[PATCH 03/17] drm: convert crtc and mode_config to ww_mutex

[Daniel Vetter]

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 07:56:50AM -0400, Rob Clark wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 4:23 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> > On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 07:16:43PM -0400, Rob Clark wrote:
> >> On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> >> > On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> @@ -8002,7 +8002,7 @@ bool intel_get_load_detect_pipe(struct drm_connector *connector,
> >> >>         if (encoder->crtc) {
> >> >>                 crtc = encoder->crtc;
> >> >>
> >> >> -               mutex_lock(&crtc->mutex);
> >> >> +               drm_modeset_lock(&crtc->mutex, NULL);
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > This is pretty much the reason why I think switching the
> >> > mode_config.mutex to a ww_mutex is a bad idea: This call here nests
> >> > within the mode_config.mutex and so must be acquired. Wiring the
> >> > acquire context through everything is going to be fairly horrible,
> >> > especially since you must be able to bail out when trying to lock with
> >> > an axquire context.
> >>
> >> which is the call-path to here from mode_config.mutex?  Is it possible
> >> to just move the locking to a higher level for a
> >> drm_modeset_lock_all()?
> >
> > Connector probing. And the entire point of crtc locks was to _not_ block
> > all screen updates while we poke for a new edid or do load balancing. If
> > you want to test this you need a gen3/4 with tv-out (native, not through
> > sdvo) or a gen2 or i915g/gm with vga.
> 
> 
> hmm, I guess I'm still not quite seeing the issue.  For non-atomic
> paths, we are grabbing mode_config and/or crtc mutex as bare mutexes
> in same spots as we did before.  So if it worked before without
> nested_lock stuff it should still work now.

Thread A is doing output probing.

				Thread B is doing atomic modeset

Grabs mode_config.mutex

				Grabs crtc_A->ww_mutex

Tries to grab crtc_A->ww_mutex,
blocks since normal ww_mutex_lock

				Tries to grab mode_config.mutex with ww
				acuiquire context, blocks since current
				holder hasn't acquired the mutex with a ww
				ticket

-> Deadlock.

You really can't mix lock nesting with w/w and lock nesting with a static
hierarchy. It's all or nothing.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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