[PATCH 1/1] drm/amdkfd: Don't take process mutex for svm ioctls

[Chen, Guchun]

[Public]

To simply code lines, I guess we can drop variable 'r'. And use 'return svm_ioctl(p, args->op.... ' directly.

Regards,
Guchun

-----Original Message-----
From: amd-gfx <amd-gfx-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org> On Behalf Of Philip Yang
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 2:04 AM
To: amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: Yang, Philip <Philip.Yang at amd.com>; Kuehling, Felix <Felix.Kuehling at amd.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] drm/amdkfd: Don't take process mutex for svm ioctls

SVM ioctls take proper svms->lock to handle race conditions, don't need take process mutex to serialize ioctls. This also fixes circular locking
warning:

WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected

  Possible unsafe locking scenario:

        CPU0                    CPU1
        ----                    ----
   lock((work_completion)(&svms->deferred_list_work));
                                lock(&process->mutex);
                     lock((work_completion)(&svms->deferred_list_work));
   lock(&process->mutex);

   *** DEADLOCK ***

Signed-off-by: Philip Yang <Philip.Yang at amd.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_chardev.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_chardev.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_chardev.c
index 337953af7c2f..70122978bdd0 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_chardev.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_chardev.c
@@ -1846,13 +1846,9 @@ static int kfd_ioctl_svm(struct file *filep, struct kfd_process *p, void *data)
 	if (!args->start_addr || !args->size)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	mutex_lock(&p->mutex);
-
 	r = svm_ioctl(p, args->op, args->start_addr, args->size, args->nattr,
 		      args->attrs);
 
-	mutex_unlock(&p->mutex);
-
 	return r;
 }
 #else
--
2.17.1