Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm/i915: Soften error messages in i915_gem_object_create_from_data()

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On 28/07/15 17:34, Chris Wilson wrote:
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 05:29:09PM +0100, Dave Gordon wrote:
On 28/07/15 14:27, Chris Wilson wrote:
Since we already return -EFAULT to the user, emitting an error message
*and* WARN is overkill. If the caller is upset, they can do so, but for
the purposes of debugging we need only log the erroneous values.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc:: Alex Dai <yu.dai@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Gordon <david.s.gordon@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tom O'Rourke <Tom.O'Rourke@xxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 4 ++--
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
index c1ded76a6eb4..2039798f4403 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -5243,8 +5243,8 @@ i915_gem_object_create_from_data(struct drm_device *dev,

  	i915_gem_object_unpin_pages(obj);

-	if (WARN_ON(bytes != size)) {
-		DRM_ERROR("Incomplete copy, wrote %zu of %zu", bytes, size);
+	if (bytes != size) {
+		DRM_DEBUG_GEM("Incomplete copy, wrote %zu of %zu", bytes, size);
  		ret = -EFAULT;
  		goto fail;
  	}

I agree the WARN_ON() is overkill, but I think maybe the DRM_ERROR()
is useful. The (one current) caller will report an error, but at
that level it's just:

         DRM_ERROR("Failed to fetch GuC firmware from %s\n", ...)

with no more detail as to whether that was due to file-not-found,
bad-file-size, out-of-memory, failed-to-get-pages, or any of the
other errors that might arise.

At present this code is only called once, and I think this copy
failure "shouldn't ever happen", so it won't be filling the logfile.
But emitting the error here for the truly unexpected case (as
opposed to the commonplace "out-of-memory" and suchlike) helps
current and future callers avoid doing the detailed failure
analysis.

The message is still there though, it's just a debug message for the
developer. And all it could mean is that the caller passed in a bad
value for the size.
-Chris

I'm not sure you could trigger it with a bad size. The copy-target has just been allocated (in this function) and so is known to be the right size. If the size specified is larger than the data source buffer, the copy will likely have OOPSed anyway - or just continued with whatever happens to be next in memory.

So AFAICT the bytes vs. size mismatch can only happen if something is broken in the GEM (or SG-list) framework, hence worth announcing. If you reload the driver with debug enabled, it probably won't happen again (and you would have to reload, not just change the debug level, because at present this is only called during driver load).

If not an actual ERROR, then maybe a NOTICE is the right level:

    DRM_NOTICE_IF(bytes != size,
        "Incomplete copy, wrote %zu of %zu", bytes, size);

so the the support engineer who sees the "failed to fetch" message in the log at least gets some hint about what particular weirdness has occurred on this occasion. (Other cases are easier: missing firmware file is obvious, wrong version gets a specific ERROR in the log; and these errors would be persistent. But a copy-fail would be a puzzle.)

.Dave.

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