linux-kernel - Re: [Spice-devel] [PATCH 05/11] Handle all errors in qxl_surface

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Date:	Thu, 28 May 2015 13:16:25 +1000
From:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
To:	Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@...hat.com>
Cc:	spice-devel <spice-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] [PATCH 05/11] Handle all errors in qxl_surface_evict

On 27 May 2015 at 20:04, Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@...hat.com> wrote:
> Only EBUSY error was handled. This could cause code to believe
> reserve was successful while it failed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@...hat.com>

This has been there since I wrote qxl, so I expect I had some reason
for it, but I can't remember it
now..

Most likely is something had the bo reserved already and we reentered
from somewhere we shouldn't
but I think a lot of the horrible code went away.

so because I can't justify the hack,
Reviewed-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>
Dave.
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