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From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Wait for all pending operations to the fb before disabling the pipe
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:14:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120912161450.GS5533@phenom.ffwll.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120912160303.GC676@mannheim-rule.local>

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 09:03:03AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> 
> > Well, these are usually hard to verify fixed. The commit is mentioned on
> > fdo bugs 45413 and 48838, should fix some GPU hangs.
> 
> The stable kernel rules are very clear about this:
> 
>  - It must be obviously correct and tested.
> 
> Please ensure the backport gets tested on a machine that was
> affected by the problem.  That doesn't mean we need 100%
> confidence that the fix worked, but if I understand you
> correctly it is possible that nobody tested the backport on
> real hardware at all.
> 
> An ack from someone on the i915 team would be welcome as well.

It's the right thing. The comment about "hough we still have a window for
userspace to submit a broken command buffer during the modeset" just
re-stresses that client can still kill the gpu. But with this fix here
userspace has at least a chance to get it right, whereas before it just
fell over sometimes.
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
+41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-12 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1347461831-18546-1-git-send-email-timo.aaltonen@canonical.com>
2012-09-12 15:09 ` [PATCH] drm/i915: Wait for all pending operations to the fb before disabling the pipe Jonathan Nieder
2012-09-12 15:23   ` Timo Aaltonen
2012-09-12 16:03     ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-09-12 16:14       ` Daniel Vetter [this message]
2012-09-12 16:24         ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-17  9:05 Chris Wilson
2012-04-18 11:01 ` Daniel Vetter

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