Re: [PATCH 11/14] drm/i915: Drop the shadow ring state from the error capture

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Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Quoting Mika Kuoppala (2020-01-09 09:04:31)
>> Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>> > The shadow ring regs (ring->head, ring->tail) are meaningless in the
>> > post-mortem dump as they do not related to anything on HW. Remove them
>> > from the coredump.
>> 
>> We have been dumping these just to check that our bookkeepping matches?
>
> Kind off, but they never really match since the ring->head is very lazy,
> and ring->tail is wherever the user got up to. We have the relevant
> information from the request where we expect to be in the ring for the
> error, and the HW tells us where it was executing.
> -Chris

Ok, based on that and that  don't remember a single case where,
from external reports, these would have provided anything of value.

Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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