Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Remove unneeded double drm_rect_visible call in check_overlay_dst

["Ville Syrjälä" <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 09:56:41PM +0300, Nikita Kiryushin wrote:
> On 2/29/24 15:30, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > I prefer the current way where we have no side effects in
> > the if statement.
> >
> 
> This seem like a valid concern from readability and maintainability 
> standpoint. My patch was aimed mostly at performance and maintainability 
> using tools: some more pedantic analyzers are sensitive to non-checked 
> return values (as of now, drm_rect_intersect is ignored).
> 
> Would it be a better idea to make an update to the patch with second 
> drm_rect_visible call changed to an appropriately named state flag set 
> with drm_rect_intersect result?

I was thinking of maybe removing that drm_rect_visible() from
drm_rect_intersect() entirely, but looks like it's used fairly
extensively, so would require a bunch of work.

But now that I though about this I recalled that there was an earlier
patch trying to do exactly what you suggested in this patch. And looks
like there was a second version posted which I completely missed:
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/115605/

While that does still have drm_rect_intersect() with its side effects
inside the if() I don't find it quite as objectionable since it's the
only thing in there. So it's a bit more obvious what is happening.
I've gone and merged that one.

Thanks for the patch regardless. At least I reminded me to look at the
earlier attempt ;)

> 
> BTW, the original patch somehow got mangled while it made its way to the 
> patchwork: source list line in patch got broken, which permits the patch 
> from being applied (the original version did not have that line break). 
> Any ideas how to prevent this happening with the second version of patch 
> (in case the idea is viable)?

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel