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From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To: Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	intel-gfx <Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Remove incorrect warning in context cleanup
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:59:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151124135911.GD17050@phenom.ffwll.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPj87rNUzfvL1crSRUWAVE-UNuDF_KreaHkxM7q1XJ=qLm8mSw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 01:29:07PM +0000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 24 November 2015 at 13:27, Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 01:17:57PM +0000, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> >> On 24/11/15 12:53, Chris Wilson wrote:
> >> >The WARN_ON is accurate though. The original patch fails to fix even the
> >> >limited aspect of the bug it claimed to.
> >>
> >> That is not true. It only makes it a bit more limited, and not by
> >> its fault even. Even with that it makes things a bit better, not
> >> worse.
> >
> > It makes the code worse for very limited improvement, for which we did
> > not have a publically reported bug, i.e. the impact is very small.
> 
> I can get the person who reported it to me to raise a Bugzilla
> complaining about the WARN_ON if you like ...

This is about the original bug, for with the bugfix resulted in the
WARN_ON now being removed here. The underlying problem (I think, it's a
maze) is that our vma active tracking is a bit ... underwhelming.
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-24 13:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-20 13:23 [PATCH] drm/i915: Remove incorrect warning in context cleanup Tvrtko Ursulin
2015-11-24 10:58 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-11-24 12:53   ` Chris Wilson
2015-11-24 13:17     ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2015-11-24 13:27       ` Chris Wilson
2015-11-24 13:29         ` Daniel Stone
2015-11-24 13:59           ` Daniel Vetter [this message]
2015-11-24 14:18             ` Daniel Stone
2015-11-24 13:56         ` Tvrtko Ursulin

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