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> From: Lyude Paul <ly...@redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2022 5:55 AM
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/amdgpu/mst: Stop ignoring error codes and
> deadlocking
>
> On Wed, 2022-11-09 at 09:48 +0000, Lin, Wayne wrote:
> > > }
> > > - if (!drm_dp_mst_atomic_check(state) && !debugfs_overwrite) {
> > > + ret = drm_dp_mst_atomic_check(state);
> > > + if (ret == 0 && !debugfs_overwrite) {
> > > set_dsc_configs_from_fairness_vars(params, vars, count,
> > > k);
> > > - return true;
> > > + return 0;
> > > + } else if (ret == -EDEADLK) {
> > > + return ret;
> >
> > I think we should return here whenever there is an error. Not just for
> > EDEADLK case.
>
> Are we sure about this one? I think we may actually want to make this so it
> returns on ret != -ENOSPC, since we want the function to continue if there's
> no space in the atomic state available so it can try recomputing things with
> compression enabled. On ret == 0 it should return early without doing
> compression, and on ret == -ENOSPC it should just continue the function
> from there
>
Oh, right.. Thanks for saving me from causing disaster : )
> --
> Cheers,
> Lyude Paul (she/her)
> Software Engineer at Red Hat
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Regards,
Wayne
