Mode Setting Helper Functions

The DRM subsystem aims for a strong separation between core code and helper libraries. Core code takes care of general setup and teardown and decoding userspace requests to kernel internal objects. Everything else is handled by a large set of helper libraries, which can be combined freely to pick and choose for each driver what fits, and avoid shared code where special behaviour is needed.

This distinction between core code and helpers is especially strong in the modesetting code, where there’s a shared userspace ABI for all drivers. This is in contrast to the render side, where pretty much everything (with very few exceptions) can be considered optional helper code.

There are a few areas these helpers can grouped into:

  • Helpers to implement modesetting. The important ones here are the atomic helpers. Old drivers still often use the legacy CRTC helpers. They both share the same set of common helper vtables. For really simple drivers (anything that would have been a great fit in the deprecated fbdev subsystem) there’s also the simple display pipe helpers.

  • There’s a big pile of helpers for handling outputs. First the generic bridge helpers for handling encoder and transcoder IP blocks. Second the panel helpers for handling panel-related information and logic. Plus then a big set of helpers for the various sink standards (DisplayPort, HDMI, MIPI DSI). Finally there’s also generic helpers for handling output probing, and for dealing with EDIDs.

  • The last group of helpers concerns itself with the frontend side of a display pipeline: Planes, handling rectangles for visibility checking and scissoring, flip queues and assorted bits.

Modeset Helper Reference for Common Vtables

The DRM mode setting helper functions are common code for drivers to use if they wish. Drivers are not forced to use this code in their implementations but it would be useful if the code they do use at least provides a consistent interface and operation to userspace. Therefore it is highly recommended to use the provided helpers as much as possible.

Because there is only one pointer per modeset object to hold a vfunc table for helper libraries they are by necessity shared among the different helpers.

To make this clear all the helper vtables are pulled together in this location here.

struct drm_crtc_helper_funcs

helper operations for CRTCs

Definition

struct drm_crtc_helper_funcs {
  void (*dpms)(struct drm_crtc *crtc, int mode);
  void (*prepare)(struct drm_crtc *crtc);
  void (*commit)(struct drm_crtc *crtc);
  enum drm_mode_status (*mode_valid)(struct drm_crtc *crtc, const struct drm_display_mode *mode);
  bool (*mode_fixup)(struct drm_crtc *crtc,const struct drm_display_mode *mode, struct drm_display_mode *adjusted_mode);
  int (*mode_set)(struct drm_crtc *crtc, struct drm_display_mode *mode,struct drm_display_mode *adjusted_mode, int x, int y, struct drm_framebuffer *old_fb);
  void (*mode_set_nofb)(struct drm_crtc *crtc);
  int (*mode_set_base)(struct drm_crtc *crtc, int x, int y, struct drm_framebuffer *old_fb);
  int (*mode_set_base_atomic)(struct drm_crtc *crtc,struct drm_framebuffer *fb, int x, int y, enum mode_set_atomic);
  void (*disable)(struct drm_crtc *crtc);
  int (*atomic_check)(struct drm_crtc *crtc, struct drm_atomic_state *state);
  void (*atomic_begin)(struct drm_crtc *crtc, struct drm_atomic_state *state);
  void (*atomic_flush)(struct drm_crtc *crtc, struct drm_atomic_state *state);
  void (*atomic_enable)(struct drm_crtc *crtc, struct drm_atomic_state *state);
  void (*atomic_disable)(struct drm_crtc *crtc, struct drm_atomic_state *state);
  bool (*get_scanout_position)(struct drm_crtc *crtc,bool in_vblank_irq, int *vpos, int *hpos,ktime_t *stime, ktime_t *etime, const struct drm_display_mode *mode);
};

Members

dpms

Callback to control power levels on the CRTC. If the mode passed in is unsupported, the provider must use the next lowest power level. This is used by the legacy CRTC helpers to implement DPMS functionality in drm_helper_connector_dpms().

This callback is also used to disable a CRTC by calling it with DRM_MODE_DPMS_OFF if the disable hook isn’t used.

This callback is used by the legacy CRTC helpers. Atomic helpers also support using this hook for enabling and disabling a CRTC to facilitate transitions to atomic, but it is deprecated. Instead atomic_enable and atomic_disable should be used.

prepare

This callback should prepare the CRTC for a subsequent modeset, which in practice means the driver should disable the CRTC if it is running. Most drivers ended up implementing this by calling their dpms hook with DRM_MODE_DPMS_OFF.

This callback is used by the legacy CRTC helpers. Atomic helpers also support using this hook for disabling a CRTC to facilitate transitions to atomic, but it is deprecated. Instead atomic_disable should be used.

commit

This callback should commit the new mode on the CRTC after a modeset, which in practice means the driver should enable the CRTC. Most drivers ended up implementing this by calling their dpms hook with DRM_MODE_DPMS_ON.

This callback is used by the legacy CRTC helpers. Atomic helpers also support using this hook for enabling a CRTC to facilitate transitions to atomic, but it is deprecated. Instead atomic_enable should be used.

mode_valid

This callback is used to check if a specific mode is valid in this crtc. This should be implemented if the crtc has some sort of restriction in the modes it can display. For example, a given crtc may be responsible to set a clock value. If the clock can not produce all the values for the available modes then this callback can be used to restrict the number of modes to only the ones that can be displayed.

This hook is used by the probe helpers to filter the mode list in drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes(), and it is used by the atomic helpers to validate modes supplied by userspace in drm_atomic_helper_check_modeset().

This function is optional.

NOTE:

Since this function is both called from the check phase of an atomic commit, and the mode validation in the probe paths it is not allowed to look at anything else but the passed-in mode, and validate it against configuration-invariant hardward constraints. Any further limits which depend upon the configuration can only be checked in mode_fixup or atomic_check.

RETURNS:

drm_mode_status Enum

mode_fixup

This callback is used to validate a mode. The parameter mode is the display mode that userspace requested, adjusted_mode is the mode the encoders need to be fed with. Note that this is the inverse semantics of the meaning for the drm_encoder and drm_bridge_funcs.mode_fixup vfunc. If the CRTC cannot support the requested conversion from mode to adjusted_mode it should reject the modeset. See also drm_crtc_state.adjusted_mode for more details.

This function is used by both legacy CRTC helpers and atomic helpers. With atomic helpers it is optional.

NOTE:

This function is called in the check phase of atomic modesets, which can be aborted for any reason (including on userspace’s request to just check whether a configuration would be possible). Atomic drivers MUST NOT touch any persistent state (hardware or software) or data structures except the passed in adjusted_mode parameter.

This is in contrast to the legacy CRTC helpers where this was allowed.

Atomic drivers which need to inspect and adjust more state should instead use the atomic_check callback, but note that they’re not perfectly equivalent: mode_valid is called from drm_atomic_helper_check_modeset(), but atomic_check is called from drm_atomic_helper_check_planes(), because originally it was meant for plane update checks only.

Also beware that userspace can request its own custom modes, neither core nor helpers filter modes to the list of probe modes reported by the GETCONNECTOR IOCTL and stored in drm_connector.modes. To ensure that modes are filtered consistently put any CRTC constraints and limits checks into mode_valid.

RETURNS:

True if an acceptable configuration is possible, false if the modeset operation should be rejected.

mode_set

This callback is used by the legacy CRTC helpers to set a new mode, position and framebuffer. Since it ties the primary plane to every mode change it is incompatible with universal plane support. And since it can’t update other planes it’s incompatible with atomic modeset support.

This callback is only used by CRTC helpers and deprecated.

RETURNS:

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

mode_set_nofb

This callback is used to update the display mode of a CRTC without changing anything of the primary plane configuration. This fits the requirement of atomic and hence is used by the atomic helpers. It is also used by the transitional plane helpers to implement a mode_set hook in drm_helper_crtc_mode_set().

Note that the display pipe is completely off when this function is called. Atomic drivers which need hardware to be running before they program the new display mode (e.g. because they implement runtime PM) should not use this hook. This is because the helper library calls this hook only once per mode change and not every time the display pipeline is suspended using either DPMS or the new “ACTIVE” property. Which means register values set in this callback might get reset when the CRTC is suspended, but not restored. Such drivers should instead move all their CRTC setup into the atomic_enable callback.

This callback is optional.

mode_set_base

This callback is used by the legacy CRTC helpers to set a new framebuffer and scanout position. It is optional and used as an optimized fast-path instead of a full mode set operation with all the resulting flickering. If it is not present drm_crtc_helper_set_config() will fall back to a full modeset, using the mode_set callback. Since it can’t update other planes it’s incompatible with atomic modeset support.

This callback is only used by the CRTC helpers and deprecated.

RETURNS:

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

mode_set_base_atomic

This callback is used by the fbdev helpers to set a new framebuffer and scanout without sleeping, i.e. from an atomic calling context. It is only used to implement kgdb support.

This callback is optional and only needed for kgdb support in the fbdev helpers.

RETURNS:

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

disable

This callback should be used to disable the CRTC. With the atomic drivers it is called after all encoders connected to this CRTC have been shut off already using their own drm_encoder_helper_funcs.disable hook. If that sequence is too simple drivers can just add their own hooks and call it from this CRTC callback here by looping over all encoders connected to it using for_each_encoder_on_crtc().

This hook is used both by legacy CRTC helpers and atomic helpers. Atomic drivers don’t need to implement it if there’s no need to disable anything at the CRTC level. To ensure that runtime PM handling (using either DPMS or the new “ACTIVE” property) works disable must be the inverse of atomic_enable for atomic drivers. Atomic drivers should consider to use atomic_disable instead of this one.

NOTE:

With legacy CRTC helpers there’s a big semantic difference between disable and other hooks (like prepare or dpms) used to shut down a CRTC: disable is only called when also logically disabling the display pipeline and needs to release any resources acquired in mode_set (like shared PLLs, or again release pinned framebuffers).

Therefore disable must be the inverse of mode_set plus commit for drivers still using legacy CRTC helpers, which is different from the rules under atomic.

atomic_check

Drivers should check plane-update related CRTC constraints in this hook. They can also check mode related limitations but need to be aware of the calling order, since this hook is used by drm_atomic_helper_check_planes() whereas the preparations needed to check output routing and the display mode is done in drm_atomic_helper_check_modeset(). Therefore drivers that want to check output routing and display mode constraints in this callback must ensure that drm_atomic_helper_check_modeset() has been called beforehand. This is calling order used by the default helper implementation in drm_atomic_helper_check().

When using drm_atomic_helper_check_planes() this hook is called after the drm_plane_helper_funcs.atomic_check hook for planes, which allows drivers to assign shared resources requested by planes in this callback here. For more complicated dependencies the driver can call the provided check helpers multiple times until the computed state has a final configuration and everything has been checked.

This function is also allowed to inspect any other object’s state and can add more state objects to the atomic commit if needed. Care must be taken though to ensure that state check and compute functions for these added states are all called, and derived state in other objects all updated. Again the recommendation is to just call check helpers until a maximal configuration is reached.

This callback is used by the atomic modeset helpers and by the transitional plane helpers, but it is optional.

NOTE:

This function is called in the check phase of an atomic update. The driver is not allowed to change anything outside of the free-standing state object passed-in.

Also beware that userspace can request its own custom modes, neither core nor helpers filter modes to the list of probe modes reported by the GETCONNECTOR IOCTL and stored in drm_connector.modes. To ensure that modes are filtered consistently put any CRTC constraints and limits checks into mode_valid.

RETURNS:

0 on success, -EINVAL if the state or the transition can’t be supported, -ENOMEM on memory allocation failure and -EDEADLK if an attempt to obtain another state object ran into a drm_modeset_lock deadlock.

atomic_begin

Drivers should prepare for an atomic update of multiple planes on a CRTC in this hook. Depending upon hardware this might be vblank evasion, blocking updates by setting bits or doing preparatory work for e.g. manual update display.

This hook is called before any plane commit functions are called.

Note that the power state of the display pipe when this function is called depends upon the exact helpers and calling sequence the driver has picked. See drm_atomic_helper_commit_planes() for a discussion of the tradeoffs and variants of plane commit helpers.

This callback is used by the atomic modeset helpers and by the transitional plane helpers, but it is optional.

atomic_flush

Drivers should finalize an atomic update of multiple planes on a CRTC in this hook. Depending upon hardware this might include checking that vblank evasion was successful, unblocking updates by setting bits or setting the GO bit to flush out all updates.

Simple hardware or hardware with special requirements can commit and flush out all updates for all planes from this hook and forgo all the other commit hooks for plane updates.

This hook is called after any plane commit functions are called.

Note that the power state of the display pipe when this function is called depends upon the exact helpers and calling sequence the driver has picked. See drm_atomic_helper_commit_planes() for a discussion of the tradeoffs and variants of plane commit helpers.

This callback is used by the atomic modeset helpers and by the transitional plane helpers, but it is optional.

atomic_enable

This callback should be used to enable the CRTC. With the atomic drivers it is called before all encoders connected to this CRTC are enabled through the encoder’s own drm_encoder_helper_funcs.enable hook. If that sequence is too simple drivers can just add their own hooks and call it from this CRTC callback here by looping over all encoders connected to it using for_each_encoder_on_crtc().

This hook is used only by atomic helpers, for symmetry with atomic_disable. Atomic drivers don’t need to implement it if there’s no need to enable anything at the CRTC level. To ensure that runtime PM handling (using either DPMS or the new “ACTIVE” property) works atomic_enable must be the inverse of atomic_disable for atomic drivers.

This function is optional.

atomic_disable

This callback should be used to disable the CRTC. With the atomic drivers it is called after all encoders connected to this CRTC have been shut off already using their own drm_encoder_helper_funcs.disable hook. If that sequence is too simple drivers can just add their own hooks and call it from this CRTC callback here by looping over all encoders connected to it using for_each_encoder_on_crtc().

This hook is used only by atomic helpers. Atomic drivers don’t need to implement it if there’s no need to disable anything at the CRTC level.

This function is optional.

get_scanout_position

Called by vblank timestamping code.

Returns the current display scanout position from a CRTC and an optional accurate ktime_get() timestamp of when the position was measured. Note that this is a helper callback which is only used if a driver uses drm_crtc_vblank_helper_get_vblank_timestamp() for the drm_crtc_funcs.get_vblank_timestamp callback.

Parameters:

crtc:

The CRTC.

in_vblank_irq:

True when called from drm_crtc_handle_vblank(). Some drivers need to apply some workarounds for gpu-specific vblank irq quirks if the flag is set.

vpos:

Target location for current vertical scanout position.

hpos:

Target location for current horizontal scanout position.

stime:

Target location for timestamp taken immediately before scanout position query. Can be NULL to skip timestamp.

etime:

Target location for timestamp taken immediately after scanout position query. Can be NULL to skip timestamp.

mode:

Current display timings.

Returns vpos as a positive number while in active scanout area. Returns vpos as a negative number inside vblank, counting the number of scanlines to go until end of vblank, e.g., -1 means “one scanline until start of active scanout / end of vblank.”

Returns:

True on success, false if a reliable scanout position counter could not be read out.

Description

These hooks are used by the legacy CRTC helpers, the transitional plane helpers and the new atomic modesetting helpers.

void drm_crtc_helper_add(struct drm_crtc *crtc, const struct drm_crtc_helper_funcs *funcs)

sets the helper vtable for a crtc

Parameters

struct drm_crtc *crtc

DRM CRTC

const struct drm_crtc_helper_funcs *funcs

helper vtable to set for crtc

struct drm_encoder_helper_funcs

helper operations for encoders

Definition

struct drm_encoder_helper_funcs {
  void (*dpms)(struct drm_encoder *encoder, int mode);
  enum drm_mode_status (*mode_valid)(struct drm_encoder *crtc, const struct drm_display_mode *mode);
  bool (*mode_fixup)(struct drm_encoder *encoder,const struct drm_display_mode *mode, struct drm_display_mode *adjusted_mode);
  void (*prepare)(struct drm_encoder *encoder);
  void (*commit)(struct drm_encoder *encoder);
  void (*mode_set)(struct drm_encoder *encoder,struct drm_display_mode *mode, struct drm_display_mode *adjusted_mode);
  void (*atomic_mode_set)(struct drm_encoder *encoder,struct drm_crtc_state *crtc_state, struct drm_connector_state *conn_state);
  enum drm_connector_status (*detect)(struct drm_encoder *encoder, struct drm_connector *connector);
  void (*atomic_disable)(struct drm_encoder *encoder, struct drm_atomic_state *state);
  void (*atomic_enable)(struct drm_encoder *encoder, struct drm_atomic_state *state);
  void (*disable)(struct drm_encoder *encoder);
  void (*enable)(struct drm_encoder *encoder);
  int (*atomic_check)(struct drm_encoder *encoder,struct drm_crtc_state *crtc_state, struct drm_connector_state *conn_state);
};

Members

dpms

Callback to control power levels on the encoder. If the mode passed in is unsupported, the provider must use the next lowest power level. This is used by the legacy encoder helpers to implement DPMS functionality in drm_helper_connector_dpms().

This callback is also used to disable an encoder by calling it with DRM_MODE_DPMS_OFF if the disable hook isn’t used.

This callback is used by the legacy CRTC helpers. Atomic helpers also support using this hook for enabling and disabling an encoder to facilitate transitions to atomic, but it is deprecated. Instead enable and disable should be used.

mode_valid

This callback is used to check if a specific mode is valid in this encoder. This should be implemented if the encoder has some sort of restriction in the modes it can display. For example, a given encoder may be responsible to set a clock value. If the clock can not produce all the values for the available modes then this callback can be used to restrict the number of modes to only the ones that can be displayed.

This hook is used by the probe helpers to filter the mode list in drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes(), and it is used by the atomic helpers to validate modes supplied by userspace in drm_atomic_helper_check_modeset().

This function is optional.

NOTE:

Since this function is both called from the check phase of an atomic commit, and the mode validation in the probe paths it is not allowed to look at anything else but the passed-in mode, and validate it against configuration-invariant hardward constraints. Any further limits which depend upon the configuration can only be checked in mode_fixup or atomic_check.

RETURNS:

drm_mode_status Enum

mode_fixup

This callback is used to validate and adjust a mode. The parameter mode is the display mode that should be fed to the next element in the display chain, either the final drm_connector or a drm_bridge. The parameter adjusted_mode is the input mode the encoder requires. It can be modified by this callback and does not need to match mode. See also drm_crtc_state.adjusted_mode for more details.

This function is used by both legacy CRTC helpers and atomic helpers. This hook is optional.

NOTE:

This function is called in the check phase of atomic modesets, which can be aborted for any reason (including on userspace’s request to just check whether a configuration would be possible). Atomic drivers MUST NOT touch any persistent state (hardware or software) or data structures except the passed in adjusted_mode parameter.

This is in contrast to the legacy CRTC helpers where this was allowed.

Atomic drivers which need to inspect and adjust more state should instead use the atomic_check callback. If atomic_check is used, this hook isn’t called since atomic_check allows a strict superset of the functionality of mode_fixup.

Also beware that userspace can request its own custom modes, neither core nor helpers filter modes to the list of probe modes reported by the GETCONNECTOR IOCTL and stored in drm_connector.modes. To ensure that modes are filtered consistently put any encoder constraints and limits checks into mode_valid.

RETURNS:

True if an acceptable configuration is possible, false if the modeset operation should be rejected.

prepare

This callback should prepare the encoder for a subsequent modeset, which in practice means the driver should disable the encoder if it is running. Most drivers ended up implementing this by calling their dpms hook with DRM_MODE_DPMS_OFF.

This callback is used by the legacy CRTC helpers. Atomic helpers also support using this hook for disabling an encoder to facilitate transitions to atomic, but it is deprecated. Instead disable should be used.

commit

This callback should commit the new mode on the encoder after a modeset, which in practice means the driver should enable the encoder. Most drivers ended up implementing this by calling their dpms hook with DRM_MODE_DPMS_ON.

This callback is used by the legacy CRTC helpers. Atomic helpers also support using this hook for enabling an encoder to facilitate transitions to atomic, but it is deprecated. Instead enable should be used.

mode_set

This callback is used to update the display mode of an encoder.

Note that the display pipe is completely off when this function is called. Drivers which need hardware to be running before they program the new display mode (because they implement runtime PM) should not use this hook, because the helper library calls it only once and not every time the display pipeline is suspend using either DPMS or the new “ACTIVE” property. Such drivers should instead move all their encoder setup into the enable callback.

This callback is used both by the legacy CRTC helpers and the atomic modeset helpers. It is optional in the atomic helpers.

NOTE:

If the driver uses the atomic modeset helpers and needs to inspect the connector state or connector display info during mode setting, atomic_mode_set can be used instead.

atomic_mode_set

This callback is used to update the display mode of an encoder.

Note that the display pipe is completely off when this function is called. Drivers which need hardware to be running before they program the new display mode (because they implement runtime PM) should not use this hook, because the helper library calls it only once and not every time the display pipeline is suspended using either DPMS or the new “ACTIVE” property. Such drivers should instead move all their encoder setup into the enable callback.

This callback is used by the atomic modeset helpers in place of the mode_set callback, if set by the driver. It is optional and should be used instead of mode_set if the driver needs to inspect the connector state or display info, since there is no direct way to go from the encoder to the current connector.

detect

This callback can be used by drivers who want to do detection on the encoder object instead of in connector functions.

It is not used by any helper and therefore has purely driver-specific semantics. New drivers shouldn’t use this and instead just implement their own private callbacks.

FIXME:

This should just be converted into a pile of driver vfuncs. Currently radeon, amdgpu and nouveau are using it.

atomic_disable

This callback should be used to disable the encoder. With the atomic drivers it is called before this encoder’s CRTC has been shut off using their own drm_crtc_helper_funcs.atomic_disable hook. If that sequence is too simple drivers can just add their own driver private encoder hooks and call them from CRTC’s callback by looping over all encoders connected to it using for_each_encoder_on_crtc().

This callback is a variant of disable that provides the atomic state to the driver. If atomic_disable is implemented, disable is not called by the helpers.

This hook is only used by atomic helpers. Atomic drivers don’t need to implement it if there’s no need to disable anything at the encoder level. To ensure that runtime PM handling (using either DPMS or the new “ACTIVE” property) works atomic_disable must be the inverse of atomic_enable.

atomic_enable

This callback should be used to enable the encoder. It is called after this encoder’s CRTC has been enabled using their own drm_crtc_helper_funcs.atomic_enable hook. If that sequence is too simple drivers can just add their own driver private encoder hooks and call them from CRTC’s callback by looping over all encoders connected to it using for_each_encoder_on_crtc().

This callback is a variant of enable that provides the atomic state to the driver. If atomic_enable is implemented, enable is not called by the helpers.

This hook is only used by atomic helpers, it is the opposite of atomic_disable. Atomic drivers don’t need to implement it if there’s no need to enable anything at the encoder level. To ensure that runtime PM handling works atomic_enable must be the inverse of atomic_disable.

disable

This callback should be used to disable the encoder. With the atomic drivers it is called before this encoder’s CRTC has been shut off using their own drm_crtc_helper_funcs.disable hook. If that sequence is too simple drivers can just add their own driver private encoder hooks and call them from CRTC’s callback by looping over all encoders connected to it using for_each_encoder_on_crtc().

This hook is used both by legacy CRTC helpers and atomic helpers. Atomic drivers don’t need to implement it if there’s no need to disable anything at the encoder level. To ensure that runtime PM handling (using either DPMS or the new “ACTIVE” property) works disable must be the inverse of enable for atomic drivers.

For atomic drivers also consider atomic_disable and save yourself from having to read the NOTE below!

NOTE:

With legacy CRTC helpers there’s a big semantic difference between disable and other hooks (like prepare or dpms) used to shut down a encoder: disable is only called when also logically disabling the display pipeline and needs to release any resources acquired in mode_set (like shared PLLs, or again release pinned framebuffers).

Therefore disable must be the inverse of mode_set plus commit for drivers still using legacy CRTC helpers, which is different from the rules under atomic.

enable

This callback should be used to enable the encoder. With the atomic drivers it is called after this encoder’s CRTC has been enabled using their own drm_crtc_helper_funcs.enable hook. If that sequence is too simple drivers can just add their own driver private encoder hooks and call them from CRTC’s callback by looping over all encoders connected to it using for_each_encoder_on_crtc().

This hook is only used by atomic helpers, it is the opposite of disable. Atomic drivers don’t need to implement it if there’s no need to enable anything at the encoder level. To ensure that runtime PM handling (using either DPMS or the new “ACTIVE” property) works enable must be the inverse of disable for atomic drivers.

atomic_check

This callback is used to validate encoder state for atomic drivers. Since the encoder is the object connecting the CRTC and connector it gets passed both states, to be able to validate interactions and update the CRTC to match what the encoder needs for the requested connector.

Since this provides a strict superset of the functionality of mode_fixup (the requested and adjusted modes are both available through the passed in struct drm_crtc_state) mode_fixup is not called when atomic_check is implemented.

This function is used by the atomic helpers, but it is optional.

NOTE:

This function is called in the check phase of an atomic update. The driver is not allowed to change anything outside of the free-standing state objects passed-in or assembled in the overall drm_atomic_state update tracking structure.

Also beware that userspace can request its own custom modes, neither core nor helpers filter modes to the list of probe modes reported by the GETCONNECTOR IOCTL and stored in drm_connector.modes. To ensure that modes are filtered consistently put any encoder constraints and limits checks into mode_valid.

RETURNS:

0 on success, -EINVAL if the state or the transition can’t be supported, -ENOMEM on memory allocation failure and -EDEADLK if an attempt to obtain another state object ran into a drm_modeset_lock deadlock.

Description

These hooks are used by the legacy CRTC helpers, the transitional plane helpers and the new atomic modesetting helpers.

void drm_encoder_helper_add(struct drm_encoder *encoder, const struct drm_encoder_helper_funcs *funcs)

sets the helper vtable for an encoder

Parameters

struct drm_encoder *encoder

DRM encoder

const struct drm_encoder_helper_funcs *funcs

helper vtable to set for encoder

struct drm_connector_helper_funcs

helper operations for connectors

Definition

struct drm_connector_helper_funcs {
  int (*get_modes)(struct drm_connector *connector);
  int (*detect_ctx)(struct drm_connector *connector,struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx, bool force);
  enum drm_mode_status (*mode_valid)(struct drm_connector *connector, struct drm_display_mode *mode);
  int (*mode_valid_ctx)(struct drm_connector *connector,struct drm_display_mode *mode,struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx, enum drm_mode_status *status);
  struct drm_encoder *(*best_encoder)(struct drm_connector *connector);
  struct drm_encoder *(*atomic_best_encoder)(struct drm_connector *connector, struct drm_atomic_state *state);
  int (*atomic_check)(struct drm_connector *connector, struct drm_atomic_state *state);
  void (*atomic_commit)(struct drm_connector *connector, struct drm_atomic_state *state);
  int (*prepare_writeback_job)(struct drm_writeback_connector *connector, struct drm_writeback_job *job);
  void (*cleanup_writeback_job)(struct drm_writeback_connector *connector, struct drm_writeback_job *job);
  void (*enable_hpd)(struct drm_connector *connector);
  void (*disable_hpd)(struct drm_connector *connector);
};

Members

get_modes

This function should fill in all modes currently valid for the sink into the drm_connector.probed_modes list. It should also update the EDID property by calling drm_connector_update_edid_property().

The usual way to implement this is to cache the EDID retrieved in the probe callback somewhere in the driver-private connector structure. In this function drivers then parse the modes in the EDID and add them by calling drm_add_edid_modes(). But connectors that drive a fixed panel can also manually add specific modes using drm_mode_probed_add(). Drivers which manually add modes should also make sure that the drm_connector.display_info, drm_connector.width_mm and drm_connector.height_mm fields are filled in.

Note that the caller function will automatically add standard VESA DMT modes up to 1024x768 if the .get_modes() helper operation returns no mode and if the connector status is connector_status_connected or connector_status_unknown. There is no need to call drm_add_modes_noedid() manually in that case.

Virtual drivers that just want some standard VESA mode with a given resolution can call drm_add_modes_noedid(), and mark the preferred one using drm_set_preferred_mode().

This function is only called after the detect hook has indicated that a sink is connected and when the EDID isn’t overridden through sysfs or the kernel commandline.

This callback is used by the probe helpers in e.g. drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes().

To avoid races with concurrent connector state updates, the helper libraries always call this with the drm_mode_config.connection_mutex held. Because of this it’s safe to inspect drm_connector->state.

RETURNS:

The number of modes added by calling drm_mode_probed_add().

detect_ctx

Check to see if anything is attached to the connector. The parameter force is set to false whilst polling, true when checking the connector due to a user request. force can be used by the driver to avoid expensive, destructive operations during automated probing.

This callback is optional, if not implemented the connector will be considered as always being attached.

This is the atomic version of drm_connector_funcs.detect.

To avoid races against concurrent connector state updates, the helper libraries always call this with ctx set to a valid context, and drm_mode_config.connection_mutex will always be locked with the ctx parameter set to this ctx. This allows taking additional locks as required.

RETURNS:

drm_connector_status indicating the connector’s status, or the error code returned by drm_modeset_lock(), -EDEADLK.

mode_valid

Callback to validate a mode for a connector, irrespective of the specific display configuration.

This callback is used by the probe helpers to filter the mode list (which is usually derived from the EDID data block from the sink). See e.g. drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes().

This function is optional.

NOTE:

This only filters the mode list supplied to userspace in the GETCONNECTOR IOCTL. Compared to drm_encoder_helper_funcs.mode_valid, drm_crtc_helper_funcs.mode_valid and drm_bridge_funcs.mode_valid, which are also called by the atomic helpers from drm_atomic_helper_check_modeset(). This allows userspace to force and ignore sink constraint (like the pixel clock limits in the screen’s EDID), which is useful for e.g. testing, or working around a broken EDID. Any source hardware constraint (which always need to be enforced) therefore should be checked in one of the above callbacks, and not this one here.

To avoid races with concurrent connector state updates, the helper libraries always call this with the drm_mode_config.connection_mutex held. Because of this it’s safe to inspect drm_connector->state.

RETURNS:

Either drm_mode_status.MODE_OK or one of the failure reasons in enum drm_mode_status.

mode_valid_ctx

Callback to validate a mode for a connector, irrespective of the specific display configuration.

This callback is used by the probe helpers to filter the mode list (which is usually derived from the EDID data block from the sink). See e.g. drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes().

This function is optional, and is the atomic version of drm_connector_helper_funcs.mode_valid.

To allow for accessing the atomic state of modesetting objects, the helper libraries always call this with ctx set to a valid context, and drm_mode_config.connection_mutex will always be locked with the ctx parameter set to ctx. This allows for taking additional locks as required.

Even though additional locks may be acquired, this callback is still expected not to take any constraints into account which would be influenced by the currently set display state - such constraints should be handled in the driver’s atomic check. For example, if a connector shares display bandwidth with other connectors then it would be ok to validate the minimum bandwidth requirement of a mode against the maximum possible bandwidth of the connector. But it wouldn’t be ok to take the current bandwidth usage of other connectors into account, as this would change depending on the display state.

Returns: 0 if drm_connector_helper_funcs.mode_valid_ctx succeeded and wrote the enum drm_mode_status value to status, or a negative error code otherwise.

best_encoder

This function should select the best encoder for the given connector.

This function is used by both the atomic helpers (in the drm_atomic_helper_check_modeset() function) and in the legacy CRTC helpers.

NOTE:

In atomic drivers this function is called in the check phase of an atomic update. The driver is not allowed to change or inspect anything outside of arguments passed-in. Atomic drivers which need to inspect dynamic configuration state should instead use atomic_best_encoder.

You can leave this function to NULL if the connector is only attached to a single encoder. In this case, the core will call drm_connector_get_single_encoder() for you.

RETURNS:

Encoder that should be used for the given connector and connector state, or NULL if no suitable encoder exists. Note that the helpers will ensure that encoders aren’t used twice, drivers should not check for this.

atomic_best_encoder

This is the atomic version of best_encoder for atomic drivers which need to select the best encoder depending upon the desired configuration and can’t select it statically.

This function is used by drm_atomic_helper_check_modeset(). If it is not implemented, the core will fallback to best_encoder (or drm_connector_get_single_encoder() if best_encoder is NULL).

NOTE:

This function is called in the check phase of an atomic update. The driver is not allowed to change anything outside of the drm_atomic_state update tracking structure passed in.

RETURNS:

Encoder that should be used for the given connector and connector state, or NULL if no suitable encoder exists. Note that the helpers will ensure that encoders aren’t used twice, drivers should not check for this.

atomic_check

This hook is used to validate connector state. This function is called from drm_atomic_helper_check_modeset, and is called when a connector property is set, or a modeset on the crtc is forced.

Because drm_atomic_helper_check_modeset may be called multiple times, this function should handle being called multiple times as well.

This function is also allowed to inspect any other object’s state and can add more state objects to the atomic commit if needed. Care must be taken though to ensure that state check and compute functions for these added states are all called, and derived state in other objects all updated. Again the recommendation is to just call check helpers until a maximal configuration is reached.

NOTE:

This function is called in the check phase of an atomic update. The driver is not allowed to change anything outside of the free-standing state objects passed-in or assembled in the overall drm_atomic_state update tracking structure.

RETURNS:

0 on success, -EINVAL if the state or the transition can’t be supported, -ENOMEM on memory allocation failure and -EDEADLK if an attempt to obtain another state object ran into a drm_modeset_lock deadlock.

atomic_commit

This hook is to be used by drivers implementing writeback connectors that need a point when to commit the writeback job to the hardware. The writeback_job to commit is available in the new connector state, in drm_connector_state.writeback_job.

This hook is optional.

This callback is used by the atomic modeset helpers.

prepare_writeback_job

As writeback jobs contain a framebuffer, drivers may need to prepare and clean them up the same way they can prepare and clean up framebuffers for planes. This optional connector operation is used to support the preparation of writeback jobs. The job prepare operation is called from drm_atomic_helper_prepare_planes() for struct drm_writeback_connector connectors only.

This operation is optional.

This callback is used by the atomic modeset helpers.

cleanup_writeback_job

This optional connector operation is used to support the cleanup of writeback jobs. The job cleanup operation is called from the existing drm_writeback_cleanup_job() function, invoked both when destroying the job as part of an aborted commit, or when the job completes.

This operation is optional.

This callback is used by the atomic modeset helpers.

enable_hpd

Enable hot-plug detection for the connector.

This operation is optional.

This callback is used by the drm_kms_helper_poll_enable() helpers.

disable_hpd

Disable hot-plug detection for the connector.

This operation is optional.

This callback is used by the drm_kms_helper_poll_disable() helpers.

Description

These functions are used by the atomic and legacy modeset helpers and by the probe helpers.

void drm_connector_helper_add(struct drm_connector *connector, const struct drm_connector_helper_funcs *funcs)

sets the helper vtable for a connector

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

DRM connector

const struct drm_connector_helper_funcs *funcs

helper vtable to set for connector

struct drm_plane_helper_funcs

helper operations for planes

Definition

struct drm_plane_helper_funcs {
  int (*prepare_fb)(struct drm_plane *plane, struct drm_plane_state *new_state);
  void (*cleanup_fb)(struct drm_plane *plane, struct drm_plane_state *old_state);
  int (*begin_fb_access)(struct drm_plane *plane, struct drm_plane_state *new_plane_state);
  void (*end_fb_access)(struct drm_plane *plane, struct drm_plane_state *new_plane_state);
  int (*atomic_check)(struct drm_plane *plane, struct drm_atomic_state *state);
  void (*atomic_update)(struct drm_plane *plane, struct drm_atomic_state *state);
  void (*atomic_disable)(struct drm_plane *plane, struct drm_atomic_state *state);
  int (*atomic_async_check)(struct drm_plane *plane, struct drm_atomic_state *state);
  void (*atomic_async_update)(struct drm_plane *plane, struct drm_atomic_state *state);
};

Members

prepare_fb

This hook is to prepare a framebuffer for scanout by e.g. pinning its backing storage or relocating it into a contiguous block of VRAM. Other possible preparatory work includes flushing caches.

This function must not block for outstanding rendering, since it is called in the context of the atomic IOCTL even for async commits to be able to return any errors to userspace. Instead the recommended way is to fill out the drm_plane_state.fence of the passed-in drm_plane_state. If the driver doesn’t support native fences then equivalent functionality should be implemented through private members in the plane structure.

For GEM drivers who neither have a prepare_fb nor cleanup_fb hook set drm_gem_plane_helper_prepare_fb() is called automatically to implement this. Other drivers which need additional plane processing can call drm_gem_plane_helper_prepare_fb() from their prepare_fb hook.

The resources acquired in prepare_fb persist after the end of the atomic commit. Resources that can be release at the commit’s end should be acquired in begin_fb_access and released in end_fb_access. For example, a GEM buffer’s pin operation belongs into prepare_fb to keep the buffer pinned after the commit. But a vmap operation for shadow-plane helpers belongs into begin_fb_access, so that atomic helpers remove the mapping at the end of the commit.

The helpers will call cleanup_fb with matching arguments for every successful call to this hook.

This callback is used by the atomic modeset helpers and by the transitional plane helpers, but it is optional. See begin_fb_access for preparing per-commit resources.

RETURNS:

0 on success or one of the following negative error codes allowed by the drm_mode_config_funcs.atomic_commit vfunc. When using helpers this callback is the only one which can fail an atomic commit, everything else must complete successfully.

cleanup_fb

This hook is called to clean up any resources allocated for the given framebuffer and plane configuration in prepare_fb.

This callback is used by the atomic modeset helpers and by the transitional plane helpers, but it is optional.

begin_fb_access

This hook prepares the plane for access during an atomic commit. In contrast to prepare_fb, resources acquired in begin_fb_access, are released at the end of the atomic commit in end_fb_access.

For example, with shadow-plane helpers, the GEM buffer’s vmap operation belongs into begin_fb_access, so that the buffer’s memory will be unmapped at the end of the commit in end_fb_access. But a GEM buffer’s pin operation belongs into prepare_fb to keep the buffer pinned after the commit.

The callback is used by the atomic modeset helpers, but it is optional. See end_fb_cleanup for undoing the effects of begin_fb_access and prepare_fb for acquiring resources until the next pageflip.

Returns: 0 on success, or a negative errno code otherwise.

end_fb_access

This hook cleans up resources allocated by begin_fb_access. It it called at the end of a commit for the new plane state.

atomic_check

Drivers should check plane specific constraints in this hook.

When using drm_atomic_helper_check_planes() plane’s atomic_check hooks are called before the ones for CRTCs, which allows drivers to request shared resources that the CRTC controls here. For more complicated dependencies the driver can call the provided check helpers multiple times until the computed state has a final configuration and everything has been checked.

This function is also allowed to inspect any other object’s state and can add more state objects to the atomic commit if needed. Care must be taken though to ensure that state check and compute functions for these added states are all called, and derived state in other objects all updated. Again the recommendation is to just call check helpers until a maximal configuration is reached.

This callback is used by the atomic modeset helpers and by the transitional plane helpers, but it is optional.

NOTE:

This function is called in the check phase of an atomic update. The driver is not allowed to change anything outside of the drm_atomic_state update tracking structure.

RETURNS:

0 on success, -EINVAL if the state or the transition can’t be supported, -ENOMEM on memory allocation failure and -EDEADLK if an attempt to obtain another state object ran into a drm_modeset_lock deadlock.

atomic_update

Drivers should use this function to update the plane state. This hook is called in-between the drm_crtc_helper_funcs.atomic_begin and drm_crtc_helper_funcs.atomic_flush callbacks.

Note that the power state of the display pipe when this function is called depends upon the exact helpers and calling sequence the driver has picked. See drm_atomic_helper_commit_planes() for a discussion of the tradeoffs and variants of plane commit helpers.

