On 11/04/2015 11:10 AM, Paulo Zanoni wrote:
> From our maintainer Daniel Vetter a few days ago:
> "Oh dear this is dead code. kdbg uses the fbcon, which always uses
> untiled, which means fbc will never be enabled. Also we have 0 users
> and 0 test coverage for kdbg on top of i915 (Jesse implemented it
> for fun years back). Imo just remove all this code."
>
> Adding to what Daniel said: for kgdboc's KMS support,
> intel_pipe_set_base_atomic() already manually disables FBC, so we
> won't do the in_dbg_master() check there. This is essentially a revert
> of:
>
> commit c924b934d0cd14a4559611da91f28f59acebe32a
> Author: Jason Wessel <jason.wes...@windriver.com>
> Date: Thu Aug 5 09:22:32 2010 -0500
> i915: when kgdb is active display compression should be off
>
> Besides, it is not clear what is the exact problem caused by FBC, and
> why other features such as PSR, DRRS, IPS and RPM are not also
> checking for in_dbg_master(). IMHO we should either remove the code as
> suggested by Daniel or we add some nice comments explaining why is FBC
> so special.
>
> v2: Rebase due to new patch order.
>
> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wes...@windriver.com>
> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbar...@virtuousgeek.org>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@ffwll.ch>
> Signed-off-by: Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zan...@intel.com>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbc.c | 6 ------
> 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbc.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbc.c
> index 8e806be..e496cb0 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbc.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbc.c
> @@ -890,12 +890,6 @@ static void __intel_fbc_update(struct drm_i915_private
> *dev_priv)
> goto out_disable;
> }
>
> - /* If the kernel debugger is active, always disable compression */
> - if (in_dbg_master()) {
> - set_no_fbc_reason(dev_priv, "Kernel debugger is active");
> - goto out_disable;
> - }
> -
> /* WaFbcExceedCdClockThreshold:hsw,bdw */
> if ((IS_HASWELL(dev_priv) || IS_BROADWELL(dev_priv)) &&
> ilk_pipe_pixel_rate(crtc->config) >=
>
Yeah looks fine. I haven't had any bug reports from the kdboc work, so
I guess that means no one is using it. :)
Reviewed-by: Jesse Barnes <jbar...@virtuousgeek.org>
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