Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: avoid rebuilding i915_gpu_error.o on version string updates

From: Joonas Lahtinen
Date: Wed Nov 21 2018 - 05:10:42 EST


Quoting Hans Holmberg (2018-11-21 11:54:23)
> From: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> There is no need to rebuild i915_gpu_error.o when the version string
> changes as the version is available in init_utsname()->release.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Seems reasonable to me.

Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Out of curiosity, are you by any chance hashing the i915_gpu_error.o
file (or the contents elsewhere) for some purpose?

Regards, Joonas

> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.c
> index 8762d17b6659..958e1484a3dd 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.c
> @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
> *
> */
>
> -#include <generated/utsrelease.h>
> +#include <linux/utsname.h>
> #include <linux/stop_machine.h>
> #include <linux/zlib.h>
> #include <drm/drm_print.h>
> @@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ int i915_error_state_to_str(struct drm_i915_error_state_buf *m,
>
> if (*error->error_msg)
> err_printf(m, "%s\n", error->error_msg);
> - err_printf(m, "Kernel: " UTS_RELEASE "\n");
> + err_printf(m, "Kernel: %s\n", init_utsname()->release);
> ts = ktime_to_timespec64(error->time);
> err_printf(m, "Time: %lld s %ld us\n",
> (s64)ts.tv_sec, ts.tv_nsec / NSEC_PER_USEC);
> --
> 2.17.1
>