linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] mei: Abort writes if incomplete after 1s

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Message-ID: <156388132716.31349.11822559564861280475@skylake-alporthouse-com>
Date:   Tue, 23 Jul 2019 12:28:47 +0100
From:   Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
To:     "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@...el.com>,
        "intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org" <intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Usyskin, Alexander" <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>,
        "C, Ramalingam" <ramalingam.c@...el.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] mei: Abort writes if incomplete after 1s

Quoting Winkler, Tomas (2019-07-23 12:25:14)
> > 
> > During i915 unload, it appears that it may get stuck waiting on a workqueue
> > being hogged by mei:
> 
> Thanks for the bug report, but this is not a proper fix, we will try to work it out.

Perfect :)

It's only happened a couple of times in the last week or so, but if you
want to throw patches at intel-gfx-trybot@...ts.freedesktop.org to try
and grab more information, please feel free to.
-Chris