drm: add support for monotonic vblank timestamps

Jumps in the vblank and page flip event timestamps cause trouble for
clients, so we should avoid them. The timestamp we get currently with
gettimeofday can jump, so use instead monotonic timestamps.

For backward compatibility use a module flag to revert back to using
gettimeofday timestamps. Add also a DRM_CAP_TIMESTAMP_MONOTONIC flag
that is simply a read only version of the module flag, so that clients
can query this without depending on sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_stub.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_stub.c
index 6fcdd8ebcb3d..200e104f1fa0 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_stub.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_stub.c
@@ -46,16 +46,24 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_vblank_offdelay);
 unsigned int drm_timestamp_precision = 20;  /* Default to 20 usecs. */
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_timestamp_precision);
 
+/*
+ * Default to use monotonic timestamps for wait-for-vblank and page-flip
+ * complete events.
+ */
+unsigned int drm_timestamp_monotonic = 1;
+
 MODULE_AUTHOR(CORE_AUTHOR);
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION(CORE_DESC);
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL and additional rights");
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(debug, "Enable debug output");
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(vblankoffdelay, "Delay until vblank irq auto-disable [msecs]");
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(timestamp_precision_usec, "Max. error on timestamps [usecs]");
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(timestamp_monotonic, "Use monotonic timestamps");
 
 module_param_named(debug, drm_debug, int, 0600);
 module_param_named(vblankoffdelay, drm_vblank_offdelay, int, 0600);
 module_param_named(timestamp_precision_usec, drm_timestamp_precision, int, 0600);
+module_param_named(timestamp_monotonic, drm_timestamp_monotonic, int, 0600);
 
 struct idr drm_minors_idr;