[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Unwind partial VMA rebinding after failure in set-cache-level

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Fri Oct 9 05:19:43 PDT 2015


On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 01:11:47PM +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> 
> On 09/10/15 12:51, Chris Wilson wrote:
> >If the impossible happens and we fail to rebind a VMA in the middle of
> >rebinding all VMA for an object we currently bail out and leave the
> >object in an inconsistent state. Attempt to unwind the incomplete update
> >by reverting all updated VMA back to the original cache-level, and WARN
> >if that fails.
> 
> Hey a BUG_ON would have been more your style! ;)

Propagating error returns trumps throwing a tantrum and then as we are
on the the error path we've already proved the impossible could happen,
so presume it could happen again.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre


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