[PATCH RFC 4/6] drm/mediatek: ovl: Disallow AFBC buffers with width over 1920

CK Hu (胡俊光) ck.hu at mediatek.com
Mon Feb 2 18:21:10 PST 2026


On Tue, 2025-12-30 at 11:03 -0300, Nícolas F. R. A. Prado wrote:
> AFBC buffers with width over 1920 are not supported by OVL. If
> attempted, the image displayed contains many artifacts.
> 
> Add this restriction to the layer check callback so such configurations
> are not allowed.
> 
> NOTE: This doesn't seem to be a good way to handle this restriction, as
> when tested with Weston, it simply fails to render, rather than fallback
> to not using the modifier:
> 
> [19:09:03.857] atomic: couldn't commit new state: Invalid argument
> [19:09:03.857] repaint-flush failed: Invalid argument

Reviewed-by: CK Hu <ck.hu at mediatek.com>

> 
> Signed-off-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado at collabora.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_disp_ovl.c | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_disp_ovl.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_disp_ovl.c
> index c6a00c2256dd..196b874057ba 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_disp_ovl.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_disp_ovl.c
> @@ -368,6 +368,13 @@ int mtk_ovl_layer_check(struct device *dev, unsigned int idx,
>  	if (state->fb->format->is_yuv && (state->rotation & ~DRM_MODE_ROTATE_0))
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * AFBC buffers with width > 1920 are not supported and produce
> +	 * artifacts, so should be disabled.
> +	 */
> +	if (state->fb->modifier != DRM_FORMAT_MOD_LINEAR && state->fb->width > 1920)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> 



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