[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Don't del_timer_sync uninitialized timer

[Daniel Vetter]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net> wrote:
>> > > + setup_timer(&dev_priv->uncore.force_wake_timer,
>> > > +             gen6_force_wake_timer, (unsigned long)dev_priv);
>> >
>> > We call early_sanitize also from our resume code, so this will now
>> > re-setup the timer again. We generally don't do that since if we ever leak
>> > the timer to here in an enabled state it causes havoc.
>>
>> Gah, really? intel_uncore_early_init()! There must be a clean way to
>> break this up.
>> -Chris
>
> At least in the code base I was looking at, we currently do this also,
> so I didn't think this was any worse.

Hm, where? Imo such a thing would be a bug.

> With lockdep turned on, the module will not even load, so please either
> revert the original, or merge this.

I think we can just move the call to early_sanitize into uncore_init,
right after the timer setup.
-Daniel
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