[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 5/5] drm/i915: Fix error capture on BYT/BDW

[Ben Widawsky]

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:47:40AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 06:17:45PM -0800, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> > The previous check during error capture of whether or not the current VM
> > should be scanned used, gen < 7. That was more or less trying to
> > determine if there was a full PPGTT. At the time, this was sort of what
> > I meant to do because I was more interested in working backwards from
> > hardware state. However, this is incorrect because it will not include
> > platforms that are greater than gen7, and not having PPGTT.  Example
> > would be BYT which is gen7 but doesn't have PPGTT, BDW, or any platform
> > greater than gen7 with the PPGTT module parameter invoked.
> > 
> > I am /assuming/ BYT was broken, I have not actually checked.
> > 
> > While here, clean up the file a bit to avoid duplicate reads (now that
> > the PPGTT info is in the error state).
> > 
> > I think Mika/Chris may have been looking at this too.
> 
> Sure, we are looking (for identifying the guilty request/batch) by using
> the older, simpler mechanism of finding the first incomplete request. I
> think that search is now definite since we preallocate the request and no
> longer do request collascing if ENOMEM (i.e. there is a 1:1 relationship
> between seqno/batch/request).
> 
> That should also apply here and be much simpler.
> -Chris
> 
> -- 
> Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre

How does that solve hangs which aren't caused by requests?

-- 
Ben Widawsky, Intel Open Source Technology Center