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From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To: "Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] drm: do not sleep on vblank while holding a mutex
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:20:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111028092032.GA2919@phenom.ffwll.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1319785144.7162.14.camel@thor.local>

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 08:59:04AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Don, 2011-10-27 at 22:19 -0500, Ilija Hadzic wrote: 
> > On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > 
> > > So I think the right thing to do is
> > > - Kill dev->last_vblank_wait (in a prep patch).
> > 
> > Agreed. Also drm_vblank_info function can go away
> 
> Actually, I was rather going to submit a patch to hook it up again —
> AFAICT it was unhooked without any justification. It could be useful for
> debugging vblank related hangs. Any issues with it, such as
> last_vblank_wait not being guaranteed to really be the last one, can
> always be improved later on.

I've thought a bit about the usefulness of it for debugging before
proposing to kill it and I think it can die: It's only really useful for a
complete hangs, if we have an issue we just missing a wakeup somewhere,
that's not gonna catch things. Hence I think something that allows you to
watch things while it's running is much better, i.e. either a drm debug
prinkt or a tracecall.

But if you're firmly attached to that debug file it should be pretty easy
to shove that under the protection of one of the vblank spinlocks.
-Daniel
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-28  9:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-26  2:20 drm: fix one flawed mutex grab and remove some spurious mutex grabs Ilija Hadzic
2011-10-26  2:20 ` [PATCH 1/3] drm: no need to hold global mutex for static data Ilija Hadzic
2011-10-26  7:44   ` Daniel Vetter
2011-10-26  2:20 ` [PATCH 2/3] drm: make DRM_UNLOCKED ioctls with their own mutex Ilija Hadzic
2011-10-26  7:47   ` Daniel Vetter
2011-10-26 16:11     ` Ilija Hadzic
2011-10-26 20:01       ` Daniel Vetter
2011-10-26  2:20 ` [PATCH 3/3] drm: do not sleep on vblank while holding a mutex Ilija Hadzic
2011-10-26  7:54   ` Daniel Vetter
2011-10-26 22:33     ` Ilija Hadzic
2011-10-27 10:43       ` Daniel Vetter
2011-10-27 14:10         ` Alan Coopersmith
2011-10-27 14:20           ` Ilija Hadzic
2011-10-28  3:19         ` Ilija Hadzic
2011-10-28  4:36           ` Ilija Hadzic
2011-10-28  6:59           ` Michel Dänzer
2011-10-28  9:20             ` Daniel Vetter [this message]
2011-10-28 12:10               ` Ilija Hadzic
2011-10-28 14:51                 ` Daniel Vetter
2011-10-28  9:30           ` Daniel Vetter
2011-10-26  8:02   ` Michel Dänzer
2011-10-26 22:50     ` Ilija Hadzic
     [not found] <mailman.37.1319803862.23620.dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
2011-10-28 18:15 ` Mario Kleiner
2011-10-28 19:15   ` Daniel Vetter
2011-10-28 19:53     ` Mario Kleiner

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