linux-kernel - Re: [ 04/69] drm/i915: fix up ivb plane 3 pageflips

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Date:	Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:45:29 -0300
From:	Eugeni Dodonov <eugeni.dodonov@...el.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
CC:	Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [ 04/69] drm/i915: fix up ivb plane 3 pageflips

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On 06/19/2012 12:59 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 19:10 -0300, Eugeni Dodonov wrote:
>> On 06/18/2012 06:55 PM, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
>>>> +	default: +		WARN_ONCE(1, "unknown plane in flip 
>>>> command\n"); +		ret = -ENODEV; +		goto err;
>>> 
>>> Shouldn't this have been "goto err_unpin;"?
>>> 
>>> It's not a problem in the backport for 3.2, same code is in the
>>> original patch, just noticed it seems a problem while looking
>>> at it; but by what changelog says the default case is said to
>>> not trigger in "practice" (catch programming error), so I think
>>> it doesn't pose a real issue in practice.
>> 
>> You are right, it should be err_unpin. I sent a patch rectifying
>>  this.
>> 
>> In practice, this should not happen, but still, better be safe 
>> than sorry. Thanks for catching that!
> 
> So should I drop this until the second patch is upstream?

I don't think there is a need. It is nearly impossible to hit this
situation, and if it happens the machine will be quite broken in a way
this patch won't help recovering it anyway.

So you could merge the original patch as is - it fixes some real
issues on Ivy Bridge which are much more likely to happen.

Eugeni
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