Quoting Ashutosh Dixit (2020-04-03 02:01:20) > It is wrong to block the user thread in the next poll when OA data is > already available which could not fit in the user buffer provided in > the previous read. In several cases the exact user buffer size is not > known. Blocking user space in poll can lead to data loss when the > buffer size used is smaller than the available data. > > This change fixes this issue and allows user space to read all OA data > even when using a buffer size smaller than the available data using > multiple non-blocking reads rather than staying blocked in poll till > the next timer interrupt. > > v2: Fix ret value for blocking reads (Umesh) > v3: Mistake during patch send (Ashutosh) > v4: Remove -EAGAIN from comment (Umesh) > v5: Improve condition for clearing pollin and return (Lionel) > v6: Improve blocking read loop and other cleanups (Lionel) > v7: Added Cc stable > > Cc: Umesh Nerlige Ramappa <umesh.nerlige.rama...@intel.com> > Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org> > Reviewed-by: Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwer...@intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.di...@intel.com>
Did you manage to devise a test case? It is nice (some might say important) to pair a patch for stable with its regression test. -Chris _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
