[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 11/16] drm/i915: not finding a fence is a non-recoverable condition

[Daniel Vetter]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 06:10:08PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> On Thu, 12 May 2011 22:17:19 +0100, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > -		return -ENOSPC;
> > +		return -EDEADLK;
> 
> Would be nice to have the kernel print out a debugging message at this
> point -- the only way to hit this is from a bug in user or kernel code.

We've had that once and dropped it. The reason was that there should be no
user-triggerable kernel message (which might pointlessly fill the logs).
With the different return value I think it's good enough to catch.
-Daniel
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