[PATCH 2/2] drm/i915: drpc debugfs update for gen6

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On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 20:58, Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net> wrote:

> Many of the old fields from Ironlake have gone away. Strip all those
> fields, and try to update to fields people care about. RC information
> isn't exactly ideal anymore. All we can guarantee when we read the
> register is that we're not using forcewake, ie. the software isn't
> forcing the hardware to stay awake. The downside is that in doing this
> we may wait a while and that causes an unnaturally idle state on the
> GPU.
>
> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42578
> Cc: Eugeni Dodonov <eugeni.dodonov at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net>
>

For both patches:
Reviewed-by: Eugeni Dodonov <eugeni.dodonov at intel.com>

Just one comment below.


> +       if (count == 50)
> +               DRM_INFO("Couldn't get accurate RC information\n");
>

Maybe we should seq_printf() this as well? Like, for example:

seq_printf(m, "RC information accurate: %s\n", yesno(count != 50));

So the userspace consulting this file would know if it should rely on the
values or retry the read..

Just an idea.

-- 
Eugeni Dodonov
 <http://eugeni.dodonov.net/>
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