[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915: ring irq cleanups

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Fri Mar 30 10:33:22 CEST 2012


On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:11:26 -0700, Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net> wrote:
> - gen6 put/get only need one argument
>     rflags and gflags are always the same (see above explanation)
> - remove a couple redundantly defined IRQs
> - reordered some lines to make things go in descending order
> 
> Every ring has its own interrupts, enables, masks, and status bits that
> are fed into the main interrupt enable/mask/status registers. At one
> point in time it seemed like a good idea to make our functions support
> the notion that each interrupt may have a different bit position in the
> corresponding register (blitter parser error may be bit n in IMR, but
> bit m in blitter IMR). It turned out though that the HW designers did us
> a solid on Gen6+ and this unfortunate situation has been avoided. This
> allows our interrupt code to be cleaned up a bit.
> 
> I jammed this into one commit because there should be no functional
> change with this commit, and staging it into multiple commits was
> unnecessarily artificial IMO.
> 
> CC: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> CC: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <benjamin.widawsky at intel.com>

Those two patches are
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>

We can go further in simplifying get/put irq. First requires a
dev_priv->gt.enable_irq() and then refactor the common (pro|epi)logue.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre



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