From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni@intel.com>,
intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Dhinakaran Pandiyan <dhinakaran.pandiyan@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915/gen9: unconditionally apply the memory bandwidth WA
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:31:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161011103107.GA9793@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wphfqqyx.fsf@intel.com>
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:34:14AM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2016, Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni@intel.com> wrote:
> > Mahesh Kumar is already working on a proper implementation for the
> > workaround, but while we still don't have it, let's just
> > unconditionally apply the workaround for everybody and we hope we can
> > close all those numerous bugzilla tickets. Also, I'm not sure how easy
> > it will be to backport the final implementation to the stable Kernels,
> > and this patch here is probably easier to backport.
> >
> > At the present moment I still don't have confirmation that this patch
> > fixes any of the bugs listed below, but we should definitely try
> > testing all of them again.
> >
> > Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94337
> > Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94605
> > Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94884
> > Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95010
> > Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96226
> > Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96828
> > Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97450
> > Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97830
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>
> The patch is a bit on the large side for stable. 100 lines with context
> is the rule.
Huh? It's only 49 line of changes:
> > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> > 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
That's fine for stable, we take i915 stable patches much bigger than
that all the time :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-11 10:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-10 20:30 [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915/gen9: unconditionally apply the memory bandwidth WA Paulo Zanoni
2016-10-10 20:34 ` Lyude Paul
2016-10-10 20:46 ` Zanoni, Paulo R
2016-10-10 20:55 ` Lyude Paul
2016-10-11 18:25 ` Paulo Zanoni
2016-10-14 21:45 ` Lyude
2016-10-11 7:34 ` [Intel-gfx] " Jani Nikula
2016-10-11 10:31 ` Greg KH [this message]
2016-10-11 10:54 ` Jani Nikula
2016-10-11 11:10 ` Greg KH
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