vkms" + sudo IGT_DEVICE="sys:/sys/devices/platform/vkms" ./build/tests/kms_flip --run-subtest basic-plain-flip + TODO ==== |