diff --git a/include/drm/drm_crtc.h b/include/drm/drm_crtc.h
index 551484fb55e5..37cff64a26ef 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_crtc.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_crtc.h
@@ -1715,31 +1715,256 @@ struct drm_mode_set {
 
 /**
  * struct drm_mode_config_funcs - basic driver provided mode setting functions
- * @fb_create: create a new framebuffer object
- * @output_poll_changed: function to handle output configuration changes
- * @atomic_check: check whether a given atomic state update is possible
- * @atomic_commit: commit an atomic state update previously verified with
- * 	atomic_check()
- * @atomic_state_alloc: allocate a new atomic state
- * @atomic_state_clear: clear the atomic state
- * @atomic_state_free: free the atomic state
  *
  * Some global (i.e. not per-CRTC, connector, etc) mode setting functions that
  * involve drivers.
  */
 struct drm_mode_config_funcs {
+	/**
+	 * @fb_create:
+	 *
+	 * Create a new framebuffer object. The core does basic checks on the
+	 * requested metadata, but most of that is left to the driver. See
+	 * struct &drm_mode_fb_cmd2 for details.
+	 *
+	 * RETURNS:
+	 *
+	 * A new framebuffer with an initial refernce count of 1 or a negative
+	 * error code encoded with ERR_PTR().
+	 */
 	struct drm_framebuffer *(*fb_create)(struct drm_device *dev,
 					     struct drm_file *file_priv,
 					     const struct drm_mode_fb_cmd2 *mode_cmd);
+
+	/**
+	 * @output_poll_changed:
+	 *
+	 * Callback used by helpers to inform the driver of output configuration
+	 * changes.
+	 *
+	 * Drivers implementing fbdev emulation with the helpers can call
+	 * drm_fb_helper_hotplug_changed from this hook to inform the fbdev
+	 * helper of output changes.
+	 *
+	 * FIXME:
+	 *
+	 * Except that there's no vtable for device-level helper callbacks
+	 * there's no reason this is a core function.
+	 */
 	void (*output_poll_changed)(struct drm_device *dev);
 
+	/**
+	 * @atomic_check:
+	 *
+	 * This is the only hook to validate an atomic modeset update. This
+	 * function must reject any modeset and state changes which the hardware
+	 * or driver doesn't support. This includes but is of course not limited
+	 * to:
+	 *
+	 *  - Checking that the modes, framebuffers, scaling and placement
+	 *    requirements and so on are within the limits of the hardware.
+	 *
+	 *  - Checking that any hidden shared resources are not oversubscribed.
+	 *    This can be shared PLLs, shared lanes, overall memory bandwidth,
+	 *    display fifo space (where shared between planes or maybe even
+	 *    CRTCs).
+	 *
+	 *  - Checking that virtualized resources exported to userspace are not
+	 *    oversubscribed. For various reasons it can make sense to expose
+	 *    more planes, crtcs or encoders than which are physically there. One
+	 *    example is dual-pipe operations (which generally should be hidden
+	 *    from userspace if when lockstepped in hardware, otherwise exposed),
+	 *    where a plane might need 1 hardware plane (if it's just on one
+	 *    pipe), 2 hardware planes (when it spans both pipes) or maybe even
+	 *    shared a hardware plane with a 2nd plane (if there's a compatible
+	 *    plane requested on the area handled by the other pipe).
+	 *
+	 *  - Check that any transitional state is possible and that if
+	 *    requested, the update can indeed be done in the vblank period
+	 *    without temporarily disabling some functions.
+	 *
+	 *  - Check any other constraints the driver or hardware might have.
+	 *
+	 *  - This callback also needs to correctly fill out the &drm_crtc_state
+	 *    in this update to make sure that drm_atomic_crtc_needs_modeset()
+	 *    reflects the nature of the possible update and returns true if and
+	 *    only if the update cannot be applied without tearing within one
+	 *    vblank on that CRTC. The core uses that information to reject
+	 *    updates which require a full modeset (i.e. blanking the screen, or
+	 *    at least pausing updates for a substantial amount of time) if
+	 *    userspace has disallowed that in its request.
