[PATCH] drm/scheduler: Remove entity->rq NULL check

[Christian König]

Crap, yeah indeed that needs to be protected by some lock.

Going to prepare a patch for that,
Christian.

Am 09.08.2018 um 21:49 schrieb Andrey Grodzovsky:
>
> Reviewed-by: Andrey Grodzovsky <andrey.grodzovsky at amd.com>
>
>
> But I still  have questions about entity->last_user (didn't notice 
> this before) -
>
> Looks to me there is a race condition with it's current usage, let's 
> say process A was preempted after doing 
> drm_sched_entity_flush->cmpxchg(...)
>
> now process B working on same entity (forked) is inside 
> drm_sched_entity_push_job, he writes his PID to entity->last_user and also
>
> executes drm_sched_rq_add_entity. Now process A runs again and execute 
> drm_sched_rq_remove_entity inadvertently causing process B removal
>
> from it's scheduler rq.
>
> Looks to me like instead we should lock together entity->last_user 
> accesses and adds/removals of entity to the rq.
>
> Andrey
>
>
> On 08/06/2018 10:18 AM, Nayan Deshmukh wrote:
>> I forgot about this since we started discussing possible scenarios of 
>> processes and threads.
>>
>> In any case, this check is redundant. Acked-by: Nayan Deshmukh 
>> <nayan26deshmukh at gmail.com <mailto:nayan26deshmukh at gmail.com>>
>>
>> Nayan
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 7:43 PM Christian König 
>> <ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Ping. Any objections to that?
>>
>>     Christian.
>>
>>     Am 03.08.2018 um 13:08 schrieb Christian König:
>>     > That is superflous now.
>>     >
>>     > Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com
>>     <mailto:christian.koenig at amd.com>>
>>     > ---
>>     >   drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/gpu_scheduler.c | 5 -----
>>     >   1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
>>     >
>>     > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/gpu_scheduler.c
>>     b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/gpu_scheduler.c
>>     > index 85908c7f913e..65078dd3c82c 100644
>>     > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/gpu_scheduler.c
>>     > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/gpu_scheduler.c
>>     > @@ -590,11 +590,6 @@ void drm_sched_entity_push_job(struct
>>     drm_sched_job *sched_job,
>>     >       if (first) {
>>     >               /* Add the entity to the run queue */
>>     >               spin_lock(&entity->rq_lock);
>>     > -             if (!entity->rq) {
>>     > -                     DRM_ERROR("Trying to push to a killed
>>     entity\n");
>>     > -  spin_unlock(&entity->rq_lock);
>>     > -                     return;
>>     > -             }
>>     >               drm_sched_rq_add_entity(entity->rq, entity);
>>     >               spin_unlock(&entity->rq_lock);
>>     >  drm_sched_wakeup(entity->rq->sched);
>>
>

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