There's plenty of ways to fudge the GPU when developing on nouveau by
mistake, some of which can result in nouveau seriously spamming dmesg with
fault errors. This can be somewhat annoying, as it can quickly overrun the
message buffer (or your terminal emulator's buffer) and get rid of actually
useful feedback from the driver. While working on my new atomic only MST
branch, I ran into this issue a couple of times.
So, let's fix this by adding nvkm_error_ratelimited(), and using it to
ratelimit errors from faults. This should be fine for developers, since
it's nearly always only the first few faults that we care about seeing.
Plus, you can turn off rate limiting in the kernel if you really need to.
Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Karol Herbst <kherbst@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220429195350.85620-1-lyude@redhat.com
The namespace of NVKM is being changed to nvkm_ instead of nouveau_,
which will be used for the DRM part of the driver. This is being
done in order to make it very clear as to what part of the driver a
given symbol belongs to, and as a minor step towards splitting the
DRM driver out to be able to stand on its own (for virt).
Because there's already a large amount of churn here anyway, this is
as good a time as any to also switch to NVIDIA's device and chipset
naming to ease collaboration with them.
A comparison of objdump disassemblies proves no code changes.
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
