Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Make vblank evade warnings optional

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On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 7:46 PM, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05/07/2017 11:12 AM, ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Add a new Kconfig option to enable/disable the extra warnings
>> from the vblank evade code. For now we'll keep the warning
>> about an actually missed vblank always enabled as that can have
>> an actual user visible impact. But if we miss the deadline
>> othrwise there's no real need to bother the user with that.
>> We'll want these warnings enabled during development however
>> so that we can catch regressions.
>>
>> Based on the reports it looks like this is still very easy
>> to hit on SKL, so we have more work ahead of us to optimize
>> the crtiical section further.
>
> Shouldn't it just be a debug printk or something instead, so that normal
> people don't see it, but the folks that turn on debugging can get the
> info they need? Seems silly to add a kconfig option for this.

I guess we could keep it as debug for users, but we want to make this
a hard failure on our CI machines. Kconfig knob is the easiest to roll
out to all machines.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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