[PATCH -fixes 1/2] drm/ttm: Fix a theoretical race

Thomas Hellstrom thellstrom at vmware.com
Mon Oct 22 05:51:25 PDT 2012


The ttm_mem_evict_first function could theoretically drop the
lru lock without retrying if a reservation from off the LRU list
ended up waiting.
However, since currently there are no users that could cause a wait
in that situation so this is not suitable for stable

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c
index 402ab69..d42631c 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c
@@ -817,11 +817,11 @@ retry:
 		goto retry;
 	}
 
-	ret = ttm_bo_reserve_locked(bo, false, no_wait_reserve, false, 0);
+	ret = ttm_bo_reserve_locked(bo, false, true, false, 0);
 
 	if (unlikely(ret == -EBUSY)) {
 		spin_unlock(&glob->lru_lock);
-		if (likely(!no_wait_gpu))
+		if (likely(!no_wait_reserve))
 			ret = ttm_bo_wait_unreserved(bo, interruptible);
 
 		kref_put(&bo->list_kref, ttm_bo_release_list);
-- 
1.7.4.4



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