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4 drm/vkms Virtual Kernel Modesetting
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7 .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.c
8 :doc: vkms (Virtual Kernel Modesetting)
13 If you want to do any of the items listed below, please share your interest
14 with VKMS maintainers.
19 - Investigate: (1) test cases on kms_plane that are failing due to timeout on
20 capturing CRC; (2) when running kms_flip test cases in sequence, some
21 successful individual test cases are failing randomly.
23 - VKMS already has support for vblanks simulated via hrtimers, which can be
24 tested with kms_flip test; in some way, we can say that VKMS already mimics
25 the real hardware vblank. However, we also have virtual hardware that does
26 not support vblank interrupt and completes page_flip events right away; in
27 this case, compositor developers may end up creating a busy loop on virtual
28 hardware. It would be useful to support Virtual Hardware behavior in VKMS
29 because this can help compositor developers to test their features in
35 There's lots of plane features we could add support for:
37 - Real overlay planes, not just cursor.
39 - Full alpha blending on all planes.
43 - Additional buffer formats, especially YUV formats for video like NV12.
44 Low/high bpp RGB formats would also be interesting.
46 - Async updates (currently only possible on cursor plane using the legacy
49 For all of these, we also want to review the igt test coverage and make sure
50 all relevant igt testcases work on vkms.
55 - Syzbot report - WARNING in vkms_gem_free_object:
56 https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=e7ad70d406e74d8fc9d0
61 We want to be able to reconfigure vkms instance without having to reload the
62 module. Use/Test-cases:
64 - Hotplug/hotremove connectors on the fly (to be able to test DP MST handling
67 - Configure planes/crtcs/connectors (we'd need some code to have more than 1 of
70 - Change output configuration: Plug/unplug screens, change EDID, allow changing
73 The currently proposed solution is to expose vkms configuration through
74 configfs. All existing module options should be supported through configfs
80 - The writeback and CRC capture operations share the use of composer_enabled
81 boolean to ensure vblanks. Probably, when these operations work together,
82 composer_enabled needs to refcounting the composer state to proper work.
84 - Add support for cloned writeback outputs and related test cases using a
85 cloned output in the IGT kms_writeback.
87 - As a v4l device. This is useful for debugging compositors on special vkms
88 configurations, so that developers see what's really going on.
93 - Variable refresh rate/freesync support. This probably needs prime buffer
94 sharing support, so that we can use vgem fences to simulate rendering in
95 testing. Also needs support to specify the EDID.
97 - Add support for link status, so that compositors can validate their runtime
98 fallbacks when e.g. a Display Port link goes bad.
103 - Optimize CRC computation ``compute_crc()`` and plane blending ``blend()``
105 Atomic Check using eBPF
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108 Atomic drivers have lots of restrictions which are not exposed to userspace in
109 any explicit form through e.g. possible property values. Userspace can only
110 inquiry about these limits through the atomic IOCTL, possibly using the
111 TEST_ONLY flag. Trying to add configurable code for all these limits, to allow
112 compositors to be tested against them, would be rather futile exercise. Instead
113 we could add support for eBPF to validate any kind of atomic state, and
114 implement a library of different restrictions.
116 This needs a bunch of features (plane compositing, multiple outputs, ...)
117 enabled already to make sense.