From: Gareth Yu <gareth.yu@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 04:53:11 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: drm/i915/backlight: Do not bump min brightness to max on enable
X-Git-Tag: v6.10-rc1~148^2~20^2~102
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=92714006eb4d;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git

drm/i915/backlight: Do not bump min brightness to max on enable

Historically the expectation was to set brightness to max on enable, if
it was zero. However, the policy should be to preserve brightness across
disable/enable, for example the userspace might want to dim the
brightness before disable (e.g. on suspend) and gradually bring it back
up after enable (e.g. on resume). If the brightness gets bumped to max
at enable, this causes flicker as the userspace expects the brightness
to have been preserved across disable/enable.

For example:

(suspend)
[53949.248875] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm:intel_edp_backlight_off]
[53949.452046] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm:intel_backlight_set_pwm_level] set backlight PWM = 0

(wakeup)
[53986.067356] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm:intel_edp_backlight_on]
[53986.067367] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm:intel_backlight_enable] pipe A
[53986.067476] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm:intel_backlight_set_pwm_level] set backlight PWM = 96000
[53986.119766] backlight intel_backlight: PM: calling backlight_resume+0x0/0x7a @ 4916, parent: card0-eDP-1
[53986.119781] backlight intel_backlight: PM: backlight_resume+0x0/0x7a returned 0 after 0 usecs
[53986.220068] [drm:intel_backlight_device_update_status] updating intel_backlight, brightness=26321/96000
[53986.220086] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm:intel_panel_actually_set_backlight] set backlight level = 27961

Reduce the check to respecting the minimum brightness, and avoid bumping
min brightness to max on enable.

Note: It's possible there's still userspace out there that relies on the
old behaviour. It would be unfortunate, but there's really only one way
to find out.

Cc: Tejas Upadhyay <tejaskumarx.surendrakumar.upadhyay@intel.com>
Cc: Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper@intel.com>
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gareth Yu <gareth.yu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
[Jani: Rewrote the commit message.]
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20240321045311.2124111-1-gareth.yu@intel.com
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diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_backlight.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_backlight.c
index 9e4a9d4f1585b..4d4330410b4d9 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_backlight.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_backlight.c
@@ -761,8 +761,8 @@ static void __intel_backlight_enable(const struct intel_crtc_state *crtc_state,
 
 	WARN_ON(panel->backlight.max == 0);
 
-	if (panel->backlight.level <= panel->backlight.min) {
-		panel->backlight.level = panel->backlight.max;
+	if (panel->backlight.level < panel->backlight.min) {
+		panel->backlight.level = panel->backlight.min;
 		if (panel->backlight.device)
 			panel->backlight.device->props.brightness =
 				scale_hw_to_user(connector,