Re: [RFC PATCH] drm/i915: Suppress page allocation warnings on engine park

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Quoting Janusz Krzysztofik (2020-04-02 11:36:21)
> On Thu, 2020-04-02 at 11:32 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Quoting Janusz Krzysztofik (2020-04-02 11:28:03)
> > > On Thu, 2020-04-02 at 11:21 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > > Quoting Janusz Krzysztofik (2020-04-02 11:19:06)
> > > > > On memory constrained systems it may happen that no pages are available
> > > > > for serving object creation attempt during engine park.  Since we can
> > > > > and we do ignore that failure, let's suppress possible warnings from
> > > > > page allocator to avoid confusion and make CI happy.
> > > > 
> > > > The effect of ignoring it though is dangerous, hence why I had a
> > > > warning.
> > > 
> > > Then maybe just WARN() from switch_to_kernel_context() on
> > > __i915_request_create() returning -ENOMEM instead?
> > 
> > The warning exists already. The only real question is what to do about
> > it; the best answer would be to preallocate the final request during
> > unpark where we can report an error, but that would take a bit more
> > effort to refactor request allocation. Hence the warning to make it a
> > futureselves problem.
> 
> I meant a warning with a very specific message that could be filtered
> easily by CI for now.

It has a very specific stacktrace, and I hope by filtered you mean
identified and reported as an issue, possibly with multiple causes since
this is an indication that reclaim is snafu.
-Chris
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