Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Make vblank evade warnings optional

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 05/07/2017 11:12 AM, ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com wrote:
> From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
> 
> Add a new Kconfig option to enable/disable the extra warnings
> from the vblank evade code. For now we'll keep the warning
> about an actually missed vblank always enabled as that can have
> an actual user visible impact. But if we miss the deadline
> othrwise there's no real need to bother the user with that.
> We'll want these warnings enabled during development however
> so that we can catch regressions.
> 
> Based on the reports it looks like this is still very easy
> to hit on SKL, so we have more work ahead of us to optimize
> the crtiical section further.

Shouldn't it just be a debug printk or something instead, so that normal
people don't see it, but the folks that turn on debugging can get the
info they need? Seems silly to add a kconfig option for this.

-- 
Jens Axboe