This callback is used by the atomic modeset helpers and by the transitional plane helpers, but it is optional.

atomic_disable

Drivers should use this function to unconditionally disable a plane. This hook is called in-between the drm_crtc_helper_funcs.atomic_begin and drm_crtc_helper_funcs.atomic_flush callbacks. It is an alternative to atomic_update, which will be called for disabling planes, too, if the atomic_disable hook isn’t implemented.

This hook is also useful to disable planes in preparation of a modeset, by calling drm_atomic_helper_disable_planes_on_crtc() from the drm_crtc_helper_funcs.disable hook.

Note that the power state of the display pipe when this function is called depends upon the exact helpers and calling sequence the driver has picked. See drm_atomic_helper_commit_planes() for a discussion of the tradeoffs and variants of plane commit helpers.

This callback is used by the atomic modeset helpers and by the transitional plane helpers, but it is optional.

atomic_async_check

Drivers should set this function pointer to check if the plane’s atomic state can be updated in a async fashion. Here async means “not vblank synchronized”.

This hook is called by drm_atomic_async_check() to establish if a given update can be committed asynchronously, that is, if it can jump ahead of the state currently queued for update.

RETURNS:

Return 0 on success and any error returned indicates that the update can not be applied in asynchronous manner.

atomic_async_update

Drivers should set this function pointer to perform asynchronous updates of planes, that is, jump ahead of the currently queued state and update the plane. Here async means “not vblank synchronized”.

This hook is called by drm_atomic_helper_async_commit().

An async update will happen on legacy cursor updates. An async update won’t happen if there is an outstanding commit modifying the same plane.

When doing async_update drivers shouldn’t replace the drm_plane_state but update the current one with the new plane configurations in the new plane_state.

Drivers should also swap the framebuffers between current plane state (drm_plane.state) and new_state. This is required since cleanup for async commits is performed on the new state, rather than old state like for traditional commits. Since we want to give up the reference on the current (old) fb instead of our brand new one, swap them in the driver during the async commit.

FIXME:
  • It only works for single plane updates

  • Async Pageflips are not supported yet

  • Some hw might still scan out the old buffer until the next vblank, however we let go of the fb references as soon as we run this hook. For now drivers must implement their own workers for deferring if needed, until a common solution is created.

Description

These functions are used by the atomic helpers and by the transitional plane helpers.

void drm_plane_helper_add(struct drm_plane *plane, const struct drm_plane_helper_funcs *funcs)

sets the helper vtable for a plane

Parameters

struct drm_plane *plane

DRM plane

const struct drm_plane_helper_funcs *funcs

helper vtable to set for plane

struct drm_mode_config_helper_funcs

global modeset helper operations

Definition

struct drm_mode_config_helper_funcs {
  void (*atomic_commit_tail)(struct drm_atomic_state *state);
  int (*atomic_commit_setup)(struct drm_atomic_state *state);
};

Members

atomic_commit_tail

This hook is used by the default atomic_commit() hook implemented in drm_atomic_helper_commit() together with the nonblocking commit helpers (see drm_atomic_helper_setup_commit() for a starting point) to implement blocking and nonblocking commits easily. It is not used by the atomic helpers

This function is called when the new atomic state has already been swapped into the various state pointers. The passed in state therefore contains copies of the old/previous state. This hook should commit the new state into hardware. Note that the helpers have already waited for preceeding atomic commits and fences, but drivers can add more waiting calls at the start of their implementation, e.g. to wait for driver-internal request for implicit syncing, before starting to commit the update to the hardware.

After the atomic update is committed to the hardware this hook needs to call drm_atomic_helper_commit_hw_done(). Then wait for the update to be executed by the hardware, for example using drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks() or drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_flip_done(), and then clean up the old framebuffers using drm_atomic_helper_cleanup_planes().

When disabling a CRTC this hook _must_ stall for the commit to complete. Vblank waits don’t work on disabled CRTC, hence the core can’t take care of this. And it also can’t rely on the vblank event, since that can be signalled already when the screen shows black, which can happen much earlier than the last hardware access needed to shut off the display pipeline completely.

This hook is optional, the default implementation is drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail().

atomic_commit_setup

This hook is used by the default atomic_commit() hook implemented in drm_atomic_helper_commit() together with the nonblocking helpers (see drm_atomic_helper_setup_commit()) to extend the DRM commit setup. It is not used by the atomic helpers.

This function is called at the end of drm_atomic_helper_setup_commit(), so once the commit has been properly setup across the generic DRM object states. It allows drivers to do some additional commit tracking that isn’t related to a CRTC, plane or connector, tracked in a drm_private_obj structure.

Note that the documentation of drm_private_obj has more details on how one should implement this.

This hook is optional.

Description

These helper functions are used by the atomic helpers.

Atomic Modeset Helper Functions Reference

Overview

This helper library provides implementations of check and commit functions on top of the CRTC modeset helper callbacks and the plane helper callbacks. It also provides convenience implementations for the atomic state handling callbacks for drivers which don’t need to subclass the drm core structures to add their own additional internal state.

This library also provides default implementations for the check callback in drm_atomic_helper_check() and for the commit callback with drm_atomic_helper_commit(). But the individual stages and callbacks are exposed to allow drivers to mix and match and e.g. use the plane helpers only together with a driver private modeset implementation.

This library also provides implementations for all the legacy driver interfaces on top of the atomic interface. See drm_atomic_helper_set_config(), drm_atomic_helper_disable_plane(), and the various functions to implement set_property callbacks. New drivers must not implement these functions themselves but must use the provided helpers.

The atomic helper uses the same function table structures as all other modesetting helpers. See the documentation for struct drm_crtc_helper_funcs, struct drm_encoder_helper_funcs and struct drm_connector_helper_funcs. It also shares the struct drm_plane_helper_funcs function table with the plane helpers.

Implementing Asynchronous Atomic Commit

Nonblocking atomic commits should use struct drm_crtc_commit to sequence different operations against each another. Locks, especially struct drm_modeset_lock, should not be held in worker threads or any other asynchronous context used to commit the hardware state.

drm_atomic_helper_commit() implements the recommended sequence for nonblocking commits, using drm_atomic_helper_setup_commit() internally:

1. Run drm_atomic_helper_prepare_planes(). Since this can fail and we need to propagate out of memory/VRAM errors to userspace, it must be called synchronously.

2. Synchronize with any outstanding nonblocking commit worker threads which might be affected by the new state update. This is handled by drm_atomic_helper_setup_commit().

Asynchronous workers need to have sufficient parallelism to be able to run different atomic commits on different CRTCs in parallel. The simplest way to achieve this is by running them on the system_unbound_wq work queue. Note that drivers are not required to split up atomic commits and run an individual commit in parallel - userspace is supposed to do that if it cares. But it might be beneficial to do that for modesets, since those necessarily must be done as one global operation, and enabling or disabling a CRTC can take a long time. But even that is not required.

IMPORTANT: A drm_atomic_state update for multiple CRTCs is sequenced against all CRTCs therein. Therefore for atomic state updates which only flip planes the driver must not get the struct drm_crtc_state of unrelated CRTCs in its atomic check code: This would prevent committing of atomic updates to multiple CRTCs in parallel. In general, adding additional state structures should be avoided as much as possible, because this reduces parallelism in (nonblocking) commits, both due to locking and due to commit sequencing requirements.

3. The software state is updated synchronously with drm_atomic_helper_swap_state(). Doing this under the protection of all modeset locks means concurrent callers never see inconsistent state. Note that commit workers do not hold any locks; their access is only coordinated through ordering. If workers would access state only through the pointers in the free-standing state objects (currently not the case for any driver) then even multiple pending commits could be in-flight at the same time.

4. Schedule a work item to do all subsequent steps, using the split-out commit helpers: a) pre-plane commit b) plane commit c) post-plane commit and then cleaning up the framebuffers after the old framebuffer is no longer being displayed. The scheduled work should synchronize against other workers using the drm_crtc_commit infrastructure as needed. See drm_atomic_helper_setup_commit() for more details.

Helper Functions Reference

drm_atomic_crtc_for_each_plane

drm_atomic_crtc_for_each_plane (plane, crtc)

iterate over planes currently attached to CRTC

Parameters

plane

the loop cursor

crtc

the CRTC whose planes are iterated

Description

This iterates over the current state, useful (for example) when applying atomic state after it has been checked and swapped. To iterate over the planes which will be attached (more useful in code called from drm_mode_config_funcs.atomic_check) see drm_atomic_crtc_state_for_each_plane().

drm_atomic_crtc_state_for_each_plane

drm_atomic_crtc_state_for_each_plane (plane, crtc_state)

iterate over attached planes in new state

Parameters

plane

the loop cursor

crtc_state

the incoming CRTC state

Description

Similar to drm_crtc_for_each_plane(), but iterates the planes that will be attached if the specified state is applied. Useful during for example in code called from drm_mode_config_funcs.atomic_check operations, to validate the incoming state.

drm_atomic_crtc_state_for_each_plane_state

drm_atomic_crtc_state_for_each_plane_state (plane, plane_state, crtc_state)

iterate over attached planes in new state

Parameters

plane

the loop cursor

plane_state

loop cursor for the plane’s state, must be const

crtc_state

the incoming CRTC state

Description

Similar to drm_crtc_for_each_plane(), but iterates the planes that will be attached if the specified state is applied. Useful during for example in code called from drm_mode_config_funcs.atomic_check operations, to validate the incoming state.

Compared to just drm_atomic_crtc_state_for_each_plane() this also fills in a const plane_state. This is useful when a driver just wants to peek at other active planes on this CRTC, but does not need to change it.

bool drm_atomic_plane_disabling(struct drm_plane_state *old_plane_state, struct drm_plane_state *new_plane_state)

check whether a plane is being disabled

Parameters

struct drm_plane_state *old_plane_state

old atomic plane state

struct drm_plane_state *new_plane_state

new atomic plane state

Description

Checks the atomic state of a plane to determine whether it’s being disabled or not. This also WARNs if it detects an invalid state (both CRTC and FB need to either both be NULL or both be non-NULL).

Return

True if the plane is being disabled, false otherwise.

int drm_atomic_helper_check_modeset(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_atomic_state *state)

validate state object for modeset changes

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct drm_atomic_state *state

the driver state object

Description

Check the state object to see if the requested state is physically possible. This does all the CRTC and connector related computations for an atomic update and adds any additional connectors needed for full modesets. It calls the various per-object callbacks in the follow order:

  1. drm_connector_helper_funcs.atomic_best_encoder for determining the new encoder.

  2. drm_connector_helper_funcs.atomic_check to validate the connector state.

  3. If it’s determined a modeset is needed then all connectors on the affected CRTC are added and drm_connector_helper_funcs.atomic_check is run on them.

  4. drm_encoder_helper_funcs.mode_valid, drm_bridge_funcs.mode_valid and drm_crtc_helper_funcs.mode_valid are called on the affected components.

  5. drm_bridge_funcs.mode_fixup is called on all encoder bridges.

  6. drm_encoder_helper_funcs.atomic_check is called to validate any encoder state. This function is only called when the encoder will be part of a configured CRTC, it must not be used for implementing connector property validation. If this function is NULL, drm_atomic_encoder_helper_funcs.mode_fixup is called instead.

  7. drm_crtc_helper_funcs.mode_fixup is called last, to fix up the mode with CRTC constraints.

drm_crtc_state.mode_changed is set when the input mode is changed. drm_crtc_state.connectors_changed is set when a connector is added or removed from the CRTC. drm_crtc_state.active_changed is set when drm_crtc_state.active changes, which is used for DPMS. drm_crtc_state.no_vblank is set from the result of drm_dev_has_vblank(). See also: drm_atomic_crtc_needs_modeset()

IMPORTANT:

Drivers which set drm_crtc_state.mode_changed (e.g. in their drm_plane_helper_funcs.atomic_check hooks if a plane update can’t be done without a full modeset) _must_ call this function after that change. It is permitted to call this function multiple times for the same update, e.g. when the drm_crtc_helper_funcs.atomic_check functions depend upon the adjusted dotclock for fifo space allocation and watermark computation.

Return

Zero for success or -errno

int drm_atomic_helper_check_wb_encoder_state(struct drm_encoder *encoder, struct drm_connector_state *conn_state)

Check writeback encoder state

Parameters

struct drm_encoder *encoder

encoder state to check

struct drm_connector_state *conn_state

connector state to check

Description

Checks if the writeback connector state is valid, and returns an error if it isn’t.

Return

Zero for success or -errno

int drm_atomic_helper_check_plane_state(struct drm_plane_state *plane_state, const struct drm_crtc_state *crtc_state, int min_scale, int max_scale, bool can_position, bool can_update_disabled)

Check plane state for validity

Parameters

struct drm_plane_state *plane_state

plane state to check

const struct drm_crtc_state *crtc_state

CRTC state to check

int min_scale

minimum src:dest scaling factor in 16.16 fixed point

int max_scale

maximum src:dest scaling factor in 16.16 fixed point

bool can_position

is it legal to position the plane such that it doesn’t cover the entire CRTC? This will generally only be false for primary planes.

bool can_update_disabled

can the plane be updated while the CRTC is disabled?

Description

Checks that a desired plane update is valid, and updates various bits of derived state (clipped coordinates etc.). Drivers that provide their own plane handling rather than helper-provided implementations may still wish to call this function to avoid duplication of error checking code.

Return

Zero if update appears valid, error code on failure

int drm_atomic_helper_check_crtc_primary_plane(struct drm_crtc_state *crtc_state)

Check CRTC state for primary plane

Parameters

struct drm_crtc_state *crtc_state

CRTC state to check

Description

Checks that a CRTC has at least one primary plane attached to it, which is a requirement on some hardware. Note that this only involves the CRTC side of the test. To test if the primary plane is visible or if it can be updated without the CRTC being enabled, use drm_atomic_helper_check_plane_state() in the plane’s atomic check.

Return

0 if a primary plane is attached to the CRTC, or an error code otherwise

int drm_atomic_helper_check_planes(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_atomic_state *state)

validate state object for planes changes

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct drm_atomic_state *state

the driver state object

Description

Check the state object to see if the requested state is physically possible. This does all the plane update related checks using by calling into the drm_crtc_helper_funcs.atomic_check and drm_plane_helper_funcs.atomic_check hooks provided by the driver.

It also sets drm_crtc_state.planes_changed to indicate that a CRTC has updated planes.

Return

Zero for success or -errno

int drm_atomic_helper_check(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_atomic_state *state)

validate state object

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct drm_atomic_state *state

the driver state object

Description

Check the state object to see if the requested state is physically possible. Only CRTCs and planes have check callbacks, so for any additional (global) checking that a driver needs it can simply wrap that around this function. Drivers without such needs can directly use this as their drm_mode_config_funcs.atomic_check callback.

This just wraps the two parts of the state checking for planes and modeset state in the default order: First it calls drm_atomic_helper_check_modeset() and then drm_atomic_helper_check_planes(). The assumption is that the drm_plane_helper_funcs.atomic_check and drm_crtc_helper_funcs.atomic_check functions depend upon an updated adjusted_mode.clock to e.g. properly compute watermarks.

Note that zpos normalization will add all enable planes to the state which might not desired for some drivers. For example enable/disable of a cursor plane which have fixed zpos value would trigger all other enabled planes to be forced to the state change.

Return

Zero for success or -errno

void drm_atomic_helper_update_legacy_modeset_state(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_atomic_state *old_state)

update legacy modeset state

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct drm_atomic_state *old_state

atomic state object with old state structures

Description

This function updates all the various legacy modeset state pointers in connectors, encoders and CRTCs.

Drivers can use this for building their own atomic commit if they don’t have a pure helper-based modeset implementation.

Since these updates are not synchronized with lockings, only code paths called from drm_mode_config_helper_funcs.atomic_commit_tail can look at the legacy state filled out by this helper. Defacto this means this helper and the legacy state pointers are only really useful for transitioning an existing driver to the atomic world.

void drm_atomic_helper_calc_timestamping_constants(struct drm_atomic_state *state)

update vblank timestamping constants

Parameters

struct drm_atomic_state *state

atomic state object

Description

Updates the timestamping constants used for precise vblank timestamps by calling drm_calc_timestamping_constants() for all enabled crtcs in state.

void drm_atomic_helper_commit_modeset_disables(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_atomic_state *old_state)

modeset commit to disable outputs

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct drm_atomic_state *old_state

atomic state object with old state structures

Description

This function shuts down all the outputs that need to be shut down and prepares them (if required) with the new mode.

For compatibility with legacy CRTC helpers this should be called before drm_atomic_helper_commit_planes(), which is what the default commit function does. But drivers with different needs can group the modeset commits together and do the plane commits at the end. This is useful for drivers doing runtime PM since planes updates then only happen when the CRTC is actually enabled.

void drm_atomic_helper_commit_modeset_enables(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_atomic_state *old_state)

modeset commit to enable outputs

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct drm_atomic_state *old_state

atomic state object with old state structures

Description

This function enables all the outputs with the new configuration which had to be turned off for the update.

For compatibility with legacy CRTC helpers this should be called after drm_atomic_helper_commit_planes(), which is what the default commit function does. But drivers with different needs can group the modeset commits together and do the plane commits at the end. This is useful for drivers doing runtime PM since planes updates then only happen when the CRTC is actually enabled.

int drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_fences(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_atomic_state *state, bool pre_swap)

wait for fences stashed in plane state

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct drm_atomic_state *state

atomic state object with old state structures

bool pre_swap

If true, do an interruptible wait, and state is the new state. Otherwise state is the old state.

Description

For implicit sync, driver should fish the exclusive fence out from the incoming fb’s and stash it in the drm_plane_state. This is called after drm_atomic_helper_swap_state() so it uses the current plane state (and just uses the atomic state to find the changed planes)

Note that pre_swap is needed since the point where we block for fences moves around depending upon whether an atomic commit is blocking or non-blocking. For non-blocking commit all waiting needs to happen after drm_atomic_helper_swap_state() is called, but for blocking commits we want to wait before we do anything that can’t be easily rolled back. That is before we call drm_atomic_helper_swap_state().

Returns zero if success or < 0 if dma_fence_wait() fails.

void drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_atomic_state *old_state)

wait for vblank on CRTCs

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct drm_atomic_state *old_state

atomic state object with old state structures

Description

Helper to, after atomic commit, wait for vblanks on all affected CRTCs (ie. before cleaning up old framebuffers using drm_atomic_helper_cleanup_planes()). It will only wait on CRTCs where the framebuffers have actually changed to optimize for the legacy cursor and plane update use-case.

Drivers using the nonblocking commit tracking support initialized by calling drm_atomic_helper_setup_commit() should look at drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_flip_done() as an alternative.

void drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_flip_done(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_atomic_state *old_state)

wait for all page flips to be done

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct drm_atomic_state *old_state

atomic state object with old state structures

Description

Helper to, after atomic commit, wait for page flips on all affected crtcs (ie. before cleaning up old framebuffers using drm_atomic_helper_cleanup_planes()). Compared to drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks() this waits for the completion on all CRTCs, assuming that cursors-only updates are signalling their completion immediately (or using a different path).

This requires that drivers use the nonblocking commit tracking support initialized using drm_atomic_helper_setup_commit().

void drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail(struct drm_atomic_state *old_state)

commit atomic update to hardware

Parameters

struct drm_atomic_state *old_state

atomic state object with old state structures

Description

This is the default implementation for the drm_mode_config_helper_funcs.atomic_commit_tail hook, for drivers that do not support runtime_pm or do not need the CRTC to be enabled to perform a commit. Otherwise, see drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail_rpm().

Note that the default ordering of how the various stages are called is to match the legacy modeset helper library closest.

void drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail_rpm(struct drm_atomic_state *old_state)

commit atomic update to hardware

Parameters

struct drm_atomic_state *old_state

new modeset state to be committed

Description

This is an alternative implementation for the drm_mode_config_helper_funcs.atomic_commit_tail hook, for drivers that support runtime_pm or need the CRTC to be enabled to perform a commit. Otherwise, one should use the default implementation drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail().

int drm_atomic_helper_async_check(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_atomic_state *state)

check if state can be committed asynchronously

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct drm_atomic_state *state

the driver state object

Description

This helper will check if it is possible to commit the state asynchronously. Async commits are not supposed to swap the states like normal sync commits but just do in-place changes on the current state.

It will return 0 if the commit can happen in an asynchronous fashion or error if not. Note that error just mean it can’t be committed asynchronously, if it fails the commit should be treated like a normal synchronous commit.

void drm_atomic_helper_async_commit(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_atomic_state *state)

commit state asynchronously

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct drm_atomic_state *state

the driver state object

Description

This function commits a state asynchronously, i.e., not vblank synchronized. It should be used on a state only when drm_atomic_async_check() succeeds. Async commits are not supposed to swap the states like normal sync commits, but just do in-place changes on the current state.

TODO: Implement full swap instead of doing in-place changes.

int drm_atomic_helper_commit(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_atomic_state *state, bool nonblock)

commit validated state object

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct drm_atomic_state *state

the driver state object

bool nonblock

whether nonblocking behavior is requested.

Description

This function commits a with drm_atomic_helper_check() pre-validated state object. This can still fail when e.g. the framebuffer reservation fails. This function implements nonblocking commits, using drm_atomic_helper_setup_commit() and related functions.

Committing the actual hardware state is done through the drm_mode_config_helper_funcs.atomic_commit_tail callback, or its default implementation drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail().

Return

Zero for success or -errno.

int drm_atomic_helper_setup_commit(struct drm_atomic_state *state, bool nonblock)

setup possibly nonblocking commit

Parameters

struct drm_atomic_state *state

new modeset state to be committed

bool nonblock

whether nonblocking behavior is requested.

Description

This function prepares state to be used by the atomic helper’s support for nonblocking commits. Drivers using the nonblocking commit infrastructure should always call this function from their drm_mode_config_funcs.atomic_commit hook.

Drivers that need to extend the commit setup to private objects can use the drm_mode_config_helper_funcs.atomic_commit_setup hook.

To be able to use this support drivers need to use a few more helper functions. drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_dependencies() must be called before actually committing the hardware state, and for nonblocking commits this call must be placed in the async worker. See also drm_atomic_helper_swap_state() and its stall parameter, for when a driver’s commit hooks look at the drm_crtc.state, drm_plane.state or drm_connector.state pointer directly.

Completion of the hardware commit step must be signalled using drm_atomic_helper_commit_hw_done(). After this step the driver is not allowed to read or change any permanent software or hardware modeset state. The only exception is state protected by other means than drm_modeset_lock locks. Only the free standing state with pointers to the old state structures can be inspected, e.g. to clean up old buffers using drm_atomic_helper_cleanup_planes().

At the very end, before cleaning up state drivers must call drm_atomic_helper_commit_cleanup_done().

This is all implemented by in drm_atomic_helper_commit(), giving drivers a complete and easy-to-use default implementation of the atomic_commit() hook.

The tracking of asynchronously executed and still pending commits is done using the core structure drm_crtc_commit.

By default there’s no need to clean up resources allocated by this function explicitly: drm_atomic_state_default_clear() will take care of that automatically.

0 on success. -EBUSY when userspace schedules nonblocking commits too fast, -ENOMEM on allocation failures and -EINTR when a signal is pending.

Return

void drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_dependencies(struct drm_atomic_state *old_state)

wait for required preceeding commits

Parameters

struct drm_atomic_state *old_state

atomic state object with old state structures

Description

This function waits for all preceeding commits that touch the same CRTC as old_state to both be committed to the hardware (as signalled by drm_atomic_helper_commit_hw_done()) and executed by the hardware (as signalled by calling drm_crtc_send_vblank_event() on the drm_crtc_state.event).

This is part of the atomic helper support for nonblocking commits, see drm_atomic_helper_setup_commit() for an overview.

void drm_atomic_helper_fake_vblank(struct drm_atomic_state *old_state)

fake VBLANK events if needed

Parameters

struct drm_atomic_state *old_state

atomic state object with old state structures

Description

This function walks all CRTCs and fakes VBLANK events on those with drm_crtc_state.no_vblank set to true and drm_crtc_state.event != NULL. The primary use of this function is writeback connectors working in oneshot mode and faking VBLANK events. In this case they only fake the VBLANK event when a job is queued, and any change to the pipeline that does not touch the connector is leading to timeouts when calling drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks() or drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_flip_done(). In addition to writeback connectors, this function can also fake VBLANK events for CRTCs without VBLANK interrupt.

This is part of the atomic helper support for nonblocking commits, see drm_atomic_helper_setup_commit() for an overview.

void drm_atomic_helper_commit_hw_done(struct drm_atomic_state *old_state)

setup possible nonblocking commit

Parameters

struct drm_atomic_state *old_state

atomic state object with old state structures

Description

This function is used to signal completion of the hardware commit step. After this step the driver is not allowed to read or change any permanent software or hardware modeset state. The only exception is state protected by other means than drm_modeset_lock locks.

Drivers should try to postpone any expensive or delayed cleanup work after this function is called.

This is part of the atomic helper support for nonblocking commits, see drm_atomic_helper_setup_commit() for an overview.

void drm_atomic_helper_commit_cleanup_done(struct drm_atomic_state *old_state)

signal completion of commit

Parameters

struct drm_atomic_state *old_state

atomic state object with old state structures

Description

This signals completion of the atomic update old_state, including any cleanup work. If used, it must be called right before calling drm_atomic_state_put().

This is part of the atomic helper support for nonblocking commits, see drm_atomic_helper_setup_commit() for an overview.

int drm_atomic_helper_prepare_planes(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_atomic_state *state)

prepare plane resources before commit

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct drm_atomic_state *state

atomic state object with new state structures

Description

This function prepares plane state, specifically framebuffers, for the new configuration, by calling drm_plane_helper_funcs.prepare_fb. If any failure is encountered this function will call drm_plane_helper_funcs.cleanup_fb on any already successfully prepared framebuffer.

Return

0 on success, negative error code on failure.

void drm_atomic_helper_commit_planes(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_atomic_state *old_state, uint32_t flags)

commit plane state

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct drm_atomic_state *old_state

atomic state object with old state structures

uint32_t flags

flags for committing plane state

Description

This function commits the new plane state using the plane and atomic helper functions for planes and CRTCs. It assumes that the atomic state has already been pushed into the relevant object state pointers, since this step can no longer fail.

It still requires the global state object old_state to know which planes and crtcs need to be updated though.

Note that this function does all plane updates across all CRTCs in one step. If the hardware can’t support this approach look at drm_atomic_helper_commit_planes_on_crtc() instead.

Plane parameters can be updated by applications while the associated CRTC is disabled. The DRM/KMS core will store the parameters in the plane state, which will be available to the driver when the CRTC is turned on. As a result most drivers don’t need to be immediately notified of plane updates for a disabled CRTC.

Unless otherwise needed, drivers are advised to set the ACTIVE_ONLY flag in flags in order not to receive plane update notifications related to a disabled CRTC. This avoids the need to manually ignore plane updates in driver code when the driver and/or hardware can’t or just don’t need to deal with updates on disabled CRTCs, for example when supporting runtime PM.

Drivers may set the NO_DISABLE_AFTER_MODESET flag in flags if the relevant display controllers require to disable a CRTC’s planes when the CRTC is disabled. This function would skip the drm_plane_helper_funcs.atomic_disable call for a plane if the CRTC of the old plane state needs a modesetting operation. Of course, the drivers need to disable the planes in their CRTC disable callbacks since no one else would do that.

The drm_atomic_helper_commit() default implementation doesn’t set the ACTIVE_ONLY flag to most closely match the behaviour of the legacy helpers. This should not be copied blindly by drivers.

void drm_atomic_helper_commit_planes_on_crtc(struct drm_crtc_state *old_crtc_state)

commit plane state for a CRTC

Parameters

struct drm_crtc_state *old_crtc_state

atomic state object with the old CRTC state

Description

This function commits the new plane state using the plane and atomic helper functions for planes on the specific CRTC. It assumes that the atomic state has already been pushed into the relevant object state pointers, since this step can no longer fail.

This function is useful when plane updates should be done CRTC-by-CRTC instead of one global step like drm_atomic_helper_commit_planes() does.

This function can only be savely used when planes are not allowed to move between different CRTCs because this function doesn’t handle inter-CRTC dependencies. Callers need to ensure that either no such dependencies exist, resolve them through ordering of commit calls or through some other means.

void drm_atomic_helper_disable_planes_on_crtc(struct drm_crtc_state *old_crtc_state, bool atomic)

helper to disable CRTC’s planes

Parameters

struct drm_crtc_state *old_crtc_state

atomic state object with the old CRTC state

bool atomic

if set, synchronize with CRTC’s atomic_begin/flush hooks

Description

Disables all planes associated with the given CRTC. This can be used for instance in the CRTC helper atomic_disable callback to disable all planes.

If the atomic-parameter is set the function calls the CRTC’s atomic_begin hook before and atomic_flush hook after disabling the planes.

It is a bug to call this function without having implemented the drm_plane_helper_funcs.atomic_disable plane hook.

void drm_atomic_helper_cleanup_planes(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_atomic_state *old_state)

cleanup plane resources after commit

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct drm_atomic_state *old_state

atomic state object with old state structures

Description

This function cleans up plane state, specifically framebuffers, from the old configuration. Hence the old configuration must be perserved in old_state to be able to call this function.

This function must also be called on the new state when the atomic update fails at any point after calling drm_atomic_helper_prepare_planes().

int drm_atomic_helper_swap_state(struct drm_atomic_state *state, bool stall)

store atomic state into current sw state

Parameters

struct drm_atomic_state *state

atomic state

bool stall

stall for preceding commits

Description

This function stores the atomic state into the current state pointers in all driver objects. It should be called after all failing steps have been done and succeeded, but before the actual hardware state is committed.

For cleanup and error recovery the current state for all changed objects will be swapped into state.

With that sequence it fits perfectly into the plane prepare/cleanup sequence:

  1. Call drm_atomic_helper_prepare_planes() with the staged atomic state.

  2. Do any other steps that might fail.

  3. Put the staged state into the current state pointers with this function.

  4. Actually commit the hardware state.

5. Call drm_atomic_helper_cleanup_planes() with state, which since step 3 contains the old state. Also do any other cleanup required with that state.

stall must be set when nonblocking commits for this driver directly access the drm_plane.state, drm_crtc.state or drm_connector.state pointer. With the current atomic helpers this is almost always the case, since the helpers don’t pass the right state structures to the callbacks.

Returns 0 on success. Can return -ERESTARTSYS when stall is true and the waiting for the previous commits has been interrupted.

Return

int drm_atomic_helper_update_plane(struct drm_plane *plane, struct drm_crtc *crtc, struct drm_framebuffer *fb, int crtc_x, int crtc_y, unsigned int crtc_w, unsigned int crtc_h, uint32_t src_x, uint32_t src_y, uint32_t src_w, uint32_t src_h, struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx)

Helper for primary plane update using atomic

Parameters

struct drm_plane *plane

plane object to update

struct drm_crtc *crtc

owning CRTC of owning plane

struct drm_framebuffer *fb

framebuffer to flip onto plane

int crtc_x

x offset of primary plane on crtc

int crtc_y

y offset of primary plane on crtc

unsigned int crtc_w

width of primary plane rectangle on crtc

unsigned int crtc_h

height of primary plane rectangle on crtc

uint32_t src_x

x offset of fb for panning

uint32_t src_y

y offset of fb for panning

uint32_t src_w

width of source rectangle in fb

uint32_t src_h

height of source rectangle in fb

struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx

lock acquire context

Description

Provides a default plane update handler using the atomic driver interface.

Return

Zero on success, error code on failure

int drm_atomic_helper_disable_plane(struct drm_plane *plane, struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx)

Helper for primary plane disable using * atomic

Parameters

struct drm_plane *plane

plane to disable

struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx

lock acquire context

Description

Provides a default plane disable handler using the atomic driver interface.

Return

Zero on success, error code on failure

int drm_atomic_helper_set_config(struct drm_mode_set *set, struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx)

set a new config from userspace

Parameters

struct drm_mode_set *set

mode set configuration

struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx

lock acquisition context

Description

Provides a default CRTC set_config handler using the atomic driver interface.

NOTE

For backwards compatibility with old userspace this automatically resets the “link-status” property to GOOD, to force any link re-training. The SETCRTC ioctl does not define whether an update does need a full modeset or just a plane update, hence we’re allowed to do that. See also drm_connector_set_link_status_property().

Return

Returns 0 on success, negative errno numbers on failure.

int drm_atomic_helper_disable_all(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx)

disable all currently active outputs

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx

lock acquisition context

Description

Loops through all connectors, finding those that aren’t turned off and then turns them off by setting their DPMS mode to OFF and deactivating the CRTC that they are connected to.

This is used for example in suspend/resume to disable all currently active functions when suspending. If you just want to shut down everything at e.g. driver unload, look at drm_atomic_helper_shutdown().

Note that if callers haven’t already acquired all modeset locks this might return -EDEADLK, which must be handled by calling drm_modeset_backoff().

See also: drm_atomic_helper_suspend(), drm_atomic_helper_resume() and drm_atomic_helper_shutdown().

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

void drm_atomic_helper_shutdown(struct drm_device *dev)

shutdown all CRTC

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

Description

This shuts down all CRTC, which is useful for driver unloading. Shutdown on suspend should instead be handled with drm_atomic_helper_suspend(), since that also takes a snapshot of the modeset state to be restored on resume.

This is just a convenience wrapper around drm_atomic_helper_disable_all(), and it is the atomic version of drm_crtc_force_disable_all().

struct drm_atomic_state *drm_atomic_helper_duplicate_state(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx)

duplicate an atomic state object

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx

lock acquisition context

Description

Makes a copy of the current atomic state by looping over all objects and duplicating their respective states. This is used for example by suspend/ resume support code to save the state prior to suspend such that it can be restored upon resume.

Note that this treats atomic state as persistent between save and restore. Drivers must make sure that this is possible and won’t result in confusion or erroneous behaviour.

Note that if callers haven’t already acquired all modeset locks this might return -EDEADLK, which must be handled by calling drm_modeset_backoff().

See also: drm_atomic_helper_suspend(), drm_atomic_helper_resume()

Return

A pointer to the copy of the atomic state object on success or an ERR_PTR()-encoded error code on failure.

struct drm_atomic_state *drm_atomic_helper_suspend(struct drm_device *dev)

subsystem-level suspend helper

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

Description

Duplicates the current atomic state, disables all active outputs and then returns a pointer to the original atomic state to the caller. Drivers can pass this pointer to the drm_atomic_helper_resume() helper upon resume to restore the output configuration that was active at the time the system entered suspend.

Note that it is potentially unsafe to use this. The atomic state object returned by this function is assumed to be persistent. Drivers must ensure that this holds true. Before calling this function, drivers must make sure to suspend fbdev emulation so that nothing can be using the device.

See also: drm_atomic_helper_duplicate_state(), drm_atomic_helper_disable_all(), drm_atomic_helper_resume(), drm_atomic_helper_commit_duplicated_state()

Return

A pointer to a copy of the state before suspend on success or an ERR_PTR()- encoded error code on failure. Drivers should store the returned atomic state object and pass it to the drm_atomic_helper_resume() helper upon resume.

int drm_atomic_helper_commit_duplicated_state(struct drm_atomic_state *state, struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx)

commit duplicated state

Parameters

struct drm_atomic_state *state

duplicated atomic state to commit

struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx

pointer to acquire_ctx to use for commit.

Description

The state returned by drm_atomic_helper_duplicate_state() and drm_atomic_helper_suspend() is partially invalid, and needs to be fixed up before commit.

See also: drm_atomic_helper_suspend()

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int drm_atomic_helper_resume(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_atomic_state *state)

subsystem-level resume helper

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct drm_atomic_state *state

atomic state to resume to

Description

Calls drm_mode_config_reset() to synchronize hardware and software states, grabs all modeset locks and commits the atomic state object. This can be used in conjunction with the drm_atomic_helper_suspend() helper to implement suspend/resume for drivers that support atomic mode-setting.

See also: drm_atomic_helper_suspend()

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int drm_atomic_helper_page_flip(struct drm_crtc *crtc, struct drm_framebuffer *fb, struct drm_pending_vblank_event *event, uint32_t flags, struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx)

execute a legacy page flip

Parameters

struct drm_crtc *crtc

DRM CRTC

struct drm_framebuffer *fb

DRM framebuffer

struct drm_pending_vblank_event *event

optional DRM event to signal upon completion

uint32_t flags

flip flags for non-vblank sync’ed updates

struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx

lock acquisition context

Description

Provides a default drm_crtc_funcs.page_flip implementation using the atomic driver interface.

See also: drm_atomic_helper_page_flip_target()

Return

Returns 0 on success, negative errno numbers on failure.

int drm_atomic_helper_page_flip_target(struct drm_crtc *crtc, struct drm_framebuffer *fb, struct drm_pending_vblank_event *event, uint32_t flags, uint32_t target, struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx)

do page flip on target vblank period.

Parameters

struct drm_crtc *crtc

DRM CRTC

struct drm_framebuffer *fb

DRM framebuffer

struct drm_pending_vblank_event *event

optional DRM event to signal upon completion

uint32_t flags

flip flags for non-vblank sync’ed updates

uint32_t target

specifying the target vblank period when the flip to take effect

struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx

lock acquisition context

Description

Provides a default drm_crtc_funcs.page_flip_target implementation. Similar to drm_atomic_helper_page_flip() with extra parameter to specify target vblank period to flip.

Return

Returns 0 on success, negative errno numbers on failure.

u32 *drm_atomic_helper_bridge_propagate_bus_fmt(struct drm_bridge *bridge, struct drm_bridge_state *bridge_state, struct drm_crtc_state *crtc_state, struct drm_connector_state *conn_state, u32 output_fmt, unsigned int *num_input_fmts)

Propagate output format to the input end of a bridge

Parameters

struct drm_bridge *bridge

bridge control structure

struct drm_bridge_state *bridge_state

new bridge state

struct drm_crtc_state *crtc_state

new CRTC state

struct drm_connector_state *conn_state

new connector state

u32 output_fmt

tested output bus format

unsigned int *num_input_fmts

will contain the size of the returned array

Description

This helper is a pluggable implementation of the drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_get_input_bus_fmts operation for bridges that don’t modify the bus configuration between their input and their output. It returns an array of input formats with a single element set to output_fmt.

Return

a valid format array of size num_input_fmts, or NULL if the allocation failed

Atomic State Reset and Initialization

Both the drm core and the atomic helpers assume that there is always the full and correct atomic software state for all connectors, CRTCs and planes available. Which is a bit a problem on driver load and also after system suspend. One way to solve this is to have a hardware state read-out infrastructure which reconstructs the full software state (e.g. the i915 driver).

The simpler solution is to just reset the software state to everything off, which is easiest to do by calling drm_mode_config_reset(). To facilitate this the atomic helpers provide default reset implementations for all hooks.

On the upside the precise state tracking of atomic simplifies system suspend and resume a lot. For drivers using drm_mode_config_reset() a complete recipe is implemented in drm_atomic_helper_suspend() and drm_atomic_helper_resume(). For other drivers the building blocks are split out, see the documentation for these functions.

Atomic State Helper Reference

void __drm_atomic_helper_crtc_state_reset(struct drm_crtc_state *crtc_state, struct drm_crtc *crtc)

reset the CRTC state

Parameters

struct drm_crtc_state *crtc_state

atomic CRTC state, must not be NULL

struct drm_crtc *crtc

CRTC object, must not be NULL

Description

Initializes the newly allocated crtc_state with default values. This is useful for drivers that subclass the CRTC state.

void __drm_atomic_helper_crtc_reset(struct drm_crtc *crtc, struct drm_crtc_state *crtc_state)

reset state on CRTC

Parameters

struct drm_crtc *crtc

drm CRTC

struct drm_crtc_state *crtc_state

CRTC state to assign

Description

Initializes the newly allocated crtc_state and assigns it to the drm_crtc->state pointer of crtc, usually required when initializing the drivers or when called from the drm_crtc_funcs.reset hook.

