drm/i915: Taint (TAINT_WARN) the kernel if the GPU reset fails
History tells us that if we cannot reset the GPU now, we never will. This then impacts everything that is run subsequently. On failing the reset, we mark the driver as wedged, trying to prevent further execution on the GPU, forcing userspace to fallback to using the CPU to update its framebuffers and let the user know what happened. We also want to go one step further and add a taint to the kernel so that any subsequent faults can be traced back to this failure. This is useful for CI, where if the GPU/driver fails we want to reboot and restart testing rather than continue on into oblivion. For everyone else, the warning taint is a testament to the system unreliability. TAINT_WARN is used anytime a WARN() is emitted, which is suitable for our purposes here as well; the driver/system may behave unexpectedly after the failure. v2: Also taint if the recovery fails (again history shows us that is typically fatal). v3: Use TAINT_WARN References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103514Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Tomi Sarvela <tomi.p.sarvela@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171205172757.32609-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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