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A force_wake_get failure means that the HW might not be awake for the access we're doing; this can lead to an immediate error or it can be a more subtle problem (e.g. a register read might return an incorrect value that is still valid, leading the driver to make a wrong choice instead of flagging an error). We avoid an error from the force_wake function because callers might handle or tolerate the error, but this only works if all callers are checking the error code. The majority already do, but a few are not. These are mainly falling into 3 categories, which are each handled differently: 1) error capture: in this case we want to continue the capture, but we log an info message in dmesg to notify the user that the capture might have incorrect data. 2) ioctl: in this case we return a -EIO error to userspace 3) unabortable actions: these are scenarios where we can't simply abort and retry and so it's better to just try it anyway because there is a chance the HW is awake even with the failure. In this case we throw a warning so we know there was a forcewake problem if something fails down the line. v2: use gt_WARN_ON where appropriate Signed-off-by: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com> Cc: Tejas Upadhyay <tejas.upadhyay@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Tejas Upadhyay <tejas.upadhyay@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20240318154924.3453513-1-daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com
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