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

[deliverable/linux.git] / drivers / gpu / drm / i915 / i915_gpu_error.c

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.c
index 915c8ca089693f0ee9846d026002160623f0ca49..5dde8102647122cbea30fb27e681bbe9a6317e29 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.c
+++ b/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);