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) >= -- 2.6.1 _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx