The legacy cursor ioctl expects to be asynchronous with respect to other screen updates, in particular page flips. As X updates the cursor from a signal context, if the cursor blocks then it will stall both the input and output chains causing bad stuttering and horrible UX.
Reported-and-tested-by: Rafael Ristovski <rafael.ristov...@gmail.com> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94980 Fixes: 5008e874edd34 ("drm/i915: Make wait_for_flips interruptible.") Suggested-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankho...@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <ch...@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankho...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrj...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@ffwll.ch> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nik...@intel.com> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c index 4cca155376be..c5b9687091f4 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c @@ -13446,6 +13446,9 @@ static int intel_atomic_prepare_commit(struct drm_device *dev, } for_each_crtc_in_state(state, crtc, crtc_state, i) { + if (state->legacy_cursor_update) + continue; + ret = intel_crtc_wait_for_pending_flips(crtc); if (ret) return ret; -- 2.8.0.rc3 _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