+	 *
+	 *  - The driver also does not need to repeat basic input validation
+	 *    like done for the corresponding legacy entry points. The core does
+	 *    that before calling this hook.
+	 *
+	 * See the documentation of @atomic_commit for an exhaustive list of
+	 * error conditions which are allowed to not be checked in this
+	 * callback.
+	 *
+	 * See the documentation for struct &drm_atomic_state for how exactly
+	 * an atomic modeset update is described.
+	 *
+	 * Drivers using the atomic helpers can implement this hook using
+	 * drm_atomic_helper_check(), or one of the exported sub-functions of
+	 * it.
+	 *
+	 * RETURNS:
+	 *
+	 * 0 on success or one of the below negative error codes:
+	 *
+	 *  - -EINVAL, if any of the above constraints are violated.
+	 *
+	 *  - -EDEADLK, when returned from an attempt to acquire an additional
+	 *    &drm_modeset_lock through drm_modeset_lock().
+	 *
+	 *  - -ENOMEM, if allocating additional state sub-structures failed due
+	 *    to lack of memory.
+	 *
+	 *  - -EINTR, -EAGAIN or -ERESTARTSYS, if the ioctl should be restarted.
+	 *    This can either be due to a pending signal, or because the driver
+	 *    needs to completely bail out to recover from an exceptional
+	 *    situation like a gpu hang. From a userspace point all errors are
+	 *    treated equally.
+	 */
 	int (*atomic_check)(struct drm_device *dev,
 			    struct drm_atomic_state *a);
+
+	/**
+	 * @atomic_commit:
+	 *
+	 * This is the only hook to commit an atomic modeset update. The core
+	 * guarantees that @atomic_check has been called successfully before
+	 * calling this function, and that nothing has been changed in the
+	 * interim.
+	 *
+	 * See the documentation for struct &drm_atomic_state for how exactly
+	 * an atomic modeset update is described.
+	 *
+	 * Drivers using the atomic helpers can implement this hook using
+	 * drm_atomic_helper_commit(), or one of the exported sub-functions of
+	 * it.
+	 *
+	 * Asynchronous commits (as indicated with the async parameter) must
+	 * do any preparatory work which might result in an unsuccessful commit
+	 * in the context of this callback. The only exception is hardware
+	 * errors resulting in -EIO. But even in that case the driver must
+	 * ensure that the display pipe is at least running, to avoid
+	 * compositors crashing when pageflips don't work. Anything else,
+	 * specifically committing the update to the hardware, should be done
+	 * without blocking the caller. For updates which do not require a
+	 * modeset this must be guaranteed.
+	 *
+	 * The driver must wait for any pending rendering to the new
+	 * framebuffers to complete before executing the flip. It should also
+	 * wait for any pending rendering from other drivers if the underlying
+	 * buffer is a shared dma-buf. Asynchronous commits must not wait for
+	 * rendering in the context of this callback.
+	 *
+	 * An application can request to be notified when the atomic commit has
+	 * completed. These events are per-CRTC and can be distinguished by the
+	 * CRTC index supplied in &drm_event to userspace.
+	 *
+	 * The drm core will supply a struct &drm_event in the event
+	 * member of each CRTC's &drm_crtc_state structure. This can be handled by the
+	 * drm_crtc_send_vblank_event() function, which the driver should call on
+	 * the provided event upon completion of the atomic commit. Note that if
+	 * the driver supports vblank signalling and timestamping the vblank
+	 * counters and timestamps must agree with the ones returned from page
+	 * flip events. With the current vblank helper infrastructure this can
+	 * be achieved by holding a vblank reference while the page flip is
+	 * pending, acquired through drm_crtc_vblank_get() and released with
+	 * drm_crtc_vblank_put(). Drivers are free to implement their own vblank
+	 * counter and timestamp tracking though, e.g. if they have accurate
+	 * timestamp registers in hardware.
