[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Warn when execlists changes context without IRQs

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Tue May 12 01:18:00 PDT 2015


On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 08:42:58AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 09:26:40PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 06:37:14PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 04:03:27PM +0100, Peter Antoine wrote:
> > > > If an batch ends while the IRQs are not turned on the notification can
> > > > go missing and the GPU can hang. So generate a warning in this case.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Peter Antoine <peter.antoine at intel.com>
> > > 
> > > Queued for -next, thanks for the patch.
> > 
> > Please drop this. We already have the test inside the irq handler. The
> > instance where you want the guard is during resume, inside
> > intel_lr_context_render_state_init() where you can even emit an error
> > code!
> 
> _unqueue is also called from intel_logical_ring_advance_and_submit and
> should cover us I hope. And I don't think we should add error handling for
> this, that has cost of its own.

Pardon? Your explanation for adding it to the *interrupt* handler after
an existing check is that it also catches the initial submission?
-Chris

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