This is useful for drivers that subclass the CRTC state.

void drm_atomic_helper_crtc_reset(struct drm_crtc *crtc)

default drm_crtc_funcs.reset hook for CRTCs

Parameters

struct drm_crtc *crtc

drm CRTC

Description

Resets the atomic state for crtc by freeing the state pointer (which might be NULL, e.g. at driver load time) and allocating a new empty state object.

void __drm_atomic_helper_crtc_duplicate_state(struct drm_crtc *crtc, struct drm_crtc_state *state)

copy atomic CRTC state

Parameters

struct drm_crtc *crtc

CRTC object

struct drm_crtc_state *state

atomic CRTC state

Description

Copies atomic state from a CRTC’s current state and resets inferred values. This is useful for drivers that subclass the CRTC state.

struct drm_crtc_state *drm_atomic_helper_crtc_duplicate_state(struct drm_crtc *crtc)

default state duplicate hook

Parameters

struct drm_crtc *crtc

drm CRTC

Description

Default CRTC state duplicate hook for drivers which don’t have their own subclassed CRTC state structure.

void __drm_atomic_helper_crtc_destroy_state(struct drm_crtc_state *state)

release CRTC state

Parameters

struct drm_crtc_state *state

CRTC state object to release

Description

Releases all resources stored in the CRTC state without actually freeing the memory of the CRTC state. This is useful for drivers that subclass the CRTC state.

void drm_atomic_helper_crtc_destroy_state(struct drm_crtc *crtc, struct drm_crtc_state *state)

default state destroy hook

Parameters

struct drm_crtc *crtc

drm CRTC

struct drm_crtc_state *state

CRTC state object to release

Description

Default CRTC state destroy hook for drivers which don’t have their own subclassed CRTC state structure.

void __drm_atomic_helper_plane_state_reset(struct drm_plane_state *plane_state, struct drm_plane *plane)

resets plane state to default values

Parameters

struct drm_plane_state *plane_state

atomic plane state, must not be NULL

struct drm_plane *plane

plane object, must not be NULL

Description

Initializes the newly allocated plane_state with default values. This is useful for drivers that subclass the CRTC state.

void __drm_atomic_helper_plane_reset(struct drm_plane *plane, struct drm_plane_state *plane_state)

reset state on plane

Parameters

struct drm_plane *plane

drm plane

struct drm_plane_state *plane_state

plane state to assign

Description

Initializes the newly allocated plane_state and assigns it to the drm_crtc->state pointer of plane, usually required when initializing the drivers or when called from the drm_plane_funcs.reset hook.

This is useful for drivers that subclass the plane state.

void drm_atomic_helper_plane_reset(struct drm_plane *plane)

default drm_plane_funcs.reset hook for planes

Parameters

struct drm_plane *plane

drm plane

Description

Resets the atomic state for plane by freeing the state pointer (which might be NULL, e.g. at driver load time) and allocating a new empty state object.

void __drm_atomic_helper_plane_duplicate_state(struct drm_plane *plane, struct drm_plane_state *state)

copy atomic plane state

Parameters

struct drm_plane *plane

plane object

struct drm_plane_state *state

atomic plane state

Description

Copies atomic state from a plane’s current state. This is useful for drivers that subclass the plane state.

struct drm_plane_state *drm_atomic_helper_plane_duplicate_state(struct drm_plane *plane)

default state duplicate hook

Parameters

struct drm_plane *plane

drm plane

Description

Default plane state duplicate hook for drivers which don’t have their own subclassed plane state structure.

void __drm_atomic_helper_plane_destroy_state(struct drm_plane_state *state)

release plane state

Parameters

struct drm_plane_state *state

plane state object to release

Description

Releases all resources stored in the plane state without actually freeing the memory of the plane state. This is useful for drivers that subclass the plane state.

void drm_atomic_helper_plane_destroy_state(struct drm_plane *plane, struct drm_plane_state *state)

default state destroy hook

Parameters

struct drm_plane *plane

drm plane

struct drm_plane_state *state

plane state object to release

Description

Default plane state destroy hook for drivers which don’t have their own subclassed plane state structure.

void __drm_atomic_helper_connector_state_reset(struct drm_connector_state *conn_state, struct drm_connector *connector)

reset the connector state

Parameters

struct drm_connector_state *conn_state

atomic connector state, must not be NULL

struct drm_connector *connector

connectotr object, must not be NULL

Description

Initializes the newly allocated conn_state with default values. This is useful for drivers that subclass the connector state.

void __drm_atomic_helper_connector_reset(struct drm_connector *connector, struct drm_connector_state *conn_state)

reset state on connector

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

drm connector

struct drm_connector_state *conn_state

connector state to assign

Description

Initializes the newly allocated conn_state and assigns it to the drm_connector->state pointer of connector, usually required when initializing the drivers or when called from the drm_connector_funcs.reset hook.

This is useful for drivers that subclass the connector state.

void drm_atomic_helper_connector_reset(struct drm_connector *connector)

default drm_connector_funcs.reset hook for connectors

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

drm connector

Description

Resets the atomic state for connector by freeing the state pointer (which might be NULL, e.g. at driver load time) and allocating a new empty state object.

void drm_atomic_helper_connector_tv_margins_reset(struct drm_connector *connector)

Resets TV connector properties

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

DRM connector

Description

Resets the TV-related properties attached to a connector.

void drm_atomic_helper_connector_tv_reset(struct drm_connector *connector)

Resets Analog TV connector properties

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

DRM connector

Description

Resets the analog TV properties attached to a connector

int drm_atomic_helper_connector_tv_check(struct drm_connector *connector, struct drm_atomic_state *state)

Validate an analog TV connector state

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

DRM Connector

struct drm_atomic_state *state

the DRM State object

Description

Checks the state object to see if the requested state is valid for an analog TV connector.

Return

0 for success, a negative error code on error.

void __drm_atomic_helper_connector_duplicate_state(struct drm_connector *connector, struct drm_connector_state *state)

copy atomic connector state

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

connector object

struct drm_connector_state *state

atomic connector state

Description

Copies atomic state from a connector’s current state. This is useful for drivers that subclass the connector state.

struct drm_connector_state *drm_atomic_helper_connector_duplicate_state(struct drm_connector *connector)

default state duplicate hook

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

drm connector

Description

Default connector state duplicate hook for drivers which don’t have their own subclassed connector state structure.

void __drm_atomic_helper_connector_destroy_state(struct drm_connector_state *state)

release connector state

Parameters

struct drm_connector_state *state

connector state object to release

Description

Releases all resources stored in the connector state without actually freeing the memory of the connector state. This is useful for drivers that subclass the connector state.

void drm_atomic_helper_connector_destroy_state(struct drm_connector *connector, struct drm_connector_state *state)

default state destroy hook

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

drm connector

struct drm_connector_state *state

connector state object to release

Description

Default connector state destroy hook for drivers which don’t have their own subclassed connector state structure.

void __drm_atomic_helper_private_obj_duplicate_state(struct drm_private_obj *obj, struct drm_private_state *state)

copy atomic private state

Parameters

struct drm_private_obj *obj

CRTC object

struct drm_private_state *state

new private object state

Description

Copies atomic state from a private objects’s current state and resets inferred values. This is useful for drivers that subclass the private state.

void __drm_atomic_helper_bridge_duplicate_state(struct drm_bridge *bridge, struct drm_bridge_state *state)

Copy atomic bridge state

Parameters

struct drm_bridge *bridge

bridge object

struct drm_bridge_state *state

atomic bridge state

Description

Copies atomic state from a bridge’s current state and resets inferred values. This is useful for drivers that subclass the bridge state.

struct drm_bridge_state *drm_atomic_helper_bridge_duplicate_state(struct drm_bridge *bridge)

Duplicate a bridge state object

Parameters

struct drm_bridge *bridge

bridge object

Description

Allocates a new bridge state and initializes it with the current bridge state values. This helper is meant to be used as a bridge drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_duplicate_state hook for bridges that don’t subclass the bridge state.

void drm_atomic_helper_bridge_destroy_state(struct drm_bridge *bridge, struct drm_bridge_state *state)

Destroy a bridge state object

Parameters

struct drm_bridge *bridge

the bridge this state refers to

struct drm_bridge_state *state

bridge state to destroy

Description

Destroys a bridge state previously created by drm_atomic_helper_bridge_reset`() or :c:type:`drm_atomic_helper_bridge_duplicate_state`(). This helper is meant to be used as a bridge :c:type:`drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_destroy_state hook for bridges that don’t subclass the bridge state.

void __drm_atomic_helper_bridge_reset(struct drm_bridge *bridge, struct drm_bridge_state *state)

Initialize a bridge state to its default

Parameters

struct drm_bridge *bridge

the bridge this state refers to

struct drm_bridge_state *state

bridge state to initialize

Description

Initializes the bridge state to default values. This is meant to be called by the bridge drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_reset hook for bridges that subclass the bridge state.

struct drm_bridge_state *drm_atomic_helper_bridge_reset(struct drm_bridge *bridge)

Allocate and initialize a bridge state to its default

Parameters

struct drm_bridge *bridge

the bridge this state refers to

Description

Allocates the bridge state and initializes it to default values. This helper is meant to be used as a bridge drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_reset hook for bridges that don’t subclass the bridge state.

GEM Atomic Helper Reference

The GEM atomic helpers library implements generic atomic-commit functions for drivers that use GEM objects. Currently, it provides synchronization helpers, and plane state and framebuffer BO mappings for planes with shadow buffers.

Before scanout, a plane’s framebuffer needs to be synchronized with possible writers that draw into the framebuffer. All drivers should call drm_gem_plane_helper_prepare_fb() from their implementation of struct drm_plane_helper.prepare_fb . It sets the plane’s fence from the framebuffer so that the DRM core can synchronize access automatically. drm_gem_plane_helper_prepare_fb() can also be used directly as implementation of prepare_fb.

#include <drm/drm_gem_atomic_helper.h>

struct drm_plane_helper_funcs driver_plane_helper_funcs = {
        ...,
        . prepare_fb = drm_gem_plane_helper_prepare_fb,
};

A driver using a shadow buffer copies the content of the shadow buffers into the HW’s framebuffer memory during an atomic update. This requires a mapping of the shadow buffer into kernel address space. The mappings cannot be established by commit-tail functions, such as atomic_update, as this would violate locking rules around dma_buf_vmap().

The helpers for shadow-buffered planes establish and release mappings, and provide struct drm_shadow_plane_state, which stores the plane’s mapping for commit-tail functions.

Shadow-buffered planes can easily be enabled by using the provided macros DRM_GEM_SHADOW_PLANE_FUNCS and DRM_GEM_SHADOW_PLANE_HELPER_FUNCS. These macros set up the plane and plane-helper callbacks to point to the shadow-buffer helpers.

#include <drm/drm_gem_atomic_helper.h>

struct drm_plane_funcs driver_plane_funcs = {
        ...,
        DRM_GEM_SHADOW_PLANE_FUNCS,
};

struct drm_plane_helper_funcs driver_plane_helper_funcs = {
        ...,
        DRM_GEM_SHADOW_PLANE_HELPER_FUNCS,
};

In the driver’s atomic-update function, shadow-buffer mappings are available from the plane state. Use to_drm_shadow_plane_state() to upcast from struct drm_plane_state.

void driver_plane_atomic_update(struct drm_plane *plane,
                                struct drm_plane_state *old_plane_state)
{
        struct drm_plane_state *plane_state = plane->state;
        struct drm_shadow_plane_state *shadow_plane_state =
                to_drm_shadow_plane_state(plane_state);

        // access shadow buffer via shadow_plane_state->map
}

A mapping address for each of the framebuffer’s buffer object is stored in struct drm_shadow_plane_state.map. The mappings are valid while the state is being used.

Drivers that use struct drm_simple_display_pipe can use DRM_GEM_SIMPLE_DISPLAY_PIPE_SHADOW_PLANE_FUNCS to initialize the rsp callbacks. Access to shadow-buffer mappings is similar to regular atomic_update.

struct drm_simple_display_pipe_funcs driver_pipe_funcs = {
        ...,
        DRM_GEM_SIMPLE_DISPLAY_PIPE_SHADOW_PLANE_FUNCS,
};

void driver_pipe_enable(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe,
                        struct drm_crtc_state *crtc_state,
                        struct drm_plane_state *plane_state)
{
        struct drm_shadow_plane_state *shadow_plane_state =
                to_drm_shadow_plane_state(plane_state);

        // access shadow buffer via shadow_plane_state->map
}
DRM_SHADOW_PLANE_MAX_WIDTH

DRM_SHADOW_PLANE_MAX_WIDTH ()

Maximum width of a plane’s shadow buffer in pixels

Parameters

Description

For drivers with shadow planes, the maximum width of the framebuffer is usually independent from hardware limitations. Drivers can initialize struct drm_mode_config.max_width from DRM_SHADOW_PLANE_MAX_WIDTH.

DRM_SHADOW_PLANE_MAX_HEIGHT

DRM_SHADOW_PLANE_MAX_HEIGHT ()

Maximum height of a plane’s shadow buffer in scanlines

Parameters

Description

For drivers with shadow planes, the maximum height of the framebuffer is usually independent from hardware limitations. Drivers can initialize struct drm_mode_config.max_height from DRM_SHADOW_PLANE_MAX_HEIGHT.

struct drm_shadow_plane_state

plane state for planes with shadow buffers

Definition

struct drm_shadow_plane_state {
  struct drm_plane_state base;
  struct iosys_map map[DRM_FORMAT_MAX_PLANES];
  struct iosys_map data[DRM_FORMAT_MAX_PLANES];
};

Members

base

plane state

map

Mappings of the plane’s framebuffer BOs in to kernel address space

The memory mappings stored in map should be established in the plane’s prepare_fb callback and removed in the cleanup_fb callback.

data

Address of each framebuffer BO’s data

The address of the data stored in each mapping. This is different for framebuffers with non-zero offset fields.

Description

For planes that use a shadow buffer, struct drm_shadow_plane_state provides the regular plane state plus mappings of the shadow buffer into kernel address space.

struct drm_shadow_plane_state *to_drm_shadow_plane_state(struct drm_plane_state *state)

upcasts from struct drm_plane_state

Parameters

struct drm_plane_state *state

the plane state

DRM_GEM_SHADOW_PLANE_FUNCS

DRM_GEM_SHADOW_PLANE_FUNCS ()

Initializes struct drm_plane_funcs for shadow-buffered planes

Parameters

Description

Drivers may use GEM BOs as shadow buffers over the framebuffer memory. This macro initializes struct drm_plane_funcs to use the rsp helper functions.

DRM_GEM_SHADOW_PLANE_HELPER_FUNCS

DRM_GEM_SHADOW_PLANE_HELPER_FUNCS ()

Initializes struct drm_plane_helper_funcs for shadow-buffered planes

Parameters

Description

Drivers may use GEM BOs as shadow buffers over the framebuffer memory. This macro initializes struct drm_plane_helper_funcs to use the rsp helper functions.

DRM_GEM_SIMPLE_DISPLAY_PIPE_SHADOW_PLANE_FUNCS

DRM_GEM_SIMPLE_DISPLAY_PIPE_SHADOW_PLANE_FUNCS ()

Initializes struct drm_simple_display_pipe_funcs for shadow-buffered planes

Parameters

Description

Drivers may use GEM BOs as shadow buffers over the framebuffer memory. This macro initializes struct drm_simple_display_pipe_funcs to use the rsp helper functions.

int drm_gem_plane_helper_prepare_fb(struct drm_plane *plane, struct drm_plane_state *state)

Prepare a GEM backed framebuffer

Parameters

struct drm_plane *plane

Plane

struct drm_plane_state *state

Plane state the fence will be attached to

Description

This function extracts the exclusive fence from drm_gem_object.resv and attaches it to plane state for the atomic helper to wait on. This is necessary to correctly implement implicit synchronization for any buffers shared as a struct dma_buf. This function can be used as the drm_plane_helper_funcs.prepare_fb callback.

There is no need for drm_plane_helper_funcs.cleanup_fb hook for simple GEM based framebuffer drivers which have their buffers always pinned in memory.

This function is the default implementation for GEM drivers of drm_plane_helper_funcs.prepare_fb if no callback is provided.

void __drm_gem_duplicate_shadow_plane_state(struct drm_plane *plane, struct drm_shadow_plane_state *new_shadow_plane_state)

duplicates shadow-buffered plane state

Parameters

struct drm_plane *plane

the plane

struct drm_shadow_plane_state *new_shadow_plane_state

the new shadow-buffered plane state

Description

This function duplicates shadow-buffered plane state. This is helpful for drivers that subclass struct drm_shadow_plane_state.

The function does not duplicate existing mappings of the shadow buffers. Mappings are maintained during the atomic commit by the plane’s prepare_fb and cleanup_fb helpers. See drm_gem_prepare_shadow_fb() and drm_gem_cleanup_shadow_fb() for corresponding helpers.

struct drm_plane_state *drm_gem_duplicate_shadow_plane_state(struct drm_plane *plane)

duplicates shadow-buffered plane state

Parameters

struct drm_plane *plane

the plane

Description

This function implements struct drm_plane_funcs.atomic_duplicate_state for shadow-buffered planes. It assumes the existing state to be of type struct drm_shadow_plane_state and it allocates the new state to be of this type.

The function does not duplicate existing mappings of the shadow buffers. Mappings are maintained during the atomic commit by the plane’s prepare_fb and cleanup_fb helpers. See drm_gem_prepare_shadow_fb() and drm_gem_cleanup_shadow_fb() for corresponding helpers.

Return

A pointer to a new plane state on success, or NULL otherwise.

void __drm_gem_destroy_shadow_plane_state(struct drm_shadow_plane_state *shadow_plane_state)

cleans up shadow-buffered plane state

Parameters

struct drm_shadow_plane_state *shadow_plane_state

the shadow-buffered plane state

Description

This function cleans up shadow-buffered plane state. Helpful for drivers that subclass struct drm_shadow_plane_state.

void drm_gem_destroy_shadow_plane_state(struct drm_plane *plane, struct drm_plane_state *plane_state)

deletes shadow-buffered plane state

Parameters

struct drm_plane *plane

the plane

struct drm_plane_state *plane_state

the plane state of type struct drm_shadow_plane_state

Description

This function implements struct drm_plane_funcs.atomic_destroy_state for shadow-buffered planes. It expects that mappings of shadow buffers have been released already.

void __drm_gem_reset_shadow_plane(struct drm_plane *plane, struct drm_shadow_plane_state *shadow_plane_state)

resets a shadow-buffered plane

Parameters

struct drm_plane *plane

the plane

struct drm_shadow_plane_state *shadow_plane_state

the shadow-buffered plane state

Description

This function resets state for shadow-buffered planes. Helpful for drivers that subclass struct drm_shadow_plane_state.

void drm_gem_reset_shadow_plane(struct drm_plane *plane)

resets a shadow-buffered plane

Parameters

struct drm_plane *plane

the plane

Description

This function implements struct drm_plane_funcs.reset_plane for shadow-buffered planes. It assumes the current plane state to be of type struct drm_shadow_plane and it allocates the new state of this type.

int drm_gem_begin_shadow_fb_access(struct drm_plane *plane, struct drm_plane_state *plane_state)

prepares shadow framebuffers for CPU access

Parameters

struct drm_plane *plane

the plane

struct drm_plane_state *plane_state

the plane state of type struct drm_shadow_plane_state

Description

This function implements struct drm_plane_helper_funcs.begin_fb_access. It maps all buffer objects of the plane’s framebuffer into kernel address space and stores them in struct drm_shadow_plane_state.map. The first data bytes are available in struct drm_shadow_plane_state.data.

See drm_gem_end_shadow_fb_access() for cleanup.

Return

0 on success, or a negative errno code otherwise.

void drm_gem_end_shadow_fb_access(struct drm_plane *plane, struct drm_plane_state *plane_state)

releases shadow framebuffers from CPU access

Parameters

struct drm_plane *plane

the plane

struct drm_plane_state *plane_state

the plane state of type struct drm_shadow_plane_state

Description

This function implements struct drm_plane_helper_funcs.end_fb_access. It undoes all effects of drm_gem_begin_shadow_fb_access() in reverse order.

See drm_gem_begin_shadow_fb_access() for more information.

int drm_gem_simple_kms_begin_shadow_fb_access(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe, struct drm_plane_state *plane_state)

prepares shadow framebuffers for CPU access

Parameters

struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe

the simple display pipe

struct drm_plane_state *plane_state

the plane state of type struct drm_shadow_plane_state

Description

This function implements struct drm_simple_display_funcs.begin_fb_access.

See drm_gem_begin_shadow_fb_access() for details and drm_gem_simple_kms_cleanup_shadow_fb() for cleanup.

Return

0 on success, or a negative errno code otherwise.

void drm_gem_simple_kms_end_shadow_fb_access(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe, struct drm_plane_state *plane_state)

releases shadow framebuffers from CPU access

Parameters

struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe

the simple display pipe

struct drm_plane_state *plane_state

the plane state of type struct drm_shadow_plane_state

Description

This function implements struct drm_simple_display_funcs.end_fb_access. It undoes all effects of drm_gem_simple_kms_begin_shadow_fb_access() in reverse order.

See drm_gem_simple_kms_begin_shadow_fb_access().

void drm_gem_simple_kms_reset_shadow_plane(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe)

resets a shadow-buffered plane

Parameters

struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe

the simple display pipe

Description

This function implements struct drm_simple_display_funcs.reset_plane for shadow-buffered planes.

struct drm_plane_state *drm_gem_simple_kms_duplicate_shadow_plane_state(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe)

duplicates shadow-buffered plane state

Parameters

struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe

the simple display pipe

Description

This function implements struct drm_simple_display_funcs.duplicate_plane_state for shadow-buffered planes. It does not duplicate existing mappings of the shadow buffers. Mappings are maintained during the atomic commit by the plane’s prepare_fb and cleanup_fb helpers.

Return

A pointer to a new plane state on success, or NULL otherwise.

void drm_gem_simple_kms_destroy_shadow_plane_state(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe, struct drm_plane_state *plane_state)

resets shadow-buffered plane state

Parameters

struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe

the simple display pipe

struct drm_plane_state *plane_state

the plane state of type struct drm_shadow_plane_state

Description

This function implements struct drm_simple_display_funcs.destroy_plane_state for shadow-buffered planes. It expects that mappings of shadow buffers have been released already.

Simple KMS Helper Reference

This helper library provides helpers for drivers for simple display hardware.

drm_simple_display_pipe_init() initializes a simple display pipeline which has only one full-screen scanout buffer feeding one output. The pipeline is represented by struct drm_simple_display_pipe and binds together drm_plane, drm_crtc and drm_encoder structures into one fixed entity. Some flexibility for code reuse is provided through a separately allocated drm_connector object and supporting optional drm_bridge encoder drivers.

Many drivers require only a very simple encoder that fulfills the minimum requirements of the display pipeline and does not add additional functionality. The function drm_simple_encoder_init() provides an implementation of such an encoder.

struct drm_simple_display_pipe_funcs

helper operations for a simple display pipeline

Definition

struct drm_simple_display_pipe_funcs {
  enum drm_mode_status (*mode_valid)(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe, const struct drm_display_mode *mode);
  void (*enable)(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe,struct drm_crtc_state *crtc_state, struct drm_plane_state *plane_state);
  void (*disable)(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe);
  int (*check)(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe,struct drm_plane_state *plane_state, struct drm_crtc_state *crtc_state);
  void (*update)(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe, struct drm_plane_state *old_plane_state);
  int (*prepare_fb)(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe, struct drm_plane_state *plane_state);
  void (*cleanup_fb)(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe, struct drm_plane_state *plane_state);
  int (*begin_fb_access)(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe, struct drm_plane_state *new_plane_state);
  void (*end_fb_access)(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe, struct drm_plane_state *plane_state);
  int (*enable_vblank)(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe);
  void (*disable_vblank)(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe);
  void (*reset_crtc)(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe);
  struct drm_crtc_state * (*duplicate_crtc_state)(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe);
  void (*destroy_crtc_state)(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe, struct drm_crtc_state *crtc_state);
  void (*reset_plane)(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe);
  struct drm_plane_state * (*duplicate_plane_state)(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe);
  void (*destroy_plane_state)(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe, struct drm_plane_state *plane_state);
};

Members

mode_valid

This callback is used to check if a specific mode is valid in the crtc used in this simple display pipe. This should be implemented if the display pipe has some sort of restriction in the modes it can display. For example, a given display pipe may be responsible to set a clock value. If the clock can not produce all the values for the available modes then this callback can be used to restrict the number of modes to only the ones that can be displayed. Another reason can be bandwidth mitigation: the memory port on the display controller can have bandwidth limitations not allowing pixel data to be fetched at any rate.

This hook is used by the probe helpers to filter the mode list in drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes(), and it is used by the atomic helpers to validate modes supplied by userspace in drm_atomic_helper_check_modeset().

This function is optional.

NOTE:

Since this function is both called from the check phase of an atomic commit, and the mode validation in the probe paths it is not allowed to look at anything else but the passed-in mode, and validate it against configuration-invariant hardware constraints.

RETURNS:

drm_mode_status Enum

enable

This function should be used to enable the pipeline. It is called when the underlying crtc is enabled. This hook is optional.

disable

This function should be used to disable the pipeline. It is called when the underlying crtc is disabled. This hook is optional.

check

This function is called in the check phase of an atomic update, specifically when the underlying plane is checked. The simple display pipeline helpers already check that the plane is not scaled, fills the entire visible area and is always enabled when the crtc is also enabled. This hook is optional.

RETURNS:

0 on success, -EINVAL if the state or the transition can’t be supported, -ENOMEM on memory allocation failure and -EDEADLK if an attempt to obtain another state object ran into a drm_modeset_lock deadlock.

update

This function is called when the underlying plane state is updated. This hook is optional.

This is the function drivers should submit the drm_pending_vblank_event from. Using either drm_crtc_arm_vblank_event(), when the driver supports vblank interrupt handling, or drm_crtc_send_vblank_event() for more complex case. In case the hardware lacks vblank support entirely, drivers can set struct drm_crtc_state.no_vblank in struct drm_simple_display_pipe_funcs.check and let DRM’s atomic helper fake a vblank event.

prepare_fb

Optional, called by drm_plane_helper_funcs.prepare_fb. Please read the documentation for the drm_plane_helper_funcs.prepare_fb hook for more details.

For GEM drivers who neither have a prepare_fb nor cleanup_fb hook set, drm_gem_plane_helper_prepare_fb() is called automatically to implement this. Other drivers which need additional plane processing can call drm_gem_plane_helper_prepare_fb() from their prepare_fb hook.

cleanup_fb

Optional, called by drm_plane_helper_funcs.cleanup_fb. Please read the documentation for the drm_plane_helper_funcs.cleanup_fb hook for more details.

begin_fb_access

Optional, called by drm_plane_helper_funcs.begin_fb_access. Please read the documentation for the drm_plane_helper_funcs.begin_fb_access hook for more details.

end_fb_access

Optional, called by drm_plane_helper_funcs.end_fb_access. Please read the documentation for the drm_plane_helper_funcs.end_fb_access hook for more details.

enable_vblank

Optional, called by drm_crtc_funcs.enable_vblank. Please read the documentation for the drm_crtc_funcs.enable_vblank hook for more details.

disable_vblank

Optional, called by drm_crtc_funcs.disable_vblank. Please read the documentation for the drm_crtc_funcs.disable_vblank hook for more details.

reset_crtc

Optional, called by drm_crtc_funcs.reset. Please read the documentation for the drm_crtc_funcs.reset hook for more details.

duplicate_crtc_state

Optional, called by drm_crtc_funcs.atomic_duplicate_state. Please read the documentation for the drm_crtc_funcs.atomic_duplicate_state hook for more details.

destroy_crtc_state

Optional, called by drm_crtc_funcs.atomic_destroy_state. Please read the documentation for the drm_crtc_funcs.atomic_destroy_state hook for more details.

reset_plane

Optional, called by drm_plane_funcs.reset. Please read the documentation for the drm_plane_funcs.reset hook for more details.

duplicate_plane_state

Optional, called by drm_plane_funcs.atomic_duplicate_state. Please read the documentation for the drm_plane_funcs.atomic_duplicate_state hook for more details.

destroy_plane_state

Optional, called by drm_plane_funcs.atomic_destroy_state. Please read the documentation for the drm_plane_funcs.atomic_destroy_state hook for more details.

struct drm_simple_display_pipe

simple display pipeline

Definition

struct drm_simple_display_pipe {
  struct drm_crtc crtc;
  struct drm_plane plane;
  struct drm_encoder encoder;
  struct drm_connector *connector;
  const struct drm_simple_display_pipe_funcs *funcs;
};

Members

crtc

CRTC control structure

plane

Plane control structure

encoder

Encoder control structure

connector

Connector control structure

funcs

Pipeline control functions (optional)

Description

Simple display pipeline with plane, crtc and encoder collapsed into one entity. It should be initialized by calling drm_simple_display_pipe_init().

drmm_simple_encoder_alloc

drmm_simple_encoder_alloc (dev, type, member, encoder_type)

Allocate and initialize an encoder with basic functionality.

Parameters

dev

drm device

type

the type of the struct which contains struct drm_encoder

member

the name of the drm_encoder within type.

encoder_type

user visible type of the encoder

Description

Allocates and initializes an encoder that has no further functionality. Settings for possible CRTC and clones are left to their initial values. Cleanup is automatically handled through registering drm_encoder_cleanup() with drmm_add_action().

Return

Pointer to new encoder, or ERR_PTR on failure.

int drm_simple_encoder_init(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_encoder *encoder, int encoder_type)

Initialize a preallocated encoder with basic functionality.

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

drm device

struct drm_encoder *encoder

the encoder to initialize

int encoder_type

user visible type of the encoder

Description

Initialises a preallocated encoder that has no further functionality. Settings for possible CRTC and clones are left to their initial values. The encoder will be cleaned up automatically as part of the mode-setting cleanup.

The caller of drm_simple_encoder_init() is responsible for freeing the encoder’s memory after the encoder has been cleaned up. At the moment this only works reliably if the encoder data structure is stored in the device structure. Free the encoder’s memory as part of the device release function.

Note

consider using drmm_simple_encoder_alloc() instead of drm_simple_encoder_init() to let the DRM managed resource infrastructure take care of cleanup and deallocation.

Return

Zero on success, error code on failure.

int drm_simple_display_pipe_attach_bridge(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe, struct drm_bridge *bridge)

Attach a bridge to the display pipe

Parameters

struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe

simple display pipe object

struct drm_bridge *bridge

bridge to attach

Description

Makes it possible to still use the drm_simple_display_pipe helpers when a DRM bridge has to be used.

Note that you probably want to initialize the pipe by passing a NULL connector to drm_simple_display_pipe_init().

Return

Zero on success, negative error code on failure.

int drm_simple_display_pipe_init(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe, const struct drm_simple_display_pipe_funcs *funcs, const uint32_t *formats, unsigned int format_count, const uint64_t *format_modifiers, struct drm_connector *connector)

Initialize a simple display pipeline

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe

simple display pipe object to initialize

const struct drm_simple_display_pipe_funcs *funcs

callbacks for the display pipe (optional)

const uint32_t *formats

array of supported formats (DRM_FORMAT_*)

unsigned int format_count

number of elements in formats

const uint64_t *format_modifiers

array of formats modifiers

struct drm_connector *connector

connector to attach and register (optional)

Description

Sets up a display pipeline which consist of a really simple plane-crtc-encoder pipe.

If a connector is supplied, the pipe will be coupled with the provided connector. You may supply a NULL connector when using drm bridges, that handle connectors themselves (see drm_simple_display_pipe_attach_bridge()).

Teardown of a simple display pipe is all handled automatically by the drm core through calling drm_mode_config_cleanup(). Drivers afterwards need to release the memory for the structure themselves.

Return

Zero on success, negative error code on failure.

fbdev Helper Functions Reference

The fb helper functions are useful to provide an fbdev on top of a drm kernel mode setting driver. They can be used mostly independently from the crtc helper functions used by many drivers to implement the kernel mode setting interfaces.

Drivers that support a dumb buffer with a virtual address and mmap support, should try out the generic fbdev emulation using drm_fbdev_generic_setup(). It will automatically set up deferred I/O if the driver requires a shadow buffer.

Existing fbdev implementations should restore the fbdev console by using drm_fb_helper_lastclose() as their drm_driver.lastclose callback. They should also notify the fb helper code from updates to the output configuration by using drm_fb_helper_output_poll_changed() as their drm_mode_config_funcs.output_poll_changed callback. New implementations of fbdev should be build on top of struct drm_client_funcs, which handles this automatically. Setting the old callbacks should be avoided.

For suspend/resume consider using drm_mode_config_helper_suspend() and drm_mode_config_helper_resume() which takes care of fbdev as well.

All other functions exported by the fb helper library can be used to implement the fbdev driver interface by the driver.

It is possible, though perhaps somewhat tricky, to implement race-free hotplug detection using the fbdev helpers. The drm_fb_helper_prepare() helper must be called first to initialize the minimum required to make hotplug detection work. Drivers also need to make sure to properly set up the drm_mode_config.funcs member. After calling drm_kms_helper_poll_init() it is safe to enable interrupts and start processing hotplug events. At the same time, drivers should initialize all modeset objects such as CRTCs, encoders and connectors. To finish up the fbdev helper initialization, the drm_fb_helper_init() function is called. To probe for all attached displays and set up an initial configuration using the detected hardware, drivers should call drm_fb_helper_initial_config().

If drm_framebuffer_funcs.dirty is set, the drm_fb_helper_{cfb,sys}_{write,fillrect,copyarea,imageblit} functions will accumulate changes and schedule drm_fb_helper.dirty_work to run right away. This worker then calls the dirty() function ensuring that it will always run in process context since the fb_*() function could be running in atomic context. If drm_fb_helper_deferred_io() is used as the deferred_io callback it will also schedule dirty_work with the damage collected from the mmap page writes.

Deferred I/O is not compatible with SHMEM. Such drivers should request an fbdev shadow buffer and call drm_fbdev_generic_setup() instead.

struct drm_fb_helper_surface_size

describes fbdev size and scanout surface size

Definition

struct drm_fb_helper_surface_size {
  u32 fb_width;
  u32 fb_height;
  u32 surface_width;
  u32 surface_height;
  u32 surface_bpp;
  u32 surface_depth;
};

Members

fb_width

fbdev width

fb_height

fbdev height

surface_width

scanout buffer width

surface_height

scanout buffer height

surface_bpp

scanout buffer bpp

surface_depth

scanout buffer depth

Description

Note that the scanout surface width/height may be larger than the fbdev width/height. In case of multiple displays, the scanout surface is sized according to the largest width/height (so it is large enough for all CRTCs to scanout). But the fbdev width/height is sized to the minimum width/ height of all the displays. This ensures that fbcon fits on the smallest of the attached displays. fb_width/fb_height is used by drm_fb_helper_fill_info() to fill out the fb_info.var structure.

struct drm_fb_helper_funcs

driver callbacks for the fbdev emulation library

Definition

struct drm_fb_helper_funcs {
  int (*fb_probe)(struct drm_fb_helper *helper, struct drm_fb_helper_surface_size *sizes);
  int (*fb_dirty)(struct drm_fb_helper *helper, struct drm_clip_rect *clip);
};

Members

fb_probe

Driver callback to allocate and initialize the fbdev info structure. Furthermore it also needs to allocate the DRM framebuffer used to back the fbdev.

This callback is mandatory.

RETURNS:

The driver should return 0 on success and a negative error code on failure.

fb_dirty

Driver callback to update the framebuffer memory. If set, fbdev emulation will invoke this callback in regular intervals after the framebuffer has been written.

This callback is optional.

Returns: 0 on success, or an error code otherwise.

Description

Driver callbacks used by the fbdev emulation helper library.

struct drm_fb_helper

main structure to emulate fbdev on top of KMS

Definition

struct drm_fb_helper {
  struct drm_client_dev client;
  struct drm_client_buffer *buffer;
  struct drm_framebuffer *fb;
  struct drm_device *dev;
  const struct drm_fb_helper_funcs *funcs;
  struct fb_info *info;
  u32 pseudo_palette[17];
  struct drm_clip_rect damage_clip;
  spinlock_t damage_lock;
  struct work_struct damage_work;
  struct work_struct resume_work;
  struct mutex lock;
  struct list_head kernel_fb_list;
  bool delayed_hotplug;
  bool deferred_setup;
  int preferred_bpp;
  bool hint_leak_smem_start;
#ifdef CONFIG_FB_DEFERRED_IO;
  struct fb_deferred_io fbdefio;
#endif;
};

Members

client

DRM client used by the generic fbdev emulation.

buffer

Framebuffer used by the generic fbdev emulation.

fb

Scanout framebuffer object

dev

DRM device

funcs

driver callbacks for fb helper

info

emulated fbdev device info struct

pseudo_palette

fake palette of 16 colors

damage_clip

clip rectangle used with deferred_io to accumulate damage to the screen buffer

damage_lock

spinlock protecting damage_clip

damage_work

worker used to flush the framebuffer

resume_work

worker used during resume if the console lock is already taken

lock

Top-level FBDEV helper lock. This protects all internal data structures and lists, such as connector_info and crtc_info.

FIXME: fbdev emulation locking is a mess and long term we want to protect all helper internal state with this lock as well as reduce core KMS locking as much as possible.

kernel_fb_list

Entry on the global kernel_fb_helper_list, used for kgdb entry/exit.

delayed_hotplug

A hotplug was received while fbdev wasn’t in control of the DRM device, i.e. another KMS master was active. The output configuration needs to be reprobe when fbdev is in control again.

deferred_setup

If no outputs are connected (disconnected or unknown) the FB helper code will defer setup until at least one of the outputs shows up. This field keeps track of the status so that setup can be retried at every hotplug event until it succeeds eventually.

Protected by lock.

preferred_bpp

Temporary storage for the driver’s preferred BPP setting passed to FB helper initialization. This needs to be tracked so that deferred FB helper setup can pass this on.

See also: deferred_setup

hint_leak_smem_start

Hint to the fbdev emulation to store the framebuffer’s physical address in struct fb_info.fix.smem_start. If the hint is unset, the smem_start field should always be cleared to zero.

fbdefio

Temporary storage for the driver’s FB deferred I/O handler. If the driver uses the DRM fbdev emulation layer, this is set by the core to a generic deferred I/O handler if a driver is preferring to use a shadow buffer.

Description

This is the main structure used by the fbdev helpers. Drivers supporting fbdev emulation should embedded this into their overall driver structure. Drivers must also fill out a struct drm_fb_helper_funcs with a few operations.

DRM_FB_HELPER_DEFAULT_OPS

DRM_FB_HELPER_DEFAULT_OPS ()

helper define for drm drivers

Parameters

Description

Helper define to register default implementations of drm_fb_helper functions. To be used in struct fb_ops of drm drivers.

int drm_fb_helper_debug_enter(struct fb_info *info)

implementation for fb_ops.fb_debug_enter

Parameters

struct fb_info *info

fbdev registered by the helper

int drm_fb_helper_debug_leave(struct fb_info *info)

implementation for fb_ops.fb_debug_leave

Parameters

struct fb_info *info

fbdev registered by the helper

int drm_fb_helper_restore_fbdev_mode_unlocked(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper)

restore fbdev configuration

Parameters

struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper

driver-allocated fbdev helper, can be NULL

Description

This should be called from driver’s drm drm_driver.lastclose callback when implementing an fbcon on top of kms using this helper. This ensures that the user isn’t greeted with a black screen when e.g. X dies.

