[J] [PATCH 06/11] drm/i915/display: Drop unnecessary frontbuffer flushes

[Kai-Heng Feng]

From: José Roberto de Souza <jose.souza at intel.com>

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1978252

This unnecessary flushes are hurting power-savings are it causes
features like PSR, FBC and DRRS to disable it self to handle
frontbuffer rendering, below some explanation of why each removed
call is not necessary.

The flush in intel_prepare_plane_fb() is not required as framebuffer
will be flipped and power-saving features do the proper flip handling
in hardware.

intel_find_initial_plane_obj() flush is not required because it is
only executed during driver load and at this point the power-saving
features are not even enabled.

And the last one intelfb_create(), is also not required as at this
point the fbdev was just allocated, userspace will draw on
it what will trigger frontbuffer invalidates and flushes later on.

Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Gwan-gyeong Mun <gwan-gyeong.mun at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: José Roberto de Souza <jose.souza at intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210930001409.254817-3-jose.souza@intel.com
(cherry picked from commit 5da579cff38d64d024c1b99bafa3347c0d5fc107)
Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c | 3 ---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_fbdev.c   | 2 --
 2 files changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c
index dde52c57c7de1..252fd6269edd6 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c
@@ -1818,8 +1818,6 @@ intel_find_initial_plane_obj(struct intel_crtc *crtc,
 	plane_state->uapi.crtc = &crtc->base;
 	intel_plane_copy_uapi_to_hw_state(plane_state, plane_state, crtc);
 
-	intel_frontbuffer_flush(to_intel_frontbuffer(fb), ORIGIN_DIRTYFB);
-
 	atomic_or(plane->frontbuffer_bit, &to_intel_frontbuffer(fb)->bits);
 }
 
@@ -11040,7 +11038,6 @@ intel_prepare_plane_fb(struct drm_plane *_plane,
 		return ret;
 
 	i915_gem_object_wait_priority(obj, 0, &attr);
-	i915_gem_object_flush_frontbuffer(obj, ORIGIN_DIRTYFB);
 
 	if (!new_plane_state->uapi.fence) { /* implicit fencing */
 		struct dma_fence *fence;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_fbdev.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_fbdev.c
index df05d285f0bd4..d360f41070e37 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_fbdev.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_fbdev.c
@@ -229,8 +229,6 @@ static int intelfb_create(struct drm_fb_helper *helper,
 		goto out_unlock;
 	}
 
-	intel_frontbuffer_flush(to_frontbuffer(ifbdev), ORIGIN_DIRTYFB);
-
 	info = drm_fb_helper_alloc_fbi(helper);
 	if (IS_ERR(info)) {
 		drm_err(&dev_priv->drm, "Failed to allocate fb_info\n");
-- 
2.36.1