linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] Minor DP aux transaction fixes

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Date:	Sat, 6 Aug 2016 12:22:30 +0200
From:	Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>
To:	Lyude <cpaul@...hat.com>, <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	<amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	<xorg-driver-ati@...ts.freedesktop.org>
CC:	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Alex Deucher" <alexander.deucher@....com>,
	Tom St Denis <tom.stdenis@....com>,
	Jammy Zhou <Jammy.Zhou@....com>,
	Ken Wang <Qingqing.Wang@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Minor DP aux transaction fixes

Am 06.08.2016 um 02:30 schrieb Lyude:
> While I was investigating an unrelated bug on the radeon driver, I noticed that
> it's become rather difficult to actually read through dmesg with drm.debug
> turned on, on account of the huge number of messages we end up printing from
> failed DP aux transactions that happen every time we reprobe each connector.
>
> Timed out transactions are relatively normal, and as well there's a lot of
> places in radeon/amdgpu where we're printing redundant debugging information
> dozens of times each time we attempt a DP aux transactions.
>
> Additionally, I've removed some of the retry loops in amdgpu/radeon. These were
> definitely useful at one point, but since we now retry any failed aux
> transaction unconditionally in DRM's dp helpers they don't serve much purpose
> other then to make failing aux transactions take a lot more time then they need
> to.

The whole set is Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>.

Regards,
Christian.

>
> Lyude (7):
>    drm/dp_helper: Print first error received on failure in
>      drm_dp_dpcd_access()
>    drm/radeon: Don't print error on aux transaction timeouts
>    drm/radeon: Don't retry 7 times in radeon_dp_dpcd()
>    drm/amdgpu: Don't print error on aux transaction timeouts
>    drm/amdgpu: Don't retry 7 times in amdgpu_atombios_dp_get_dpcd()
>    drm: Add ratelimited versions of the DRM_DEBUG* macros
>    drm/dp_helper: Rate limit timeout errors from drm_dp_i2c_do_msg()
>
>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atombios_dp.c | 22 ++++++++++------------
>   drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_helper.c          | 14 ++++++++++++--
>   drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_dp.c     | 21 ++++++++++-----------
>   drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_dp_auxch.c |  1 -
>   include/drm/drmP.h                       | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   5 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
>