Return

Zero if everything went ok, negative error code otherwise.

int drm_fb_helper_blank(int blank, struct fb_info *info)

implementation for fb_ops.fb_blank

Parameters

int blank

desired blanking state

struct fb_info *info

fbdev registered by the helper

void drm_fb_helper_prepare(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_fb_helper *helper, unsigned int preferred_bpp, const struct drm_fb_helper_funcs *funcs)

setup a drm_fb_helper structure

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct drm_fb_helper *helper

driver-allocated fbdev helper structure to set up

unsigned int preferred_bpp

Preferred bits per pixel for the device.

const struct drm_fb_helper_funcs *funcs

pointer to structure of functions associate with this helper

Description

Sets up the bare minimum to make the framebuffer helper usable. This is useful to implement race-free initialization of the polling helpers.

void drm_fb_helper_unprepare(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper)

clean up a drm_fb_helper structure

Parameters

struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper

driver-allocated fbdev helper structure to set up

Description

Cleans up the framebuffer helper. Inverse of drm_fb_helper_prepare().

int drm_fb_helper_init(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper)

initialize a struct drm_fb_helper

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

drm device

struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper

driver-allocated fbdev helper structure to initialize

Description

This allocates the structures for the fbdev helper with the given limits. Note that this won’t yet touch the hardware (through the driver interfaces) nor register the fbdev. This is only done in drm_fb_helper_initial_config() to allow driver writes more control over the exact init sequence.

Drivers must call drm_fb_helper_prepare() before calling this function.

Return

Zero if everything went ok, nonzero otherwise.

struct fb_info *drm_fb_helper_alloc_info(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper)

allocate fb_info and some of its members

Parameters

struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper

driver-allocated fbdev helper

Description

A helper to alloc fb_info and the member cmap. Called by the driver within the fb_probe fb_helper callback function. Drivers do not need to release the allocated fb_info structure themselves, this is automatically done when calling drm_fb_helper_fini().

Return

fb_info pointer if things went okay, pointer containing error code otherwise

void drm_fb_helper_unregister_info(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper)

unregister fb_info framebuffer device

Parameters

struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper

driver-allocated fbdev helper, can be NULL

Description

A wrapper around unregister_framebuffer, to release the fb_info framebuffer device. This must be called before releasing all resources for fb_helper by calling drm_fb_helper_fini().

void drm_fb_helper_fini(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper)

finialize a struct drm_fb_helper

Parameters

struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper

driver-allocated fbdev helper, can be NULL

Description

This cleans up all remaining resources associated with fb_helper.

void drm_fb_helper_deferred_io(struct fb_info *info, struct list_head *pagereflist)

fbdev deferred_io callback function

Parameters

struct fb_info *info

fb_info struct pointer

struct list_head *pagereflist

list of mmap framebuffer pages that have to be flushed

Description

This function is used as the fb_deferred_io.deferred_io callback function for flushing the fbdev mmap writes.

ssize_t drm_fb_helper_sys_read(struct fb_info *info, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)

Implements struct fb_ops.fb_read for system memory

Parameters

struct fb_info *info

fb_info struct pointer

char __user *buf

userspace buffer to read from framebuffer memory

size_t count

number of bytes to read from framebuffer memory

loff_t *ppos

read offset within framebuffer memory

Return

The number of bytes read on success, or an error code otherwise.

ssize_t drm_fb_helper_sys_write(struct fb_info *info, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)

Implements struct fb_ops.fb_write for system memory

Parameters

struct fb_info *info

fb_info struct pointer

const char __user *buf

userspace buffer to write to framebuffer memory

size_t count

number of bytes to write to framebuffer memory

loff_t *ppos

write offset within framebuffer memory

Return

The number of bytes written on success, or an error code otherwise.

void drm_fb_helper_sys_fillrect(struct fb_info *info, const struct fb_fillrect *rect)

wrapper around sys_fillrect

Parameters

struct fb_info *info

fbdev registered by the helper

const struct fb_fillrect *rect

info about rectangle to fill

Description

A wrapper around sys_fillrect implemented by fbdev core

void drm_fb_helper_sys_copyarea(struct fb_info *info, const struct fb_copyarea *area)

wrapper around sys_copyarea

Parameters

struct fb_info *info

fbdev registered by the helper

const struct fb_copyarea *area

info about area to copy

Description

A wrapper around sys_copyarea implemented by fbdev core

void drm_fb_helper_sys_imageblit(struct fb_info *info, const struct fb_image *image)

wrapper around sys_imageblit

Parameters

struct fb_info *info

fbdev registered by the helper

const struct fb_image *image

info about image to blit

Description

A wrapper around sys_imageblit implemented by fbdev core

ssize_t drm_fb_helper_cfb_read(struct fb_info *info, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)

Implements struct fb_ops.fb_read for I/O memory

Parameters

struct fb_info *info

fb_info struct pointer

char __user *buf

userspace buffer to read from framebuffer memory

size_t count

number of bytes to read from framebuffer memory

loff_t *ppos

read offset within framebuffer memory

Return

The number of bytes read on success, or an error code otherwise.

ssize_t drm_fb_helper_cfb_write(struct fb_info *info, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)

Implements struct fb_ops.fb_write for I/O memory

Parameters

struct fb_info *info

fb_info struct pointer

const char __user *buf

userspace buffer to write to framebuffer memory

size_t count

number of bytes to write to framebuffer memory

loff_t *ppos

write offset within framebuffer memory

Return

The number of bytes written on success, or an error code otherwise.

void drm_fb_helper_cfb_fillrect(struct fb_info *info, const struct fb_fillrect *rect)

wrapper around cfb_fillrect

Parameters

struct fb_info *info

fbdev registered by the helper

const struct fb_fillrect *rect

info about rectangle to fill

Description

A wrapper around cfb_fillrect implemented by fbdev core

void drm_fb_helper_cfb_copyarea(struct fb_info *info, const struct fb_copyarea *area)

wrapper around cfb_copyarea

Parameters

struct fb_info *info

fbdev registered by the helper

const struct fb_copyarea *area

info about area to copy

Description

A wrapper around cfb_copyarea implemented by fbdev core

void drm_fb_helper_cfb_imageblit(struct fb_info *info, const struct fb_image *image)

wrapper around cfb_imageblit

Parameters

struct fb_info *info

fbdev registered by the helper

const struct fb_image *image

info about image to blit

Description

A wrapper around cfb_imageblit implemented by fbdev core

void drm_fb_helper_set_suspend(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper, bool suspend)

wrapper around fb_set_suspend

Parameters

struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper

driver-allocated fbdev helper, can be NULL

bool suspend

whether to suspend or resume

Description

A wrapper around fb_set_suspend implemented by fbdev core. Use drm_fb_helper_set_suspend_unlocked() if you don’t need to take the lock yourself

void drm_fb_helper_set_suspend_unlocked(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper, bool suspend)

wrapper around fb_set_suspend that also takes the console lock

Parameters

struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper

driver-allocated fbdev helper, can be NULL

bool suspend

whether to suspend or resume

Description

A wrapper around fb_set_suspend() that takes the console lock. If the lock isn’t available on resume, a worker is tasked with waiting for the lock to become available. The console lock can be pretty contented on resume due to all the printk activity.

This function can be called multiple times with the same state since fb_info.state is checked to see if fbdev is running or not before locking.

Use drm_fb_helper_set_suspend() if you need to take the lock yourself.

int drm_fb_helper_setcmap(struct fb_cmap *cmap, struct fb_info *info)

implementation for fb_ops.fb_setcmap

Parameters

struct fb_cmap *cmap

cmap to set

struct fb_info *info

fbdev registered by the helper

int drm_fb_helper_ioctl(struct fb_info *info, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)

legacy ioctl implementation

Parameters

struct fb_info *info

fbdev registered by the helper

unsigned int cmd

ioctl command

unsigned long arg

ioctl argument

Description

A helper to implement the standard fbdev ioctl. Only FBIO_WAITFORVSYNC is implemented for now.

int drm_fb_helper_check_var(struct fb_var_screeninfo *var, struct fb_info *info)

implementation for fb_ops.fb_check_var

Parameters

struct fb_var_screeninfo *var

screeninfo to check

struct fb_info *info

fbdev registered by the helper

int drm_fb_helper_set_par(struct fb_info *info)

implementation for fb_ops.fb_set_par

Parameters

struct fb_info *info

fbdev registered by the helper

Description

This will let fbcon do the mode init and is called at initialization time by the fbdev core when registering the driver, and later on through the hotplug callback.

int drm_fb_helper_pan_display(struct fb_var_screeninfo *var, struct fb_info *info)

implementation for fb_ops.fb_pan_display

Parameters

struct fb_var_screeninfo *var

updated screen information

struct fb_info *info

fbdev registered by the helper

void drm_fb_helper_fill_info(struct fb_info *info, struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper, struct drm_fb_helper_surface_size *sizes)

initializes fbdev information

Parameters

struct fb_info *info

fbdev instance to set up

struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper

fb helper instance to use as template

struct drm_fb_helper_surface_size *sizes

describes fbdev size and scanout surface size

Description

Sets up the variable and fixed fbdev metainformation from the given fb helper instance and the drm framebuffer allocated in drm_fb_helper.fb.

Drivers should call this (or their equivalent setup code) from their drm_fb_helper_funcs.fb_probe callback after having allocated the fbdev backing storage framebuffer.

int drm_fb_helper_initial_config(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper)

setup a sane initial connector configuration

Parameters

struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper

fb_helper device struct

Description

Scans the CRTCs and connectors and tries to put together an initial setup. At the moment, this is a cloned configuration across all heads with a new framebuffer object as the backing store.

Note that this also registers the fbdev and so allows userspace to call into the driver through the fbdev interfaces.

This function will call down into the drm_fb_helper_funcs.fb_probe callback to let the driver allocate and initialize the fbdev info structure and the drm framebuffer used to back the fbdev. drm_fb_helper_fill_info() is provided as a helper to setup simple default values for the fbdev info structure.

HANG DEBUGGING:

When you have fbcon support built-in or already loaded, this function will do a full modeset to setup the fbdev console. Due to locking misdesign in the VT/fbdev subsystem that entire modeset sequence has to be done while holding console_lock. Until console_unlock is called no dmesg lines will be sent out to consoles, not even serial console. This means when your driver crashes, you will see absolutely nothing else but a system stuck in this function, with no further output. Any kind of printk() you place within your own driver or in the drm core modeset code will also never show up.

Standard debug practice is to run the fbcon setup without taking the console_lock as a hack, to be able to see backtraces and crashes on the serial line. This can be done by setting the fb.lockless_register_fb=1 kernel cmdline option.

The other option is to just disable fbdev emulation since very likely the first modeset from userspace will crash in the same way, and is even easier to debug. This can be done by setting the drm_kms_helper.fbdev_emulation=0 kernel cmdline option.

Return

Zero if everything went ok, nonzero otherwise.

int drm_fb_helper_hotplug_event(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper)

respond to a hotplug notification by probing all the outputs attached to the fb

Parameters

struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper

driver-allocated fbdev helper, can be NULL

Description

Scan the connectors attached to the fb_helper and try to put together a setup after notification of a change in output configuration.

Called at runtime, takes the mode config locks to be able to check/change the modeset configuration. Must be run from process context (which usually means either the output polling work or a work item launched from the driver’s hotplug interrupt).

Note that drivers may call this even before calling drm_fb_helper_initial_config but only after drm_fb_helper_init. This allows for a race-free fbcon setup and will make sure that the fbdev emulation will not miss any hotplug events.

Return

0 on success and a non-zero error code otherwise.

void drm_fb_helper_lastclose(struct drm_device *dev)

DRM driver lastclose helper for fbdev emulation

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

Description

This function can be used as the drm_driver->lastclose callback for drivers that only need to call drm_fb_helper_restore_fbdev_mode_unlocked().

void drm_fb_helper_output_poll_changed(struct drm_device *dev)

DRM mode config .output_poll_changed helper for fbdev emulation

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

Description

This function can be used as the drm_mode_config_funcs.output_poll_changed callback for drivers that only need to call drm_fbdev.hotplug_event().

format Helper Functions Reference

unsigned int drm_fb_clip_offset(unsigned int pitch, const struct drm_format_info *format, const struct drm_rect *clip)

Returns the clipping rectangles byte-offset in a framebuffer

Parameters

unsigned int pitch

Framebuffer line pitch in byte

const struct drm_format_info *format

Framebuffer format

const struct drm_rect *clip

Clip rectangle

Return

The byte offset of the clip rectangle’s top-left corner within the framebuffer.

void drm_fb_memcpy(struct iosys_map *dst, const unsigned int *dst_pitch, const struct iosys_map *src, const struct drm_framebuffer *fb, const struct drm_rect *clip)

Copy clip buffer

Parameters

struct iosys_map *dst

Array of destination buffers

const unsigned int *dst_pitch

Array of numbers of bytes between the start of two consecutive scanlines within dst; can be NULL if scanlines are stored next to each other.

const struct iosys_map *src

Array of source buffers

const struct drm_framebuffer *fb

DRM framebuffer

const struct drm_rect *clip

Clip rectangle area to copy

Description

This function copies parts of a framebuffer to display memory. Destination and framebuffer formats must match. No conversion takes place. The parameters dst, dst_pitch and src refer to arrays. Each array must have at least as many entries as there are planes in fb’s format. Each entry stores the value for the format’s respective color plane at the same index.

This function does not apply clipping on dst (i.e. the destination is at the top-left corner).

void drm_fb_swab(struct iosys_map *dst, const unsigned int *dst_pitch, const struct iosys_map *src, const struct drm_framebuffer *fb, const struct drm_rect *clip, bool cached)

Swap bytes into clip buffer

Parameters

struct iosys_map *dst

Array of destination buffers

const unsigned int *dst_pitch

Array of numbers of bytes between the start of two consecutive scanlines within dst; can be NULL if scanlines are stored next to each other.

const struct iosys_map *src

Array of source buffers

const struct drm_framebuffer *fb

DRM framebuffer

const struct drm_rect *clip

Clip rectangle area to copy

bool cached

Source buffer is mapped cached (eg. not write-combined)

Description

This function copies parts of a framebuffer to display memory and swaps per-pixel bytes during the process. Destination and framebuffer formats must match. The parameters dst, dst_pitch and src refer to arrays. Each array must have at least as many entries as there are planes in fb’s format. Each entry stores the value for the format’s respective color plane at the same index. If cached is false a temporary buffer is used to cache one pixel line at a time to speed up slow uncached reads.

This function does not apply clipping on dst (i.e. the destination is at the top-left corner).

void drm_fb_xrgb8888_to_rgb332(struct iosys_map *dst, const unsigned int *dst_pitch, const struct iosys_map *src, const struct drm_framebuffer *fb, const struct drm_rect *clip)

Convert XRGB8888 to RGB332 clip buffer

Parameters

struct iosys_map *dst

Array of RGB332 destination buffers

const unsigned int *dst_pitch

Array of numbers of bytes between the start of two consecutive scanlines within dst; can be NULL if scanlines are stored next to each other.

const struct iosys_map *src

Array of XRGB8888 source buffers

const struct drm_framebuffer *fb

DRM framebuffer

const struct drm_rect *clip

Clip rectangle area to copy

Description

This function copies parts of a framebuffer to display memory and converts the color format during the process. Destination and framebuffer formats must match. The parameters dst, dst_pitch and src refer to arrays. Each array must have at least as many entries as there are planes in fb’s format. Each entry stores the value for the format’s respective color plane at the same index.

This function does not apply clipping on dst (i.e. the destination is at the top-left corner).

Drivers can use this function for RGB332 devices that don’t support XRGB8888 natively.

void drm_fb_xrgb8888_to_rgb565(struct iosys_map *dst, const unsigned int *dst_pitch, const struct iosys_map *src, const struct drm_framebuffer *fb, const struct drm_rect *clip, bool swab)

Convert XRGB8888 to RGB565 clip buffer

Parameters

struct iosys_map *dst

Array of RGB565 destination buffers

const unsigned int *dst_pitch

Array of numbers of bytes between the start of two consecutive scanlines within dst; can be NULL if scanlines are stored next to each other.

const struct iosys_map *src

Array of XRGB8888 source buffer

const struct drm_framebuffer *fb

DRM framebuffer

const struct drm_rect *clip

Clip rectangle area to copy

bool swab

Swap bytes

Description

This function copies parts of a framebuffer to display memory and converts the color format during the process. Destination and framebuffer formats must match. The parameters dst, dst_pitch and src refer to arrays. Each array must have at least as many entries as there are planes in fb’s format. Each entry stores the value for the format’s respective color plane at the same index.

This function does not apply clipping on dst (i.e. the destination is at the top-left corner).

Drivers can use this function for RGB565 devices that don’t support XRGB8888 natively.

void drm_fb_xrgb8888_to_xrgb1555(struct iosys_map *dst, const unsigned int *dst_pitch, const struct iosys_map *src, const struct drm_framebuffer *fb, const struct drm_rect *clip)

Convert XRGB8888 to XRGB1555 clip buffer

Parameters

struct iosys_map *dst

Array of XRGB1555 destination buffers

const unsigned int *dst_pitch

Array of numbers of bytes between the start of two consecutive scanlines within dst; can be NULL if scanlines are stored next to each other.

const struct iosys_map *src

Array of XRGB8888 source buffer

const struct drm_framebuffer *fb

DRM framebuffer

const struct drm_rect *clip

Clip rectangle area to copy

Description

This function copies parts of a framebuffer to display memory and converts the color format during the process. The parameters dst, dst_pitch and src refer to arrays. Each array must have at least as many entries as there are planes in fb’s format. Each entry stores the value for the format’s respective color plane at the same index.

This function does not apply clipping on dst (i.e. the destination is at the top-left corner).

Drivers can use this function for XRGB1555 devices that don’t support XRGB8888 natively.

void drm_fb_xrgb8888_to_argb1555(struct iosys_map *dst, const unsigned int *dst_pitch, const struct iosys_map *src, const struct drm_framebuffer *fb, const struct drm_rect *clip)

Convert XRGB8888 to ARGB1555 clip buffer

Parameters

struct iosys_map *dst

Array of ARGB1555 destination buffers

const unsigned int *dst_pitch

Array of numbers of bytes between the start of two consecutive scanlines within dst; can be NULL if scanlines are stored next to each other.

const struct iosys_map *src

Array of XRGB8888 source buffer

const struct drm_framebuffer *fb

DRM framebuffer

const struct drm_rect *clip

Clip rectangle area to copy

Description

This function copies parts of a framebuffer to display memory and converts the color format during the process. The parameters dst, dst_pitch and src refer to arrays. Each array must have at least as many entries as there are planes in fb’s format. Each entry stores the value for the format’s respective color plane at the same index.

This function does not apply clipping on dst (i.e. the destination is at the top-left corner).

Drivers can use this function for ARGB1555 devices that don’t support XRGB8888 natively. It sets an opaque alpha channel as part of the conversion.

void drm_fb_xrgb8888_to_rgba5551(struct iosys_map *dst, const unsigned int *dst_pitch, const struct iosys_map *src, const struct drm_framebuffer *fb, const struct drm_rect *clip)

Convert XRGB8888 to RGBA5551 clip buffer

Parameters

struct iosys_map *dst

Array of RGBA5551 destination buffers

const unsigned int *dst_pitch

Array of numbers of bytes between the start of two consecutive scanlines within dst; can be NULL if scanlines are stored next to each other.

const struct iosys_map *src

Array of XRGB8888 source buffer

const struct drm_framebuffer *fb

DRM framebuffer

const struct drm_rect *clip

Clip rectangle area to copy

Description

This function copies parts of a framebuffer to display memory and converts the color format during the process. The parameters dst, dst_pitch and src refer to arrays. Each array must have at least as many entries as there are planes in fb’s format. Each entry stores the value for the format’s respective color plane at the same index.

This function does not apply clipping on dst (i.e. the destination is at the top-left corner).

Drivers can use this function for RGBA5551 devices that don’t support XRGB8888 natively. It sets an opaque alpha channel as part of the conversion.

void drm_fb_xrgb8888_to_rgb888(struct iosys_map *dst, const unsigned int *dst_pitch, const struct iosys_map *src, const struct drm_framebuffer *fb, const struct drm_rect *clip)

Convert XRGB8888 to RGB888 clip buffer

Parameters

struct iosys_map *dst

Array of RGB888 destination buffers

const unsigned int *dst_pitch

Array of numbers of bytes between the start of two consecutive scanlines within dst; can be NULL if scanlines are stored next to each other.

const struct iosys_map *src

Array of XRGB8888 source buffers

const struct drm_framebuffer *fb

DRM framebuffer

const struct drm_rect *clip

Clip rectangle area to copy

Description

This function copies parts of a framebuffer to display memory and converts the color format during the process. Destination and framebuffer formats must match. The parameters dst, dst_pitch and src refer to arrays. Each array must have at least as many entries as there are planes in fb’s format. Each entry stores the value for the format’s respective color plane at the same index.

This function does not apply clipping on dst (i.e. the destination is at the top-left corner).

Drivers can use this function for RGB888 devices that don’t natively support XRGB8888.

void drm_fb_xrgb8888_to_argb8888(struct iosys_map *dst, const unsigned int *dst_pitch, const struct iosys_map *src, const struct drm_framebuffer *fb, const struct drm_rect *clip)

Convert XRGB8888 to ARGB8888 clip buffer

Parameters

struct iosys_map *dst

Array of ARGB8888 destination buffers

const unsigned int *dst_pitch

Array of numbers of bytes between the start of two consecutive scanlines within dst; can be NULL if scanlines are stored next to each other.

const struct iosys_map *src

Array of XRGB8888 source buffer

const struct drm_framebuffer *fb

DRM framebuffer

const struct drm_rect *clip

Clip rectangle area to copy

Description

This function copies parts of a framebuffer to display memory and converts the color format during the process. The parameters dst, dst_pitch and src refer to arrays. Each array must have at least as many entries as there are planes in fb’s format. Each entry stores the value for the format’s respective color plane at the same index.

This function does not apply clipping on dst (i.e. the destination is at the top-left corner).

Drivers can use this function for ARGB8888 devices that don’t support XRGB8888 natively. It sets an opaque alpha channel as part of the conversion.

void drm_fb_xrgb8888_to_xrgb2101010(struct iosys_map *dst, const unsigned int *dst_pitch, const struct iosys_map *src, const struct drm_framebuffer *fb, const struct drm_rect *clip)

Convert XRGB8888 to XRGB2101010 clip buffer

Parameters

struct iosys_map *dst

Array of XRGB2101010 destination buffers

const unsigned int *dst_pitch

Array of numbers of bytes between the start of two consecutive scanlines within dst; can be NULL if scanlines are stored next to each other.

const struct iosys_map *src

Array of XRGB8888 source buffers

const struct drm_framebuffer *fb

DRM framebuffer

const struct drm_rect *clip

Clip rectangle area to copy

Description

This function copies parts of a framebuffer to display memory and converts the color format during the process. Destination and framebuffer formats must match. The parameters dst, dst_pitch and src refer to arrays. Each array must have at least as many entries as there are planes in fb’s format. Each entry stores the value for the format’s respective color plane at the same index.

This function does not apply clipping on dst (i.e. the destination is at the top-left corner).

Drivers can use this function for XRGB2101010 devices that don’t support XRGB8888 natively.

void drm_fb_xrgb8888_to_argb2101010(struct iosys_map *dst, const unsigned int *dst_pitch, const struct iosys_map *src, const struct drm_framebuffer *fb, const struct drm_rect *clip)

Convert XRGB8888 to ARGB2101010 clip buffer

Parameters

struct iosys_map *dst

Array of ARGB2101010 destination buffers

const unsigned int *dst_pitch

Array of numbers of bytes between the start of two consecutive scanlines within dst; can be NULL if scanlines are stored next to each other.

const struct iosys_map *src

Array of XRGB8888 source buffers

const struct drm_framebuffer *fb

DRM framebuffer

const struct drm_rect *clip

Clip rectangle area to copy

Description

This function copies parts of a framebuffer to display memory and converts the color format during the process. The parameters dst, dst_pitch and src refer to arrays. Each array must have at least as many entries as there are planes in fb’s format. Each entry stores the value for the format’s respective color plane at the same index.

This function does not apply clipping on dst (i.e. the destination is at the top-left corner).

Drivers can use this function for ARGB2101010 devices that don’t support XRGB8888 natively.

void drm_fb_xrgb8888_to_gray8(struct iosys_map *dst, const unsigned int *dst_pitch, const struct iosys_map *src, const struct drm_framebuffer *fb, const struct drm_rect *clip)

Convert XRGB8888 to grayscale

Parameters

struct iosys_map *dst

Array of 8-bit grayscale destination buffers

const unsigned int *dst_pitch

Array of numbers of bytes between the start of two consecutive scanlines within dst; can be NULL if scanlines are stored next to each other.

const struct iosys_map *src

Array of XRGB8888 source buffers

const struct drm_framebuffer *fb

DRM framebuffer

const struct drm_rect *clip

Clip rectangle area to copy

Description

This function copies parts of a framebuffer to display memory and converts the color format during the process. Destination and framebuffer formats must match. The parameters dst, dst_pitch and src refer to arrays. Each array must have at least as many entries as there are planes in fb’s format. Each entry stores the value for the format’s respective color plane at the same index.

This function does not apply clipping on dst (i.e. the destination is at the top-left corner).

DRM doesn’t have native monochrome or grayscale support. Drivers can use this function for grayscale devices that don’t support XRGB8888 natively.Such drivers can announce the commonly supported XR24 format to userspace and use this function to convert to the native format. Monochrome drivers will use the most significant bit, where 1 means foreground color and 0 background color. ITU BT.601 is being used for the RGB -> luma (brightness) conversion.

int drm_fb_blit(struct iosys_map *dst, const unsigned int *dst_pitch, uint32_t dst_format, const struct iosys_map *src, const struct drm_framebuffer *fb, const struct drm_rect *clip)

Copy parts of a framebuffer to display memory

Parameters

struct iosys_map *dst

Array of display-memory addresses to copy to

const unsigned int *dst_pitch

Array of numbers of bytes between the start of two consecutive scanlines within dst; can be NULL if scanlines are stored next to each other.

uint32_t dst_format

FOURCC code of the display’s color format

const struct iosys_map *src

The framebuffer memory to copy from

const struct drm_framebuffer *fb

The framebuffer to copy from

const struct drm_rect *clip

Clip rectangle area to copy

Description

This function copies parts of a framebuffer to display memory. If the formats of the display and the framebuffer mismatch, the blit function will attempt to convert between them during the process. The parameters dst, dst_pitch and src refer to arrays. Each array must have at least as many entries as there are planes in dst_format’s format. Each entry stores the value for the format’s respective color plane at the same index.

This function does not apply clipping on dst (i.e. the destination is at the top-left corner).

Return

0 on success, or -EINVAL if the color-format conversion failed, or a negative error code otherwise.

void drm_fb_xrgb8888_to_mono(struct iosys_map *dst, const unsigned int *dst_pitch, const struct iosys_map *src, const struct drm_framebuffer *fb, const struct drm_rect *clip)

Convert XRGB8888 to monochrome

Parameters

struct iosys_map *dst

Array of monochrome destination buffers (0=black, 1=white)

const unsigned int *dst_pitch

Array of numbers of bytes between the start of two consecutive scanlines within dst; can be NULL if scanlines are stored next to each other.

const struct iosys_map *src

Array of XRGB8888 source buffers

const struct drm_framebuffer *fb

DRM framebuffer

const struct drm_rect *clip

Clip rectangle area to copy

Description

This function copies parts of a framebuffer to display memory and converts the color format during the process. Destination and framebuffer formats must match. The parameters dst, dst_pitch and src refer to arrays. Each array must have at least as many entries as there are planes in fb’s format. Each entry stores the value for the format’s respective color plane at the same index.

This function does not apply clipping on dst (i.e. the destination is at the top-left corner). The first pixel (upper left corner of the clip rectangle) will be converted and copied to the first bit (LSB) in the first byte of the monochrome destination buffer. If the caller requires that the first pixel in a byte must be located at an x-coordinate that is a multiple of 8, then the caller must take care itself of supplying a suitable clip rectangle.

DRM doesn’t have native monochrome support. Drivers can use this function for monochrome devices that don’t support XRGB8888 natively. Such drivers can announce the commonly supported XR24 format to userspace and use this function to convert to the native format.

This function uses drm_fb_xrgb8888_to_gray8() to convert to grayscale and then the result is converted from grayscale to monochrome.

size_t drm_fb_build_fourcc_list(struct drm_device *dev, const u32 *native_fourccs, size_t native_nfourccs, u32 *fourccs_out, size_t nfourccs_out)

Filters a list of supported color formats against the device’s native formats

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

const u32 *native_fourccs

4CC codes of natively supported color formats

size_t native_nfourccs

The number of entries in native_fourccs

u32 *fourccs_out

Returns 4CC codes of supported color formats

size_t nfourccs_out

The number of available entries in fourccs_out

Description

This function create a list of supported color format from natively supported formats and additional emulated formats. At a minimum, most userspace programs expect at least support for XRGB8888 on the primary plane. Devices that have to emulate the format, and possibly others, can use drm_fb_build_fourcc_list() to create a list of supported color formats. The returned list can be handed over to drm_universal_plane_init() et al. Native formats will go before emulated formats. Native formats with alpha channel will be replaced by such without, as primary planes usually don’t support alpha. Other heuristics might be applied to optimize the order. Formats near the beginning of the list are usually preferred over formats near the end of the list.

Return

The number of color-formats 4CC codes returned in fourccs_out.

Framebuffer CMA Helper Functions Reference

Error

kernel-doc missing

Error

kernel-doc missing

Framebuffer GEM Helper Reference

This library provides helpers for drivers that don’t subclass drm_framebuffer and use drm_gem_object for their backing storage.

Drivers without additional needs to validate framebuffers can simply use drm_gem_fb_create() and everything is wired up automatically. Other drivers can use all parts independently.

struct drm_gem_object *drm_gem_fb_get_obj(struct drm_framebuffer *fb, unsigned int plane)

Get GEM object backing the framebuffer

Parameters

struct drm_framebuffer *fb

Framebuffer

unsigned int plane

Plane index

Description

No additional reference is taken beyond the one that the drm_frambuffer already holds.

Return

Pointer to drm_gem_object for the given framebuffer and plane index or NULL if it does not exist.

void drm_gem_fb_destroy(struct drm_framebuffer *fb)

Free GEM backed framebuffer

Parameters

struct drm_framebuffer *fb

Framebuffer

Description

Frees a GEM backed framebuffer with its backing buffer(s) and the structure itself. Drivers can use this as their drm_framebuffer_funcs->destroy callback.

int drm_gem_fb_create_handle(struct drm_framebuffer *fb, struct drm_file *file, unsigned int *handle)

Create handle for GEM backed framebuffer

Parameters

struct drm_framebuffer *fb

Framebuffer

struct drm_file *file

DRM file to register the handle for

unsigned int *handle

Pointer to return the created handle

Description

This function creates a handle for the GEM object backing the framebuffer. Drivers can use this as their drm_framebuffer_funcs->create_handle callback. The GETFB IOCTL calls into this callback.

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int drm_gem_fb_init_with_funcs(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_framebuffer *fb, struct drm_file *file, const struct drm_mode_fb_cmd2 *mode_cmd, const struct drm_framebuffer_funcs *funcs)

Helper function for implementing drm_mode_config_funcs.fb_create callback in cases when the driver allocates a subclass of struct drm_framebuffer

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct drm_framebuffer *fb

framebuffer object

struct drm_file *file

DRM file that holds the GEM handle(s) backing the framebuffer

const struct drm_mode_fb_cmd2 *mode_cmd

Metadata from the userspace framebuffer creation request

const struct drm_framebuffer_funcs *funcs

vtable to be used for the new framebuffer object

Description

This function can be used to set drm_framebuffer_funcs for drivers that need custom framebuffer callbacks. Use drm_gem_fb_create() if you don’t need to change drm_framebuffer_funcs. The function does buffer size validation. The buffer size validation is for a general case, though, so users should pay attention to the checks being appropriate for them or, at least, non-conflicting.

Return

Zero or a negative error code.

struct drm_framebuffer *drm_gem_fb_create_with_funcs(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_file *file, const struct drm_mode_fb_cmd2 *mode_cmd, const struct drm_framebuffer_funcs *funcs)

Helper function for the drm_mode_config_funcs.fb_create callback

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct drm_file *file

DRM file that holds the GEM handle(s) backing the framebuffer

const struct drm_mode_fb_cmd2 *mode_cmd

Metadata from the userspace framebuffer creation request

const struct drm_framebuffer_funcs *funcs

vtable to be used for the new framebuffer object

Description

This function can be used to set drm_framebuffer_funcs for drivers that need custom framebuffer callbacks. Use drm_gem_fb_create() if you don’t need to change drm_framebuffer_funcs. The function does buffer size validation.

Return

Pointer to a drm_framebuffer on success or an error pointer on failure.

struct drm_framebuffer *drm_gem_fb_create(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_file *file, const struct drm_mode_fb_cmd2 *mode_cmd)

Helper function for the drm_mode_config_funcs.fb_create callback

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct drm_file *file

DRM file that holds the GEM handle(s) backing the framebuffer

const struct drm_mode_fb_cmd2 *mode_cmd

Metadata from the userspace framebuffer creation request

Description

This function creates a new framebuffer object described by drm_mode_fb_cmd2. This description includes handles for the buffer(s) backing the framebuffer.

If your hardware has special alignment or pitch requirements these should be checked before calling this function. The function does buffer size validation. Use drm_gem_fb_create_with_dirty() if you need framebuffer flushing.

Drivers can use this as their drm_mode_config_funcs.fb_create callback. The ADDFB2 IOCTL calls into this callback.

Return

Pointer to a drm_framebuffer on success or an error pointer on failure.

struct drm_framebuffer *drm_gem_fb_create_with_dirty(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_file *file, const struct drm_mode_fb_cmd2 *mode_cmd)

Helper function for the drm_mode_config_funcs.fb_create callback

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct drm_file *file

DRM file that holds the GEM handle(s) backing the framebuffer

const struct drm_mode_fb_cmd2 *mode_cmd

Metadata from the userspace framebuffer creation request

Description

This function creates a new framebuffer object described by drm_mode_fb_cmd2. This description includes handles for the buffer(s) backing the framebuffer. drm_atomic_helper_dirtyfb() is used for the dirty callback giving framebuffer flushing through the atomic machinery. Use drm_gem_fb_create() if you don’t need the dirty callback. The function does buffer size validation.

Drivers should also call drm_plane_enable_fb_damage_clips() on all planes to enable userspace to use damage clips also with the ATOMIC IOCTL.

Drivers can use this as their drm_mode_config_funcs.fb_create callback. The ADDFB2 IOCTL calls into this callback.

Return

Pointer to a drm_framebuffer on success or an error pointer on failure.

int drm_gem_fb_vmap(struct drm_framebuffer *fb, struct iosys_map *map, struct iosys_map *data)

maps all framebuffer BOs into kernel address space

Parameters

struct drm_framebuffer *fb

the framebuffer

struct iosys_map *map

returns the mapping’s address for each BO

struct iosys_map *data

returns the data address for each BO, can be NULL

Description

This function maps all buffer objects of the given framebuffer into kernel address space and stores them in struct iosys_map. If the mapping operation fails for one of the BOs, the function unmaps the already established mappings automatically.

Callers that want to access a BO’s stored data should pass data. The argument returns the addresses of the data stored in each BO. This is different from map if the framebuffer’s offsets field is non-zero.

Both, map and data, must each refer to arrays with at least fb->format->num_planes elements.

See drm_gem_fb_vunmap() for unmapping.

Return

0 on success, or a negative errno code otherwise.

void drm_gem_fb_vunmap(struct drm_framebuffer *fb, struct iosys_map *map)

unmaps framebuffer BOs from kernel address space

Parameters

struct drm_framebuffer *fb

the framebuffer

struct iosys_map *map

mapping addresses as returned by drm_gem_fb_vmap()

Description

This function unmaps all buffer objects of the given framebuffer.

See drm_gem_fb_vmap() for more information.

int drm_gem_fb_begin_cpu_access(struct drm_framebuffer *fb, enum dma_data_direction dir)

prepares GEM buffer objects for CPU access

Parameters

struct drm_framebuffer *fb

the framebuffer

enum dma_data_direction dir

access mode

Description

Prepares a framebuffer’s GEM buffer objects for CPU access. This function must be called before accessing the BO data within the kernel. For imported BOs, the function calls dma_buf_begin_cpu_access().

See drm_gem_fb_end_cpu_access() for signalling the end of CPU access.

Return

0 on success, or a negative errno code otherwise.

void drm_gem_fb_end_cpu_access(struct drm_framebuffer *fb, enum dma_data_direction dir)

signals end of CPU access to GEM buffer objects

Parameters

struct drm_framebuffer *fb

the framebuffer

enum dma_data_direction dir

access mode

Description

Signals the end of CPU access to the given framebuffer’s GEM buffer objects. This function must be paired with a corresponding call to drm_gem_fb_begin_cpu_access(). For imported BOs, the function calls dma_buf_end_cpu_access().

See also drm_gem_fb_begin_cpu_access().

int drm_gem_fb_afbc_init(struct drm_device *dev, const struct drm_mode_fb_cmd2 *mode_cmd, struct drm_afbc_framebuffer *afbc_fb)

Helper function for drivers using afbc to fill and validate all the afbc-specific struct drm_afbc_framebuffer members

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

const struct drm_mode_fb_cmd2 *mode_cmd

Metadata from the userspace framebuffer creation request

struct drm_afbc_framebuffer *afbc_fb

afbc framebuffer

Description

This function can be used by drivers which support afbc to complete the preparation of struct drm_afbc_framebuffer. It must be called after allocating the said struct and calling drm_gem_fb_init_with_funcs(). It is caller’s responsibility to put afbc_fb->base.obj objects in case the call is unsuccessful.

Return

Zero on success or a negative error value on failure.

Bridges

Overview

struct drm_bridge represents a device that hangs on to an encoder. These are handy when a regular drm_encoder entity isn’t enough to represent the entire encoder chain.

A bridge is always attached to a single drm_encoder at a time, but can be either connected to it directly, or through a chain of bridges:

[ CRTC ---> ] Encoder ---> Bridge A ---> Bridge B

Here, the output of the encoder feeds to bridge A, and that furthers feeds to bridge B. Bridge chains can be arbitrarily long, and shall be fully linear: Chaining multiple bridges to the output of a bridge, or the same bridge to the output of different bridges, is not supported.

drm_bridge, like drm_panel, aren’t drm_mode_object entities like planes, CRTCs, encoders or connectors and hence are not visible to userspace. They just provide additional hooks to get the desired output at the end of the encoder chain.

Bridge Operations

Bridge drivers expose operations through the drm_bridge_funcs structure. The DRM internals (atomic and CRTC helpers) use the helpers defined in drm_bridge.c to call bridge operations. Those operations are divided in three big categories to support different parts of the bridge usage.

  • The encoder-related operations support control of the bridges in the chain, and are roughly counterparts to the drm_encoder_helper_funcs operations. They are used by the legacy CRTC and the atomic modeset helpers to perform mode validation, fixup and setting, and enable and disable the bridge automatically.

    The enable and disable operations are split in drm_bridge_funcs.pre_enable, drm_bridge_funcs.enable, drm_bridge_funcs.disable and drm_bridge_funcs.post_disable to provide finer-grained control.

    Bridge drivers may implement the legacy version of those operations, or the atomic version (prefixed with atomic_), in which case they shall also implement the atomic state bookkeeping operations (drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_duplicate_state, drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_destroy_state and drm_bridge_funcs.reset). Mixing atomic and non-atomic versions of the operations is not supported.

