[PATCH v2] drm: do not sleep on vblank while holding a mutex

[Ilija Hadzic]

On Sat, 29 Oct 2011, Daniel Vetter wrote:

>
> Ok, and here's why your locking (or any locking that drops the lock before
> calling schedule) won't work: [SNIP]
>

You just came full circle. Recall that in my v1 patch I went all the way 
to enqueuing the process in the wait queue before dropping the lock. That 
would have guaranteed that if there is a hangup, what last_vblank_wait 
says is the last is really the last. If there is no hang, then it doesn't 
matter because last_vlank_wait is constantly overwritten (and is indeed 
stale for N-1 processes). However, that was disliked in the review and I 
didn't want to argue.

So in the interest of making progress, it looks that you would be happy if 
this patch just dropped DRM_UNLOCKED and declared that we don't care about 
(potentially theoretical) critical section related to last_vblank_wait.

If that's the case, I'll cut a relatvely trivial patch that drops 
DRM_UNLOCKED from this system call to solve the problem that I pointed 
earlier in this thread and leave all the rest of the locking discussion 
for other patches.

Would that be fine by you ?

thanks,

Ilija