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    drm/i915: rip out the PM_IIR WARN · 58bf8062
    Daniel Vetter authored
    After banging my head against this for the past few months, I still
    don't see how this could possible race under the premise that once an
    irq bit is masked in PM_IMR and reset in PM_IIR it won't show up again
    until we unmask it in PM_IMR.
    
    Still, we have reports of this being seen in the wild. Now Bspec has
    this little bit of lovely language in the PMIIR register:
    
    Public SNB Docs, Vol3Part2, 2.5.14 "PMIIR":
    
    "For each bit, the IIR can store a second pending interrupt if two or
    more of the same interrupt conditions occur before the first condition
    is cleared. Upon clearing the interrupt, the IIR bit will momentarily
    go low, then return high to indicate there is another interrupt
    pending."
    
    Now if we presume that PMIMR only prevent new interrupts from being
    queued, we could easily end up masking an interrupt and clearing it,
    but the 2nd pending interrupt setting the bit in PMIIR right away
    again. Which leads, the next time the irq handler runs, to hitting the
    WARN.
    
    Also, no bad side effects of this have ever been reported. And we've
    tracked down our issues with the gpu turbo getting stuck to bogus
    interrupt generation limits in th RPLIMIT register.
    
    So let's just rip out this WARN as bogus and call it a day. The only
    shallow thing here is that this 2-deep irq queue in the hw makes you
    wonder how racy the windows irq handler is ...
    
    Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42907
    
    
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Acked-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
    Signed-Off-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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