[PATCH] drm/amd/display: Make BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER() a debug print

[Michel Dänzer]

On 2020-05-22 8:03 p.m., Nicholas Kazlauskas wrote:
> [Why]
> Warnings in the kernel are generally treated as errors.
> 
> The BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER macro is not a critical error or warning, but
> rather intended for developer use to help investigate behavior and
> sequences for other issues.
> 
> We do still make use of DC_ERROR/ASSERT(0) in various places in the
> code for things that are genuine issues.
> 
> Since most developers don't actually KGDB while debugging the kernel
> these essentially would have no value on their own since the KGDB
> breakpoint wouldn't trigger - ASSERT(0) was used as a shortcut to get
> a stacktrace.
> 
> [How]
> Turn it into a DRM_DEBUG_DRIVER print instead. We unfortunately lose
> the stacktrace, but we still do retain some of the useful debug
> information this offers by having at least the function and line
> number loggable.
> 
> If KGDB is supported in the kernel this will still trigger a real
> breakpoint as well.

Not sure this makes sense now that WARN_ON_ONCE is used for ASSERT().
The name "BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER" implies that something unexpected happened
which needs to be investigated, so having a backtrace seems important to me.


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