[PATCH] drm/nouveau: Drop mutex_lock_nested for atomic

[Daniel Vetter]

Ben, did you have a chance to look at this?
-Daniel

On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 1:22 PM Maarten Lankhorst
<maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> Op 02-08-2020 om 20:18 schreef Daniel Vetter:
> > Purely conjecture, but I think the original locking inversion with the
> > legacy page flip code between flipping and ttm's bo move function
> > shoudn't exist anymore with atomic: With atomic the bo pinning and
> > actual modeset commit is completely separated in the code patsh.
> >
> > This annotation was originally added in
> >
> > commit 060810d7abaabcab282e062c595871d661561400
> > Author: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs at redhat.com>
> > Date:   Mon Jul 8 14:15:51 2013 +1000
> >
> >     drm/nouveau: fix locking issues in page flipping paths
> >
> > due to
> >
> > commit b580c9e2b7ba5030a795aa2fb73b796523d65a78
> > Author: Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst at gmail.com>
> > Date:   Thu Jun 27 13:48:18 2013 +0200
> >
> >     drm/nouveau: make flipping lockdep safe
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> > Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst at gmail.com>
> > Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs at redhat.com>
> > Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com>
> > Cc: nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org
> > ---
> > I might be totally wrong, so this definitely needs testing :-)
> >
> > Cheers, Daniel
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bo.c | 6 +++++-
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bo.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bo.c
> > index 7806278dce57..a7b2a9bb0ffe 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bo.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bo.c
> > @@ -776,7 +776,11 @@ nouveau_bo_move_m2mf(struct ttm_buffer_object *bo, int evict, bool intr,
> >                       return ret;
> >       }
> >
> > -     mutex_lock_nested(&cli->mutex, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
> > +     if (drm_drv_uses_atomic_modeset(drm->dev))
> > +             mutex_lock(&cli->mutex);
> > +     else
> > +             mutex_lock_nested(&cli->mutex, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
> > +
> >       ret = nouveau_fence_sync(nouveau_bo(bo), chan, true, intr);
> >       if (ret == 0) {
> >               ret = drm->ttm.move(chan, bo, &bo->mem, new_reg);
>
> Well if you're certain it works now. :)
>
> Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
>


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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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