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Apparently pre-nv50 pageflip events happen before the actual vblank
period. Therefore that functionality got semi-disabled in

commit af4870e4
Author: Mario Kleiner <mario.kleiner.de@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue May 13 00:42:08 2014 +0200

    drm/nouveau/kms/nv04-nv40: fix pageflip events via special case.

Unfortunately that hack got uprooted in

commit cc1ef118
Author: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
Date:   Wed Aug 12 17:00:31 2015 +0200

    drm/irq: Make pipe unsigned and name consistent

Triggering a warning when trying to sample the vblank timestamp for a
non-existing pipe. There's a few ways to fix this:

- Open-code the old behaviour, which just enshrines this slight
  breakage of the userspace ABI.

- Revert Mario's commit and again inflict broken timestamps, again not
  pretty.

- Fix this for real by delaying the pageflip TS until the next vblank
  interrupt, thereby making it accurate...