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From: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	"Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com>,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] drm: Add support for panic message output
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 10:52:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y35hlr5j.fsf@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875zsln642.fsf@linutronix.de> (John Ogness's message of "Thu, 14 Mar 2019 10:43:41 +0100")

On 2019-03-14, John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> wrote:
> On 2019-03-14, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
>> That's why we came up with the trylock + immediate bail out design if
>> that fails. Plus really only render the oops int whatever is the
>> current display buffer, so that we don't have to do any hw
>> programming at all.
>
> I think this is your best option. The real work will be identifying
> any/all spin locking that currently exists. For all of those, the code
> needs to change to:
>
> 1. trylock if oops_in_progress, otherwise spinlock

On second thought, you shouldn't use oops_in_progress. It would be
better if DRM had its own flag to signify that it is currently being
used in kmsg_dump context.

> 2. if trylock fails, the code must have a sane failure
>
> The 2nd point will be the difficult one. For example, you may have
> functions without a return value taking spinlocks. But now those
> functions could fail.

John Ogness
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  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-14  9:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-11 17:42 [PATCH v2 0/3] drm: Add panic handling Noralf Trønnes
2019-03-11 17:42 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] drm: Add support for panic message output Noralf Trønnes
2019-03-11 19:23   ` Daniel Vetter
2019-03-11 19:29     ` Daniel Vetter
2019-03-11 22:40       ` Noralf Trønnes
2019-03-12  9:53         ` Daniel Vetter
2019-03-12  9:59           ` Daniel Vetter
2019-03-11 22:33     ` Noralf Trønnes
2019-03-12 10:58       ` Daniel Vetter
2019-03-12 13:29         ` Noralf Trønnes
2019-03-13  3:53         ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2019-03-12 22:13       ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2019-03-13  7:49         ` John Ogness
2019-03-13  8:37           ` Daniel Vetter
2019-03-14  2:51             ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2019-03-14  9:32               ` Daniel Vetter
2019-03-14  9:43                 ` John Ogness
2019-03-14  9:52                   ` John Ogness [this message]
2019-03-15 10:56                     ` Daniel Vetter
2019-03-13  8:35         ` Daniel Vetter
2019-03-14  4:45           ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2019-03-14  9:35             ` Daniel Vetter
2019-03-13 10:24         ` Noralf Trønnes
2019-03-13  4:05       ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2019-03-11 19:55   ` Sam Ravnborg
2019-03-12 10:47   ` Michel Dänzer
2019-03-12 16:17     ` [Intel-gfx] " Ville Syrjälä
2019-03-12 17:15       ` Noralf Trønnes
2019-03-12 17:25         ` Ville Syrjälä
2019-03-12 17:37           ` Noralf Trønnes
2019-03-12 17:44             ` Noralf Trønnes
2019-03-12 18:02             ` [Intel-gfx] " Ville Syrjälä
2019-03-13  8:29               ` Christian König
2019-03-13  8:43               ` [Intel-gfx] " Daniel Vetter
2019-03-13  9:35         ` Michel Dänzer
2019-03-13 13:31           ` [Intel-gfx] " Ville Syrjälä
2019-03-13 13:37             ` Christian König
2019-03-13 15:38               ` Michel Dänzer
2019-03-13 15:54                 ` [Intel-gfx] " Christian König
2019-03-13 16:16                   ` Kazlauskas, Nicholas
2019-03-13 17:30                     ` Koenig, Christian
2019-03-13 17:33                     ` Michel Dänzer
2019-03-13 17:41                       ` Kazlauskas, Nicholas
2019-03-14  9:50                         ` Daniel Vetter
2019-03-14 12:44                           ` Kazlauskas, Nicholas
2019-03-15 10:58                             ` [Intel-gfx] " Daniel Vetter
2019-03-13 17:52                       ` Koenig, Christian
2019-03-14  9:40                   ` [Intel-gfx] " Daniel Vetter
2019-03-11 17:42 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] drm/cma-helper: Add support for panic screen Noralf Trønnes
2019-03-11 17:42 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] drm/vc4: Support " Noralf Trønnes
2019-03-11 18:53 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] drm: Add panic handling Daniel Vetter
2019-03-12  9:09 ` ✗ Fi.CI.CHECKPATCH: warning for " Patchwork
2019-03-12  9:12 ` ✗ Fi.CI.SPARSE: " Patchwork
2019-03-12  9:50 ` ✓ Fi.CI.BAT: success " Patchwork
2019-03-12 10:12 ` ✗ Fi.CI.BAT: failure for drm: Add panic handling (rev2) Patchwork
2019-03-17 23:06 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] drm: Add panic handling Ahmed S. Darwish
2019-03-25  8:42   ` Daniel Vetter

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