+	 *
+	 * NOTE:
+	 *
+	 * Drivers are not allowed to shut down any display pipe successfully
+	 * enabled through an atomic commit on their own. Doing so can result in
+	 * compositors crashing if a page flip is suddenly reject because the
+	 * pipe is off.
+	 *
+	 * RETURNS:
+	 *
+	 * 0 on success or one of the below negative error codes:
+	 *
+	 *  - -EBUSY, if an asynchronous updated is requested and there is
+	 *    currently an earlier updated still pending. Drivers are allowed to
+	 *    support a queue of outstanding updates, but currently no driver
+	 *    supports that. Note that drivers must wait for preceding updates
+	 *    to complete if a synchronous update is requested, they are not
+	 *    allowed to fail the commit in that case.
+	 *
+	 *  - -ENOMEM, if the driver failed to allocate memory. Specifically
+	 *    this can happen when trying to pin framebuffers, which must only
+	 *    be done when committing the state.
+	 *
+	 *  - -ENOSPC, as a refinement of the more generic -ENOMEM to indicate
+	 *    that the driver has run out of vram, iommu space or similar gpu
+	 *    address space needed for framebuffer.
+	 *
+	 *  - -EIO, if the hardware completely died.
+	 *
+	 *  - -EINTR, -EAGAIN or -ERESTARTSYS, if the ioctl should be restarted.
+	 *    This can either be due to a pending signal, or because the driver
+	 *    needs to completely bail out to recover from an exceptional
+	 *    situation like a gpu hang. From a userspace point of view all errors are
+	 *    treated equally.
+	 *
+	 * This list is exhaustive. Specifically this hook is not allowed to
+	 * return -EINVAL (any invalid requests should be caught in
+	 * @atomic_check) or -EDEADLK (this function must not acquire
+	 * additional modeset locks). The core will also reject any async
+	 * atomic flips with -EINVAL already (for matching semantics in this
+	 * case with legacy page flips).
+	 */
 	int (*atomic_commit)(struct drm_device *dev,
 			     struct drm_atomic_state *a,
 			     bool async);
+
+	/**
+	 * @atomic_state_alloc:
+	 *
+	 * This optional hook can be used by drivers who want to subclass struct
+	 * &drm_atomic_state to be able to track their own driver-private global
+	 * state easily. If this hook is implemented, drivers must also
+	 * implement @atomic_state_clear and @atomic_state_free.
+	 *
+	 * RETURNS:
+	 *
+	 * A new &drm_atomic_state on success or NULL on failure.
+	 */
 	struct drm_atomic_state *(*atomic_state_alloc)(struct drm_device *dev);
+
+	/**
+	 * @atomic_state_clear:
+	 *
+	 * This hook must clear any driver private state duplicated into the
+	 * passed-in &drm_atomic_state. This hook is called when the caller
+	 * encountered a &drm_modeset_lock deadlock and needs to drop all
+	 * already acquired locks as part of the deadlock avoidance dance
+	 * implemented in drm_modeset_lock_backoff().
+	 *
+	 * Any duplicated state must be invalidated since a concurrent atomic
+	 * update might change it, and the drm atomic interfaces always apply
+	 * updates as relative changes to the current state.
+	 *
+	 * Drivers who implement this must call drm_atomic_state_default_clear()
+	 * to clear common state.
+	 */
 	void (*atomic_state_clear)(struct drm_atomic_state *state);
+
+	/**
+	 * @atomic_state_free:
+	 *
+	 * This hook needs driver private resources and the &drm_atomic_state
+	 * itself. Note that the core first calls drm_atomic_state_clear to
+	 * avoid code duplicate between the clear and free hooks.
+	 *
+	 * Drivers who implement this must call drm_atomic_state_default_free()
+	 * to release common resources.
+	 */
 	void (*atomic_state_free)(struct drm_atomic_state *state);
 };
 
