Re: drm: understanding the kernel warning during drm_vblank_cleanup()

From: Ville Syrjälä
Date: Thu Nov 29 2018 - 10:19:34 EST


On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 07:30:45PM +0500, Ahsan Hussain wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm new to DRM and trying to understand the warning in
> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vblank.c during drm_vblank_cleanup().
>
> WARN_ON(READ_ONCE(vblank->enabled) &&
>     drm_core_check_feature(dev, DRIVER_MODESET));
>
> Is the drm driver responsible for making sure that !(vblank->enabled) in
> the .unbind operation, or is this something related to userspace? What
> does the warning signify? Git history did not help here at all.

It signifies you haven't cleaned up things properly. Usually what
you would do is call drm_atomic_helper_shutdown() which will also
end up turnng vblank interrupts off, assuming you use
drm_vblank_on()/off() properly.

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Ville Syrjälä
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