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diff --git a/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h b/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h
index d4619dc2eecb..b55f21857a98 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h
@@ -736,6 +736,11 @@ struct drm_connector_helper_funcs {
* inspect dynamic configuration state should instead use
* @atomic_best_encoder.
*
+ * You can leave this function to NULL if the connector is only
+ * attached to a single encoder and you are using the atomic helpers.
+ * In this case, the core will call drm_atomic_helper_best_encoder()
+ * for you.
+ *
* RETURNS:
*
* Encoder that should be used for the given connector and connector
@@ -752,8 +757,9 @@ struct drm_connector_helper_funcs {
* need to select the best encoder depending upon the desired
* configuration and can't select it statically.
*
- * This function is used by drm_atomic_helper_check_modeset() and either
- * this or @best_encoder is required.
+ * This function is used by drm_atomic_helper_check_modeset().
+ * If it is not implemented, the core will fallback to @best_encoder
+ * (or drm_atomic_helper_best_encoder() if @best_encoder is NULL).
*
* NOTE:
*
@@ -925,4 +931,43 @@ static inline void drm_plane_helper_add(struct drm_plane *plane,
plane->helper_private = funcs;
}
+/**
+ * struct drm_mode_config_helper_funcs - global modeset helper operations
+ *
+ * These helper functions are used by the atomic helpers.
+ */
+struct drm_mode_config_helper_funcs {
+ /**
+ * @atomic_commit_tail:
+ *
+ * This hook is used by the default atomic_commit() hook implemented in
+ * drm_atomic_helper_commit() together with the nonblocking commit
+ * helpers (see drm_atomic_helper_setup_commit() for a starting point)
+ * to implement blocking and nonblocking commits easily. It is not used
+ * by the atomic helpers
+ *
+ * This hook should first commit the given atomic state to the hardware.
+ * But drivers can add more waiting calls at the start of their
+ * implementation, e.g. to wait for driver-internal request for implicit
+ * syncing, before starting to commit the update to the hardware.
+ *
+ * After the atomic update is committed to the hardware this hook needs
+ * to call drm_atomic_helper_commit_hw_done(). Then wait for the upate
+ * to be executed by the hardware, for example using
+ * drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks(), and then clean up the old
+ * framebuffers using drm_atomic_helper_cleanup_planes().
+ *
+ * When disabling a CRTC this hook _must_ stall for the commit to
+ * complete. Vblank waits don't work on disabled CRTC, hence the core
+ * can't take care of this. And it also can't rely on the vblank event,
+ * since that can be signalled already when the screen shows black,
+ * which can happen much earlier than the last hardware access needed to
+ * shut off the display pipeline completely.
+ *
+ * This hook is optional, the default implementation is
+ * drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail().
+ */
+ void (*atomic_commit_tail)(struct drm_atomic_state *state);
+};
+
#endif