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drm/i915/backlight: Do not bump min brightness to max on enable
authorGareth Yu <gareth.yu@intel.com>
Thu, 21 Mar 2024 04:53:11 +0000 (12:53 +0800)
committerJani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:08:10 +0000 (15:08 +0200)
commit92714006eb4d10ddfaa0eca41c81e6b483e02f93
treec01a358412eaaaa91eb9c9a7d2c1f9f1b4944aac
parent1965dbd535eec6064803484eb014a2d9a0cf6a30
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
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_backlight.c