A hard lock-up is always an unpleasant event, but it can be less
unpleasant if any unrelated pending I/O is finished first. Make
‘radeontool regmatch '*'’ a little safer by calling sync().
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com>
---
This gave me some comfort. Overkill?
radeontool.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/radeontool.c b/radeontool.c
index e715a18..2c5c4ca 100644
--- a/radeontool.c
+++ b/radeontool.c
@@ -732,6 +732,9 @@ void radeon_reg_match(const char *pattern)
printf("%s\t0x%08x (%d)\n", pattern, value, value);
}
else {
+ /* Prepare for a crash (just in case). */
+ sync();
+
for (i = 0; i < sizeof(reg_list) / sizeof(reg_list[0]); i++) {
if (fnmatch(pattern, reg_list[i].name, 0) == 0) {
printf("%s (%s%04x)\t", reg_list[i].name,
--
1.7.0.3
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