On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 04:31:46PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > From: Alex Deucher <[email protected]>
> > 
> > commit 5887a59961e2295c5b02f39dbc0ecf9212709b7b upstream.
> > 
> > Not necessary on soc15 and breaks driver reload on server cards.
> 
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/soc15.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/soc15.c
> > @@ -495,6 +495,11 @@ int soc15_set_ip_blocks(struct amdgpu_de
> >             return -EINVAL;
> >     }
> >  
> > +   /* Just return false for soc15 GPUs.  Reset does not seem to
> > +    * be necessary.
> > +    */
> > +   return false;
> > +
> >     if (adev->flags & AMD_IS_APU)
> >             adev->nbio_funcs = &nbio_v7_0_funcs;
> >     else if (adev->asic_type == CHIP_VEGA20)
> 
> Something is seriously wrong here.
> 
> Upstream commit goes to soc15_need_reset_on_init() and creates dead
> variable and quite a bit of dead code. Is that intended?
> 
> But this stable version... goes to different function, and returns
> false in function returning 0/-EINVAL, simulating success. New place
> does not seem right; it seems like patch misplaced it.

Ah, good catch!  This happened in the 4.14.y tree, so I had to drop the
patch from there, for some reason I missed checking the 4.19.y backport
(I had validated that 5.1.y got it right.)

Now dropped from the queue, thanks!

greg k-h

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