linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][drm-next] drm/i915/gvt: ensure -ve return value is handled correctly

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Date:   Mon, 25 Sep 2017 12:32:24 +0300
From:   Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     "Wang, Zhi A" <zhi.a.wang@...el.com>,
        Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@...ux.intel.com>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     "Gao, Fred" <fred.gao@...el.com>, David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        "intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org" <intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        "kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        "dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        "Vivi, Rodrigo" <rodrigo.vivi@...el.com>,
        Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        "intel-gvt-dev@...ts.freedesktop.org" 
        <intel-gvt-dev@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][drm-next] drm/i915/gvt: ensure -ve return value is
 handled correctly

On Fri, 2017-09-22 at 17:50 +0000, Wang, Zhi A wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. Learned a lot. :)
> 
> GEM_BUG_ON is new to me since it wasn't there at the beginning of
> GVT-g upstream. It showed up later. So I left a lot of WARN_ON in the
> code and some of them should be GEM_BUG_ON now.
> 
> Now I can figure out those differences. We can discuss with our QA to
> see if they would like to enable I915_GEM_DEBUG and then we can move
> to GEM_BUG_ON also, or maybe we can have a dedicated GVT_BUG_ON. :)
> Thank you so much. Have a great weekend.

GVT_BUG_ON is probably the way to go :)

Regards, Joonas
-- 
Joonas Lahtinen
Open Source Technology Center
Intel Corporation