[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 4/6] drm/i915/params: set i915.enable_hangcheck permissions to 0600

[Jani Nikula]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2018, Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On 27/12/2018 14:33, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> i915.enable_hangcheck has been an outlier since its introduction in
>> commit 3e0dc6b01f53 ("drm/i915: hangcheck disable parameter") with 0644
>> permissions, while all the rest are either 0400 or 0600. Follow suit
>> with 0600.
>> 
>> IGT never reads the value, so there should be no impact.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.c | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.c
>> index 81c73bfc7991..9f0539bdaa39 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.c
>> @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ i915_param_named(error_capture, bool, 0600,
>>   	"triaging and debugging hangs.");
>>   #endif
>>   
>> -i915_param_named_unsafe(enable_hangcheck, bool, 0644,
>> +i915_param_named_unsafe(enable_hangcheck, bool, 0600,
>>   	"Periodically check GPU activity for detecting hangs. "
>>   	"WARNING: Disabling this can cause system wide hangs. "
>>   	"(default: true)");
>> 
>
> Having dug out the introducing commit, there doesn't seem to be a 
> special reason for it to be 0644 indeed:
>
>    commit 3e0dc6b01f5301d63046f6deddde2c7f5c57d67a
>    Author: Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net>
>    Date:   Wed Jun 29 10:26:42 2011 -0700
>
>        drm/i915: hangcheck disable parameter
>
> Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>

Thanks for the reviews, pushed patches 1-4 in the series.

BR,
Jani.


>
> Regards,
>
> Tvrtko

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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center