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

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Message-ID: <23314fce-800c-552f-e879-464f9709d12b@amd.com>
Date:   Tue, 1 Oct 2019 22:21:20 +0000
From:   "Liu, Leo" <Leo.Liu@....com>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.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 2019-10-01 5:57 p.m., Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>
> 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.

Thanks, just sent two patches to add comment, and long with the patch to 
make VCN ring ready properly.

Leo




>
> I appreciate your feedback.
> Thanks
> --
> Gustavo