[SRU][R][PATCH 13/13] drm: ensure that vblank diff is never negative

Werner Sembach wse at tuxedocomputers.com
Wed May 13 16:48:04 UTC 2026


From: Aaron Erhardt <aer at tuxedocomputers.com>

Handle cases, where drivers report incorrect timestamps and negative
time differences are calculated. If the negative difference is large
enough, negative missed vblanks are reported, but stored in an unsigned
integer which can causes freezes. This patch prevents this case.

This fix has been verified to fix problems with the i915 driver on
modern Intel CPUs (e.g. Intel Core Ultra 7 155H).

Signed-off-by: Aaron Erhardt <aer at tuxedocomputers.com>
Signed-off-by: Werner Sembach <wse at tuxedocomputers.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vblank.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vblank.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vblank.c
index f78bf37f1e0a7..46cf78a514f23 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vblank.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vblank.c
@@ -1564,7 +1564,14 @@ static void drm_vblank_restore(struct drm_device *dev, unsigned int pipe)
 	} while (cur_vblank != __get_vblank_counter(dev, pipe) && --count > 0);
 
 	diff_ns = ktime_to_ns(ktime_sub(t_vblank, vblank->time));
-	if (framedur_ns)
+
+	/*
+	 * Make sure no bogus diffs result from negative differences
+	 * when incorrect timestamps are reported by a driver.
+	 */
+	if (drm_WARN_ON_ONCE(dev, t_vblank < vblank->time))
+		diff = 0;
+	else if (framedur_ns)
 		diff = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST_ULL(diff_ns, framedur_ns);
 
 
-- 
2.43.0




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