[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 43/53] drm/i915/bdw: Make sure error capture keeps working with Execlists

[Daniel Vetter]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:52:08PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 04:38:01PM +0100, oscar.mateo at intel.com wrote:
> > From: Oscar Mateo <oscar.mateo at intel.com>
> > 
> > Since the ringbuffer does not belong per engine anymore, we have to
> > make sure that we are always recording the correct ringbuffer.
> > 
> > TODO: This is only a small fix to keep basic error capture working, but
> > we need to add more information for it to be useful (e.g. dump the
> > context being executed).
> 
> I think we should dump the two lrc submitted to the hw port (our decoder
> can deal with arbitrary amounts of rings, just name them foo1 and foo2)
> and the overall execlist submission queue with a few hints what's going on
> should be a useful start. The scheduler patches can then pimp this further
> I guess.

ofc this can be done later on, but needs to be tracked somewhere.
Historically we suck badly at delivering such follow-up work.
-Daniel
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