[PATCH] drm: Wake up next in drm_read() chain if we are forced to putback the event

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Fri Aug 4 08:23:28 UTC 2017


After an event is sent, we try to copy it into the user buffer of the
first waiter in drm_read() and if the user buffer doesn't have enough
room we put it back onto the list. However, we didn't wake up any
subsequent waiter, so that event may sit on the list until either a new
vblank event is sent or a new waiter appears. Rare, but in the worst
case may lead to a stuck process.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c
index 59b75a974357..7e6db9f7a058 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c
@@ -524,6 +524,7 @@ ssize_t drm_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buffer,
 				file_priv->event_space -= length;
 				list_add(&e->link, &file_priv->event_list);
 				spin_unlock_irq(&dev->event_lock);
+				wake_up_interruptible(&file_priv->event_wait);
 				break;
 			}
 
-- 
2.13.3



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