[PATCH 04/17] drm/amdkfd: Fix scheduler race in kfd_wait_on_events sleep loop

Felix Kuehling Felix.Kuehling at amd.com
Fri Oct 27 23:35:21 UTC 2017


From: Sean Keely <sean.keely at amd.com>

Signed-off-by: Sean Keely <sean.keely at amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling at amd.com>
Acked-by: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_events.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_events.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_events.c
index f3d88c8..1efd6a8 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_events.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_events.c
@@ -806,6 +806,17 @@ int kfd_wait_on_events(struct kfd_process *p,
 			break;
 		}
 
+		/* Set task state to interruptible sleep before
+		 * checking wake-up conditions. A concurrent wake-up
+		 * will put the task back into runnable state. In that
+		 * case schedule_timeout will not put the task to
+		 * sleep and we'll get a chance to re-check the
+		 * updated conditions almost immediately. Otherwise,
+		 * this race condition would lead to a soft hang or a
+		 * very long sleep.
+		 */
+		set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+
 		if (test_event_condition(all, num_events, event_waiters)) {
 			if (copy_signaled_event_data(num_events,
 					event_waiters, events))
@@ -820,7 +831,7 @@ int kfd_wait_on_events(struct kfd_process *p,
 			break;
 		}
 
-		timeout = schedule_timeout_interruptible(timeout);
+		timeout = schedule_timeout(timeout);
 	}
 	__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
 
-- 
2.7.4



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