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amdgpu_dm_create_validate_stream_for_sink() walks encoding_order[] and uses the first encoding that validates. YCbCr 4:4:4 is listed before RGB, so an HDMI sink that advertises 4:4:4 gets YCbCr 4:4:4 whenever the "color format" property is left at AUTO, even though RGB fits the same link. That contradicts the documented AUTO behaviour for HDMI in enum drm_connector_color_format (RGB, falling back to YCbCr 4:2:0 only when the bandwidth is not available or the mode is 4:2:0-only), which the amdgpu implementation of the property also describes. It also leaves the "Broadcast RGB" property without effect on such sinks, since the quantization range it selects only applies to RGB output. Try RGB first. The mask still holds every encoding the sink supports, so a mode that cannot carry RGB falls back exactly as before. For reference, v7.2 picked RGB here unless YCbCr 4:4:4 was forced through debugfs, while earlier kernels picked YCbCr 4:4:4 for any HDMI sink that advertised it. Fixes: 0b0ff65d3ca1 ("drm/amd/display: Refactor stream validation") Suggested-by: Adolfo Rodrigues <adolfotregosa@gmail.com> Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5-1 Signed-off-by: Adrian Betschart <adrian.betschart@cinemaone.ch> Reviewed-by: Fangzhi Zuo <jerry.zuo@amd.com> Tested-by: Adolfo Rodrigues <adolfotregosa@gmail.com> Tested-by: Daniel Wheeler <daniel.wheeler@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> (cherry picked from commit 7de432bc753133764dc40d37f9388da56de251e7)
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+==================
+KUnit Architecture
+==================
+
+The KUnit architecture is divided into two parts:
+
+- `In-Kernel Testing Framework`_
+- `kunit_tool (Command-line Test Harness)`_
+
+In-Kernel Testing Framework
+===========================
+
+The kernel testing library supports KUnit tests written in C using
+KUnit. These KUnit tests are kernel code. KUnit performs the following
+tasks:
+
+- Organizes tests
+- Reports test results
+- Provides test utilities
+
+Test Cases
+----------
+
+The test case is the fundamental unit in KUnit. KUnit test cases are organised
+into suites. A KUnit test case is a function with type signature
+``void (*)(struct kunit *test)``. These test case functions are wrapped in a
+struct called struct kunit_case.
+
+.. note:
+ ``generate_params`` is optional for non-parameterized tests.
+
+Each KUnit test case receives a ``struct kunit`` context object that tracks a
+running test. The KUnit assertion macros and other KUnit utilities use the
+``struct kunit`` context object. As an exception, there are two fields:
+
+- ``->priv``: The setup functions can use it to store arbitrary test
+ user data.
+
+- ``->param_value``: It contains the parameter value which can be
+ retrieved in the parameterized tests.
+
+Test Suites
+-----------
+
+A KUnit suite includes a collection of test cases. The KUnit suites
+are represented by the ``struct kunit_suite``. For example:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ static struct kunit_case example_test_cases[] = {
+ KUNIT_CASE(example_test_foo),
+ KUNIT_CASE(example_test_bar),
+ KUNIT_CASE(example_test_baz),
+ {}
+ };
+
+ static struct kunit_suite example_test_suite = {
+ .name = "example",
+ .init = example_test_init,
+ .exit = example_test_exit,
+ .test_cases = example_test_cases,
+ };
+ kunit_test_suite(example_test_suite);
+
+In the above example, the test suite ``example_test_suite``, runs the
+test cases ``example_test_foo``, ``example_test_bar``, and
+``example_test_baz``. Before running the test, the ``example_test_init``
+is called and after running the test, ``example_test_exit`` is called.
+The ``kunit_test_suite(example_test_suite)`` registers the test suite
+with the KUnit test framework.
+
+Executor
+--------
+
+The KUnit executor can list and run built-in KUnit tests on boot.
+The Test suites are stored in a linker section
+called ``.kunit_test_suites``. For the code, see ``KUNIT_TABLE()`` macro
+definition in
+`include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h?h=v6.0#n950>`_.
+The linker section consists of an array of pointers to
+``struct kunit_suite``, and is populated by the ``kunit_test_suites()``
+macro. The KUnit executor iterates over the linker section array in order to
+run all the tests that are compiled into the kernel.
+
+.. kernel-figure:: kunit_suitememorydiagram.svg
+ :alt: KUnit Suite Memory
+
+ KUnit Suite Memory Diagram
+
+On the kernel boot, the KUnit executor uses the start and end addresses
+of this section to iterate over and run all tests. For the implementation of the
+executor, see
+`lib/kunit/executor.c <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/lib/kunit/executor.c>`_.
