linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lima: avoid error task dump attempt when not enabled

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Date:   Mon, 7 Feb 2022 09:18:45 +0800
From:   Qiang Yu <yuq825@...il.com>
To:     Erico Nunes <nunes.erico@...il.com>
Cc:     dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>, lima@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lima: avoid error task dump attempt when not enabled

Looks good for me, patch is:
Reviewed-by: Qiang Yu <yuq825@...il.com>

On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 2:59 AM Erico Nunes <nunes.erico@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Currently when users try to run an application with lima and that hits
> an issue such as a timeout, a message saying "fail to save task state"
> and "error task list is full" is shown in dmesg.
>
> The error task dump is a debug feature disabled by default, so the
> error task list is usually not going to be available at all.
> The message can be misleading and creates confusion in bug reports.
>
> We can avoid that code path and that particular message when the user
> has not explicitly set the max_error_tasks parameter to enable the
> feature.
>
> Signed-off-by: Erico Nunes <nunes.erico@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/lima/lima_sched.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/lima/lima_sched.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/lima/lima_sched.c
> index 5612d73f238f..12437e42cc76 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/lima/lima_sched.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/lima/lima_sched.c
> @@ -409,7 +409,8 @@ static enum drm_gpu_sched_stat lima_sched_timedout_job(struct drm_sched_job *job
>
>         drm_sched_increase_karma(&task->base);
>
> -       lima_sched_build_error_task_list(task);
> +       if (lima_max_error_tasks)
> +               lima_sched_build_error_task_list(task);
>
>         pipe->task_error(pipe);
>
> --
> 2.34.1
>