  • The bus format negotiation operations drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_get_output_bus_fmts and drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_get_input_bus_fmts allow bridge drivers to negotiate the formats transmitted between bridges in the chain when multiple formats are supported. Negotiation for formats is performed transparently for display drivers by the atomic modeset helpers. Only atomic versions of those operations exist, bridge drivers that need to implement them shall thus also implement the atomic version of the encoder-related operations. This feature is not supported by the legacy CRTC helpers.

  • The connector-related operations support implementing a drm_connector based on a chain of bridges. DRM bridges traditionally create a drm_connector for bridges meant to be used at the end of the chain. This puts additional burden on bridge drivers, especially for bridges that may be used in the middle of a chain or at the end of it. Furthermore, it requires all operations of the drm_connector to be handled by a single bridge, which doesn’t always match the hardware architecture.

    To simplify bridge drivers and make the connector implementation more flexible, a new model allows bridges to unconditionally skip creation of drm_connector and instead expose drm_bridge_funcs operations to support an externally-implemented drm_connector. Those operations are drm_bridge_funcs.detect, drm_bridge_funcs.get_modes, drm_bridge_funcs.get_edid, drm_bridge_funcs.hpd_notify, drm_bridge_funcs.hpd_enable and drm_bridge_funcs.hpd_disable. When implemented, display drivers shall create a drm_connector instance for each chain of bridges, and implement those connector instances based on the bridge connector operations.

    Bridge drivers shall implement the connector-related operations for all the features that the bridge hardware support. For instance, if a bridge supports reading EDID, the drm_bridge_funcs.get_edid shall be implemented. This however doesn’t mean that the DDC lines are wired to the bridge on a particular platform, as they could also be connected to an I2C controller of the SoC. Support for the connector-related operations on the running platform is reported through the drm_bridge.ops flags. Bridge drivers shall detect which operations they can support on the platform (usually this information is provided by ACPI or DT), and set the drm_bridge.ops flags for all supported operations. A flag shall only be set if the corresponding drm_bridge_funcs operation is implemented, but an implemented operation doesn’t necessarily imply that the corresponding flag will be set. Display drivers shall use the drm_bridge.ops flags to decide which bridge to delegate a connector operation to. This mechanism allows providing a single static const drm_bridge_funcs instance in bridge drivers, improving security by storing function pointers in read-only memory.

    In order to ease transition, bridge drivers may support both the old and new models by making connector creation optional and implementing the connected-related bridge operations. Connector creation is then controlled by the flags argument to the drm_bridge_attach() function. Display drivers that support the new model and create connectors themselves shall set the DRM_BRIDGE_ATTACH_NO_CONNECTOR flag, and bridge drivers shall then skip connector creation. For intermediate bridges in the chain, the flag shall be passed to the drm_bridge_attach() call for the downstream bridge. Bridge drivers that implement the new model only shall return an error from their drm_bridge_funcs.attach handler when the DRM_BRIDGE_ATTACH_NO_CONNECTOR flag is not set. New display drivers should use the new model, and convert the bridge drivers they use if needed, in order to gradually transition to the new model.

Bridge Connector Helper

The DRM bridge connector helper object provides a DRM connector implementation that wraps a chain of struct drm_bridge. The connector operations are fully implemented based on the operations of the bridges in the chain, and don’t require any intervention from the display controller driver at runtime.

To use the helper, display controller drivers create a bridge connector with a call to drm_bridge_connector_init(). This associates the newly created connector with the chain of bridges passed to the function and registers it with the DRM device. At that point the connector becomes fully usable, no further operation is needed.

The DRM bridge connector operations are implemented based on the operations provided by the bridges in the chain. Each connector operation is delegated to the bridge closest to the connector (at the end of the chain) that provides the relevant functionality.

To make use of this helper, all bridges in the chain shall report bridge operation flags (drm_bridge->ops) and bridge output type (drm_bridge->type), as well as the DRM_BRIDGE_ATTACH_NO_CONNECTOR attach flag (none of the bridges shall create a DRM connector directly).

Bridge Helper Reference

enum drm_bridge_attach_flags

Flags for drm_bridge_funcs.attach

Constants

DRM_BRIDGE_ATTACH_NO_CONNECTOR

When this flag is set the bridge shall not create a drm_connector.

struct drm_bridge_funcs

drm_bridge control functions

Definition

struct drm_bridge_funcs {
  int (*attach)(struct drm_bridge *bridge, enum drm_bridge_attach_flags flags);
  void (*detach)(struct drm_bridge *bridge);
  enum drm_mode_status (*mode_valid)(struct drm_bridge *bridge,const struct drm_display_info *info, const struct drm_display_mode *mode);
  bool (*mode_fixup)(struct drm_bridge *bridge,const struct drm_display_mode *mode, struct drm_display_mode *adjusted_mode);
  void (*disable)(struct drm_bridge *bridge);
  void (*post_disable)(struct drm_bridge *bridge);
  void (*mode_set)(struct drm_bridge *bridge,const struct drm_display_mode *mode, const struct drm_display_mode *adjusted_mode);
  void (*pre_enable)(struct drm_bridge *bridge);
  void (*enable)(struct drm_bridge *bridge);
  void (*atomic_pre_enable)(struct drm_bridge *bridge, struct drm_bridge_state *old_bridge_state);
  void (*atomic_enable)(struct drm_bridge *bridge, struct drm_bridge_state *old_bridge_state);
  void (*atomic_disable)(struct drm_bridge *bridge, struct drm_bridge_state *old_bridge_state);
  void (*atomic_post_disable)(struct drm_bridge *bridge, struct drm_bridge_state *old_bridge_state);
  struct drm_bridge_state *(*atomic_duplicate_state)(struct drm_bridge *bridge);
  void (*atomic_destroy_state)(struct drm_bridge *bridge, struct drm_bridge_state *state);
  u32 *(*atomic_get_output_bus_fmts)(struct drm_bridge *bridge,struct drm_bridge_state *bridge_state,struct drm_crtc_state *crtc_state,struct drm_connector_state *conn_state, unsigned int *num_output_fmts);
  u32 *(*atomic_get_input_bus_fmts)(struct drm_bridge *bridge,struct drm_bridge_state *bridge_state,struct drm_crtc_state *crtc_state,struct drm_connector_state *conn_state,u32 output_fmt, unsigned int *num_input_fmts);
  int (*atomic_check)(struct drm_bridge *bridge,struct drm_bridge_state *bridge_state,struct drm_crtc_state *crtc_state, struct drm_connector_state *conn_state);
  struct drm_bridge_state *(*atomic_reset)(struct drm_bridge *bridge);
  enum drm_connector_status (*detect)(struct drm_bridge *bridge);
  int (*get_modes)(struct drm_bridge *bridge, struct drm_connector *connector);
  struct edid *(*get_edid)(struct drm_bridge *bridge, struct drm_connector *connector);
  void (*hpd_notify)(struct drm_bridge *bridge, enum drm_connector_status status);
  void (*hpd_enable)(struct drm_bridge *bridge);
  void (*hpd_disable)(struct drm_bridge *bridge);
  void (*debugfs_init)(struct drm_bridge *bridge, struct dentry *root);
};

Members

attach

This callback is invoked whenever our bridge is being attached to a drm_encoder. The flags argument tunes the behaviour of the attach operation (see DRM_BRIDGE_ATTACH_*).

The attach callback is optional.

RETURNS:

Zero on success, error code on failure.

detach

This callback is invoked whenever our bridge is being detached from a drm_encoder.

The detach callback is optional.

mode_valid

This callback is used to check if a specific mode is valid in this bridge. This should be implemented if the bridge has some sort of restriction in the modes it can display. For example, a given bridge may be responsible to set a clock value. If the clock can not produce all the values for the available modes then this callback can be used to restrict the number of modes to only the ones that can be displayed.

This hook is used by the probe helpers to filter the mode list in drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes(), and it is used by the atomic helpers to validate modes supplied by userspace in drm_atomic_helper_check_modeset().

The mode_valid callback is optional.

NOTE:

Since this function is both called from the check phase of an atomic commit, and the mode validation in the probe paths it is not allowed to look at anything else but the passed-in mode, and validate it against configuration-invariant hardward constraints. Any further limits which depend upon the configuration can only be checked in mode_fixup.

RETURNS:

drm_mode_status Enum

mode_fixup

This callback is used to validate and adjust a mode. The parameter mode is the display mode that should be fed to the next element in the display chain, either the final drm_connector or the next drm_bridge. The parameter adjusted_mode is the input mode the bridge requires. It can be modified by this callback and does not need to match mode. See also drm_crtc_state.adjusted_mode for more details.

This is the only hook that allows a bridge to reject a modeset. If this function passes all other callbacks must succeed for this configuration.

The mode_fixup callback is optional. drm_bridge_funcs.mode_fixup() is not called when drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_check() is implemented, so only one of them should be provided.

NOTE:

This function is called in the check phase of atomic modesets, which can be aborted for any reason (including on userspace’s request to just check whether a configuration would be possible). Drivers MUST NOT touch any persistent state (hardware or software) or data structures except the passed in state parameter.

Also beware that userspace can request its own custom modes, neither core nor helpers filter modes to the list of probe modes reported by the GETCONNECTOR IOCTL and stored in drm_connector.modes. To ensure that modes are filtered consistently put any bridge constraints and limits checks into mode_valid.

RETURNS:

True if an acceptable configuration is possible, false if the modeset operation should be rejected.

disable

This callback should disable the bridge. It is called right before the preceding element in the display pipe is disabled. If the preceding element is a bridge this means it’s called before that bridge’s disable vfunc. If the preceding element is a drm_encoder it’s called right before the drm_encoder_helper_funcs.disable, drm_encoder_helper_funcs.prepare or drm_encoder_helper_funcs.dpms hook.

The bridge can assume that the display pipe (i.e. clocks and timing signals) feeding it is still running when this callback is called.

The disable callback is optional.

NOTE:

This is deprecated, do not use! New drivers shall use drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_disable.

post_disable

This callback should disable the bridge. It is called right after the preceding element in the display pipe is disabled. If the preceding element is a bridge this means it’s called after that bridge’s post_disable function. If the preceding element is a drm_encoder it’s called right after the encoder’s drm_encoder_helper_funcs.disable, drm_encoder_helper_funcs.prepare or drm_encoder_helper_funcs.dpms hook.

The bridge must assume that the display pipe (i.e. clocks and timing singals) feeding it is no longer running when this callback is called.

The post_disable callback is optional.

NOTE:

This is deprecated, do not use! New drivers shall use drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_post_disable.

mode_set

This callback should set the given mode on the bridge. It is called after the mode_set callback for the preceding element in the display pipeline has been called already. If the bridge is the first element then this would be drm_encoder_helper_funcs.mode_set. The display pipe (i.e. clocks and timing signals) is off when this function is called.

The adjusted_mode parameter is the mode output by the CRTC for the first bridge in the chain. It can be different from the mode parameter that contains the desired mode for the connector at the end of the bridges chain, for instance when the first bridge in the chain performs scaling. The adjusted mode is mostly useful for the first bridge in the chain and is likely irrelevant for the other bridges.

For atomic drivers the adjusted_mode is the mode stored in drm_crtc_state.adjusted_mode.

NOTE:

This is deprecated, do not use! New drivers shall set their mode in the drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_enable operation.

pre_enable

This callback should enable the bridge. It is called right before the preceding element in the display pipe is enabled. If the preceding element is a bridge this means it’s called before that bridge’s pre_enable function. If the preceding element is a drm_encoder it’s called right before the encoder’s drm_encoder_helper_funcs.enable, drm_encoder_helper_funcs.commit or drm_encoder_helper_funcs.dpms hook.

The display pipe (i.e. clocks and timing signals) feeding this bridge will not yet be running when this callback is called. The bridge must not enable the display link feeding the next bridge in the chain (if there is one) when this callback is called.

The pre_enable callback is optional.

NOTE:

This is deprecated, do not use! New drivers shall use drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_pre_enable.

enable

This callback should enable the bridge. It is called right after the preceding element in the display pipe is enabled. If the preceding element is a bridge this means it’s called after that bridge’s enable function. If the preceding element is a drm_encoder it’s called right after the encoder’s drm_encoder_helper_funcs.enable, drm_encoder_helper_funcs.commit or drm_encoder_helper_funcs.dpms hook.

The bridge can assume that the display pipe (i.e. clocks and timing signals) feeding it is running when this callback is called. This callback must enable the display link feeding the next bridge in the chain if there is one.

The enable callback is optional.

NOTE:

This is deprecated, do not use! New drivers shall use drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_enable.

atomic_pre_enable

This callback should enable the bridge. It is called right before the preceding element in the display pipe is enabled. If the preceding element is a bridge this means it’s called before that bridge’s atomic_pre_enable or pre_enable function. If the preceding element is a drm_encoder it’s called right before the encoder’s drm_encoder_helper_funcs.atomic_enable hook.

The display pipe (i.e. clocks and timing signals) feeding this bridge will not yet be running when this callback is called. The bridge must not enable the display link feeding the next bridge in the chain (if there is one) when this callback is called.

The atomic_pre_enable callback is optional.

atomic_enable

This callback should enable the bridge. It is called right after the preceding element in the display pipe is enabled. If the preceding element is a bridge this means it’s called after that bridge’s atomic_enable or enable function. If the preceding element is a drm_encoder it’s called right after the encoder’s drm_encoder_helper_funcs.atomic_enable hook.

The bridge can assume that the display pipe (i.e. clocks and timing signals) feeding it is running when this callback is called. This callback must enable the display link feeding the next bridge in the chain if there is one.

The atomic_enable callback is optional.

atomic_disable

This callback should disable the bridge. It is called right before the preceding element in the display pipe is disabled. If the preceding element is a bridge this means it’s called before that bridge’s atomic_disable or disable vfunc. If the preceding element is a drm_encoder it’s called right before the drm_encoder_helper_funcs.atomic_disable hook.

The bridge can assume that the display pipe (i.e. clocks and timing signals) feeding it is still running when this callback is called.

The atomic_disable callback is optional.

atomic_post_disable

This callback should disable the bridge. It is called right after the preceding element in the display pipe is disabled. If the preceding element is a bridge this means it’s called after that bridge’s atomic_post_disable or post_disable function. If the preceding element is a drm_encoder it’s called right after the encoder’s drm_encoder_helper_funcs.atomic_disable hook.

The bridge must assume that the display pipe (i.e. clocks and timing signals) feeding it is no longer running when this callback is called.

The atomic_post_disable callback is optional.

atomic_duplicate_state

Duplicate the current bridge state object (which is guaranteed to be non-NULL).

The atomic_duplicate_state hook is mandatory if the bridge implements any of the atomic hooks, and should be left unassigned otherwise. For bridges that don’t subclass drm_bridge_state, the drm_atomic_helper_bridge_duplicate_state() helper function shall be used to implement this hook.

RETURNS: A valid drm_bridge_state object or NULL if the allocation fails.

atomic_destroy_state

Destroy a bridge state object previously allocated by drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_duplicate_state().

The atomic_destroy_state hook is mandatory if the bridge implements any of the atomic hooks, and should be left unassigned otherwise. For bridges that don’t subclass drm_bridge_state, the drm_atomic_helper_bridge_destroy_state() helper function shall be used to implement this hook.

atomic_get_output_bus_fmts

Return the supported bus formats on the output end of a bridge. The returned array must be allocated with kmalloc() and will be freed by the caller. If the allocation fails, NULL should be returned. num_output_fmts must be set to the returned array size. Formats listed in the returned array should be listed in decreasing preference order (the core will try all formats until it finds one that works).

This method is only called on the last element of the bridge chain as part of the bus format negotiation process that happens in drm_atomic_bridge_chain_select_bus_fmts`(). This method is optional. When not implemented, the core will fall back to :c:type:`drm_connector.display_info.bus_formats[0] if drm_connector.display_info.num_bus_formats > 0, or to MEDIA_BUS_FMT_FIXED otherwise.

atomic_get_input_bus_fmts

Return the supported bus formats on the input end of a bridge for a specific output bus format.

The returned array must be allocated with kmalloc() and will be freed by the caller. If the allocation fails, NULL should be returned. num_input_fmts must be set to the returned array size. Formats listed in the returned array should be listed in decreasing preference order (the core will try all formats until it finds one that works). When the format is not supported NULL should be returned and num_input_fmts should be set to 0.

This method is called on all elements of the bridge chain as part of the bus format negotiation process that happens in drm_atomic_bridge_chain_select_bus_fmts(). This method is optional. When not implemented, the core will bypass bus format negotiation on this element of the bridge without failing, and the previous element in the chain will be passed MEDIA_BUS_FMT_FIXED as its output bus format.

Bridge drivers that need to support being linked to bridges that are not supporting bus format negotiation should handle the output_fmt == MEDIA_BUS_FMT_FIXED case appropriately, by selecting a sensible default value or extracting this information from somewhere else (FW property, drm_display_mode, drm_display_info, …)

Note: Even if input format selection on the first bridge has no impact on the negotiation process (bus format negotiation stops once we reach the first element of the chain), drivers are expected to return accurate input formats as the input format may be used to configure the CRTC output appropriately.

atomic_check

This method is responsible for checking bridge state correctness. It can also check the state of the surrounding components in chain to make sure the whole pipeline can work properly.

drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_check() hooks are called in reverse order (from the last to the first bridge).

This method is optional. drm_bridge_funcs.mode_fixup() is not called when drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_check() is implemented, so only one of them should be provided.

If drivers need to tweak drm_bridge_state.input_bus_cfg.flags or drm_bridge_state.output_bus_cfg.flags it should happen in this function. By default the drm_bridge_state.output_bus_cfg.flags field is set to the next bridge drm_bridge_state.input_bus_cfg.flags value or drm_connector.display_info.bus_flags if the bridge is the last element in the chain.

RETURNS: zero if the check passed, a negative error code otherwise.

atomic_reset

Reset the bridge to a predefined state (or retrieve its current state) and return a drm_bridge_state object matching this state. This function is called at attach time.

The atomic_reset hook is mandatory if the bridge implements any of the atomic hooks, and should be left unassigned otherwise. For bridges that don’t subclass drm_bridge_state, the drm_atomic_helper_bridge_reset() helper function shall be used to implement this hook.

Note that the atomic_reset() semantics is not exactly matching the reset() semantics found on other components (connector, plane, …).

  1. The reset operation happens when the bridge is attached, not when drm_mode_config_reset() is called

  2. It’s meant to be used exclusively on bridges that have been converted to the ATOMIC API

RETURNS: A valid drm_bridge_state object in case of success, an ERR_PTR() giving the reason of the failure otherwise.

detect

Check if anything is attached to the bridge output.

This callback is optional, if not implemented the bridge will be considered as always having a component attached to its output. Bridges that implement this callback shall set the DRM_BRIDGE_OP_DETECT flag in their drm_bridge->ops.

RETURNS:

drm_connector_status indicating the bridge output status.

get_modes

Fill all modes currently valid for the sink into the drm_connector with drm_mode_probed_add().

The get_modes callback is mostly intended to support non-probeable displays such as many fixed panels. Bridges that support reading EDID shall leave get_modes unimplemented and implement the drm_bridge_funcs->get_edid callback instead.

This callback is optional. Bridges that implement it shall set the DRM_BRIDGE_OP_MODES flag in their drm_bridge->ops.

The connector parameter shall be used for the sole purpose of filling modes, and shall not be stored internally by bridge drivers for future usage.

RETURNS:

The number of modes added by calling drm_mode_probed_add().

get_edid

Read and parse the EDID data of the connected display.

The get_edid callback is the preferred way of reporting mode information for a display connected to the bridge output. Bridges that support reading EDID shall implement this callback and leave the get_modes callback unimplemented.

The caller of this operation shall first verify the output connection status and refrain from reading EDID from a disconnected output.

This callback is optional. Bridges that implement it shall set the DRM_BRIDGE_OP_EDID flag in their drm_bridge->ops.

The connector parameter shall be used for the sole purpose of EDID retrieval and parsing, and shall not be stored internally by bridge drivers for future usage.

RETURNS:

An edid structure newly allocated with kmalloc() (or similar) on success, or NULL otherwise. The caller is responsible for freeing the returned edid structure with kfree().

hpd_notify

Notify the bridge of hot plug detection.

This callback is optional, it may be implemented by bridges that need to be notified of display connection or disconnection for internal reasons. One use case is to reset the internal state of CEC controllers for HDMI bridges.

hpd_enable

Enable hot plug detection. From now on the bridge shall call drm_bridge_hpd_notify() each time a change is detected in the output connection status, until hot plug detection gets disabled with hpd_disable.

This callback is optional and shall only be implemented by bridges that support hot-plug notification without polling. Bridges that implement it shall also implement the hpd_disable callback and set the DRM_BRIDGE_OP_HPD flag in their drm_bridge->ops.

hpd_disable

Disable hot plug detection. Once this function returns the bridge shall not call drm_bridge_hpd_notify() when a change in the output connection status occurs.

This callback is optional and shall only be implemented by bridges that support hot-plug notification without polling. Bridges that implement it shall also implement the hpd_enable callback and set the DRM_BRIDGE_OP_HPD flag in their drm_bridge->ops.

debugfs_init

Allows bridges to create bridge-specific debugfs files.

struct drm_bridge_timings

timing information for the bridge

Definition

struct drm_bridge_timings {
  u32 input_bus_flags;
  u32 setup_time_ps;
  u32 hold_time_ps;
  bool dual_link;
};

Members

input_bus_flags

Tells what additional settings for the pixel data on the bus this bridge requires (like pixel signal polarity). See also drm_display_info->bus_flags.

setup_time_ps

Defines the time in picoseconds the input data lines must be stable before the clock edge.

hold_time_ps

Defines the time in picoseconds taken for the bridge to sample the input signal after the clock edge.

dual_link

True if the bus operates in dual-link mode. The exact meaning is dependent on the bus type. For LVDS buses, this indicates that even- and odd-numbered pixels are received on separate links.

enum drm_bridge_ops

Bitmask of operations supported by the bridge

Constants

DRM_BRIDGE_OP_DETECT

The bridge can detect displays connected to its output. Bridges that set this flag shall implement the drm_bridge_funcs->detect callback.

DRM_BRIDGE_OP_EDID

The bridge can retrieve the EDID of the display connected to its output. Bridges that set this flag shall implement the drm_bridge_funcs->get_edid callback.

DRM_BRIDGE_OP_HPD

The bridge can detect hot-plug and hot-unplug without requiring polling. Bridges that set this flag shall implement the drm_bridge_funcs->hpd_enable and drm_bridge_funcs->hpd_disable callbacks if they support enabling and disabling hot-plug detection dynamically.

DRM_BRIDGE_OP_MODES

The bridge can retrieve the modes supported by the display at its output. This does not include reading EDID which is separately covered by DRM_BRIDGE_OP_EDID. Bridges that set this flag shall implement the drm_bridge_funcs->get_modes callback.

struct drm_bridge

central DRM bridge control structure

Definition

struct drm_bridge {
  struct drm_private_obj base;
  struct drm_device *dev;
  struct drm_encoder *encoder;
  struct list_head chain_node;
#ifdef CONFIG_OF;
  struct device_node *of_node;
#endif;
  struct list_head list;
  const struct drm_bridge_timings *timings;
  const struct drm_bridge_funcs *funcs;
  void *driver_private;
  enum drm_bridge_ops ops;
  int type;
  bool interlace_allowed;
  bool pre_enable_prev_first;
  struct i2c_adapter *ddc;
  struct mutex hpd_mutex;
  void (*hpd_cb)(void *data, enum drm_connector_status status);
  void *hpd_data;
};

Members

base

inherit from drm_private_object

dev

DRM device this bridge belongs to

encoder

encoder to which this bridge is connected

chain_node

used to form a bridge chain

of_node

device node pointer to the bridge

list

to keep track of all added bridges

timings

the timing specification for the bridge, if any (may be NULL)

funcs

control functions

driver_private

pointer to the bridge driver’s internal context

ops

bitmask of operations supported by the bridge

type

Type of the connection at the bridge output (DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_*). For bridges at the end of this chain this identifies the type of connected display.

interlace_allowed

Indicate that the bridge can handle interlaced modes.

pre_enable_prev_first

The bridge requires that the prev bridge pre_enable function is called before its pre_enable, and conversely for post_disable. This is most frequently a requirement for DSI devices which need the host to be initialised before the peripheral.

ddc

Associated I2C adapter for DDC access, if any.

hpd_mutex

Protects the hpd_cb and hpd_data fields.

hpd_cb

Hot plug detection callback, registered with drm_bridge_hpd_enable().

hpd_data

Private data passed to the Hot plug detection callback hpd_cb.

struct drm_bridge *drm_bridge_get_next_bridge(struct drm_bridge *bridge)

Get the next bridge in the chain

Parameters

struct drm_bridge *bridge

bridge object

Return

the next bridge in the chain after bridge, or NULL if bridge is the last.

struct drm_bridge *drm_bridge_get_prev_bridge(struct drm_bridge *bridge)

Get the previous bridge in the chain

Parameters

struct drm_bridge *bridge

bridge object

Return

the previous bridge in the chain, or NULL if bridge is the first.

struct drm_bridge *drm_bridge_chain_get_first_bridge(struct drm_encoder *encoder)

Get the first bridge in the chain

Parameters

struct drm_encoder *encoder

encoder object

Return

the first bridge in the chain, or NULL if encoder has no bridge attached to it.

drm_for_each_bridge_in_chain

drm_for_each_bridge_in_chain (encoder, bridge)

Iterate over all bridges present in a chain

Parameters

encoder

the encoder to iterate bridges on

bridge

a bridge pointer updated to point to the current bridge at each iteration

Description

Iterate over all bridges present in the bridge chain attached to encoder.

void drm_bridge_add(struct drm_bridge *bridge)

add the given bridge to the global bridge list

Parameters

struct drm_bridge *bridge

bridge control structure

int devm_drm_bridge_add(struct device *dev, struct drm_bridge *bridge)

devm managed version of drm_bridge_add()

Parameters

struct device *dev

device to tie the bridge lifetime to

struct drm_bridge *bridge

bridge control structure

Description

This is the managed version of drm_bridge_add() which automatically calls drm_bridge_remove() when dev is unbound.

Return

0 if no error or negative error code.

void drm_bridge_remove(struct drm_bridge *bridge)

remove the given bridge from the global bridge list

Parameters

struct drm_bridge *bridge

bridge control structure

int drm_bridge_attach(struct drm_encoder *encoder, struct drm_bridge *bridge, struct drm_bridge *previous, enum drm_bridge_attach_flags flags)

attach the bridge to an encoder’s chain

Parameters

struct drm_encoder *encoder

DRM encoder

struct drm_bridge *bridge

bridge to attach

struct drm_bridge *previous

previous bridge in the chain (optional)

enum drm_bridge_attach_flags flags

DRM_BRIDGE_ATTACH_* flags

Description

Called by a kms driver to link the bridge to an encoder’s chain. The previous argument specifies the previous bridge in the chain. If NULL, the bridge is linked directly at the encoder’s output. Otherwise it is linked at the previous bridge’s output.

If non-NULL the previous bridge must be already attached by a call to this function.

Note that bridges attached to encoders are auto-detached during encoder cleanup in drm_encoder_cleanup(), so drm_bridge_attach() should generally not be balanced with a drm_bridge_detach() in driver code.

Return

Zero on success, error code on failure

bool drm_bridge_chain_mode_fixup(struct drm_bridge *bridge, const struct drm_display_mode *mode, struct drm_display_mode *adjusted_mode)

fixup proposed mode for all bridges in the encoder chain

Parameters

struct drm_bridge *bridge

bridge control structure

const struct drm_display_mode *mode

desired mode to be set for the bridge

struct drm_display_mode *adjusted_mode

updated mode that works for this bridge

Description

Calls drm_bridge_funcs.mode_fixup for all the bridges in the encoder chain, starting from the first bridge to the last.

Note

the bridge passed should be the one closest to the encoder

Return

true on success, false on failure

enum drm_mode_status drm_bridge_chain_mode_valid(struct drm_bridge *bridge, const struct drm_display_info *info, const struct drm_display_mode *mode)

validate the mode against all bridges in the encoder chain.

Parameters

struct drm_bridge *bridge

bridge control structure

const struct drm_display_info *info

display info against which the mode shall be validated

const struct drm_display_mode *mode

desired mode to be validated

Description

Calls drm_bridge_funcs.mode_valid for all the bridges in the encoder chain, starting from the first bridge to the last. If at least one bridge does not accept the mode the function returns the error code.

Note

the bridge passed should be the one closest to the encoder.

Return

MODE_OK on success, drm_mode_status Enum error code on failure

void drm_bridge_chain_mode_set(struct drm_bridge *bridge, const struct drm_display_mode *mode, const struct drm_display_mode *adjusted_mode)

set proposed mode for all bridges in the encoder chain

Parameters

struct drm_bridge *bridge

bridge control structure

const struct drm_display_mode *mode

desired mode to be set for the encoder chain

const struct drm_display_mode *adjusted_mode

updated mode that works for this encoder chain

Description

Calls drm_bridge_funcs.mode_set op for all the bridges in the encoder chain, starting from the first bridge to the last.

Note

the bridge passed should be the one closest to the encoder

void drm_atomic_bridge_chain_disable(struct drm_bridge *bridge, struct drm_atomic_state *old_state)

disables all bridges in the encoder chain

Parameters

struct drm_bridge *bridge

bridge control structure

struct drm_atomic_state *old_state

old atomic state

Description

Calls drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_disable (falls back on drm_bridge_funcs.disable) op for all the bridges in the encoder chain, starting from the last bridge to the first. These are called before calling drm_encoder_helper_funcs.atomic_disable

Note

the bridge passed should be the one closest to the encoder

void drm_atomic_bridge_chain_post_disable(struct drm_bridge *bridge, struct drm_atomic_state *old_state)

cleans up after disabling all bridges in the encoder chain

Parameters

struct drm_bridge *bridge

bridge control structure

struct drm_atomic_state *old_state

old atomic state

Description

Calls drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_post_disable (falls back on drm_bridge_funcs.post_disable) op for all the bridges in the encoder chain, starting from the first bridge to the last. These are called after completing drm_encoder_helper_funcs.atomic_disable

If a bridge sets pre_enable_prev_first, then the post_disable for that bridge will be called before the previous one to reverse the pre_enable calling direction.

Note

the bridge passed should be the one closest to the encoder

void drm_atomic_bridge_chain_pre_enable(struct drm_bridge *bridge, struct drm_atomic_state *old_state)

prepares for enabling all bridges in the encoder chain

Parameters

struct drm_bridge *bridge

bridge control structure

struct drm_atomic_state *old_state

old atomic state

Description

Calls drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_pre_enable (falls back on drm_bridge_funcs.pre_enable) op for all the bridges in the encoder chain, starting from the last bridge to the first. These are called before calling drm_encoder_helper_funcs.atomic_enable

If a bridge sets pre_enable_prev_first, then the pre_enable for the prev bridge will be called before pre_enable of this bridge.

Note

the bridge passed should be the one closest to the encoder

void drm_atomic_bridge_chain_enable(struct drm_bridge *bridge, struct drm_atomic_state *old_state)

enables all bridges in the encoder chain

Parameters

struct drm_bridge *bridge

bridge control structure

struct drm_atomic_state *old_state

old atomic state

Description

Calls drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_enable (falls back on drm_bridge_funcs.enable) op for all the bridges in the encoder chain, starting from the first bridge to the last. These are called after completing drm_encoder_helper_funcs.atomic_enable

Note

the bridge passed should be the one closest to the encoder

int drm_atomic_bridge_chain_check(struct drm_bridge *bridge, struct drm_crtc_state *crtc_state, struct drm_connector_state *conn_state)

Do an atomic check on the bridge chain

Parameters

struct drm_bridge *bridge

bridge control structure

struct drm_crtc_state *crtc_state

new CRTC state

struct drm_connector_state *conn_state

new connector state

Description

First trigger a bus format negotiation before calling drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_check() (falls back on drm_bridge_funcs.mode_fixup()) op for all the bridges in the encoder chain, starting from the last bridge to the first. These are called before calling drm_encoder_helper_funcs.atomic_check()

Return

0 on success, a negative error code on failure

enum drm_connector_status drm_bridge_detect(struct drm_bridge *bridge)

check if anything is attached to the bridge output

Parameters

struct drm_bridge *bridge

bridge control structure

Description

If the bridge supports output detection, as reported by the DRM_BRIDGE_OP_DETECT bridge ops flag, call drm_bridge_funcs.detect for the bridge and return the connection status. Otherwise return connector_status_unknown.

Return

The detection status on success, or connector_status_unknown if the bridge doesn’t support output detection.

int drm_bridge_get_modes(struct drm_bridge *bridge, struct drm_connector *connector)

fill all modes currently valid for the sink into the connector

Parameters

struct drm_bridge *bridge

bridge control structure

struct drm_connector *connector

the connector to fill with modes

Description

If the bridge supports output modes retrieval, as reported by the DRM_BRIDGE_OP_MODES bridge ops flag, call drm_bridge_funcs.get_modes to fill the connector with all valid modes and return the number of modes added. Otherwise return 0.

Return

The number of modes added to the connector.

struct edid *drm_bridge_get_edid(struct drm_bridge *bridge, struct drm_connector *connector)

get the EDID data of the connected display

Parameters

struct drm_bridge *bridge

bridge control structure

struct drm_connector *connector

the connector to read EDID for

Description

If the bridge supports output EDID retrieval, as reported by the DRM_BRIDGE_OP_EDID bridge ops flag, call drm_bridge_funcs.get_edid to get the EDID and return it. Otherwise return NULL.

Return

The retrieved EDID on success, or NULL otherwise.

void drm_bridge_hpd_enable(struct drm_bridge *bridge, void (*cb)(void *data, enum drm_connector_status status), void *data, )

enable hot plug detection for the bridge

Parameters

struct drm_bridge *bridge

bridge control structure

void (*cb)(void *data, enum drm_connector_status status)

hot-plug detection callback

void *data

data to be passed to the hot-plug detection callback

Description

Call drm_bridge_funcs.hpd_enable if implemented and register the given cb and data as hot plug notification callback. From now on the cb will be called with data when an output status change is detected by the bridge, until hot plug notification gets disabled with drm_bridge_hpd_disable().

Hot plug detection is supported only if the DRM_BRIDGE_OP_HPD flag is set in bridge->ops. This function shall not be called when the flag is not set.

Only one hot plug detection callback can be registered at a time, it is an error to call this function when hot plug detection is already enabled for the bridge.

void drm_bridge_hpd_disable(struct drm_bridge *bridge)

disable hot plug detection for the bridge

Parameters

struct drm_bridge *bridge

bridge control structure

Description

Call drm_bridge_funcs.hpd_disable if implemented and unregister the hot plug detection callback previously registered with drm_bridge_hpd_enable(). Once this function returns the callback will not be called by the bridge when an output status change occurs.

Hot plug detection is supported only if the DRM_BRIDGE_OP_HPD flag is set in bridge->ops. This function shall not be called when the flag is not set.

void drm_bridge_hpd_notify(struct drm_bridge *bridge, enum drm_connector_status status)

notify hot plug detection events

Parameters

struct drm_bridge *bridge

bridge control structure

enum drm_connector_status status

output connection status

Description

Bridge drivers shall call this function to report hot plug events when they detect a change in the output status, when hot plug detection has been enabled by drm_bridge_hpd_enable().

This function shall be called in a context that can sleep.

struct drm_bridge *of_drm_find_bridge(struct device_node *np)

find the bridge corresponding to the device node in the global bridge list

Parameters

struct device_node *np

device node

Return

drm_bridge control struct on success, NULL on failure

Bridge Connector Helper Reference

struct drm_connector *drm_bridge_connector_init(struct drm_device *drm, struct drm_encoder *encoder)

Initialise a connector for a chain of bridges

Parameters

struct drm_device *drm

the DRM device

struct drm_encoder *encoder

the encoder where the bridge chain starts

Description

Allocate, initialise and register a drm_bridge_connector with the drm device. The connector is associated with a chain of bridges that starts at the encoder. All bridges in the chain shall report bridge operation flags (drm_bridge->ops) and bridge output type (drm_bridge->type), and none of them may create a DRM connector directly.

Returns a pointer to the new connector on success, or a negative error pointer otherwise.

Panel-Bridge Helper Reference

bool drm_bridge_is_panel(const struct drm_bridge *bridge)

Checks if a drm_bridge is a panel_bridge.

Parameters

const struct drm_bridge *bridge

The drm_bridge to be checked.

Description

Returns true if the bridge is a panel bridge, or false otherwise.

struct drm_bridge *drm_panel_bridge_add(struct drm_panel *panel)

Creates a drm_bridge and drm_connector that just calls the appropriate functions from drm_panel.

Parameters

struct drm_panel *panel

The drm_panel being wrapped. Must be non-NULL.

Description

For drivers converting from directly using drm_panel: The expected usage pattern is that during either encoder module probe or DSI host attach, a drm_panel will be looked up through drm_of_find_panel_or_bridge(). drm_panel_bridge_add() is used to wrap that panel in the new bridge, and the result can then be passed to drm_bridge_attach(). The drm_panel_prepare() and related functions can be dropped from the encoder driver (they’re now called by the KMS helpers before calling into the encoder), along with connector creation. When done with the bridge (after drm_mode_config_cleanup() if the bridge has already been attached), then drm_panel_bridge_remove() to free it.

The connector type is set to panel->connector_type, which must be set to a known type. Calling this function with a panel whose connector type is DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_Unknown will return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL).

See devm_drm_panel_bridge_add() for an automatically managed version of this function.

struct drm_bridge *drm_panel_bridge_add_typed(struct drm_panel *panel, u32 connector_type)

Creates a drm_bridge and drm_connector with an explicit connector type.

Parameters

struct drm_panel *panel

The drm_panel being wrapped. Must be non-NULL.

u32 connector_type

The connector type (DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_*)

Description

This is just like drm_panel_bridge_add(), but forces the connector type to connector_type instead of infering it from the panel.

This function is deprecated and should not be used in new drivers. Use drm_panel_bridge_add() instead, and fix panel drivers as necessary if they don’t report a connector type.

void drm_panel_bridge_remove(struct drm_bridge *bridge)

Unregisters and frees a drm_bridge created by drm_panel_bridge_add().

Parameters

struct drm_bridge *bridge

The drm_bridge being freed.

int drm_panel_bridge_set_orientation(struct drm_connector *connector, struct drm_bridge *bridge)

Set the connector’s panel orientation from the bridge that can be transformed to panel bridge.

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

The connector to be set panel orientation.

struct drm_bridge *bridge

The drm_bridge to be transformed to panel bridge.

Description

Returns 0 on success, negative errno on failure.

struct drm_bridge *devm_drm_panel_bridge_add(struct device *dev, struct drm_panel *panel)

Creates a managed drm_bridge and drm_connector that just calls the appropriate functions from drm_panel.

Parameters

struct device *dev

device to tie the bridge lifetime to

struct drm_panel *panel

The drm_panel being wrapped. Must be non-NULL.

Description

This is the managed version of drm_panel_bridge_add() which automatically calls drm_panel_bridge_remove() when dev is unbound.

struct drm_bridge *devm_drm_panel_bridge_add_typed(struct device *dev, struct drm_panel *panel, u32 connector_type)

Creates a managed drm_bridge and drm_connector with an explicit connector type.

Parameters

struct device *dev

device to tie the bridge lifetime to

struct drm_panel *panel

The drm_panel being wrapped. Must be non-NULL.

u32 connector_type

The connector type (DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_*)

Description

This is just like devm_drm_panel_bridge_add(), but forces the connector type to connector_type instead of infering it from the panel.

