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drm/i915: Educate users in dmesg about reporting gpu hangs

Untangling me-too reports that actually aren't is really messy. And we
need to make sure the blame is put where it should be right from the
start ;-)

v2: Improve the wording from Ben's suggestions.

Cc: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
Acked-by: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
[danvet: Frob the message as suggested by Paulo on irc.]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Daniel Vetter 11 years ago
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1 changed files with 6 additions and 2 deletions
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      drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.c

+ 6 - 2
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.c

@@ -910,8 +910,12 @@ void i915_capture_error_state(struct drm_device *dev)
 		return;
 	}
 
-	DRM_INFO("capturing error event; look for more information in "
-		 "/sys/class/drm/card%d/error\n", dev->primary->index);
+	DRM_INFO("GPU crash dump saved to /sys/class/drm/card%d/error\n",
+		 dev->primary->index);
+	DRM_INFO("GPU hangs can indicate a bug anywhere in the entire gfx stack, including userspace.\n");
+	DRM_INFO("Please file a _new_ bug report on bugs.freedesktop.org against DRI -> DRM/Intel\n");
+	DRM_INFO("drm/i915 developers can then reassign to the right component if it's not a kernel issue.\n");
+	DRM_INFO("The gpu crash dump is required to analyze gpu hangs, so please always attach it.\n");
 
 	kref_init(&error->ref);
 	error->eir = I915_READ(EIR);