[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v3] drm/i915: Add fault injection support

[Daniel Vetter]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 09:28:34AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 10:34:02AM +0200, Joonas Lahtinen wrote:
> > On ma, 2016-03-14 at 16:59 +0200, Imre Deak wrote:
> > > +module_param_named(inject_load_failure, i915.inject_load_failure,
> > > uint, 0600);
> > 
> > This most definitely should be module_param_named_unsafe.
> > 
> > I think I'd also hope to see some kind of compile time option to enable
> > this. I don't think average user wants this by default.
> 
> That's not a bad idea. We can get rid of most of the dangerous params
> this way. On the other hand, we need to keep the debug/quirk params
> around so that we can test options in the wild (bug reporters).

Yeah, most of the _unsafe stuff is _really_ useful for quick bug triage.
Definitely don't want to disable those by default. Maybe an
i915.fry_my_kernel option? But even that is too confusing I think for
testers.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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