[PATCH 1/2] drm/dp: move hw_mutex up the call stack

Rob Clark robdclark at gmail.com
Thu Feb 25 21:15:05 UTC 2016


1) don't let other threads trying to bang on aux channel interrupt the
defer timeout/logic
2) don't let other threads interrupt the i2c over aux logic

Technically, according to people who actually have the DP spec, this
should not be required.  In practice, it makes some troublesome Dell
monitor (and perhaps others) work, so probably a case of "It's compliant
if it works with windows" on the hw vendor's part..

v2: rebased to come before DPCD/AUX logging patch for easier backport
to stable branches.

Reported-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha at redhat.com>
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274157
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_helper.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_helper.c
index 7d58f59..df64ed1 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_helper.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_helper.c
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ static int drm_dp_dpcd_access(struct drm_dp_aux *aux, u8 request,
 {
 	struct drm_dp_aux_msg msg;
 	unsigned int retry;
-	int err;
+	int err = 0;
 
 	memset(&msg, 0, sizeof(msg));
 	msg.address = offset;
@@ -187,6 +187,8 @@ static int drm_dp_dpcd_access(struct drm_dp_aux *aux, u8 request,
 	msg.buffer = buffer;
 	msg.size = size;
 
+	mutex_lock(&aux->hw_mutex);
+
 	/*
 	 * The specification doesn't give any recommendation on how often to
 	 * retry native transactions. We used to retry 7 times like for
@@ -195,25 +197,24 @@ static int drm_dp_dpcd_access(struct drm_dp_aux *aux, u8 request,
 	 */
 	for (retry = 0; retry < 32; retry++) {
 
-		mutex_lock(&aux->hw_mutex);
 		err = aux->transfer(aux, &msg);
-		mutex_unlock(&aux->hw_mutex);
 		if (err < 0) {
 			if (err == -EBUSY)
 				continue;
 
-			return err;
+			goto unlock;
 		}
 
 
 		switch (msg.reply & DP_AUX_NATIVE_REPLY_MASK) {
 		case DP_AUX_NATIVE_REPLY_ACK:
 			if (err < size)
-				return -EPROTO;
-			return err;
+				err = -EPROTO;
+			goto unlock;
 
 		case DP_AUX_NATIVE_REPLY_NACK:
-			return -EIO;
+			err = -EIO;
+			goto unlock;
 
 		case DP_AUX_NATIVE_REPLY_DEFER:
 			usleep_range(AUX_RETRY_INTERVAL, AUX_RETRY_INTERVAL + 100);
@@ -222,7 +223,11 @@ static int drm_dp_dpcd_access(struct drm_dp_aux *aux, u8 request,
 	}
 
 	DRM_DEBUG_KMS("too many retries, giving up\n");
-	return -EIO;
+	err = -EIO;
+
+unlock:
+	mutex_unlock(&aux->hw_mutex);
+	return err;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -544,9 +549,7 @@ static int drm_dp_i2c_do_msg(struct drm_dp_aux *aux, struct drm_dp_aux_msg *msg)
 	int max_retries = max(7, drm_dp_i2c_retry_count(msg, dp_aux_i2c_speed_khz));
 
 	for (retry = 0, defer_i2c = 0; retry < (max_retries + defer_i2c); retry++) {
-		mutex_lock(&aux->hw_mutex);
 		ret = aux->transfer(aux, msg);
-		mutex_unlock(&aux->hw_mutex);
 		if (ret < 0) {
 			if (ret == -EBUSY)
 				continue;
@@ -685,6 +688,8 @@ static int drm_dp_i2c_xfer(struct i2c_adapter *adapter, struct i2c_msg *msgs,
 
 	memset(&msg, 0, sizeof(msg));
 
+	mutex_lock(&aux->hw_mutex);
+
 	for (i = 0; i < num; i++) {
 		msg.address = msgs[i].addr;
 		drm_dp_i2c_msg_set_request(&msg, &msgs[i]);
@@ -739,6 +744,8 @@ static int drm_dp_i2c_xfer(struct i2c_adapter *adapter, struct i2c_msg *msgs,
 	msg.size = 0;
 	(void)drm_dp_i2c_do_msg(aux, &msg);
 
+	mutex_unlock(&aux->hw_mutex);
+
 	return err;
 }
 
-- 
2.5.0



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