linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/amdgpu: fix structurally dead code vcn_v2_5_hw

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Message-ID: <3c6ebf4a-8cba-40e2-7d70-c4d5006a160b@embeddedor.com>
Date:   Tue, 1 Oct 2019 16:57:23 -0500
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     "Liu, Leo" <Leo.Liu@....com>,
        "Deucher, Alexander" <Alexander.Deucher@....com>,
        "Koenig, Christian" <Christian.Koenig@....com>,
        "Zhou, David(ChunMing)" <David1.Zhou@....com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
Cc:     "amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org" <amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        "dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/amdgpu: fix structurally dead code vcn_v2_5_hw_init



On 10/1/19 16:46, Liu, Leo wrote:

>>>> +		ring->sched.ready = true;
>>> This is redundant. all the sched->ready is initialized as true, please
>>> refer to drm_sched_init()
>>>
>> I see... so in the following commit 1b61de45dfaf ("drm/amdgpu: add initial VCN2.0 support (v2)")
>> that line is also redundant?
> 
> Yes.
> 

OK.

> 
>>>>    		r = amdgpu_ring_test_ring(ring);
>>>>    		if (r) {
>>>>    			ring->sched.ready = false;
>>>> @@ -266,8 +267,7 @@ static int vcn_v2_5_hw_init(void *handle)
>>>>    
>>>>    		for (i = 0; i < adev->vcn.num_enc_rings; ++i) {
>>>>    			ring = &adev->vcn.inst[j].ring_enc[i];
>>>> -			ring->sched.ready = false;
>>>> -			continue;
>>>> +			ring->sched.ready = true;
>>> Because the VCN 2.5 FW still has issue for encode, so we have it
>>> disabled here.
>>>
>> OK. So, maybe we can add a comment pointing that out?
> 
> That could be better.
> 

Great. I'm glad it's not a bug.  I'll write a patch for that so other
people don't waste time taking a look.

I appreciate your feedback.
Thanks
--
Gustavo