* [PATCH 1/2] drm/vc4: dsi: Don't return error reports as read data
2026-10-12 19:02 [PATCH 0/2] drm/vc4: dsi: Make failed reads visible and recoverable Henry Zhang
@ 2026-10-12 19:02 ` Henry Zhang
2026-10-12 19:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] drm/vc4: dsi: Recover from a timed-out transfer Henry Zhang
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From: Henry Zhang @ 2026-10-12 19:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Maxime Ripard, Dave Stevenson
Cc: Henry Zhang, Maíra Canal, Raspberry Pi Kernel Maintenance,
Maarten Lankhorst, Thomas Zimmermann, David Airlie,
Simona Vetter, dri-devel, linux-kernel
When a DSI peripheral detects an error, for example contention during
the bus turnaround, it may answer a read request with an Acknowledge
and Error Report short packet instead of the read response.
vc4_dsi_host_transfer() does not check the type of the received packet
(there is a FINISHME for it). It copies the two bytes of the error
report into the caller's buffer and returns success, so the caller
gets the error bits as if they were register contents. Packets
received with a checksum error, an uncorrectable ECC error or
incomplete are passed on the same way.
Return -EIO in these cases so that callers can tell a failed read from
data, and retry if they want to.
Signed-off-by: Henry Zhang <henryzhang62@gmail.com>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_dsi.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_dsi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_dsi.c
index 0148f2b..c092a1a 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_dsi.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_dsi.c
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@
#include <drm/drm_probe_helper.h>
#include <drm/drm_simple_kms_helper.h>
+#include <video/mipi_display.h>
+
#include "vc4_drv.h"
#include "vc4_regs.h"
@@ -1300,6 +1302,24 @@ static ssize_t vc4_dsi_host_transfer(struct mipi_dsi_host *host,
u32 rxpkt1h = DSI_PORT_READ(RXPKT1H);
u8 *msg_rx = msg->rx_buf;
+ /*
+ * A peripheral that detected an error, e.g. contention during
+ * the bus turnaround, may answer with an Acknowledge and Error
+ * Report instead of the read response. Don't hand that, or a
+ * packet received with errors, to the caller as read data.
+ * Bits 7:6 of the Data ID are the virtual channel.
+ */
+ if ((rxpkt1h & (DSI_RXPKT1H_CRC_ERR | DSI_RXPKT1H_DET_ERR |
+ DSI_RXPKT1H_INCOMP_PKT)) ||
+ (!(rxpkt1h & DSI_RXPKT1H_PKT_TYPE_LONG) &&
+ (VC4_GET_FIELD(rxpkt1h, DSI_RXPKT1H_DT_LP_CMD) & 0x3f) ==
+ MIPI_DSI_RX_ACKNOWLEDGE_AND_ERROR_REPORT)) {
+ drm_dbg_driver(drm, "DSI read rejected, RXPKT1H 0x%08x\n",
+ rxpkt1h);
+ ret = -EIO;
+ goto reset_fifo_and_return;
+ }
+
if (rxpkt1h & DSI_RXPKT1H_PKT_TYPE_LONG) {
u32 rxlen = VC4_GET_FIELD(rxpkt1h,
DSI_RXPKT1H_BC_PARAM);
@@ -1314,8 +1334,6 @@ static ssize_t vc4_dsi_host_transfer(struct mipi_dsi_host *host,
for (i = 0; i < msg->rx_len; i++)
msg_rx[i] = DSI_READ(DSI1_RXPKT_FIFO);
} else {
- /* FINISHME: Handle AWER */
-
msg_rx[0] = VC4_GET_FIELD(rxpkt1h,
DSI_RXPKT1H_SHORT_0);
if (msg->rx_len > 1) {
--
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2026-10-12 19:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] drm/vc4: dsi: Don't return error reports as read data Henry Zhang
@ 2026-10-12 19:02 ` Henry Zhang
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From: Henry Zhang @ 2026-10-12 19:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Maxime Ripard, Dave Stevenson
Cc: Henry Zhang, Maíra Canal, Raspberry Pi Kernel Maintenance,
Maarten Lankhorst, Thomas Zimmermann, David Airlie,
Simona Vetter, dri-devel, linux-kernel
When a transfer times out, vc4_dsi_host_transfer() disables the
command, resets the FIFOs and returns -ETIMEDOUT. That is not always
enough: after an LP receive timeout during a read (the peripheral did
not complete the bus turnaround), every following transfer times out
as well, with no interrupt and STAT reading back 0. Only a modeset,
which goes through post_disable/pre_enable, brings the block back.
Reset the DSI block and its analog front end after a timeout and
restore the configuration programmed in pre_enable, so that DSI keeps
working without a modeset. The timed-out message is not resent, as it
may already have been executed by the peripheral; the error is
returned and the caller decides whether to retry.
This does not prevent the timeouts themselves. With video running,
vc4 does not keep commands within vertical blanking, and transfers can
still time out, sometimes several in a row after a reset. That is a
separate issue.
Tested on a Raspberry Pi 4 (DSI1, 2 lanes, video mode at 120 Hz) with
a panel driver that retries failed reads up to 8 times. Without this
change, the first timed-out transfer left DSI unusable until the
display was switched off and on. With it, 499 of 500 reads with video
running (77 transfers timed out, 71 of them writes, all followed by
working transfers) and 1000 of 1000 reads with video stopped returned
the expected data.