This function is deprecated and should not be used in new drivers. Use devm_drm_panel_bridge_add() instead, and fix panel drivers as necessary if they don’t report a connector type.

struct drm_bridge *drmm_panel_bridge_add(struct drm_device *drm, struct drm_panel *panel)

Creates a DRM-managed drm_bridge and drm_connector that just calls the appropriate functions from drm_panel.

Parameters

struct drm_device *drm

DRM device to tie the bridge lifetime to

struct drm_panel *panel

The drm_panel being wrapped. Must be non-NULL.

Description

This is the DRM-managed version of drm_panel_bridge_add() which automatically calls drm_panel_bridge_remove() when dev is cleaned up.

struct drm_connector *drm_panel_bridge_connector(struct drm_bridge *bridge)

return the connector for the panel bridge

Parameters

struct drm_bridge *bridge

The drm_bridge.

Description

drm_panel_bridge creates the connector. This function gives external access to the connector.

Return

Pointer to drm_connector

struct drm_bridge *devm_drm_of_get_bridge(struct device *dev, struct device_node *np, u32 port, u32 endpoint)

Return next bridge in the chain

Parameters

struct device *dev

device to tie the bridge lifetime to

struct device_node *np

device tree node containing encoder output ports

u32 port

port in the device tree node

u32 endpoint

endpoint in the device tree node

Description

Given a DT node’s port and endpoint number, finds the connected node and returns the associated bridge if any, or creates and returns a drm panel bridge instance if a panel is connected.

Returns a pointer to the bridge if successful, or an error pointer otherwise.

struct drm_bridge *drmm_of_get_bridge(struct drm_device *drm, struct device_node *np, u32 port, u32 endpoint)

Return next bridge in the chain

Parameters

struct drm_device *drm

device to tie the bridge lifetime to

struct device_node *np

device tree node containing encoder output ports

u32 port

port in the device tree node

u32 endpoint

endpoint in the device tree node

Description

Given a DT node’s port and endpoint number, finds the connected node and returns the associated bridge if any, or creates and returns a drm panel bridge instance if a panel is connected.

Returns a drmm managed pointer to the bridge if successful, or an error pointer otherwise.

Panel Helper Reference

The DRM panel helpers allow drivers to register panel objects with a central registry and provide functions to retrieve those panels in display drivers.

For easy integration into drivers using the drm_bridge infrastructure please take look at drm_panel_bridge_add() and devm_drm_panel_bridge_add().

struct drm_panel_funcs

perform operations on a given panel

Definition

struct drm_panel_funcs {
  int (*prepare)(struct drm_panel *panel);
  int (*enable)(struct drm_panel *panel);
  int (*disable)(struct drm_panel *panel);
  int (*unprepare)(struct drm_panel *panel);
  int (*get_modes)(struct drm_panel *panel, struct drm_connector *connector);
  enum drm_panel_orientation (*get_orientation)(struct drm_panel *panel);
  int (*get_timings)(struct drm_panel *panel, unsigned int num_timings, struct display_timing *timings);
  void (*debugfs_init)(struct drm_panel *panel, struct dentry *root);
};

Members

prepare

Turn on panel and perform set up.

This function is optional.

enable

Enable panel (turn on back light, etc.).

This function is optional.

disable

Disable panel (turn off back light, etc.).

This function is optional.

unprepare

Turn off panel.

This function is optional.

get_modes

Add modes to the connector that the panel is attached to and returns the number of modes added.

This function is mandatory.

get_orientation

Return the panel orientation set by device tree or EDID.

This function is optional.

get_timings

Copy display timings into the provided array and return the number of display timings available.

This function is optional.

debugfs_init

Allows panels to create panels-specific debugfs files.

Description

The .prepare() function is typically called before the display controller starts to transmit video data. Panel drivers can use this to turn the panel on and wait for it to become ready. If additional configuration is required (via a control bus such as I2C, SPI or DSI for example) this is a good time to do that.

After the display controller has started transmitting video data, it’s safe to call the .enable() function. This will typically enable the backlight to make the image on screen visible. Some panels require a certain amount of time or frames before the image is displayed. This function is responsible for taking this into account before enabling the backlight to avoid visual glitches.

Before stopping video transmission from the display controller it can be necessary to turn off the panel to avoid visual glitches. This is done in the .disable() function. Analogously to .enable() this typically involves turning off the backlight and waiting for some time to make sure no image is visible on the panel. It is then safe for the display controller to cease transmission of video data.

To save power when no video data is transmitted, a driver can power down the panel. This is the job of the .unprepare() function.

Backlight can be handled automatically if configured using drm_panel_of_backlight() or drm_panel_dp_aux_backlight(). Then the driver does not need to implement the functionality to enable/disable backlight.

struct drm_panel

DRM panel object

Definition

struct drm_panel {
  struct device *dev;
  struct backlight_device *backlight;
  const struct drm_panel_funcs *funcs;
  int connector_type;
  struct list_head list;
  bool prepare_prev_first;
};

Members

dev

Parent device of the panel.

backlight

Backlight device, used to turn on backlight after the call to enable(), and to turn off backlight before the call to disable(). backlight is set by drm_panel_of_backlight() or drm_panel_dp_aux_backlight() and drivers shall not assign it.

funcs

Operations that can be performed on the panel.

connector_type

Type of the panel as a DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_* value. This is used to initialise the drm_connector corresponding to the panel with the correct connector type.

list

Panel entry in registry.

prepare_prev_first

The previous controller should be prepared first, before the prepare for the panel is called. This is largely required for DSI panels where the DSI host controller should be initialised to LP-11 before the panel is powered up.

void drm_panel_init(struct drm_panel *panel, struct device *dev, const struct drm_panel_funcs *funcs, int connector_type)

initialize a panel

Parameters

struct drm_panel *panel

DRM panel

struct device *dev

parent device of the panel

const struct drm_panel_funcs *funcs

panel operations

int connector_type

the connector type (DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_*) corresponding to the panel interface

Description

Initialize the panel structure for subsequent registration with drm_panel_add().

void drm_panel_add(struct drm_panel *panel)

add a panel to the global registry

Parameters

struct drm_panel *panel

panel to add

Description

Add a panel to the global registry so that it can be looked up by display drivers.

void drm_panel_remove(struct drm_panel *panel)

remove a panel from the global registry

Parameters

struct drm_panel *panel

DRM panel

Description

Removes a panel from the global registry.

int drm_panel_prepare(struct drm_panel *panel)

power on a panel

Parameters

struct drm_panel *panel

DRM panel

Description

Calling this function will enable power and deassert any reset signals to the panel. After this has completed it is possible to communicate with any integrated circuitry via a command bus.

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int drm_panel_unprepare(struct drm_panel *panel)

power off a panel

Parameters

struct drm_panel *panel

DRM panel

Description

Calling this function will completely power off a panel (assert the panel’s reset, turn off power supplies, …). After this function has completed, it is usually no longer possible to communicate with the panel until another call to drm_panel_prepare().

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int drm_panel_enable(struct drm_panel *panel)

enable a panel

Parameters

struct drm_panel *panel

DRM panel

Description

Calling this function will cause the panel display drivers to be turned on and the backlight to be enabled. Content will be visible on screen after this call completes.

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int drm_panel_disable(struct drm_panel *panel)

disable a panel

Parameters

struct drm_panel *panel

DRM panel

Description

This will typically turn off the panel’s backlight or disable the display drivers. For smart panels it should still be possible to communicate with the integrated circuitry via any command bus after this call.

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int drm_panel_get_modes(struct drm_panel *panel, struct drm_connector *connector)

probe the available display modes of a panel

Parameters

struct drm_panel *panel

DRM panel

struct drm_connector *connector

DRM connector

Description

The modes probed from the panel are automatically added to the connector that the panel is attached to.

Return

The number of modes available from the panel on success or a negative error code on failure.

struct drm_panel *of_drm_find_panel(const struct device_node *np)

look up a panel using a device tree node

Parameters

const struct device_node *np

device tree node of the panel

Description

Searches the set of registered panels for one that matches the given device tree node. If a matching panel is found, return a pointer to it.

Possible error codes returned by this function:

  • EPROBE_DEFER: the panel device has not been probed yet, and the caller should retry later

  • ENODEV: the device is not available (status != “okay” or “ok”)

Return

A pointer to the panel registered for the specified device tree node or an ERR_PTR() if no panel matching the device tree node can be found.

int of_drm_get_panel_orientation(const struct device_node *np, enum drm_panel_orientation *orientation)

look up the orientation of the panel through the “rotation” binding from a device tree node

Parameters

const struct device_node *np

device tree node of the panel

enum drm_panel_orientation *orientation

orientation enum to be filled in

Description

Looks up the rotation of a panel in the device tree. The orientation of the panel is expressed as a property name “rotation” in the device tree. The rotation in the device tree is counter clockwise.

Return

0 when a valid rotation value (0, 90, 180, or 270) is read or the rotation property doesn’t exist. Return a negative error code on failure.

int drm_panel_of_backlight(struct drm_panel *panel)

use backlight device node for backlight

Parameters

struct drm_panel *panel

DRM panel

Description

Use this function to enable backlight handling if your panel uses device tree and has a backlight phandle.

When the panel is enabled backlight will be enabled after a successful call to drm_panel_funcs.enable()

When the panel is disabled backlight will be disabled before the call to drm_panel_funcs.disable().

A typical implementation for a panel driver supporting device tree will call this function at probe time. Backlight will then be handled transparently without requiring any intervention from the driver. drm_panel_of_backlight() must be called after the call to drm_panel_init().

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int drm_get_panel_orientation_quirk(int width, int height)

Check for panel orientation quirks

Parameters

int width

width in pixels of the panel

int height

height in pixels of the panel

Description

This function checks for platform specific (e.g. DMI based) quirks providing info on panel_orientation for systems where this cannot be probed from the hard-/firm-ware. To avoid false-positive this function takes the panel resolution as argument and checks that against the resolution expected by the quirk-table entry.

Note this function is also used outside of the drm-subsys, by for example the efifb code. Because of this this function gets compiled into its own kernel-module when built as a module.

Return

A DRM_MODE_PANEL_ORIENTATION_* value if there is a quirk for this system, or DRM_MODE_PANEL_ORIENTATION_UNKNOWN if there is no quirk.

Panel Self Refresh Helper Reference

This helper library provides an easy way for drivers to leverage the atomic framework to implement panel self refresh (SR) support. Drivers are responsible for initializing and cleaning up the SR helpers on load/unload (see drm_self_refresh_helper_init/drm_self_refresh_helper_cleanup). The connector is responsible for setting drm_connector_state.self_refresh_aware to true at runtime if it is SR-aware (meaning it knows how to initiate self refresh on the panel).

Once a crtc has enabled SR using drm_self_refresh_helper_init, the helpers will monitor activity and call back into the driver to enable/disable SR as appropriate. The best way to think about this is that it’s a DPMS on/off request with drm_crtc_state.self_refresh_active set in crtc state that tells you to disable/enable SR on the panel instead of power-cycling it.

During SR, drivers may choose to fully disable their crtc/encoder/bridge hardware (in which case no driver changes are necessary), or they can inspect drm_crtc_state.self_refresh_active if they want to enter low power mode without full disable (in case full disable/enable is too slow).

SR will be deactivated if there are any atomic updates affecting the pipe that is in SR mode. If a crtc is driving multiple connectors, all connectors must be SR aware and all will enter/exit SR mode at the same time.

If the crtc and connector are SR aware, but the panel connected does not support it (or is otherwise unable to enter SR), the driver should fail atomic_check when drm_crtc_state.self_refresh_active is true.

void drm_self_refresh_helper_update_avg_times(struct drm_atomic_state *state, unsigned int commit_time_ms, unsigned int new_self_refresh_mask)

Updates a crtc’s SR time averages

Parameters

struct drm_atomic_state *state

the state which has just been applied to hardware

unsigned int commit_time_ms

the amount of time in ms that this commit took to complete

unsigned int new_self_refresh_mask

bitmask of crtc’s that have self_refresh_active in new state

Description

Called after drm_mode_config_funcs.atomic_commit_tail, this function will update the average entry/exit self refresh times on self refresh transitions. These averages will be used when calculating how long to delay before entering self refresh mode after activity.

void drm_self_refresh_helper_alter_state(struct drm_atomic_state *state)

Alters the atomic state for SR exit

Parameters

struct drm_atomic_state *state

the state currently being checked

Description

Called at the end of atomic check. This function checks the state for flags incompatible with self refresh exit and changes them. This is a bit disingenuous since userspace is expecting one thing and we’re giving it another. However in order to keep self refresh entirely hidden from userspace, this is required.

At the end, we queue up the self refresh entry work so we can enter PSR after the desired delay.

int drm_self_refresh_helper_init(struct drm_crtc *crtc)

Initializes self refresh helpers for a crtc

Parameters

struct drm_crtc *crtc

the crtc which supports self refresh supported displays

Description

Returns zero if successful or -errno on failure

void drm_self_refresh_helper_cleanup(struct drm_crtc *crtc)

Cleans up self refresh helpers for a crtc

Parameters

struct drm_crtc *crtc

the crtc to cleanup

HDCP Helper Functions Reference

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Display Port Helper Functions Reference

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Display Port CEC Helper Functions Reference

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Display Port Dual Mode Adaptor Helper Functions Reference

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Display Port MST Helpers

Overview

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Functions Reference

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Topology Lifetime Internals

These functions aren’t exported to drivers, but are documented here to help make the MST topology helpers easier to understand

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MIPI DBI Helper Functions Reference

This library provides helpers for MIPI Display Bus Interface (DBI) compatible display controllers.

Many controllers for tiny lcd displays are MIPI compliant and can use this library. If a controller uses registers 0x2A and 0x2B to set the area to update and uses register 0x2C to write to frame memory, it is most likely MIPI compliant.

Only MIPI Type 1 displays are supported since a full frame memory is needed.

There are 3 MIPI DBI implementation types:

  1. Motorola 6800 type parallel bus

  2. Intel 8080 type parallel bus

  3. SPI type with 3 options:

    1. 9-bit with the Data/Command signal as the ninth bit

    2. Same as above except it’s sent as 16 bits

    3. 8-bit with the Data/Command signal as a separate D/CX pin

Currently mipi_dbi only supports Type C options 1 and 3 with mipi_dbi_spi_init().

struct mipi_dbi

MIPI DBI interface

Definition

struct mipi_dbi {
  struct mutex cmdlock;
  int (*command)(struct mipi_dbi *dbi, u8 *cmd, u8 *param, size_t num);
  const u8 *read_commands;
  bool swap_bytes;
  struct gpio_desc *reset;
  struct spi_device *spi;
  struct gpio_desc *dc;
  void *tx_buf9;
  size_t tx_buf9_len;
};

Members

cmdlock

Command lock

command

Bus specific callback executing commands.

read_commands
Array of read commands terminated by a zero entry.

Reading is disabled if this is NULL.

swap_bytes

Swap bytes in buffer before transfer

reset

Optional reset gpio

spi

SPI device

dc

Optional D/C gpio.

tx_buf9

Buffer used for Option 1 9-bit conversion

tx_buf9_len

Size of tx_buf9.

struct mipi_dbi_dev

MIPI DBI device

Definition

struct mipi_dbi_dev {
  struct drm_device drm;
  struct drm_simple_display_pipe pipe;
  struct drm_connector connector;
  struct drm_display_mode mode;
  u16 *tx_buf;
  unsigned int rotation;
  unsigned int left_offset;
  unsigned int top_offset;
  struct backlight_device *backlight;
  struct regulator *regulator;
  struct regulator *io_regulator;
  struct mipi_dbi dbi;
  void *driver_private;
};

Members

drm

DRM device

pipe

Display pipe structure

connector

Connector

mode

Fixed display mode

tx_buf

Buffer used for transfer (copy clip rect area)

rotation

initial rotation in degrees Counter Clock Wise

left_offset
Horizontal offset of the display relative to the

controller’s driver array

top_offset
Vertical offset of the display relative to the

controller’s driver array

backlight

backlight device (optional)

regulator

power regulator (Vdd) (optional)

io_regulator

I/O power regulator (Vddi) (optional)

dbi

MIPI DBI interface

driver_private
Driver private data.

Necessary for drivers with private data since devm_drm_dev_alloc() can’t allocate structures that embed a structure which then again embeds drm_device.

mipi_dbi_command

mipi_dbi_command (dbi, cmd, seq...)

MIPI DCS command with optional parameter(s)

Parameters

dbi

MIPI DBI structure

cmd

Command

seq...

Optional parameter(s)

Description

Send MIPI DCS command to the controller. Use mipi_dbi_command_read() for get/read.

Return

Zero on success, negative error code on failure.

DRM_MIPI_DBI_SIMPLE_DISPLAY_PIPE_FUNCS

DRM_MIPI_DBI_SIMPLE_DISPLAY_PIPE_FUNCS (enable_)

Initializes struct drm_simple_display_pipe_funcs for MIPI-DBI devices

Parameters

enable_

Enable-callback implementation

Description

This macro initializes struct drm_simple_display_pipe_funcs with default values for MIPI-DBI-based devices. The only callback that depends on the hardware is enable, for which the driver has to provide an implementation. MIPI-based drivers are encouraged to use this macro for initialization.

int mipi_dbi_command_read(struct mipi_dbi *dbi, u8 cmd, u8 *val)

MIPI DCS read command

Parameters

struct mipi_dbi *dbi

MIPI DBI structure

u8 cmd

Command

u8 *val

Value read

Description

Send MIPI DCS read command to the controller.

Return

Zero on success, negative error code on failure.

int mipi_dbi_command_buf(struct mipi_dbi *dbi, u8 cmd, u8 *data, size_t len)

MIPI DCS command with parameter(s) in an array

Parameters

struct mipi_dbi *dbi

MIPI DBI structure

u8 cmd

Command

u8 *data

Parameter buffer

size_t len

Buffer length

Return

Zero on success, negative error code on failure.

int mipi_dbi_buf_copy(void *dst, struct iosys_map *src, struct drm_framebuffer *fb, struct drm_rect *clip, bool swap)

Copy a framebuffer, transforming it if necessary

Parameters

void *dst

The destination buffer

struct iosys_map *src

The source buffer

struct drm_framebuffer *fb

The source framebuffer

struct drm_rect *clip

Clipping rectangle of the area to be copied

bool swap

When true, swap MSB/LSB of 16-bit values

Return

Zero on success, negative error code on failure.

enum drm_mode_status mipi_dbi_pipe_mode_valid(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe, const struct drm_display_mode *mode)

MIPI DBI mode-valid helper

Parameters

struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe

Simple display pipe

const struct drm_display_mode *mode

The mode to test

Description

This function validates a given display mode against the MIPI DBI’s hardware display. Drivers can use this as their drm_simple_display_pipe_funcs->mode_valid callback.

void mipi_dbi_pipe_update(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe, struct drm_plane_state *old_state)

Display pipe update helper

Parameters

struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe

Simple display pipe

struct drm_plane_state *old_state

Old plane state

Description

This function handles framebuffer flushing and vblank events. Drivers can use this as their drm_simple_display_pipe_funcs->update callback.

void mipi_dbi_enable_flush(struct mipi_dbi_dev *dbidev, struct drm_crtc_state *crtc_state, struct drm_plane_state *plane_state)

MIPI DBI enable helper

Parameters

struct mipi_dbi_dev *dbidev

MIPI DBI device structure

struct drm_crtc_state *crtc_state

CRTC state

struct drm_plane_state *plane_state

Plane state

Description

Flushes the whole framebuffer and enables the backlight. Drivers can use this in their drm_simple_display_pipe_funcs->enable callback.

Note

Drivers which don’t use mipi_dbi_pipe_update() because they have custom framebuffer flushing, can’t use this function since they both use the same flushing code.

void mipi_dbi_pipe_disable(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe)

MIPI DBI pipe disable helper

Parameters

struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe

Display pipe

Description

This function disables backlight if present, if not the display memory is blanked. The regulator is disabled if in use. Drivers can use this as their drm_simple_display_pipe_funcs->disable callback.

int mipi_dbi_pipe_begin_fb_access(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe, struct drm_plane_state *plane_state)

MIPI DBI pipe begin-access helper

Parameters

struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe

Display pipe

struct drm_plane_state *plane_state

Plane state

Description

This function implements struct drm_simple_display_funcs.begin_fb_access.

See drm_gem_begin_shadow_fb_access() for details and mipi_dbi_pipe_cleanup_fb() for cleanup.

Return

0 on success, or a negative errno code otherwise.

void mipi_dbi_pipe_end_fb_access(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe, struct drm_plane_state *plane_state)

MIPI DBI pipe end-access helper

Parameters

struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe

Display pipe

struct drm_plane_state *plane_state

Plane state

Description

This function implements struct drm_simple_display_funcs.end_fb_access.

See mipi_dbi_pipe_begin_fb_access().

void mipi_dbi_pipe_reset_plane(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe)

MIPI DBI plane-reset helper

Parameters

struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe

Display pipe

Description

This function implements struct drm_simple_display_funcs.reset_plane for MIPI DBI planes.

struct drm_plane_state *mipi_dbi_pipe_duplicate_plane_state(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe)

duplicates MIPI DBI plane state

Parameters

struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe

Display pipe

Description

This function implements struct drm_simple_display_funcs.duplicate_plane_state for MIPI DBI planes.

See drm_gem_duplicate_shadow_plane_state() for additional details.

Return

A pointer to a new plane state on success, or NULL otherwise.

void mipi_dbi_pipe_destroy_plane_state(struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe, struct drm_plane_state *plane_state)

cleans up MIPI DBI plane state

Parameters

struct drm_simple_display_pipe *pipe

Display pipe

struct drm_plane_state *plane_state

Plane state

Description

This function implements struct drm_simple_display_funcs.destroy_plane_state for MIPI DBI planes.

See drm_gem_destroy_shadow_plane_state() for additional details.

int mipi_dbi_dev_init_with_formats(struct mipi_dbi_dev *dbidev, const struct drm_simple_display_pipe_funcs *funcs, const uint32_t *formats, unsigned int format_count, const struct drm_display_mode *mode, unsigned int rotation, size_t tx_buf_size)

MIPI DBI device initialization with custom formats

Parameters

struct mipi_dbi_dev *dbidev

MIPI DBI device structure to initialize

const struct drm_simple_display_pipe_funcs *funcs

Display pipe functions

const uint32_t *formats

Array of supported formats (DRM_FORMAT_*).

unsigned int format_count

Number of elements in formats

const struct drm_display_mode *mode

Display mode

unsigned int rotation

Initial rotation in degrees Counter Clock Wise

size_t tx_buf_size

Allocate a transmit buffer of this size.

Description

This function sets up a drm_simple_display_pipe with a drm_connector that has one fixed drm_display_mode which is rotated according to rotation. This mode is used to set the mode config min/max width/height properties.

Use mipi_dbi_dev_init() if you don’t need custom formats.

Note

Some of the helper functions expects RGB565 to be the default format and the transmit buffer sized to fit that.

Return

Zero on success, negative error code on failure.

int mipi_dbi_dev_init(struct mipi_dbi_dev *dbidev, const struct drm_simple_display_pipe_funcs *funcs, const struct drm_display_mode *mode, unsigned int rotation)

MIPI DBI device initialization

Parameters

struct mipi_dbi_dev *dbidev

MIPI DBI device structure to initialize

const struct drm_simple_display_pipe_funcs *funcs

Display pipe functions

const struct drm_display_mode *mode

Display mode

unsigned int rotation

Initial rotation in degrees Counter Clock Wise

Description

This function sets up a drm_simple_display_pipe with a drm_connector that has one fixed drm_display_mode which is rotated according to rotation. This mode is used to set the mode config min/max width/height properties. Additionally mipi_dbi.tx_buf is allocated.

Supported formats: Native RGB565 and emulated XRGB8888.

Return

Zero on success, negative error code on failure.

void mipi_dbi_hw_reset(struct mipi_dbi *dbi)

Hardware reset of controller

Parameters

struct mipi_dbi *dbi

MIPI DBI structure

Description

Reset controller if the mipi_dbi->reset gpio is set.

bool mipi_dbi_display_is_on(struct mipi_dbi *dbi)

Check if display is on

Parameters

struct mipi_dbi *dbi

MIPI DBI structure

Description

This function checks the Power Mode register (if readable) to see if display output is turned on. This can be used to see if the bootloader has already turned on the display avoiding flicker when the pipeline is enabled.

Return

true if the display can be verified to be on, false otherwise.

int mipi_dbi_poweron_reset(struct mipi_dbi_dev *dbidev)

MIPI DBI poweron and reset

Parameters

struct mipi_dbi_dev *dbidev

MIPI DBI device structure

Description

This function enables the regulator if used and does a hardware and software reset.

Return

Zero on success, or a negative error code.

int mipi_dbi_poweron_conditional_reset(struct mipi_dbi_dev *dbidev)

MIPI DBI poweron and conditional reset

Parameters

struct mipi_dbi_dev *dbidev

MIPI DBI device structure

Description

This function enables the regulator if used and if the display is off, it does a hardware and software reset. If mipi_dbi_display_is_on() determines that the display is on, no reset is performed.

Return

Zero if the controller was reset, 1 if the display was already on, or a negative error code.

u32 mipi_dbi_spi_cmd_max_speed(struct spi_device *spi, size_t len)

get the maximum SPI bus speed

Parameters

struct spi_device *spi

SPI device

size_t len

The transfer buffer length.

Description

Many controllers have a max speed of 10MHz, but can be pushed way beyond that. Increase reliability by running pixel data at max speed and the rest at 10MHz, preventing transfer glitches from messing up the init settings.

int mipi_dbi_spi_init(struct spi_device *spi, struct mipi_dbi *dbi, struct gpio_desc *dc)

Initialize MIPI DBI SPI interface

Parameters

struct spi_device *spi

SPI device

struct mipi_dbi *dbi

MIPI DBI structure to initialize

struct gpio_desc *dc

D/C gpio (optional)

Description

This function sets mipi_dbi->command, enables mipi_dbi->read_commands for the usual read commands. It should be followed by a call to mipi_dbi_dev_init() or a driver-specific init.

If dc is set, a Type C Option 3 interface is assumed, if not Type C Option 1.

If the SPI master driver doesn’t support the necessary bits per word, the following transformation is used:

  • 9-bit: reorder buffer as 9x 8-bit words, padded with no-op command.

  • 16-bit: if big endian send as 8-bit, if little endian swap bytes

Return

Zero on success, negative error code on failure.

int mipi_dbi_spi_transfer(struct spi_device *spi, u32 speed_hz, u8 bpw, const void *buf, size_t len)

SPI transfer helper

Parameters

struct spi_device *spi

SPI device

u32 speed_hz

Override speed (optional)

u8 bpw

Bits per word

const void *buf

Buffer to transfer

size_t len

Buffer length

Description

This SPI transfer helper breaks up the transfer of buf into chunks which the SPI controller driver can handle.

Return

Zero on success, negative error code on failure.

void mipi_dbi_debugfs_init(struct drm_minor *minor)

Create debugfs entries

Parameters

struct drm_minor *minor

DRM minor

Description

This function creates a ‘command’ debugfs file for sending commands to the controller or getting the read command values. Drivers can use this as their drm_driver->debugfs_init callback.

MIPI DSI Helper Functions Reference

These functions contain some common logic and helpers to deal with MIPI DSI peripherals.

Helpers are provided for a number of standard MIPI DSI command as well as a subset of the MIPI DCS command set.

struct mipi_dsi_msg

read/write DSI buffer

Definition

struct mipi_dsi_msg {
  u8 channel;
  u8 type;
  u16 flags;
  size_t tx_len;
  const void *tx_buf;
  size_t rx_len;
  void *rx_buf;
};

Members

channel

virtual channel id

type

payload data type

flags

flags controlling this message transmission

tx_len

length of tx_buf

tx_buf

data to be written

rx_len

length of rx_buf

rx_buf

data to be read, or NULL

struct mipi_dsi_packet

represents a MIPI DSI packet in protocol format

Definition

struct mipi_dsi_packet {
  size_t size;
  u8 header[4];
  size_t payload_length;
  const u8 *payload;
};

Members

size

size (in bytes) of the packet

header

the four bytes that make up the header (Data ID, Word Count or Packet Data, and ECC)

payload_length

number of bytes in the payload

payload

a pointer to a buffer containing the payload, if any

struct mipi_dsi_host_ops

DSI bus operations

Definition

struct mipi_dsi_host_ops {
  int (*attach)(struct mipi_dsi_host *host, struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi);
  int (*detach)(struct mipi_dsi_host *host, struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi);
  ssize_t (*transfer)(struct mipi_dsi_host *host, const struct mipi_dsi_msg *msg);
};

Members

attach

attach DSI device to DSI host

detach

detach DSI device from DSI host

transfer

transmit a DSI packet

Description

DSI packets transmitted by .transfer() are passed in as mipi_dsi_msg structures. This structure contains information about the type of packet being transmitted as well as the transmit and receive buffers. When an error is encountered during transmission, this function will return a negative error code. On success it shall return the number of bytes transmitted for write packets or the number of bytes received for read packets.

Note that typically DSI packet transmission is atomic, so the .transfer() function will seldomly return anything other than the number of bytes contained in the transmit buffer on success.

Also note that those callbacks can be called no matter the state the host is in. Drivers that need the underlying device to be powered to perform these operations will first need to make sure it’s been properly enabled.

struct mipi_dsi_host

DSI host device

Definition

struct mipi_dsi_host {
  struct device *dev;
  const struct mipi_dsi_host_ops *ops;
  struct list_head list;
};

Members

dev

driver model device node for this DSI host

ops

DSI host operations

list

list management

struct mipi_dsi_device_info

template for creating a mipi_dsi_device

Definition

struct mipi_dsi_device_info {
  char type[DSI_DEV_NAME_SIZE];
  u32 channel;
  struct device_node *node;
};

Members

type

DSI peripheral chip type

channel

DSI virtual channel assigned to peripheral

node

pointer to OF device node or NULL

Description

This is populated and passed to mipi_dsi_device_new to create a new DSI device

struct mipi_dsi_device

DSI peripheral device

Definition

struct mipi_dsi_device {
  struct mipi_dsi_host *host;
  struct device dev;
  char name[DSI_DEV_NAME_SIZE];
  unsigned int channel;
  unsigned int lanes;
  enum mipi_dsi_pixel_format format;
  unsigned long mode_flags;
  unsigned long hs_rate;
  unsigned long lp_rate;
  struct drm_dsc_config *dsc;
};

Members

host

DSI host for this peripheral

dev

driver model device node for this peripheral

name

DSI peripheral chip type

channel

virtual channel assigned to the peripheral

lanes

number of active data lanes

format

pixel format for video mode

mode_flags

DSI operation mode related flags

hs_rate

maximum lane frequency for high speed mode in hertz, this should be set to the real limits of the hardware, zero is only accepted for legacy drivers

lp_rate

maximum lane frequency for low power mode in hertz, this should be set to the real limits of the hardware, zero is only accepted for legacy drivers

dsc

panel/bridge DSC pps payload to be sent

int mipi_dsi_pixel_format_to_bpp(enum mipi_dsi_pixel_format fmt)

obtain the number of bits per pixel for any given pixel format defined by the MIPI DSI specification

Parameters

enum mipi_dsi_pixel_format fmt

MIPI DSI pixel format

Return

The number of bits per pixel of the given pixel format.

enum mipi_dsi_dcs_tear_mode

Tearing Effect Output Line mode

Constants

MIPI_DSI_DCS_TEAR_MODE_VBLANK

the TE output line consists of V-Blanking information only

MIPI_DSI_DCS_TEAR_MODE_VHBLANK

the TE output line consists of both V-Blanking and H-Blanking information

mipi_dsi_generic_write_seq

mipi_dsi_generic_write_seq (dsi, seq...)

transmit data using a generic write packet

Parameters

dsi

DSI peripheral device

seq...

buffer containing the payload

mipi_dsi_dcs_write_seq

mipi_dsi_dcs_write_seq (dsi, cmd, seq...)

transmit a DCS command with payload

Parameters

dsi

DSI peripheral device

cmd

Command

seq...

buffer containing data to be transmitted

struct mipi_dsi_driver

DSI driver

Definition

struct mipi_dsi_driver {
  struct device_driver driver;
  int(*probe)(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi);
  void (*remove)(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi);
  void (*shutdown)(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi);
};

Members

driver

device driver model driver

probe

callback for device binding

remove

callback for device unbinding

shutdown

called at shutdown time to quiesce the device

struct mipi_dsi_device *of_find_mipi_dsi_device_by_node(struct device_node *np)

find the MIPI DSI device matching a device tree node

Parameters

struct device_node *np

device tree node

Return

A pointer to the MIPI DSI device corresponding to np or NULL if no

such device exists (or has not been registered yet).

struct mipi_dsi_device *mipi_dsi_device_register_full(struct mipi_dsi_host *host, const struct mipi_dsi_device_info *info)

create a MIPI DSI device

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_host *host

DSI host to which this device is connected

const struct mipi_dsi_device_info *info

pointer to template containing DSI device information

Description

Create a MIPI DSI device by using the device information provided by mipi_dsi_device_info template

Return

A pointer to the newly created MIPI DSI device, or, a pointer encoded with an error

void mipi_dsi_device_unregister(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi)

unregister MIPI DSI device

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

struct mipi_dsi_device *devm_mipi_dsi_device_register_full(struct device *dev, struct mipi_dsi_host *host, const struct mipi_dsi_device_info *info)

create a managed MIPI DSI device

Parameters

struct device *dev

device to tie the MIPI-DSI device lifetime to

struct mipi_dsi_host *host

DSI host to which this device is connected

const struct mipi_dsi_device_info *info

pointer to template containing DSI device information

Description

Create a MIPI DSI device by using the device information provided by mipi_dsi_device_info template

This is the managed version of mipi_dsi_device_register_full() which automatically calls mipi_dsi_device_unregister() when dev is unbound.

Return

A pointer to the newly created MIPI DSI device, or, a pointer encoded with an error

struct mipi_dsi_host *of_find_mipi_dsi_host_by_node(struct device_node *node)

find the MIPI DSI host matching a device tree node

Parameters

struct device_node *node

device tree node

Return

A pointer to the MIPI DSI host corresponding to node or NULL if no such device exists (or has not been registered yet).

int mipi_dsi_attach(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi)

attach a DSI device to its DSI host

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral

int mipi_dsi_detach(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi)

detach a DSI device from its DSI host

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral

int devm_mipi_dsi_attach(struct device *dev, struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi)

Attach a MIPI-DSI device to its DSI Host

Parameters

struct device *dev

device to tie the MIPI-DSI device attachment lifetime to

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral

Description

This is the managed version of mipi_dsi_attach() which automatically calls mipi_dsi_detach() when dev is unbound.

Return

0 on success, a negative error code on failure.

bool mipi_dsi_packet_format_is_short(u8 type)

check if a packet is of the short format

Parameters

u8 type

MIPI DSI data type of the packet

Return

true if the packet for the given data type is a short packet, false otherwise.

bool mipi_dsi_packet_format_is_long(u8 type)

check if a packet is of the long format

Parameters

u8 type

MIPI DSI data type of the packet

Return

true if the packet for the given data type is a long packet, false otherwise.

int mipi_dsi_create_packet(struct mipi_dsi_packet *packet, const struct mipi_dsi_msg *msg)

create a packet from a message according to the DSI protocol

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_packet *packet

pointer to a DSI packet structure

const struct mipi_dsi_msg *msg

message to translate into a packet

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int mipi_dsi_shutdown_peripheral(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi)

sends a Shutdown Peripheral command

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int mipi_dsi_turn_on_peripheral(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi)

sends a Turn On Peripheral command

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

ssize_t mipi_dsi_compression_mode(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi, bool enable)

enable/disable DSC on the peripheral

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

bool enable

Whether to enable or disable the DSC

Description

Enable or disable Display Stream Compression on the peripheral using the default Picture Parameter Set and VESA DSC 1.1 algorithm.

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

ssize_t mipi_dsi_picture_parameter_set(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi, const struct drm_dsc_picture_parameter_set *pps)

transmit the DSC PPS to the peripheral

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

const struct drm_dsc_picture_parameter_set *pps

VESA DSC 1.1 Picture Parameter Set

Description

Transmit the VESA DSC 1.1 Picture Parameter Set to the peripheral.

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

ssize_t mipi_dsi_generic_write(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi, const void *payload, size_t size)

transmit data using a generic write packet

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

const void *payload

buffer containing the payload

size_t size

size of payload buffer

Description

This function will automatically choose the right data type depending on the payload length.

Return

The number of bytes transmitted on success or a negative error code on failure.

ssize_t mipi_dsi_generic_read(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi, const void *params, size_t num_params, void *data, size_t size)

receive data using a generic read packet

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

const void *params

buffer containing the request parameters

size_t num_params

number of request parameters

void *data

buffer in which to return the received data

size_t size

size of receive buffer

Description

This function will automatically choose the right data type depending on the number of parameters passed in.

Return

The number of bytes successfully read or a negative error code on failure.

ssize_t mipi_dsi_dcs_write_buffer(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi, const void *data, size_t len)

transmit a DCS command with payload

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

const void *data

buffer containing data to be transmitted

size_t len

size of transmission buffer

Description

This function will automatically choose the right data type depending on the command payload length.

Return

The number of bytes successfully transmitted or a negative error code on failure.

ssize_t mipi_dsi_dcs_write(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi, u8 cmd, const void *data, size_t len)

send DCS write command

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

u8 cmd

DCS command

const void *data

buffer containing the command payload

size_t len

command payload length

Description

This function will automatically choose the right data type depending on the command payload length.

Return

The number of bytes successfully transmitted or a negative error code on failure.

ssize_t mipi_dsi_dcs_read(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi, u8 cmd, void *data, size_t len)

send DCS read request command

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

u8 cmd

DCS command

void *data

buffer in which to receive data

size_t len

size of receive buffer

Return

The number of bytes read or a negative error code on failure.

int mipi_dsi_dcs_nop(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi)

send DCS nop packet

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int mipi_dsi_dcs_soft_reset(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi)

perform a software reset of the display module

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int mipi_dsi_dcs_get_power_mode(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi, u8 *mode)

query the display module’s current power mode

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

u8 *mode

return location for the current power mode

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int mipi_dsi_dcs_get_pixel_format(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi, u8 *format)

gets the pixel format for the RGB image data used by the interface

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

u8 *format

return location for the pixel format

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int mipi_dsi_dcs_enter_sleep_mode(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi)

disable all unnecessary blocks inside the display module except interface communication

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int mipi_dsi_dcs_exit_sleep_mode(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi)

enable all blocks inside the display module

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int mipi_dsi_dcs_set_display_off(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi)

stop displaying the image data on the display device

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int mipi_dsi_dcs_set_display_on(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi)

start displaying the image data on the display device

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure

int mipi_dsi_dcs_set_column_address(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi, u16 start, u16 end)

define the column extent of the frame memory accessed by the host processor

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

u16 start

first column of frame memory

u16 end

last column of frame memory

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int mipi_dsi_dcs_set_page_address(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi, u16 start, u16 end)

define the page extent of the frame memory accessed by the host processor

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

u16 start

first page of frame memory

u16 end

last page of frame memory

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int mipi_dsi_dcs_set_tear_off(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi)

turn off the display module’s Tearing Effect output signal on the TE signal line

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure

int mipi_dsi_dcs_set_tear_on(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi, enum mipi_dsi_dcs_tear_mode mode)

turn on the display module’s Tearing Effect output signal on the TE signal line.

