drm/probe-helper: clamp unknown connector status in the poll work

On some chipset we try to avoid possibly invasive output detection
methods (like load detect which can cause flickering elsewhere) in the
output poll work. Drivers could hence return unknown when a previous
full ->detect call returned a different state.

This change will generate a hotplug event, forcing userspace to do a
full scan. This in turn updates the connector->status field so that we
will _again_ get a state change when the hotplug work re-runs in 10
seconds.

To avoid this ping-pong loop detect this situation and clamp the
connector state to the old value.

Patch is inspired by a patch from Knut Peterson. Knut's patch
completely ignored connector state changes if either the old or new
status was unknown, which seemed to be a bit too agressive to me.

v2: Rebased onto the drm_probe_helper.c extraction.

References: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2012-August/025975.html
Cc: Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Acked-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_probe_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_probe_helper.c
index 33bf550a1d3f..6591d48c1b9d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_probe_helper.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_probe_helper.c
@@ -335,6 +335,24 @@ static void output_poll_execute(struct work_struct *work)
 		if (old_status != connector->status) {
 			const char *old, *new;
 
+			/*
+			 * The poll work sets force=false when calling detect so
+			 * that drivers can avoid to do disruptive tests (e.g.
+			 * when load detect cycles could cause flickering on
+			 * other, running displays). This bears the risk that we
+			 * flip-flop between unknown here in the poll work and
+			 * the real state when userspace forces a full detect
+			 * call after receiving a hotplug event due to this
+			 * change.
+			 *
+			 * Hence clamp an unknown detect status to the old
+			 * value.
+			 */
+			if (connector->status == connector_status_unknown) {
+				connector->status = old_status;
+				continue;
+			}
+
 			old = drm_get_connector_status_name(old_status);
 			new = drm_get_connector_status_name(connector->status);