[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 4/8] drm/i915: NULL checking when capturing buffer objects during error state capture

Tomas Elf tomas.elf at intel.com
Fri Oct 9 04:34:43 PDT 2015


On 09/10/2015 08:49, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 07:31:36PM +0100, Tomas Elf wrote:
>> In the past vmas have sometimes turned out to be NULL when capturing buffer
>> objects during error state capture. To avoid NULL pointer exceptions throw a
>> WARNING and exit early and be prepared for the error state not being fully
>> accurate following this point.
>
> No, fix the root cause.
> -Chris
>

I'd be glad to look that once TDR is upstreamed. Until then I need a 
system that can run long enough to validate TDR during long-duration 
operations testing. I need this patch in order to make that happen. But 
I guess I'll just carry this patch locally for now then.

Thanks,
Tomas


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