Re: [Nouveau] noveau: emergency shutdown handling is overcomplex and broken

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Oct 25 2016 - 07:13:07 EST


On Tue 2016-10-25 13:09:25, Karol Herbst wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer.
>
> But I don't like this patch. If you find a bug, make a bug report or
> just fix it if you know the fix already. Or write something in
> IRC. Or

I found a bug, and this is my bug report. Can you take care and fix
it?

Pavel



> write on the Mailing list as a general question or something else
>
> But I really don't agree on doing it this way. You would have needed
> like the same amount of time to actual fix the problem.
>
> Anyway, for adding a printk:
>
> struct nvkm_subdev *subdev = &therm->subdev;
> nvkm_error(subdev, "message");
>
> 2016-10-25 12:50 GMT+02:00 Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>:
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/therm/temp.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/therm/temp.c
> > index b9703c0..adb1deb 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/therm/temp.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/therm/temp.c
> > @@ -120,6 +120,11 @@ nvkm_therm_sensor_event(struct nvkm_therm *therm, enum nvkm_therm_thrs thrs,
> > struct work_struct *work;
> >
> > work = kmalloc(sizeof(*work), GFP_ATOMIC);
> > + /* FIXME:
> > + 1) this is total overkill, orderly_poweroff() already
> > + uses schedule_work internally
> > + 2) it would be good to at least printk what is going on
> > + */
> > if (work) {
> > INIT_WORK(work, nv_poweroff_work);
> > schedule_work(work);
> >
> > GFP_ATOMIC is not reliable. Plus, see the fixme.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Pavel
> >
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