On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Justin Forbes <jforbes(a)redhat.com> wrote:
This does indeed sound like a good plan, and would be much
appreciated.
We'd also need to land it in 4.7 too?
>> Hi Fedora kernel team,
>>
>> If you look at:
>>
>>
https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/problems/
>>
>> And look for skl_update_other_pipe_wm there, you will see
>> that it is completely dominating the problem report stats
>> (listed 4 times on the first page, 5 times on the second).
>>
>> As such I'm thinking about backporting the patches:
>>
http://www.spinics.net/lists/intel-gfx/msg95595.html
>>
>> To the Fedora 4.6 kernel.
>>
>> Some of the reported problems are only a WARN_ON triggering,
>> but there are also quite a few cases of actually wrong
>> watermark settings causing various real problems.
>>
>> These patches have been around for a long time, but they missed
>> the 4.6 merge window, and then also the 4.7 merge window, they
>> are in next now. But IMHO we should grab them now since the
>> problems they are causing are too big to wait for 4.8
>> hitting Fedora.
>>
>> So I would like to backport these to the 4.6 Fedora kernel
>> and have this completed before we start pushing 4.6 updated
>> to updates-testing. This way we can use the entire Fedora 4.6
>> testing phase to also test the backported fixes.
>>
>> Before I spend time on this, does this sound like a good
>> plan ? I've already discussed this within the graphics
>> team and the consensus there seems to be that this is a good
>> idea.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Hans
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