Signed-off-by: Henry Zhang <henryzhang62@gmail.com>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_dsi.c | 92 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 89 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_dsi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_dsi.c
index c092a1a..3783ff3 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_dsi.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_dsi.c
@@ -1171,10 +1171,9 @@ static int vc4_dsi_bridge_attach(struct drm_bridge *bridge,
&dsi->bridge, flags);
}
-static ssize_t vc4_dsi_host_transfer(struct mipi_dsi_host *host,
- const struct mipi_dsi_msg *msg)
+static ssize_t vc4_dsi_transfer(struct vc4_dsi *dsi,
+ const struct mipi_dsi_msg *msg)
{
- struct vc4_dsi *dsi = host_to_dsi(host);
struct drm_device *drm = dsi->bridge.dev;
struct mipi_dsi_packet packet;
u32 pkth = 0, pktc = 0;
@@ -1359,6 +1358,93 @@ reset_fifo_and_return:
return ret;
}
+/*
+ * Reset the DSI block and its analog front end, then restore the
+ * configuration done in pre_enable. Resetting the FIFOs alone does not
+ * clear the state the block can be left in after a transfer timed out
+ * (e.g. on an LP receive timeout): every following transfer then times
+ * out as well, until the next modeset.
+ */
+static void vc4_dsi_reset_and_restore(struct vc4_dsi *dsi)
+{
+ u32 ctrl = DSI_PORT_READ(CTRL);
+ u32 afec0 = DSI_PORT_READ(PHY_AFEC0);
+ u32 afec1 = DSI_PORT_READ(PHY_AFEC1);
+ u32 disp0 = DSI_PORT_READ(DISP0_CTRL) & ~DSI_DISP0_ENABLE;
+ u32 disp1 = DSI_PORT_READ(DISP1_CTRL);
+ u32 hstx_to = DSI_PORT_READ(HSTX_TO_CNT);
+ u32 lprx_to = DSI_PORT_READ(LPRX_TO_CNT);
+ u32 ta_to = DSI_PORT_READ(TA_TO_CNT);
+ u32 pr_to = DSI_PORT_READ(PR_TO_CNT);
+ u32 phyc = DSI_PORT_READ(PHYC);
+ u32 clt0 = DSI_PORT_READ(HS_CLT0);
+ u32 clt1 = DSI_PORT_READ(HS_CLT1);
+ u32 clt2 = DSI_PORT_READ(HS_CLT2);
+ u32 dlt3 = DSI_PORT_READ(HS_DLT3);
+ u32 dlt4 = DSI_PORT_READ(HS_DLT4);
+ u32 dlt5 = DSI_PORT_READ(HS_DLT5);
+ u32 dlt6 = DSI_PORT_READ(HS_DLT6);
+ u32 dlt7 = DSI_PORT_READ(HS_DLT7);
+
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(DISP0_CTRL, disp0);
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(TXPKT1C, 0);
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(CTRL, DSI_CTRL_SOFT_RESET_CFG |
+ DSI_PORT_BIT(CTRL_RESET_FIFOS));
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(PHY_AFEC0, afec0 | DSI_PORT_BIT(PHY_AFEC0_RESET));
+ /* AFEC reset hold time */
+ mdelay(1);
+
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(CTRL, ctrl & ~DSI_CTRL_CAL_BYTE);
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(HSTX_TO_CNT, hstx_to);
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(LPRX_TO_CNT, lprx_to);
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(TA_TO_CNT, ta_to);
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(PR_TO_CNT, pr_to);
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(PHYC, phyc);
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(HS_CLT0, clt0);
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(HS_CLT1, clt1);
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(HS_CLT2, clt2);
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(HS_DLT3, dlt3);
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(HS_DLT4, dlt4);
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(HS_DLT5, dlt5);
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(HS_DLT6, dlt6);
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(HS_DLT7, dlt7);
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(PHY_AFEC1, afec1);
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(CTRL, ctrl);
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(DISP1_CTRL, disp1);
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(DISP0_CTRL, disp0);
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(PHY_AFEC0, afec0 & ~DSI_PORT_BIT(PHY_AFEC0_RESET));
+
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(STAT, DSI_PORT_READ(STAT));
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(INT_STAT, DSI_PORT_READ(INT_STAT));
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(INT_EN, DSI_PORT_BIT(INTERRUPTS_ALWAYS_ENABLED));
+}
+
+static ssize_t vc4_dsi_host_transfer(struct mipi_dsi_host *host,
+ const struct mipi_dsi_msg *msg)
+{
+ struct vc4_dsi *dsi = host_to_dsi(host);
+ u32 disp0_ctrl;
+ ssize_t ret;
+
+ ret = vc4_dsi_transfer(dsi, msg);
+ if (ret != -ETIMEDOUT)
+ return ret;
+
+ /*
+ * Leave the block usable for the next transfer. The message is not
+ * resent: it may already have reached the peripheral, and only the
+ * caller knows whether it is safe to repeat.
+ */
+ disp0_ctrl = DSI_PORT_READ(DISP0_CTRL);
+ dev_warn(&dsi->pdev->dev,
+ "transfer timed out (stat 0x%08x), resetting DSI\n",
+ DSI_PORT_READ(STAT));
+ vc4_dsi_reset_and_restore(dsi);
+ DSI_PORT_WRITE(DISP0_CTRL, disp0_ctrl);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
static const struct component_ops vc4_dsi_ops;
static int vc4_dsi_host_attach(struct mipi_dsi_host *host,
struct mipi_dsi_device *device)
--
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