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

enum mipi_dsi_dcs_tear_mode mode

the Tearing Effect Output Line mode

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure

int mipi_dsi_dcs_set_pixel_format(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi, u8 format)

sets the pixel format for the RGB image data used by the interface

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

u8 format

pixel format

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int mipi_dsi_dcs_set_tear_scanline(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi, u16 scanline)

set the scanline to use as trigger for the Tearing Effect output signal of the display module

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

u16 scanline

scanline to use as trigger

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure

int mipi_dsi_dcs_set_display_brightness(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi, u16 brightness)

sets the brightness value of the display

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

u16 brightness

brightness value

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int mipi_dsi_dcs_get_display_brightness(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi, u16 *brightness)

gets the current brightness value of the display

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

u16 *brightness

brightness value

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int mipi_dsi_dcs_set_display_brightness_large(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi, u16 brightness)

sets the 16-bit brightness value of the display

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

u16 brightness

brightness value

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int mipi_dsi_dcs_get_display_brightness_large(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi, u16 *brightness)

gets the current 16-bit brightness value of the display

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi

DSI peripheral device

u16 *brightness

brightness value

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int mipi_dsi_driver_register_full(struct mipi_dsi_driver *drv, struct module *owner)

register a driver for DSI devices

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_driver *drv

DSI driver structure

struct module *owner

owner module

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

void mipi_dsi_driver_unregister(struct mipi_dsi_driver *drv)

unregister a driver for DSI devices

Parameters

struct mipi_dsi_driver *drv

DSI driver structure

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

Display Stream Compression Helper Functions Reference

Error

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Error

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Output Probing Helper Functions Reference

This library provides some helper code for output probing. It provides an implementation of the core drm_connector_funcs.fill_modes interface with drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes().

It also provides support for polling connectors with a work item and for generic hotplug interrupt handling where the driver doesn’t or cannot keep track of a per-connector hpd interrupt.

This helper library can be used independently of the modeset helper library. Drivers can also overwrite different parts e.g. use their own hotplug handling code to avoid probing unrelated outputs.

The probe helpers share the function table structures with other display helper libraries. See struct drm_connector_helper_funcs for the details.

void drm_kms_helper_poll_enable(struct drm_device *dev)

re-enable output polling.

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

drm_device

Description

This function re-enables the output polling work, after it has been temporarily disabled using drm_kms_helper_poll_disable(), for example over suspend/resume.

Drivers can call this helper from their device resume implementation. It is not an error to call this even when output polling isn’t enabled.

Note that calls to enable and disable polling must be strictly ordered, which is automatically the case when they’re only call from suspend/resume callbacks.

int drm_helper_probe_detect(struct drm_connector *connector, struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx, bool force)

probe connector status

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

connector to probe

struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx

acquire_ctx, or NULL to let this function handle locking.

bool force

Whether destructive probe operations should be performed.

Description

This function calls the detect callbacks of the connector. This function returns drm_connector_status, or if ctx is set, it might also return -EDEADLK.

int drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes(struct drm_connector *connector, uint32_t maxX, uint32_t maxY)

get complete set of display modes

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

connector to probe

uint32_t maxX

max width for modes

uint32_t maxY

max height for modes

Description

Based on the helper callbacks implemented by connector in struct drm_connector_helper_funcs try to detect all valid modes. Modes will first be added to the connector’s probed_modes list, then culled (based on validity and the maxX, maxY parameters) and put into the normal modes list.

Intended to be used as a generic implementation of the drm_connector_funcs.fill_modes() vfunc for drivers that use the CRTC helpers for output mode filtering and detection.

The basic procedure is as follows

  1. All modes currently on the connector’s modes list are marked as stale

  2. New modes are added to the connector’s probed_modes list with drm_mode_probed_add(). New modes start their life with status as OK. Modes are added from a single source using the following priority order.

    Finally modes specified via the kernel command line (video=…) are added in addition to what the earlier probes produced (drm_helper_probe_add_cmdline_mode()). These modes are generated using the VESA GTF/CVT formulas.

  3. Modes are moved from the probed_modes list to the modes list. Potential duplicates are merged together (see drm_connector_list_update()). After this step the probed_modes list will be empty again.

  4. Any non-stale mode on the modes list then undergoes validation

  5. Any mode whose status is not OK is pruned from the connector’s modes list, accompanied by a debug message indicating the reason for the mode’s rejection (see drm_mode_prune_invalid()).

Return

The number of modes found on connector.

void drm_kms_helper_hotplug_event(struct drm_device *dev)

fire off KMS hotplug events

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

drm_device whose connector state changed

Description

This function fires off the uevent for userspace and also calls the output_poll_changed function, which is most commonly used to inform the fbdev emulation code and allow it to update the fbcon output configuration.

Drivers should call this from their hotplug handling code when a change is detected. Note that this function does not do any output detection of its own, like drm_helper_hpd_irq_event() does - this is assumed to be done by the driver already.

This function must be called from process context with no mode setting locks held.

If only a single connector has changed, consider calling drm_kms_helper_connector_hotplug_event() instead.

void drm_kms_helper_connector_hotplug_event(struct drm_connector *connector)

fire off a KMS connector hotplug event

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

drm_connector which has changed

Description

This is the same as drm_kms_helper_hotplug_event(), except it fires a more fine-grained uevent for a single connector.

bool drm_kms_helper_is_poll_worker(void)

is current task an output poll worker?

Parameters

void

no arguments

Description

Determine if current task is an output poll worker. This can be used to select distinct code paths for output polling versus other contexts.

One use case is to avoid a deadlock between the output poll worker and the autosuspend worker wherein the latter waits for polling to finish upon calling drm_kms_helper_poll_disable(), while the former waits for runtime suspend to finish upon calling pm_runtime_get_sync() in a connector ->detect hook.

void drm_kms_helper_poll_disable(struct drm_device *dev)

disable output polling

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

drm_device

Description

This function disables the output polling work.

Drivers can call this helper from their device suspend implementation. It is not an error to call this even when output polling isn’t enabled or already disabled. Polling is re-enabled by calling drm_kms_helper_poll_enable().

Note that calls to enable and disable polling must be strictly ordered, which is automatically the case when they’re only call from suspend/resume callbacks.

void drm_kms_helper_poll_init(struct drm_device *dev)

initialize and enable output polling

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

drm_device

Description

This function initializes and then also enables output polling support for dev. Drivers which do not have reliable hotplug support in hardware can use this helper infrastructure to regularly poll such connectors for changes in their connection state.

Drivers can control which connectors are polled by setting the DRM_CONNECTOR_POLL_CONNECT and DRM_CONNECTOR_POLL_DISCONNECT flags. On connectors where probing live outputs can result in visual distortion drivers should not set the DRM_CONNECTOR_POLL_DISCONNECT flag to avoid this. Connectors which have no flag or only DRM_CONNECTOR_POLL_HPD set are completely ignored by the polling logic.

Note that a connector can be both polled and probed from the hotplug handler, in case the hotplug interrupt is known to be unreliable.

void drm_kms_helper_poll_fini(struct drm_device *dev)

disable output polling and clean it up

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

drm_device

bool drm_connector_helper_hpd_irq_event(struct drm_connector *connector)

hotplug processing

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

drm_connector

Description

Drivers can use this helper function to run a detect cycle on a connector which has the DRM_CONNECTOR_POLL_HPD flag set in its polled member.

This helper function is useful for drivers which can track hotplug interrupts for a single connector. Drivers that want to send a hotplug event for all connectors or can’t track hotplug interrupts per connector need to use drm_helper_hpd_irq_event().

This function must be called from process context with no mode setting locks held.

Note that a connector can be both polled and probed from the hotplug handler, in case the hotplug interrupt is known to be unreliable.

Return

A boolean indicating whether the connector status changed or not

bool drm_helper_hpd_irq_event(struct drm_device *dev)

hotplug processing

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

drm_device

Description

Drivers can use this helper function to run a detect cycle on all connectors which have the DRM_CONNECTOR_POLL_HPD flag set in their polled member. All other connectors are ignored, which is useful to avoid reprobing fixed panels.

This helper function is useful for drivers which can’t or don’t track hotplug interrupts for each connector.

Drivers which support hotplug interrupts for each connector individually and which have a more fine-grained detect logic can use drm_connector_helper_hpd_irq_event(). Alternatively, they should bypass this code and directly call drm_kms_helper_hotplug_event() in case the connector state changed.

This function must be called from process context with no mode setting locks held.

Note that a connector can be both polled and probed from the hotplug handler, in case the hotplug interrupt is known to be unreliable.

Return

A boolean indicating whether the connector status changed or not

enum drm_mode_status drm_crtc_helper_mode_valid_fixed(struct drm_crtc *crtc, const struct drm_display_mode *mode, const struct drm_display_mode *fixed_mode)

Validates a display mode

Parameters

struct drm_crtc *crtc

the crtc

const struct drm_display_mode *mode

the mode to validate

const struct drm_display_mode *fixed_mode

the display hardware’s mode

Return

MODE_OK on success, or another mode-status code otherwise.

int drm_connector_helper_get_modes_from_ddc(struct drm_connector *connector)

Updates the connector’s EDID property from the connector’s DDC channel

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

The connector

Return

The number of detected display modes.

Description

Uses a connector’s DDC channel to retrieve EDID data and update the connector’s EDID property and display modes. Drivers can use this function to implement struct drm_connector_helper_funcs.get_modes for connectors with a DDC channel.

int drm_connector_helper_get_modes_fixed(struct drm_connector *connector, const struct drm_display_mode *fixed_mode)

Duplicates a display mode for a connector

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

the connector

const struct drm_display_mode *fixed_mode

the display hardware’s mode

Description

This function duplicates a display modes for a connector. Drivers for hardware that only supports a single fixed mode can use this function in their connector’s get_modes helper.

Return

The number of created modes.

int drm_connector_helper_get_modes(struct drm_connector *connector)

Read EDID and update connector.

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

The connector

Description

Read the EDID using drm_edid_read() (which requires that connector->ddc is set), and update the connector using the EDID.

This can be used as the “default” connector helper .get_modes() hook if the driver does not need any special processing. This is sets the example what custom .get_modes() hooks should do regarding EDID read and connector update.

Return

Number of modes.

int drm_connector_helper_tv_get_modes(struct drm_connector *connector)

Fills the modes availables to a TV connector

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

The connector

Description

Fills the available modes for a TV connector based on the supported TV modes, and the default mode expressed by the kernel command line.

This can be used as the default TV connector helper .get_modes() hook if the driver does not need any special processing.

Return

The number of modes added to the connector.

EDID Helper Functions Reference

int drm_eld_mnl(const uint8_t *eld)

Get ELD monitor name length in bytes.

Parameters

const uint8_t *eld

pointer to an eld memory structure with mnl set

const uint8_t *drm_eld_sad(const uint8_t *eld)

Get ELD SAD structures.

Parameters

const uint8_t *eld

pointer to an eld memory structure with sad_count set

int drm_eld_sad_count(const uint8_t *eld)

Get ELD SAD count.

Parameters

const uint8_t *eld

pointer to an eld memory structure with sad_count set

int drm_eld_calc_baseline_block_size(const uint8_t *eld)

Calculate baseline block size in bytes

Parameters

const uint8_t *eld

pointer to an eld memory structure with mnl and sad_count set

Description

This is a helper for determining the payload size of the baseline block, in bytes, for e.g. setting the Baseline_ELD_Len field in the ELD header block.

int drm_eld_size(const uint8_t *eld)

Get ELD size in bytes

Parameters

const uint8_t *eld

pointer to a complete eld memory structure

Description

The returned value does not include the vendor block. It’s vendor specific, and comprises of the remaining bytes in the ELD memory buffer after drm_eld_size() bytes of header and baseline block.

The returned value is guaranteed to be a multiple of 4.

u8 drm_eld_get_spk_alloc(const uint8_t *eld)

Get speaker allocation

Parameters

const uint8_t *eld

pointer to an ELD memory structure

Description

The returned value is the speakers mask. User has to use DRM_ELD_SPEAKER field definitions to identify speakers.

u8 drm_eld_get_conn_type(const uint8_t *eld)

Get device type hdmi/dp connected

Parameters

const uint8_t *eld

pointer to an ELD memory structure

Description

The caller need to use DRM_ELD_CONN_TYPE_HDMI or DRM_ELD_CONN_TYPE_DP to identify the display type connected.

const char *drm_edid_decode_mfg_id(u16 mfg_id, char vend[4])

Decode the manufacturer ID

Parameters

u16 mfg_id

The manufacturer ID

char vend[4]

A 4-byte buffer to store the 3-letter vendor string plus a ‘0’ termination

drm_edid_encode_panel_id

drm_edid_encode_panel_id (vend_chr_0, vend_chr_1, vend_chr_2, product_id)

Encode an ID for matching against drm_edid_get_panel_id()

Parameters

vend_chr_0

First character of the vendor string.

vend_chr_1

Second character of the vendor string.

vend_chr_2

Third character of the vendor string.

product_id

The 16-bit product ID.

Description

This is a macro so that it can be calculated at compile time and used as an initializer.

For instance:

drm_edid_encode_panel_id(‘B’, ‘O’, ‘E’, 0x2d08) => 0x09e52d08

Return

a 32-bit ID per panel.

void drm_edid_decode_panel_id(u32 panel_id, char vend[4], u16 *product_id)

Decode a panel ID from drm_edid_encode_panel_id()

Parameters

u32 panel_id

The panel ID to decode.

char vend[4]

A 4-byte buffer to store the 3-letter vendor string plus a ‘0’ termination

u16 *product_id

The product ID will be returned here.

Description

For instance, after:

drm_edid_decode_panel_id(0x09e52d08, vend, product_id)

These will be true:

vend[0] = ‘B’ vend[1] = ‘O’ vend[2] = ‘E’ vend[3] = ‘0’ product_id = 0x2d08

int drm_edid_header_is_valid(const void *_edid)

sanity check the header of the base EDID block

Parameters

const void *_edid

pointer to raw base EDID block

Description

Sanity check the header of the base EDID block.

Return

8 if the header is perfect, down to 0 if it’s totally wrong.

bool drm_edid_are_equal(const struct edid *edid1, const struct edid *edid2)

compare two edid blobs.

Parameters

const struct edid *edid1

pointer to first blob

const struct edid *edid2

pointer to second blob This helper can be used during probing to determine if edid had changed.

bool drm_edid_block_valid(u8 *_block, int block_num, bool print_bad_edid, bool *edid_corrupt)

Sanity check the EDID block (base or extension)

Parameters

u8 *_block

pointer to raw EDID block

int block_num

type of block to validate (0 for base, extension otherwise)

bool print_bad_edid

if true, dump bad EDID blocks to the console

bool *edid_corrupt

if true, the header or checksum is invalid

Description

Validate a base or extension EDID block and optionally dump bad blocks to the console.

Return

True if the block is valid, false otherwise.

bool drm_edid_is_valid(struct edid *edid)

sanity check EDID data

Parameters

struct edid *edid

EDID data

Description

Sanity-check an entire EDID record (including extensions)

Return

True if the EDID data is valid, false otherwise.

bool drm_edid_valid(const struct drm_edid *drm_edid)

sanity check EDID data

Parameters

const struct drm_edid *drm_edid

EDID data

Description

Sanity check an EDID. Cross check block count against allocated size and checksum the blocks.

Return

True if the EDID data is valid, false otherwise.

int drm_edid_override_connector_update(struct drm_connector *connector)

add modes from override/firmware EDID

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

connector we’re probing

Description

Add modes from the override/firmware EDID, if available. Only to be used from drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes() as a fallback for when DDC probe failed during drm_get_edid() and caused the override/firmware EDID to be skipped.

Return

The number of modes added or 0 if we couldn’t find any.

struct edid *drm_do_get_edid(struct drm_connector *connector, read_block_fn read_block, void *context)

get EDID data using a custom EDID block read function

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

connector we’re probing

read_block_fn read_block

EDID block read function

void *context

private data passed to the block read function

Description

When the I2C adapter connected to the DDC bus is hidden behind a device that exposes a different interface to read EDID blocks this function can be used to get EDID data using a custom block read function.

As in the general case the DDC bus is accessible by the kernel at the I2C level, drivers must make all reasonable efforts to expose it as an I2C adapter and use drm_get_edid() instead of abusing this function.

The EDID may be overridden using debugfs override_edid or firmware EDID (drm_edid_load_firmware() and drm.edid_firmware parameter), in this priority order. Having either of them bypasses actual EDID reads.

Return

Pointer to valid EDID or NULL if we couldn’t find any.

const struct edid *drm_edid_raw(const struct drm_edid *drm_edid)

Get a pointer to the raw EDID data.

Parameters

const struct drm_edid *drm_edid

drm_edid container

Description

Get a pointer to the raw EDID data.

This is for transition only. Avoid using this like the plague.

Return

Pointer to raw EDID data.

const struct drm_edid *drm_edid_alloc(const void *edid, size_t size)

Allocate a new drm_edid container

Parameters

const void *edid

Pointer to raw EDID data

size_t size

Size of memory allocated for EDID

Description

Allocate a new drm_edid container. Do not calculate edid size from edid, pass the actual size that has been allocated for the data. There is no validation of the raw EDID data against the size, but at least the EDID base block must fit in the buffer.

The returned pointer must be freed using drm_edid_free().

Return

drm_edid container, or NULL on errors

const struct drm_edid *drm_edid_dup(const struct drm_edid *drm_edid)

Duplicate a drm_edid container

Parameters

const struct drm_edid *drm_edid

EDID to duplicate

Description

The returned pointer must be freed using drm_edid_free().

Return

drm_edid container copy, or NULL on errors

void drm_edid_free(const struct drm_edid *drm_edid)

Free the drm_edid container

Parameters

const struct drm_edid *drm_edid

EDID to free

bool drm_probe_ddc(struct i2c_adapter *adapter)

probe DDC presence

Parameters

struct i2c_adapter *adapter

I2C adapter to probe

Return

True on success, false on failure.

struct edid *drm_get_edid(struct drm_connector *connector, struct i2c_adapter *adapter)

get EDID data, if available

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

connector we’re probing

struct i2c_adapter *adapter

I2C adapter to use for DDC

Description

Poke the given I2C channel to grab EDID data if possible. If found, attach it to the connector.

Return

Pointer to valid EDID or NULL if we couldn’t find any.

const struct drm_edid *drm_edid_read_custom(struct drm_connector *connector, read_block_fn read_block, void *context)

Read EDID data using given EDID block read function

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

Connector to use

read_block_fn read_block

EDID block read function

void *context

Private data passed to the block read function

Description

When the I2C adapter connected to the DDC bus is hidden behind a device that exposes a different interface to read EDID blocks this function can be used to get EDID data using a custom block read function.

As in the general case the DDC bus is accessible by the kernel at the I2C level, drivers must make all reasonable efforts to expose it as an I2C adapter and use drm_edid_read() or drm_edid_read_ddc() instead of abusing this function.

The EDID may be overridden using debugfs override_edid or firmware EDID (drm_edid_load_firmware() and drm.edid_firmware parameter), in this priority order. Having either of them bypasses actual EDID reads.

The returned pointer must be freed using drm_edid_free().

Return

Pointer to EDID, or NULL if probe/read failed.

const struct drm_edid *drm_edid_read_ddc(struct drm_connector *connector, struct i2c_adapter *adapter)

Read EDID data using given I2C adapter

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

Connector to use

struct i2c_adapter *adapter

I2C adapter to use for DDC

Description

Read EDID using the given I2C adapter.

The EDID may be overridden using debugfs override_edid or firmware EDID (drm_edid_load_firmware() and drm.edid_firmware parameter), in this priority order. Having either of them bypasses actual EDID reads.

Prefer initializing connector->ddc with drm_connector_init_with_ddc() and using drm_edid_read() instead of this function.

The returned pointer must be freed using drm_edid_free().

Return

Pointer to EDID, or NULL if probe/read failed.

const struct drm_edid *drm_edid_read(struct drm_connector *connector)

Read EDID data using connector’s I2C adapter

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

Connector to use

Description

Read EDID using the connector’s I2C adapter.

The EDID may be overridden using debugfs override_edid or firmware EDID (drm_edid_load_firmware() and drm.edid_firmware parameter), in this priority order. Having either of them bypasses actual EDID reads.

The returned pointer must be freed using drm_edid_free().

Return

Pointer to EDID, or NULL if probe/read failed.

u32 drm_edid_get_panel_id(struct i2c_adapter *adapter)

Get a panel’s ID through DDC

Parameters

struct i2c_adapter *adapter

I2C adapter to use for DDC

Description

This function reads the first block of the EDID of a panel and (assuming that the EDID is valid) extracts the ID out of it. The ID is a 32-bit value (16 bits of manufacturer ID and 16 bits of per-manufacturer ID) that’s supposed to be different for each different modem of panel.

This function is intended to be used during early probing on devices where more than one panel might be present. Because of its intended use it must assume that the EDID of the panel is correct, at least as far as the ID is concerned (in other words, we don’t process any overrides here).

NOTE

it’s expected that this function and drm_do_get_edid() will both be read the EDID, but there is no caching between them. Since we’re only reading the first block, hopefully this extra overhead won’t be too big.

Return

A 32-bit ID that should be different for each make/model of panel.

See the functions drm_edid_encode_panel_id() and drm_edid_decode_panel_id() for some details on the structure of this ID.

struct edid *drm_get_edid_switcheroo(struct drm_connector *connector, struct i2c_adapter *adapter)

get EDID data for a vga_switcheroo output

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

connector we’re probing

struct i2c_adapter *adapter

I2C adapter to use for DDC

Description

Wrapper around drm_get_edid() for laptops with dual GPUs using one set of outputs. The wrapper adds the requisite vga_switcheroo calls to temporarily switch DDC to the GPU which is retrieving EDID.

Return

Pointer to valid EDID or NULL if we couldn’t find any.

struct edid *drm_edid_duplicate(const struct edid *edid)

duplicate an EDID and the extensions

Parameters

const struct edid *edid

EDID to duplicate

Return

Pointer to duplicated EDID or NULL on allocation failure.

u8 drm_match_cea_mode(const struct drm_display_mode *to_match)

look for a CEA mode matching given mode

Parameters

const struct drm_display_mode *to_match

display mode

Return

The CEA Video ID (VIC) of the mode or 0 if it isn’t a CEA-861 mode.

struct drm_display_mode *drm_display_mode_from_cea_vic(struct drm_device *dev, u8 video_code)

return a mode for CEA VIC

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

u8 video_code

CEA VIC of the mode

Description

Creates a new mode matching the specified CEA VIC.

Return

A new drm_display_mode on success or NULL on failure

void drm_edid_get_monitor_name(const struct edid *edid, char *name, int bufsize)

fetch the monitor name from the edid

Parameters

const struct edid *edid

monitor EDID information

char *name

pointer to a character array to hold the name of the monitor

int bufsize

The size of the name buffer (should be at least 14 chars.)

int drm_edid_to_sad(const struct edid *edid, struct cea_sad **sads)

extracts SADs from EDID

Parameters

const struct edid *edid

EDID to parse

struct cea_sad **sads

pointer that will be set to the extracted SADs

Description

Looks for CEA EDID block and extracts SADs (Short Audio Descriptors) from it.

Note

The returned pointer needs to be freed using kfree().

Return

The number of found SADs or negative number on error.

int drm_edid_to_speaker_allocation(const struct edid *edid, u8 **sadb)

extracts Speaker Allocation Data Blocks from EDID

Parameters

const struct edid *edid

EDID to parse

u8 **sadb

pointer to the speaker block

Description

Looks for CEA EDID block and extracts the Speaker Allocation Data Block from it.

Note

The returned pointer needs to be freed using kfree().

Return

The number of found Speaker Allocation Blocks or negative number on error.

int drm_av_sync_delay(struct drm_connector *connector, const struct drm_display_mode *mode)

compute the HDMI/DP sink audio-video sync delay

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

connector associated with the HDMI/DP sink

const struct drm_display_mode *mode

the display mode

Return

The HDMI/DP sink’s audio-video sync delay in milliseconds or 0 if the sink doesn’t support audio or video.

bool drm_detect_hdmi_monitor(const struct edid *edid)

detect whether monitor is HDMI

Parameters

const struct edid *edid

monitor EDID information

Description

Parse the CEA extension according to CEA-861-B.

Drivers that have added the modes parsed from EDID to drm_display_info should use drm_display_info.is_hdmi instead of calling this function.

Return

True if the monitor is HDMI, false if not or unknown.

bool drm_detect_monitor_audio(const struct edid *edid)

check monitor audio capability

Parameters

const struct edid *edid

EDID block to scan

Description

Monitor should have CEA extension block. If monitor has ‘basic audio’, but no CEA audio blocks, it’s ‘basic audio’ only. If there is any audio extension block and supported audio format, assume at least ‘basic audio’ support, even if ‘basic audio’ is not defined in EDID.

Return

True if the monitor supports audio, false otherwise.

enum hdmi_quantization_range drm_default_rgb_quant_range(const struct drm_display_mode *mode)

default RGB quantization range

Parameters

const struct drm_display_mode *mode

display mode

Description

Determine the default RGB quantization range for the mode, as specified in CEA-861.

Return

The default RGB quantization range for the mode

int drm_edid_connector_update(struct drm_connector *connector, const struct drm_edid *drm_edid)

Update connector information from EDID

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

Connector

const struct drm_edid *drm_edid

EDID

Description

Update the connector display info, ELD, HDR metadata, relevant properties, etc. from the passed in EDID.

If EDID is NULL, reset the information.

Must be called before calling drm_edid_connector_add_modes().

Return

0 on success, negative error on errors.

int drm_edid_connector_add_modes(struct drm_connector *connector)

Update probed modes from the EDID property

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

Connector

Description

Add the modes from the previously updated EDID property to the connector probed modes list.

drm_edid_connector_update() must have been called before this to update the EDID property.

Return

The number of modes added, or 0 if we couldn’t find any.

int drm_connector_update_edid_property(struct drm_connector *connector, const struct edid *edid)

update the edid property of a connector

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

drm connector

const struct edid *edid

new value of the edid property

Description

This function creates a new blob modeset object and assigns its id to the connector’s edid property. Since we also parse tile information from EDID’s displayID block, we also set the connector’s tile property here. See drm_connector_set_tile_property() for more details.

This function is deprecated. Use drm_edid_connector_update() instead.

Return

Zero on success, negative errno on failure.

int drm_add_edid_modes(struct drm_connector *connector, struct edid *edid)

add modes from EDID data, if available

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

connector we’re probing

struct edid *edid

EDID data

Description

Add the specified modes to the connector’s mode list. Also fills out the drm_display_info structure and ELD in connector with any information which can be derived from the edid.

This function is deprecated. Use drm_edid_connector_add_modes() instead.

Return

The number of modes added or 0 if we couldn’t find any.

int drm_add_modes_noedid(struct drm_connector *connector, int hdisplay, int vdisplay)

add modes for the connectors without EDID

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

connector we’re probing

int hdisplay

the horizontal display limit

int vdisplay

the vertical display limit

Description

Add the specified modes to the connector’s mode list. Only when the hdisplay/vdisplay is not beyond the given limit, it will be added.

Return

The number of modes added or 0 if we couldn’t find any.

void drm_set_preferred_mode(struct drm_connector *connector, int hpref, int vpref)

Sets the preferred mode of a connector

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

connector whose mode list should be processed

int hpref

horizontal resolution of preferred mode

int vpref

vertical resolution of preferred mode

Description

Marks a mode as preferred if it matches the resolution specified by hpref and vpref.

int drm_hdmi_avi_infoframe_from_display_mode(struct hdmi_avi_infoframe *frame, const struct drm_connector *connector, const struct drm_display_mode *mode)

fill an HDMI AVI infoframe with data from a DRM display mode

Parameters

struct hdmi_avi_infoframe *frame

HDMI AVI infoframe

const struct drm_connector *connector

the connector

const struct drm_display_mode *mode

DRM display mode

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

void drm_hdmi_avi_infoframe_quant_range(struct hdmi_avi_infoframe *frame, const struct drm_connector *connector, const struct drm_display_mode *mode, enum hdmi_quantization_range rgb_quant_range)

fill the HDMI AVI infoframe quantization range information

Parameters

struct hdmi_avi_infoframe *frame

HDMI AVI infoframe

const struct drm_connector *connector

the connector

const struct drm_display_mode *mode

DRM display mode

enum hdmi_quantization_range rgb_quant_range

RGB quantization range (Q)

int drm_hdmi_vendor_infoframe_from_display_mode(struct hdmi_vendor_infoframe *frame, const struct drm_connector *connector, const struct drm_display_mode *mode)

fill an HDMI infoframe with data from a DRM display mode

Parameters

struct hdmi_vendor_infoframe *frame

HDMI vendor infoframe

const struct drm_connector *connector

the connector

const struct drm_display_mode *mode

DRM display mode

Description

Note that there’s is a need to send HDMI vendor infoframes only when using a 4k or stereoscopic 3D mode. So when giving any other mode as input this function will return -EINVAL, error that can be safely ignored.

Return

0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

SCDC Helper Functions Reference

Error

kernel-doc missing

Error

kernel-doc missing

Error

kernel-doc missing

HDMI Infoframes Helper Reference

Strictly speaking this is not a DRM helper library but generally useable by any driver interfacing with HDMI outputs like v4l or alsa drivers. But it nicely fits into the overall topic of mode setting helper libraries and hence is also included here.

struct hdr_sink_metadata

HDR sink metadata

Definition

struct hdr_sink_metadata {
  __u32 metadata_type;
  union {
    struct hdr_static_metadata hdmi_type1;
  };
};

Members

metadata_type

Static_Metadata_Descriptor_ID.

{unnamed_union}

anonymous

hdmi_type1

HDR Metadata Infoframe.

Description

Metadata Information read from Sink’s EDID

union hdmi_infoframe

overall union of all abstract infoframe representations

Definition

union hdmi_infoframe {
  struct hdmi_any_infoframe any;
  struct hdmi_avi_infoframe avi;
  struct hdmi_spd_infoframe spd;
  union hdmi_vendor_any_infoframe vendor;
  struct hdmi_audio_infoframe audio;
  struct hdmi_drm_infoframe drm;
};

Members

any

generic infoframe

avi

avi infoframe

spd

spd infoframe

vendor

union of all vendor infoframes

audio

audio infoframe

drm

Dynamic Range and Mastering infoframe

Description

This is used by the generic pack function. This works since all infoframes have the same header which also indicates which type of infoframe should be packed.

void hdmi_avi_infoframe_init(struct hdmi_avi_infoframe *frame)

initialize an HDMI AVI infoframe

Parameters

struct hdmi_avi_infoframe *frame

HDMI AVI infoframe

int hdmi_avi_infoframe_check(struct hdmi_avi_infoframe *frame)

check a HDMI AVI infoframe

Parameters

struct hdmi_avi_infoframe *frame

HDMI AVI infoframe

Description

Validates that the infoframe is consistent and updates derived fields (eg. length) based on other fields.

Returns 0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

ssize_t hdmi_avi_infoframe_pack_only(const struct hdmi_avi_infoframe *frame, void *buffer, size_t size)

write HDMI AVI infoframe to binary buffer

Parameters

const struct hdmi_avi_infoframe *frame

HDMI AVI infoframe

void *buffer

destination buffer

size_t size

size of buffer

Description

Packs the information contained in the frame structure into a binary representation that can be written into the corresponding controller registers. Also computes the checksum as required by section 5.3.5 of the HDMI 1.4 specification.

Returns the number of bytes packed into the binary buffer or a negative error code on failure.

ssize_t hdmi_avi_infoframe_pack(struct hdmi_avi_infoframe *frame, void *buffer, size_t size)

check a HDMI AVI infoframe, and write it to binary buffer

Parameters

struct hdmi_avi_infoframe *frame

HDMI AVI infoframe

void *buffer

destination buffer

size_t size

size of buffer

Description

Validates that the infoframe is consistent and updates derived fields (eg. length) based on other fields, after which it packs the information contained in the frame structure into a binary representation that can be written into the corresponding controller registers. This function also computes the checksum as required by section 5.3.5 of the HDMI 1.4 specification.

Returns the number of bytes packed into the binary buffer or a negative error code on failure.

int hdmi_spd_infoframe_init(struct hdmi_spd_infoframe *frame, const char *vendor, const char *product)

initialize an HDMI SPD infoframe

Parameters

struct hdmi_spd_infoframe *frame

HDMI SPD infoframe

const char *vendor

vendor string

const char *product

product string

Description

Returns 0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int hdmi_spd_infoframe_check(struct hdmi_spd_infoframe *frame)

check a HDMI SPD infoframe

Parameters

struct hdmi_spd_infoframe *frame

HDMI SPD infoframe

Description

Validates that the infoframe is consistent and updates derived fields (eg. length) based on other fields.

Returns 0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

ssize_t hdmi_spd_infoframe_pack_only(const struct hdmi_spd_infoframe *frame, void *buffer, size_t size)

write HDMI SPD infoframe to binary buffer

Parameters

const struct hdmi_spd_infoframe *frame

HDMI SPD infoframe

void *buffer

destination buffer

size_t size

size of buffer

Description

Packs the information contained in the frame structure into a binary representation that can be written into the corresponding controller registers. Also computes the checksum as required by section 5.3.5 of the HDMI 1.4 specification.

Returns the number of bytes packed into the binary buffer or a negative error code on failure.

ssize_t hdmi_spd_infoframe_pack(struct hdmi_spd_infoframe *frame, void *buffer, size_t size)

check a HDMI SPD infoframe, and write it to binary buffer

Parameters

struct hdmi_spd_infoframe *frame

HDMI SPD infoframe

void *buffer

destination buffer

size_t size

size of buffer

Description

Validates that the infoframe is consistent and updates derived fields (eg. length) based on other fields, after which it packs the information contained in the frame structure into a binary representation that can be written into the corresponding controller registers. This function also computes the checksum as required by section 5.3.5 of the HDMI 1.4 specification.

Returns the number of bytes packed into the binary buffer or a negative error code on failure.

int hdmi_audio_infoframe_init(struct hdmi_audio_infoframe *frame)

initialize an HDMI audio infoframe

Parameters

struct hdmi_audio_infoframe *frame

HDMI audio infoframe

Description

Returns 0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int hdmi_audio_infoframe_check(const struct hdmi_audio_infoframe *frame)

check a HDMI audio infoframe

Parameters

const struct hdmi_audio_infoframe *frame

HDMI audio infoframe

Description

Validates that the infoframe is consistent and updates derived fields (eg. length) based on other fields.

Returns 0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

ssize_t hdmi_audio_infoframe_pack_only(const struct hdmi_audio_infoframe *frame, void *buffer, size_t size)

write HDMI audio infoframe to binary buffer

Parameters

const struct hdmi_audio_infoframe *frame

HDMI audio infoframe

void *buffer

destination buffer

size_t size

size of buffer

Description

Packs the information contained in the frame structure into a binary representation that can be written into the corresponding controller registers. Also computes the checksum as required by section 5.3.5 of the HDMI 1.4 specification.

Returns the number of bytes packed into the binary buffer or a negative error code on failure.

ssize_t hdmi_audio_infoframe_pack(struct hdmi_audio_infoframe *frame, void *buffer, size_t size)

check a HDMI Audio infoframe, and write it to binary buffer

Parameters

struct hdmi_audio_infoframe *frame

HDMI Audio infoframe

void *buffer

destination buffer

size_t size

size of buffer

Description

Validates that the infoframe is consistent and updates derived fields (eg. length) based on other fields, after which it packs the information contained in the frame structure into a binary representation that can be written into the corresponding controller registers. This function also computes the checksum as required by section 5.3.5 of the HDMI 1.4 specification.

Returns the number of bytes packed into the binary buffer or a negative error code on failure.

ssize_t hdmi_audio_infoframe_pack_for_dp(const struct hdmi_audio_infoframe *frame, struct dp_sdp *sdp, u8 dp_version)

Pack a HDMI Audio infoframe for DisplayPort

Parameters

const struct hdmi_audio_infoframe *frame

HDMI Audio infoframe

struct dp_sdp *sdp

Secondary data packet for DisplayPort.

u8 dp_version

DisplayPort version to be encoded in the header

Description

Packs a HDMI Audio Infoframe to be sent over DisplayPort. This function fills the secondary data packet to be used for DisplayPort.

Return

Number of total written bytes or a negative errno on failure.

int hdmi_vendor_infoframe_init(struct hdmi_vendor_infoframe *frame)

initialize an HDMI vendor infoframe

Parameters

struct hdmi_vendor_infoframe *frame

HDMI vendor infoframe

Description

Returns 0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int hdmi_vendor_infoframe_check(struct hdmi_vendor_infoframe *frame)

check a HDMI vendor infoframe

Parameters

struct hdmi_vendor_infoframe *frame

HDMI infoframe

Description

Validates that the infoframe is consistent and updates derived fields (eg. length) based on other fields.

Returns 0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

ssize_t hdmi_vendor_infoframe_pack_only(const struct hdmi_vendor_infoframe *frame, void *buffer, size_t size)

write a HDMI vendor infoframe to binary buffer

Parameters

const struct hdmi_vendor_infoframe *frame

HDMI infoframe

void *buffer

destination buffer

size_t size

size of buffer

Description

Packs the information contained in the frame structure into a binary representation that can be written into the corresponding controller registers. Also computes the checksum as required by section 5.3.5 of the HDMI 1.4 specification.

Returns the number of bytes packed into the binary buffer or a negative error code on failure.

ssize_t hdmi_vendor_infoframe_pack(struct hdmi_vendor_infoframe *frame, void *buffer, size_t size)

check a HDMI Vendor infoframe, and write it to binary buffer

Parameters

struct hdmi_vendor_infoframe *frame

HDMI Vendor infoframe

void *buffer

destination buffer

size_t size

size of buffer

Description

Validates that the infoframe is consistent and updates derived fields (eg. length) based on other fields, after which it packs the information contained in the frame structure into a binary representation that can be written into the corresponding controller registers. This function also computes the checksum as required by section 5.3.5 of the HDMI 1.4 specification.

Returns the number of bytes packed into the binary buffer or a negative error code on failure.

int hdmi_drm_infoframe_init(struct hdmi_drm_infoframe *frame)

initialize an HDMI Dynaminc Range and mastering infoframe

Parameters

struct hdmi_drm_infoframe *frame

HDMI DRM infoframe

Description

Returns 0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int hdmi_drm_infoframe_check(struct hdmi_drm_infoframe *frame)

check a HDMI DRM infoframe

Parameters

struct hdmi_drm_infoframe *frame

HDMI DRM infoframe

Description

Validates that the infoframe is consistent. Returns 0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

ssize_t hdmi_drm_infoframe_pack_only(const struct hdmi_drm_infoframe *frame, void *buffer, size_t size)

write HDMI DRM infoframe to binary buffer

Parameters

const struct hdmi_drm_infoframe *frame

HDMI DRM infoframe

void *buffer

destination buffer

size_t size

size of buffer

Description

Packs the information contained in the frame structure into a binary representation that can be written into the corresponding controller registers. Also computes the checksum as required by section 5.3.5 of the HDMI 1.4 specification.

Returns the number of bytes packed into the binary buffer or a negative error code on failure.

ssize_t hdmi_drm_infoframe_pack(struct hdmi_drm_infoframe *frame, void *buffer, size_t size)

check a HDMI DRM infoframe, and write it to binary buffer

Parameters

struct hdmi_drm_infoframe *frame

HDMI DRM infoframe

void *buffer

destination buffer

size_t size

size of buffer

Description

Validates that the infoframe is consistent and updates derived fields (eg. length) based on other fields, after which it packs the information contained in the frame structure into a binary representation that can be written into the corresponding controller registers. This function also computes the checksum as required by section 5.3.5 of the HDMI 1.4 specification.

Returns the number of bytes packed into the binary buffer or a negative error code on failure.

int hdmi_infoframe_check(union hdmi_infoframe *frame)

check a HDMI infoframe

Parameters

union hdmi_infoframe *frame

HDMI infoframe

Description

Validates that the infoframe is consistent and updates derived fields (eg. length) based on other fields.

