Re: drm/i915: undefined STOP_MACHINE

[Chris Wilson]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 08:26:35AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 08:27:23AM +0200, Valentin Rothberg wrote:
> > Dear Chris,
> > 
> > your commit 9f267eb8d2ea ("drm/i915: Stop the machine whilst capturing
> > the GPU crash dump") has popped up in today's linux-next and adds a
> > select from DRM_I915 on STOP_MACHINE, which is not defined anywhere in
> > Kconfig.
> > 
> > STOP_MACHINE has been removed a while ago (see
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/19/133).  I assume that HOTPLUG_CPU
> > could be used?
> 
> No. We don't need the select anymore as the core machinery now just
> works without having to force compilation of the correct code.

I completely forgot that we already had serialised with the STOP_MACHINE
removal and had accidentally reintroduce the select in commit
9f267eb8d2ea ("drm/i915: Stop the machine whilst capturing the GPU
crash dump")

Thanks,
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre