Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH v3 1/3] drm/i915: pass a pointer for tlb seqno at vma_invalidate_tlb()

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 00:15:14 +0000
"Vivi, Rodrigo" <rodrigo.vivi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2022-08-09 at 01:09 +0200, Andi Shyti wrote:
> > Hi Rodrigo,
> > 
> > On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 03:04:13PM -0400, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 06:37:58PM +0200, Andi Shyti wrote:
> > > > Hi Mauro,
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, Aug 04, 2022 at 09:37:22AM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > WRITE_ONCE() should happen at the original var, not on a local
> > > > > copy of it.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Fixes: 5d36acb7198b ("drm/i915/gt: Batch TLB invalidations")
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > 
> > > > Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Thanks and pushed...
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > > > 
> > > > Are you going to send it to the stable mailing list?
> > > 
> > > I added cc stable while pushing and the cherry-pick to drm-intel-
> > > next-fixes
> > > has the right sha, so I'd assume this would be automagically now.
> > > But yeap, it would be good if Mauro can follow up whenever this
> > > gets
> > > to Linus tree and Greg's script start to pop up the heads-up
> > > messages.
> > 
> > That's what I meant... does Mauro now need to send the e-mail
> > again for the stable?
> > 
> > I thought there was some suspicion towards e-mails pushed without
> > being first sent to both stable and upstream mailing lists
> > because they can get lost or forgotten... maybe I'm wrong.
> 
> It doesn't help to send now to stable ml because it can only be merged
> there after it reaches the Linus' master tree.
> Right now with the right fixes and cc:stable it should be automatically
> and he shouldn't worry.
> But in case he notices that the first patch got in but the second
> didn't then it is when we send the patch directly to the stable ml.

I sent a heads-up to Greg to warn him about the issue. I'll keep my eyes
on the -stable automatic e-mails to double-check that they'll both be
merged altogether.

Thanks!
Mauro

> 
> 
> > 
> > Andi
> > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Rodrigo.
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Andi
>