Returns 0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

ssize_t hdmi_infoframe_pack_only(const union hdmi_infoframe *frame, void *buffer, size_t size)

write a HDMI infoframe to binary buffer

Parameters

const union hdmi_infoframe *frame

HDMI infoframe

void *buffer

destination buffer

size_t size

size of buffer

Description

Packs the information contained in the frame structure into a binary representation that can be written into the corresponding controller registers. Also computes the checksum as required by section 5.3.5 of the HDMI 1.4 specification.

Returns the number of bytes packed into the binary buffer or a negative error code on failure.

ssize_t hdmi_infoframe_pack(union hdmi_infoframe *frame, void *buffer, size_t size)

check a HDMI infoframe, and write it to binary buffer

Parameters

union hdmi_infoframe *frame

HDMI infoframe

void *buffer

destination buffer

size_t size

size of buffer

Description

Validates that the infoframe is consistent and updates derived fields (eg. length) based on other fields, after which it packs the information contained in the frame structure into a binary representation that can be written into the corresponding controller registers. This function also computes the checksum as required by section 5.3.5 of the HDMI 1.4 specification.

Returns the number of bytes packed into the binary buffer or a negative error code on failure.

void hdmi_infoframe_log(const char *level, struct device *dev, const union hdmi_infoframe *frame)

log info of HDMI infoframe

Parameters

const char *level

logging level

struct device *dev

device

const union hdmi_infoframe *frame

HDMI infoframe

int hdmi_drm_infoframe_unpack_only(struct hdmi_drm_infoframe *frame, const void *buffer, size_t size)

unpack binary buffer of CTA-861-G DRM infoframe DataBytes to a HDMI DRM infoframe

Parameters

struct hdmi_drm_infoframe *frame

HDMI DRM infoframe

const void *buffer

source buffer

size_t size

size of buffer

Description

Unpacks CTA-861-G DRM infoframe DataBytes contained in the binary buffer into a structured frame of the HDMI Dynamic Range and Mastering (DRM) infoframe.

Returns 0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

int hdmi_infoframe_unpack(union hdmi_infoframe *frame, const void *buffer, size_t size)

unpack binary buffer to a HDMI infoframe

Parameters

union hdmi_infoframe *frame

HDMI infoframe

const void *buffer

source buffer

size_t size

size of buffer

Description

Unpacks the information contained in binary buffer buffer into a structured frame of a HDMI infoframe. Also verifies the checksum as required by section 5.3.5 of the HDMI 1.4 specification.

Returns 0 on success or a negative error code on failure.

Rectangle Utilities Reference

Utility functions to help manage rectangular areas for clipping, scaling, etc. calculations.

struct drm_rect

two dimensional rectangle

Definition

struct drm_rect {
  int x1, y1, x2, y2;
};

Members

x1

horizontal starting coordinate (inclusive)

y1

vertical starting coordinate (inclusive)

x2

horizontal ending coordinate (exclusive)

y2

vertical ending coordinate (exclusive)

Description

Note that this must match the layout of struct drm_mode_rect or the damage helpers like drm_atomic_helper_damage_iter_init() break.

DRM_RECT_INIT

DRM_RECT_INIT (x, y, w, h)

initialize a rectangle from x/y/w/h

Parameters

x

x coordinate

y

y coordinate

w

width

h

height

Return

A new rectangle of the specified size.

DRM_RECT_FMT

DRM_RECT_FMT ()

printf string for struct drm_rect

Parameters

DRM_RECT_ARG

DRM_RECT_ARG (r)

printf arguments for struct drm_rect

Parameters

r

rectangle struct

DRM_RECT_FP_FMT

DRM_RECT_FP_FMT ()

printf string for struct drm_rect in 16.16 fixed point

Parameters

DRM_RECT_FP_ARG

DRM_RECT_FP_ARG (r)

printf arguments for struct drm_rect in 16.16 fixed point

Parameters

r

rectangle struct

Description

This is useful for e.g. printing plane source rectangles, which are in 16.16 fixed point.

void drm_rect_init(struct drm_rect *r, int x, int y, int width, int height)

initialize the rectangle from x/y/w/h

Parameters

struct drm_rect *r

rectangle

int x

x coordinate

int y

y coordinate

int width

width

int height

height

void drm_rect_adjust_size(struct drm_rect *r, int dw, int dh)

adjust the size of the rectangle

Parameters

struct drm_rect *r

rectangle to be adjusted

int dw

horizontal adjustment

int dh

vertical adjustment

Description

Change the size of rectangle r by dw in the horizontal direction, and by dh in the vertical direction, while keeping the center of r stationary.

Positive dw and dh increase the size, negative values decrease it.

void drm_rect_translate(struct drm_rect *r, int dx, int dy)

translate the rectangle

Parameters

struct drm_rect *r

rectangle to be tranlated

int dx

horizontal translation

int dy

vertical translation

Description

Move rectangle r by dx in the horizontal direction, and by dy in the vertical direction.

void drm_rect_translate_to(struct drm_rect *r, int x, int y)

translate the rectangle to an absolute position

Parameters

struct drm_rect *r

rectangle to be tranlated

int x

horizontal position

int y

vertical position

Description

Move rectangle r to x in the horizontal direction, and to y in the vertical direction.

void drm_rect_downscale(struct drm_rect *r, int horz, int vert)

downscale a rectangle

Parameters

struct drm_rect *r

rectangle to be downscaled

int horz

horizontal downscale factor

int vert

vertical downscale factor

Description

Divide the coordinates of rectangle r by horz and vert.

int drm_rect_width(const struct drm_rect *r)

determine the rectangle width

Parameters

const struct drm_rect *r

rectangle whose width is returned

Return

The width of the rectangle.

int drm_rect_height(const struct drm_rect *r)

determine the rectangle height

Parameters

const struct drm_rect *r

rectangle whose height is returned

Return

The height of the rectangle.

bool drm_rect_visible(const struct drm_rect *r)

determine if the rectangle is visible

Parameters

const struct drm_rect *r

rectangle whose visibility is returned

Return

true if the rectangle is visible, false otherwise.

bool drm_rect_equals(const struct drm_rect *r1, const struct drm_rect *r2)

determine if two rectangles are equal

Parameters

const struct drm_rect *r1

first rectangle

const struct drm_rect *r2

second rectangle

Return

true if the rectangles are equal, false otherwise.

void drm_rect_fp_to_int(struct drm_rect *dst, const struct drm_rect *src)

Convert a rect in 16.16 fixed point form to int form.

Parameters

struct drm_rect *dst

rect to be stored the converted value

const struct drm_rect *src

rect in 16.16 fixed point form

bool drm_rect_intersect(struct drm_rect *r1, const struct drm_rect *r2)

intersect two rectangles

Parameters

struct drm_rect *r1

first rectangle

const struct drm_rect *r2

second rectangle

Description

Calculate the intersection of rectangles r1 and r2. r1 will be overwritten with the intersection.

Return

true if rectangle r1 is still visible after the operation, false otherwise.

bool drm_rect_clip_scaled(struct drm_rect *src, struct drm_rect *dst, const struct drm_rect *clip)

perform a scaled clip operation

Parameters

struct drm_rect *src

source window rectangle

struct drm_rect *dst

destination window rectangle

const struct drm_rect *clip

clip rectangle

Description

Clip rectangle dst by rectangle clip. Clip rectangle src by the corresponding amounts, retaining the vertical and horizontal scaling factors from src to dst.

true if rectangle dst is still visible after being clipped, false otherwise.

Return

int drm_rect_calc_hscale(const struct drm_rect *src, const struct drm_rect *dst, int min_hscale, int max_hscale)

calculate the horizontal scaling factor

Parameters

const struct drm_rect *src

source window rectangle

const struct drm_rect *dst

destination window rectangle

int min_hscale

minimum allowed horizontal scaling factor

int max_hscale

maximum allowed horizontal scaling factor

Description

Calculate the horizontal scaling factor as (src width) / (dst width).

If the scale is below 1 << 16, round down. If the scale is above 1 << 16, round up. This will calculate the scale with the most pessimistic limit calculation.

Return

The horizontal scaling factor, or errno of out of limits.

int drm_rect_calc_vscale(const struct drm_rect *src, const struct drm_rect *dst, int min_vscale, int max_vscale)

calculate the vertical scaling factor

Parameters

const struct drm_rect *src

source window rectangle

const struct drm_rect *dst

destination window rectangle

int min_vscale

minimum allowed vertical scaling factor

int max_vscale

maximum allowed vertical scaling factor

Description

Calculate the vertical scaling factor as (src height) / (dst height).

If the scale is below 1 << 16, round down. If the scale is above 1 << 16, round up. This will calculate the scale with the most pessimistic limit calculation.

Return

The vertical scaling factor, or errno of out of limits.

void drm_rect_debug_print(const char *prefix, const struct drm_rect *r, bool fixed_point)

print the rectangle information

Parameters

const char *prefix

prefix string

const struct drm_rect *r

rectangle to print

bool fixed_point

rectangle is in 16.16 fixed point format

void drm_rect_rotate(struct drm_rect *r, int width, int height, unsigned int rotation)

Rotate the rectangle

Parameters

struct drm_rect *r

rectangle to be rotated

int width

Width of the coordinate space

int height

Height of the coordinate space

unsigned int rotation

Transformation to be applied

Description

Apply rotation to the coordinates of rectangle r.

width and height combined with rotation define the location of the new origin.

width correcsponds to the horizontal and height to the vertical axis of the untransformed coordinate space.

void drm_rect_rotate_inv(struct drm_rect *r, int width, int height, unsigned int rotation)

Inverse rotate the rectangle

Parameters

struct drm_rect *r

rectangle to be rotated

int width

Width of the coordinate space

int height

Height of the coordinate space

unsigned int rotation

Transformation whose inverse is to be applied

Description

Apply the inverse of rotation to the coordinates of rectangle r.

width and height combined with rotation define the location of the new origin.

width correcsponds to the horizontal and height to the vertical axis of the original untransformed coordinate space, so that you never have to flip them when doing a rotatation and its inverse. That is, if you do

drm_rect_rotate(&r, width, height, rotation);
drm_rect_rotate_inv(&r, width, height, rotation);

you will always get back the original rectangle.

Flip-work Helper Reference

Util to queue up work to run from work-queue context after flip/vblank. Typically this can be used to defer unref of framebuffer’s, cursor bo’s, etc until after vblank. The APIs are all thread-safe. Moreover, drm_flip_work_queue_task and drm_flip_work_queue can be called in atomic context.

struct drm_flip_task

flip work task

Definition

struct drm_flip_task {
  struct list_head node;
  void *data;
};

Members

node

list entry element

data

data to pass to drm_flip_work.func

struct drm_flip_work

flip work queue

Definition

struct drm_flip_work {
  const char *name;
  drm_flip_func_t func;
  struct work_struct worker;
  struct list_head queued;
  struct list_head commited;
  spinlock_t lock;
};

Members

name

debug name

func

callback fxn called for each committed item

worker

worker which calls func

queued

queued tasks

commited

commited tasks

lock

lock to access queued and commited lists

struct drm_flip_task *drm_flip_work_allocate_task(void *data, gfp_t flags)

allocate a flip-work task

Parameters

void *data

data associated to the task

gfp_t flags

allocator flags

Description

Allocate a drm_flip_task object and attach private data to it.

void drm_flip_work_queue_task(struct drm_flip_work *work, struct drm_flip_task *task)

queue a specific task

Parameters

struct drm_flip_work *work

the flip-work

struct drm_flip_task *task

the task to handle

Description

Queues task, that will later be run (passed back to drm_flip_func_t func) on a work queue after drm_flip_work_commit() is called.

void drm_flip_work_queue(struct drm_flip_work *work, void *val)

queue work

Parameters

struct drm_flip_work *work

the flip-work

void *val

the value to queue

Description

Queues work, that will later be run (passed back to drm_flip_func_t func) on a work queue after drm_flip_work_commit() is called.

void drm_flip_work_commit(struct drm_flip_work *work, struct workqueue_struct *wq)

commit queued work

Parameters

struct drm_flip_work *work

the flip-work

struct workqueue_struct *wq

the work-queue to run the queued work on

Description

Trigger work previously queued by drm_flip_work_queue() to run on a workqueue. The typical usage would be to queue work (via drm_flip_work_queue()) at any point (from vblank irq and/or prior), and then from vblank irq commit the queued work.

void drm_flip_work_init(struct drm_flip_work *work, const char *name, drm_flip_func_t func)

initialize flip-work

Parameters

struct drm_flip_work *work

the flip-work to initialize

const char *name

debug name

drm_flip_func_t func

the callback work function

Description

Initializes/allocates resources for the flip-work

void drm_flip_work_cleanup(struct drm_flip_work *work)

cleans up flip-work

Parameters

struct drm_flip_work *work

the flip-work to cleanup

Description

Destroy resources allocated for the flip-work

Auxiliary Modeset Helpers

This helper library contains various one-off functions which don’t really fit anywhere else in the DRM modeset helper library.

void drm_helper_move_panel_connectors_to_head(struct drm_device *dev)

move panels to the front in the connector list

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

drm device to operate on

Description

Some userspace presumes that the first connected connector is the main display, where it’s supposed to display e.g. the login screen. For laptops, this should be the main panel. Use this function to sort all (eDP/LVDS/DSI) panels to the front of the connector list, instead of painstakingly trying to initialize them in the right order.

void drm_helper_mode_fill_fb_struct(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_framebuffer *fb, const struct drm_mode_fb_cmd2 *mode_cmd)

fill out framebuffer metadata

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct drm_framebuffer *fb

drm_framebuffer object to fill out

const struct drm_mode_fb_cmd2 *mode_cmd

metadata from the userspace fb creation request

Description

This helper can be used in a drivers fb_create callback to pre-fill the fb’s metadata fields.

int drm_crtc_init(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_crtc *crtc, const struct drm_crtc_funcs *funcs)

Legacy CRTC initialization function

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct drm_crtc *crtc

CRTC object to init

const struct drm_crtc_funcs *funcs

callbacks for the new CRTC

Description

Initialize a CRTC object with a default helper-provided primary plane and no cursor plane.

Note that we make some assumptions about hardware limitations that may not be true for all hardware:

  1. Primary plane cannot be repositioned.

  2. Primary plane cannot be scaled.

  3. Primary plane must cover the entire CRTC.

  4. Subpixel positioning is not supported.

  5. The primary plane must always be on if the CRTC is enabled.

This is purely a backwards compatibility helper for old drivers. Drivers should instead implement their own primary plane. Atomic drivers must do so. Drivers with the above hardware restriction can look into using struct drm_simple_display_pipe, which encapsulates the above limitations into a nice interface.

Return

Zero on success, error code on failure.

int drm_mode_config_helper_suspend(struct drm_device *dev)

Modeset suspend helper

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

Description

This helper function takes care of suspending the modeset side. It disables output polling if initialized, suspends fbdev if used and finally calls drm_atomic_helper_suspend(). If suspending fails, fbdev and polling is re-enabled.

See also: drm_kms_helper_poll_disable() and drm_fb_helper_set_suspend_unlocked().

Return

Zero on success, negative error code on error.

int drm_mode_config_helper_resume(struct drm_device *dev)

Modeset resume helper

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

Description

This helper function takes care of resuming the modeset side. It calls drm_atomic_helper_resume(), resumes fbdev if used and enables output polling if initiaized.

See also: drm_fb_helper_set_suspend_unlocked() and drm_kms_helper_poll_enable().

Return

Zero on success, negative error code on error.

OF/DT Helpers

A set of helper functions to aid DRM drivers in parsing standard DT properties.

uint32_t drm_of_crtc_port_mask(struct drm_device *dev, struct device_node *port)

find the mask of a registered CRTC by port OF node

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct device_node *port

port OF node

Description

Given a port OF node, return the possible mask of the corresponding CRTC within a device’s list of CRTCs. Returns zero if not found.

uint32_t drm_of_find_possible_crtcs(struct drm_device *dev, struct device_node *port)

find the possible CRTCs for an encoder port

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

struct device_node *port

encoder port to scan for endpoints

Description

Scan all endpoints attached to a port, locate their attached CRTCs, and generate the DRM mask of CRTCs which may be attached to this encoder.

See Documentation/devicetree/bindings/graph.txt for the bindings.

void drm_of_component_match_add(struct device *master, struct component_match **matchptr, int (*compare)(struct device*, void*), struct device_node *node, )

Add a component helper OF node match rule

Parameters

struct device *master

master device

struct component_match **matchptr

component match pointer

int (*compare)(struct device *, void *)

compare function used for matching component

struct device_node *node

of_node

int drm_of_component_probe(struct device *dev, int (*compare_of)(struct device*, void*), const struct component_master_ops *m_ops, )

Generic probe function for a component based master

Parameters

struct device *dev

master device containing the OF node

int (*compare_of)(struct device *, void *)

compare function used for matching components

const struct component_master_ops *m_ops

component master ops to be used

Description

Parse the platform device OF node and bind all the components associated with the master. Interface ports are added before the encoders in order to satisfy their .bind requirements See Documentation/devicetree/bindings/graph.txt for the bindings.

Returns zero if successful, or one of the standard error codes if it fails.

int drm_of_find_panel_or_bridge(const struct device_node *np, int port, int endpoint, struct drm_panel **panel, struct drm_bridge **bridge)

return connected panel or bridge device

Parameters

const struct device_node *np

device tree node containing encoder output ports

int port

port in the device tree node

int endpoint

endpoint in the device tree node

struct drm_panel **panel

pointer to hold returned drm_panel

struct drm_bridge **bridge

pointer to hold returned drm_bridge

Description

Given a DT node’s port and endpoint number, find the connected node and return either the associated struct drm_panel or drm_bridge device. Either panel or bridge must not be NULL.

This function is deprecated and should not be used in new drivers. Use devm_drm_of_get_bridge() instead.

Returns zero if successful, or one of the standard error codes if it fails.

Get LVDS dual-link pixel order

Parameters

const struct device_node *port1

First DT port node of the Dual-link LVDS source

const struct device_node *port2

Second DT port node of the Dual-link LVDS source

Description

An LVDS dual-link connection is made of two links, with even pixels transitting on one link, and odd pixels on the other link. This function returns, for two ports of an LVDS dual-link source, which port shall transmit the even and odd pixels, based on the requirements of the connected sink.

The pixel order is determined from the dual-lvds-even-pixels and dual-lvds-odd-pixels properties in the sink’s DT port nodes. If those properties are not present, or if their usage is not valid, this function returns -EINVAL.

If either port is not connected, this function returns -EPIPE.

port1 and port2 are typically DT sibling nodes, but may have different parents when, for instance, two separate LVDS encoders carry the even and odd pixels.

Return

  • DRM_LVDS_DUAL_LINK_EVEN_ODD_PIXELS - port1 carries even pixels and port2 carries odd pixels

  • DRM_LVDS_DUAL_LINK_ODD_EVEN_PIXELS - port1 carries odd pixels and port2 carries even pixels

  • -EINVAL - port1 and port2 are not connected to a dual-link LVDS sink, or the sink configuration is invalid

  • -EPIPE - when port1 or port2 are not connected

int drm_of_lvds_get_data_mapping(const struct device_node *port)

Get LVDS data mapping

Parameters

const struct device_node *port

DT port node of the LVDS source or sink

Description

Convert DT “data-mapping” property string value into media bus format value.

Return

  • MEDIA_BUS_FMT_RGB666_1X7X3_SPWG - data-mapping is “jeida-18”

  • MEDIA_BUS_FMT_RGB888_1X7X4_JEIDA - data-mapping is “jeida-24”

  • MEDIA_BUS_FMT_RGB888_1X7X4_SPWG - data-mapping is “vesa-24”

  • -EINVAL - the “data-mapping” property is unsupported

  • -ENODEV - the “data-mapping” property is missing

int drm_of_get_data_lanes_count(const struct device_node *endpoint, const unsigned int min, const unsigned int max)

Get DSI/(e)DP data lane count

Parameters

const struct device_node *endpoint

DT endpoint node of the DSI/(e)DP source or sink

const unsigned int min

minimum supported number of data lanes

const unsigned int max

maximum supported number of data lanes

Description

Count DT “data-lanes” property elements and check for validity.

Return

  • min..max - positive integer count of “data-lanes” elements

  • -ve - the “data-lanes” property is missing or invalid

  • -EINVAL - the “data-lanes” property is unsupported

int drm_of_get_data_lanes_count_ep(const struct device_node *port, int port_reg, int reg, const unsigned int min, const unsigned int max)

Get DSI/(e)DP data lane count by endpoint

Parameters

const struct device_node *port

DT port node of the DSI/(e)DP source or sink

int port_reg

identifier (value of reg property) of the parent port node

int reg

identifier (value of reg property) of the endpoint node

const unsigned int min

minimum supported number of data lanes

const unsigned int max

maximum supported number of data lanes

Description

Count DT “data-lanes” property elements and check for validity. This variant uses endpoint specifier.

Return

  • min..max - positive integer count of “data-lanes” elements

  • -EINVAL - the “data-mapping” property is unsupported

  • -ENODEV - the “data-mapping” property is missing

Legacy Plane Helper Reference

This helper library has two parts. The first part has support to implement primary plane support on top of the normal CRTC configuration interface. Since the legacy drm_mode_config_funcs.set_config interface ties the primary plane together with the CRTC state this does not allow userspace to disable the primary plane itself. The default primary plane only expose XRBG8888 and ARGB8888 as valid pixel formats for the attached framebuffer.

Drivers are highly recommended to implement proper support for primary planes, and newly merged drivers must not rely upon these transitional helpers.

The second part also implements transitional helpers which allow drivers to gradually switch to the atomic helper infrastructure for plane updates. Once that switch is complete drivers shouldn’t use these any longer, instead using the proper legacy implementations for update and disable plane hooks provided by the atomic helpers.

Again drivers are strongly urged to switch to the new interfaces.

The plane helpers share the function table structures with other helpers, specifically also the atomic helpers. See struct drm_plane_helper_funcs for the details.

int drm_plane_helper_update_primary(struct drm_plane *plane, struct drm_crtc *crtc, struct drm_framebuffer *fb, int crtc_x, int crtc_y, unsigned int crtc_w, unsigned int crtc_h, uint32_t src_x, uint32_t src_y, uint32_t src_w, uint32_t src_h, struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx)

Helper for updating primary planes

Parameters

struct drm_plane *plane

plane to update

struct drm_crtc *crtc

the plane’s new CRTC

struct drm_framebuffer *fb

the plane’s new framebuffer

int crtc_x

x coordinate within CRTC

int crtc_y

y coordinate within CRTC

unsigned int crtc_w

width coordinate within CRTC

unsigned int crtc_h

height coordinate within CRTC

uint32_t src_x

x coordinate within source

uint32_t src_y

y coordinate within source

uint32_t src_w

width coordinate within source

uint32_t src_h

height coordinate within source

struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx

modeset locking context

Description

This helper validates the given parameters and updates the primary plane.

This function is only useful for non-atomic modesetting. Don’t use it in new drivers.

Return

Zero on success, or an errno code otherwise.

int drm_plane_helper_disable_primary(struct drm_plane *plane, struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx)

Helper for disabling primary planes

Parameters

struct drm_plane *plane

plane to disable

struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx

modeset locking context

Description

This helper returns an error when trying to disable the primary plane.

This function is only useful for non-atomic modesetting. Don’t use it in new drivers.

Return

An errno code.

void drm_plane_helper_destroy(struct drm_plane *plane)

Helper for primary plane destruction

Parameters

struct drm_plane *plane

plane to destroy

Description

Provides a default plane destroy handler for primary planes. This handler is called during CRTC destruction. We disable the primary plane, remove it from the DRM plane list, and deallocate the plane structure.

int drm_plane_helper_atomic_check(struct drm_plane *plane, struct drm_atomic_state *state)

Helper to check plane atomic-state

Parameters

struct drm_plane *plane

plane to check

struct drm_atomic_state *state

atomic state object

Description

Provides a default plane-state check handler for planes whose atomic-state scale and positioning are not expected to change since the plane is always a fullscreen scanout buffer.

This is often the case for the primary plane of simple framebuffers. See also drm_crtc_helper_atomic_check() for the respective CRTC-state check helper function.

Return

Zero on success, or an errno code otherwise.

Legacy CRTC/Modeset Helper Functions Reference

The CRTC modeset helper library provides a default set_config implementation in drm_crtc_helper_set_config(). Plus a few other convenience functions using the same callbacks which drivers can use to e.g. restore the modeset configuration on resume with drm_helper_resume_force_mode().

Note that this helper library doesn’t track the current power state of CRTCs and encoders. It can call callbacks like drm_encoder_helper_funcs.dpms even though the hardware is already in the desired state. This deficiency has been fixed in the atomic helpers.

The driver callbacks are mostly compatible with the atomic modeset helpers, except for the handling of the primary plane: Atomic helpers require that the primary plane is implemented as a real standalone plane and not directly tied to the CRTC state. For easier transition this library provides functions to implement the old semantics required by the CRTC helpers using the new plane and atomic helper callbacks.

Drivers are strongly urged to convert to the atomic helpers (by way of first converting to the plane helpers). New drivers must not use these functions but need to implement the atomic interface instead, potentially using the atomic helpers for that.

These legacy modeset helpers use the same function table structures as all other modesetting helpers. See the documentation for struct drm_crtc_helper_funcs, struct drm_encoder_helper_funcs and struct drm_connector_helper_funcs.

bool drm_helper_encoder_in_use(struct drm_encoder *encoder)

check if a given encoder is in use

Parameters

struct drm_encoder *encoder

encoder to check

Description

Checks whether encoder is with the current mode setting output configuration in use by any connector. This doesn’t mean that it is actually enabled since the DPMS state is tracked separately.

Return

True if encoder is used, false otherwise.

bool drm_helper_crtc_in_use(struct drm_crtc *crtc)

check if a given CRTC is in a mode_config

Parameters

struct drm_crtc *crtc

CRTC to check

Description

Checks whether crtc is with the current mode setting output configuration in use by any connector. This doesn’t mean that it is actually enabled since the DPMS state is tracked separately.

Return

True if crtc is used, false otherwise.

void drm_helper_disable_unused_functions(struct drm_device *dev)

disable unused objects

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device

Description

This function walks through the entire mode setting configuration of dev. It will remove any CRTC links of unused encoders and encoder links of disconnected connectors. Then it will disable all unused encoders and CRTCs either by calling their disable callback if available or by calling their dpms callback with DRM_MODE_DPMS_OFF.

This function is part of the legacy modeset helper library and will cause major confusion with atomic drivers. This is because atomic helpers guarantee to never call ->disable() hooks on a disabled function, or ->enable() hooks on an enabled functions. drm_helper_disable_unused_functions() on the other hand throws such guarantees into the wind and calls disable hooks unconditionally on unused functions.

NOTE

bool drm_crtc_helper_set_mode(struct drm_crtc *crtc, struct drm_display_mode *mode, int x, int y, struct drm_framebuffer *old_fb)

internal helper to set a mode

Parameters

struct drm_crtc *crtc

CRTC to program

struct drm_display_mode *mode

mode to use

int x

horizontal offset into the surface

int y

vertical offset into the surface

struct drm_framebuffer *old_fb

old framebuffer, for cleanup

Description

Try to set mode on crtc. Give crtc and its associated connectors a chance to fixup or reject the mode prior to trying to set it. This is an internal helper that drivers could e.g. use to update properties that require the entire output pipe to be disabled and re-enabled in a new configuration. For example for changing whether audio is enabled on a hdmi link or for changing panel fitter or dither attributes. It is also called by the drm_crtc_helper_set_config() helper function to drive the mode setting sequence.

Return

True if the mode was set successfully, false otherwise.

int drm_crtc_helper_atomic_check(struct drm_crtc *crtc, struct drm_atomic_state *state)

Helper to check CRTC atomic-state

Parameters

struct drm_crtc *crtc

CRTC to check

struct drm_atomic_state *state

atomic state object

Description

Provides a default CRTC-state check handler for CRTCs that only have one primary plane attached to it.

This is often the case for the CRTC of simple framebuffers. See also drm_plane_helper_atomic_check() for the respective plane-state check helper function.

Return

Zero on success, or an errno code otherwise.

int drm_crtc_helper_set_config(struct drm_mode_set *set, struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx)

set a new config from userspace

Parameters

struct drm_mode_set *set

mode set configuration

struct drm_modeset_acquire_ctx *ctx

lock acquire context, not used here

Description

The drm_crtc_helper_set_config() helper function implements the of drm_crtc_funcs.set_config callback for drivers using the legacy CRTC helpers.

It first tries to locate the best encoder for each connector by calling the connector drm_connector_helper_funcs.best_encoder helper operation.

After locating the appropriate encoders, the helper function will call the mode_fixup encoder and CRTC helper operations to adjust the requested mode, or reject it completely in which case an error will be returned to the application. If the new configuration after mode adjustment is identical to the current configuration the helper function will return without performing any other operation.

If the adjusted mode is identical to the current mode but changes to the frame buffer need to be applied, the drm_crtc_helper_set_config() function will call the CRTC drm_crtc_helper_funcs.mode_set_base helper operation.

If the adjusted mode differs from the current mode, or if the ->mode_set_base() helper operation is not provided, the helper function performs a full mode set sequence by calling the ->prepare(), ->mode_set() and ->commit() CRTC and encoder helper operations, in that order. Alternatively it can also use the dpms and disable helper operations. For details see struct drm_crtc_helper_funcs and struct drm_encoder_helper_funcs.

This function is deprecated. New drivers must implement atomic modeset support, for which this function is unsuitable. Instead drivers should use drm_atomic_helper_set_config().

Return

Returns 0 on success, negative errno numbers on failure.

int drm_helper_connector_dpms(struct drm_connector *connector, int mode)

connector dpms helper implementation

Parameters

struct drm_connector *connector

affected connector

int mode

DPMS mode

Description

The drm_helper_connector_dpms() helper function implements the drm_connector_funcs.dpms callback for drivers using the legacy CRTC helpers.

This is the main helper function provided by the CRTC helper framework for implementing the DPMS connector attribute. It computes the new desired DPMS state for all encoders and CRTCs in the output mesh and calls the drm_crtc_helper_funcs.dpms and drm_encoder_helper_funcs.dpms callbacks provided by the driver.

This function is deprecated. New drivers must implement atomic modeset support, where DPMS is handled in the DRM core.

Return

Always returns 0.

void drm_helper_resume_force_mode(struct drm_device *dev)

force-restore mode setting configuration

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

drm_device which should be restored

Description

Drivers which use the mode setting helpers can use this function to force-restore the mode setting configuration e.g. on resume or when something else might have trampled over the hw state (like some overzealous old BIOSen tended to do).

This helper doesn’t provide a error return value since restoring the old config should never fail due to resource allocation issues since the driver has successfully set the restored configuration already. Hence this should boil down to the equivalent of a few dpms on calls, which also don’t provide an error code.

Drivers where simply restoring an old configuration again might fail (e.g. due to slight differences in allocating shared resources when the configuration is restored in a different order than when userspace set it up) need to use their own restore logic.

This function is deprecated. New drivers should implement atomic mode- setting and use the atomic suspend/resume helpers.

See also: drm_atomic_helper_suspend(), drm_atomic_helper_resume()

int drm_helper_force_disable_all(struct drm_device *dev)

Forcibly turn off all enabled CRTCs

Parameters

struct drm_device *dev

DRM device whose CRTCs to turn off

Description

Drivers may want to call this on unload to ensure that all displays are unlit and the GPU is in a consistent, low power state. Takes modeset locks.

Note

This should only be used by non-atomic legacy drivers. For an atomic version look at drm_atomic_helper_shutdown().

Return

Zero on success, error code on failure.

Privacy-screen class

This class allows non KMS drivers, from e.g. drivers/platform/x86 to register a privacy-screen device, which the KMS drivers can then use to implement the standard privacy-screen properties, see Standard Connector Properties.

KMS drivers using a privacy-screen class device are advised to use the drm_connector_attach_privacy_screen_provider() and drm_connector_update_privacy_screen() helpers for dealing with this.

struct drm_privacy_screen_ops

drm_privacy_screen operations

Definition

struct drm_privacy_screen_ops {
  int (*set_sw_state)(struct drm_privacy_screen *priv, enum drm_privacy_screen_status sw_state);
  void (*get_hw_state)(struct drm_privacy_screen *priv);
};

Members

set_sw_state

Called to request a change of the privacy-screen state. The privacy-screen class code contains a check to avoid this getting called when the hw_state reports the state is locked. It is the driver’s responsibility to update sw_state and hw_state. This is always called with the drm_privacy_screen’s lock held.

get_hw_state

Called to request that the driver gets the current privacy-screen state from the hardware and then updates sw_state and hw_state accordingly. This will be called by the core just before the privacy-screen is registered in sysfs.

Description

Defines the operations which the privacy-screen class code may call. These functions should be implemented by the privacy-screen driver.

struct drm_privacy_screen

central privacy-screen structure

Definition

struct drm_privacy_screen {
  struct device dev;
  struct mutex lock;
  struct list_head list;
  struct blocking_notifier_head notifier_head;
  const struct drm_privacy_screen_ops *ops;
  enum drm_privacy_screen_status sw_state;
  enum drm_privacy_screen_status hw_state;
  void *drvdata;
};

Members

dev

device used to register the privacy-screen in sysfs.

lock

mutex protection all fields in this struct.

list

privacy-screen devices list list-entry.

notifier_head

privacy-screen notifier head.

ops

struct drm_privacy_screen_ops for this privacy-screen. This is NULL if the driver has unregistered the privacy-screen.

sw_state

The privacy-screen’s software state, see Standard Connector Properties for more info.

hw_state

The privacy-screen’s hardware state, see Standard Connector Properties for more info.

drvdata

Private data owned by the privacy screen provider

Description

Central privacy-screen structure, this contains the struct device used to register the screen in sysfs, the screen’s state, ops, etc.

struct drm_privacy_screen_lookup

static privacy-screen lookup list entry

Definition

struct drm_privacy_screen_lookup {
  struct list_head list;
  const char *dev_id;
  const char *con_id;
  const char *provider;
};

Members

list

Lookup list list-entry.

dev_id

Consumer device name or NULL to match all devices.

con_id

Consumer connector name or NULL to match all connectors.

provider

dev_name() of the privacy_screen provider.

Description

Used for the static lookup-list for mapping privacy-screen consumer dev-connector pairs to a privacy-screen provider.

void drm_privacy_screen_lookup_add(struct drm_privacy_screen_lookup *lookup)

add an entry to the static privacy-screen lookup list

Parameters

struct drm_privacy_screen_lookup *lookup

lookup list entry to add

Description

Add an entry to the static privacy-screen lookup list. Note the struct list_head which is part of the struct drm_privacy_screen_lookup gets added to a list owned by the privacy-screen core. So the passed in struct drm_privacy_screen_lookup must not be free-ed until it is removed from the lookup list by calling drm_privacy_screen_lookup_remove().

void drm_privacy_screen_lookup_remove(struct drm_privacy_screen_lookup *lookup)

remove an entry to the static privacy-screen lookup list

Parameters

struct drm_privacy_screen_lookup *lookup

lookup list entry to remove

Description

Remove an entry previously added with drm_privacy_screen_lookup_add() from the static privacy-screen lookup list.

struct drm_privacy_screen *drm_privacy_screen_get(struct device *dev, const char *con_id)

get a privacy-screen provider

Parameters

struct device *dev

consumer-device for which to get a privacy-screen provider

const char *con_id

(video)connector name for which to get a privacy-screen provider

Description

Get a privacy-screen provider for a privacy-screen attached to the display described by the dev and con_id parameters.

Return

  • A pointer to a struct drm_privacy_screen on success.

  • ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) if no matching privacy-screen is found

  • ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER) if there is a matching privacy-screen,

    but it has not been registered yet.

void drm_privacy_screen_put(struct drm_privacy_screen *priv)

release a privacy-screen reference

Parameters

struct drm_privacy_screen *priv

privacy screen reference to release

Description

Release a privacy-screen provider reference gotten through drm_privacy_screen_get(). May be called with a NULL or ERR_PTR, in which case it is a no-op.

int drm_privacy_screen_set_sw_state(struct drm_privacy_screen *priv, enum drm_privacy_screen_status sw_state)

set a privacy-screen’s sw-state

Parameters

struct drm_privacy_screen *priv

privacy screen to set the sw-state for

enum drm_privacy_screen_status sw_state

new sw-state value to set

Description

Set the sw-state of a privacy screen. If the privacy-screen is not in a locked hw-state, then the actual and hw-state of the privacy-screen will be immediately updated to the new value. If the privacy-screen is in a locked hw-state, then the new sw-state will be remembered as the requested state to put the privacy-screen in when it becomes unlocked.

Return

0 on success, negative error code on failure.

void drm_privacy_screen_get_state(struct drm_privacy_screen *priv, enum drm_privacy_screen_status *sw_state_ret, enum drm_privacy_screen_status *hw_state_ret)

get privacy-screen’s current state

Parameters

struct drm_privacy_screen *priv

privacy screen to get the state for

enum drm_privacy_screen_status *sw_state_ret

address where to store the privacy-screens current sw-state

enum drm_privacy_screen_status *hw_state_ret

address where to store the privacy-screens current hw-state

Description

Get the current state of a privacy-screen, both the sw-state and the hw-state.

int drm_privacy_screen_register_notifier(struct drm_privacy_screen *priv, struct notifier_block *nb)

register a notifier

Parameters

struct drm_privacy_screen *priv

Privacy screen to register the notifier with

struct notifier_block *nb

Notifier-block for the notifier to register

Description

Register a notifier with the privacy-screen to be notified of changes made to the privacy-screen state from outside of the privacy-screen class. E.g. the state may be changed by the hardware itself in response to a hotkey press.

The notifier is called with no locks held. The new hw_state and sw_state can be retrieved using the drm_privacy_screen_get_state() function. A pointer to the drm_privacy_screen’s struct is passed as the void *data argument of the notifier_block’s notifier_call.

The notifier will NOT be called when changes are made through drm_privacy_screen_set_sw_state(). It is only called for external changes.

Return

0 on success, negative error code on failure.

int drm_privacy_screen_unregister_notifier(struct drm_privacy_screen *priv, struct notifier_block *nb)

unregister a notifier

Parameters

struct drm_privacy_screen *priv

Privacy screen to register the notifier with

struct notifier_block *nb

Notifier-block for the notifier to register

Description

Unregister a notifier registered with drm_privacy_screen_register_notifier().

Return

0 on success, negative error code on failure.

struct drm_privacy_screen *drm_privacy_screen_register(struct device *parent, const struct drm_privacy_screen_ops *ops, void *data)

register a privacy-screen

Parameters

struct device *parent

parent-device for the privacy-screen

const struct drm_privacy_screen_ops *ops

struct drm_privacy_screen_ops pointer with ops for the privacy-screen

void *data

Private data owned by the privacy screen provider

Description

Create and register a privacy-screen.

Return

  • A pointer to the created privacy-screen on success.

  • An ERR_PTR(errno) on failure.

void drm_privacy_screen_unregister(struct drm_privacy_screen *priv)

unregister privacy-screen

Parameters

struct drm_privacy_screen *priv

privacy-screen to unregister

Description

Unregister a privacy-screen registered with drm_privacy_screen_register(). May be called with a NULL or ERR_PTR, in which case it is a no-op.

void drm_privacy_screen_call_notifier_chain(struct drm_privacy_screen *priv)

notify consumers of state change

Parameters

struct drm_privacy_screen *priv

Privacy screen to register the notifier with

Description

A privacy-screen provider driver can call this functions upon external changes to the privacy-screen state. E.g. the state may be changed by the hardware itself in response to a hotkey press. This function must be called without holding the privacy-screen lock. the driver must update sw_state and hw_state to reflect the new state before calling this function. The expected behavior from the driver upon receiving an external state change event is: 1. Take the lock; 2. Update sw_state and hw_state; 3. Release the lock. 4. Call drm_privacy_screen_call_notifier_chain().