RE: [PATCH] video: hyperv: hyperv_fb: refresh the VM screen by force on VM panic

2014-06-26 Thread Dexuan Cui
> > >> MS-TFS: 157532 > > > > > What is this line for? > > > > Hi Greg, > > This line is for our internal bug repository. > > We have an automated system to correlate bugs with fixes so that our test > > team knows when a bug fix has been accepted upstream and they need to > > write a new test

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2014-06-26 Thread Victor Miasnikov
Hi! Short: 1) greg k-h> don't add marker lines like this that provide no relevancy to anyone else. "no relevancy to anyone else" -- strange: it "has relevance for Hyper-V sysadmins" For search by keywords in web archives of this mail list 1b) greg k-h> If you want to refer to a public bug

search by phrase a-la MS-TFS: 157532 -- has relevance for Hyper-V sysadmins Re: [PATCH] video: hyperv: hyperv_fb: refresh the VM screen by force on VM panic

2014-06-26 Thread Victor Miasnikov
Hi! Short: 1) greg k-h don't add marker lines like this that provide no relevancy to anyone else. no relevancy to anyone else -- strange: it has relevance for Hyper-V sysadmins For search by keywords in web archives of this mail list 1b) greg k-h If you want to refer to a public bug

RE: [PATCH] video: hyperv: hyperv_fb: refresh the VM screen by force on VM panic

2014-06-26 Thread Dexuan Cui
MS-TFS: 157532 What is this line for? Hi Greg, This line is for our internal bug repository. We have an automated system to correlate bugs with fixes so that our test team knows when a bug fix has been accepted upstream and they need to write a new test case for it. The

Re: [PATCH] video: hyperv: hyperv_fb: refresh the VM screen by force on VM panic

2014-06-25 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 09:44:14PM +, Dexuan Cui wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 08:29:17AM +0800, Dexuan Cui wrote: > >> Currently the VSC has no chance to notify the VSP of the dirty rectangle > >> on VM > >> panic because the notification work is done in a workqueue, and in panic() > >>

Re: [PATCH] video: hyperv: hyperv_fb: refresh the VM screen by force on VM panic

2014-06-25 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 09:44:14PM +, Dexuan Cui wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 08:29:17AM +0800, Dexuan Cui wrote: Currently the VSC has no chance to notify the VSP of the dirty rectangle on VM panic because the notification work is done in a workqueue, and in panic() the kernel

RE: [PATCH] video: hyperv: hyperv_fb: refresh the VM screen by force on VM panic

2014-06-24 Thread Dexuan Cui
>On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 08:29:17AM +0800, Dexuan Cui wrote: >> Currently the VSC has no chance to notify the VSP of the dirty rectangle on >> VM >> panic because the notification work is done in a workqueue, and in panic() >> the >> kernel typically ends up in an infinite loop, and a typical

Re: [PATCH] video: hyperv: hyperv_fb: refresh the VM screen by force on VM panic

2014-06-24 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 08:29:17AM +0800, Dexuan Cui wrote: > Currently the VSC has no chance to notify the VSP of the dirty rectangle on VM > panic because the notification work is done in a workqueue, and in panic() the > kernel typically ends up in an infinite loop, and a typical kernel config

Re: [PATCH] video: hyperv: hyperv_fb: refresh the VM screen by force on VM panic

2014-06-24 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 08:29:17AM +0800, Dexuan Cui wrote: Currently the VSC has no chance to notify the VSP of the dirty rectangle on VM panic because the notification work is done in a workqueue, and in panic() the kernel typically ends up in an infinite loop, and a typical kernel config has

RE: [PATCH] video: hyperv: hyperv_fb: refresh the VM screen by force on VM panic

2014-06-24 Thread Dexuan Cui
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 08:29:17AM +0800, Dexuan Cui wrote: Currently the VSC has no chance to notify the VSP of the dirty rectangle on VM panic because the notification work is done in a workqueue, and in panic() the kernel typically ends up in an infinite loop, and a typical kernel config