linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] drm/bochs: downgrade pci_request

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Message-ID: <20200313090338.GA31815@ravnborg.org>
Date:   Fri, 13 Mar 2020 10:03:38 +0100
From:   Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:     Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>
Cc:     dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, marmarek@...isiblethingslab.com,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:DRM DRIVER FOR BOCHS VIRTUAL GPU" 
        <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] drm/bochs: downgrade pci_request_region failure from
 error to warning

Hi Gred.

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 09:41:52AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Shutdown of firmware framebuffer has a bunch of problems.  Because
> of this the framebuffer region might still be reserved even after
> drm_fb_helper_remove_conflicting_pci_framebuffers() returned.
> 
> Don't consider pci_request_region() failure for the framebuffer
> region as fatal error to workaround this issue.
> 
> Reported-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@...isiblethingslab.com>
> Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/bochs/bochs_hw.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/bochs/bochs_hw.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/bochs/bochs_hw.c
> index 952199cc0462..dce4672e3fc8 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/bochs/bochs_hw.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/bochs/bochs_hw.c
> @@ -157,10 +157,8 @@ int bochs_hw_init(struct drm_device *dev)

There is a drm_device avilable.

>  		size = min(size, mem);
>  	}
>  
> -	if (pci_request_region(pdev, 0, "bochs-drm") != 0) {
> -		DRM_ERROR("Cannot request framebuffer\n");
> -		return -EBUSY;
> -	}
> +	if (pci_request_region(pdev, 0, "bochs-drm") != 0)
> +		DRM_WARN("Cannot request framebuffer, boot fb still active?\n");
So you could use drm_WARN() which is what is preferred these days.
With this fixed:
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>

	Sam