+When built as a module, the ``kunit_test_suites()`` macro defines a
+``module_init()`` function, which runs all the tests in the compilation
+unit instead of utilizing the executor.
+
+In KUnit tests, some error classes do not affect other tests
+or parts of the kernel, each KUnit case executes in a separate thread
+context. See the ``kunit_try_catch_run()`` function in
+`lib/kunit/try-catch.c <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/lib/kunit/try-catch.c?h=v5.15#n58>`_.
+
+Assertion Macros
+----------------
+
+KUnit tests verify state using expectations/assertions.
+All expectations/assertions are formatted as:
+``KUNIT_{EXPECT|ASSERT}_<op>[_MSG](kunit, property[, message])``
+
+- ``{EXPECT|ASSERT}`` determines whether the check is an assertion or an
+ expectation.
+ In the event of a failure, the testing flow differs as follows:
+
+ - For expectations, the test is marked as failed and the failure is logged.
+
+ - Failing assertions, on the other hand, result in the test case being
+ terminated immediately.
+
+ - Assertions call the function:
+ ``void __noreturn __kunit_abort(struct kunit *)``.
+
+ - ``__kunit_abort`` calls the function:
+ ``void __noreturn kunit_try_catch_throw(struct kunit_try_catch *try_catch)``.
+
+ - ``kunit_try_catch_throw`` calls the function:
+ ``void kthread_complete_and_exit(struct completion *, long) __noreturn;``
+ and terminates the special thread context.
+
+- ``<op>`` denotes a check with options: ``TRUE`` (supplied property
+ has the boolean value "true"), ``EQ`` (two supplied properties are
+ equal), ``NOT_ERR_OR_NULL`` (supplied pointer is not null and does not
+ contain an "err" value).
+
+- ``[_MSG]`` prints a custom message on failure.
+
+Test Result Reporting
+---------------------
+KUnit prints the test results in KTAP format. KTAP is based on TAP14, see
+Documentation/dev-tools/ktap.rst.
+KTAP works with KUnit and Kselftest. The KUnit executor prints KTAP results to
+dmesg, and debugfs (if configured).
+
+Parameterized Tests
+-------------------
+
+Each KUnit parameterized test is associated with a collection of
+parameters. The test is invoked multiple times, once for each parameter
+value and the parameter is stored in the ``param_value`` field.
+The test case includes a KUNIT_CASE_PARAM() macro that accepts a
+generator function. The generator function is passed the previous parameter
+and returns the next parameter. It also includes a macro for generating
+array-based common-case generators.
+
+kunit_tool (Command-line Test Harness)
+======================================
+
+``kunit_tool`` is a Python script, found in ``tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py``. It
+is used to configure, build, execute, parse test results and run all of the
+previous commands in correct order (i.e., configure, build, execute and parse).
+You have two options for running KUnit tests: either build the kernel with KUnit
+enabled and manually parse the results (see
+Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/run_manual.rst) or use ``kunit_tool``
+(see Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/run_wrapper.rst).
+
+- ``configure`` command generates the kernel ``.config`` from a
+ ``.kunitconfig`` file (and any architecture-specific options).
+ The Python scripts available in ``qemu_configs`` folder
+ (for example, ``tools/testing/kunit/qemu configs/powerpc.py``) contains
+ additional configuration options for specific architectures.
+ It parses both the existing ``.config`` and the ``.kunitconfig`` files
+ to ensure that ``.config`` is a superset of ``.kunitconfig``.
+ If not, it will combine the two and run ``make olddefconfig`` to regenerate
+ the ``.config`` file. It then checks to see if ``.config`` has become a superset.
+ This verifies that all the Kconfig dependencies are correctly specified in the
+ file ``.kunitconfig``. The ``kunit_config.py`` script contains the code for parsing
+ Kconfigs. The code which runs ``make olddefconfig`` is part of the
+ ``kunit_kernel.py`` script. You can invoke this command through:
+ ``./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py config`` and
+ generate a ``.config`` file.
+- ``build`` runs ``make`` on the kernel tree with required options
+ (depends on the architecture and some options, for example: build_dir)
+ and reports any errors.
+ To build a KUnit kernel from the current ``.config``, you can use the
+ ``build`` argument: ``./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py build``.
+- ``exec`` command executes kernel results either directly (using
+ User-mode Linux configuration), or through an emulator such
+ as QEMU. It reads results from the log using standard
+ output (stdout), and passes them to ``parse`` to be parsed.
+ If you already have built a kernel with built-in KUnit tests,
+ you can run the kernel and display the test results with the ``exec``
+ argument: ``./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py exec``.
+- ``parse`` extracts the KTAP output from a kernel log, parses
+ the test results, and prints a summary. For failed tests, any
+ diagnostic output will be included.