[PATCH 1/3] drm/vmwgfx: Drop svga_lock

Roland Scheidegger sroland at vmware.com
Thu Jan 14 15:31:09 UTC 2021


Hi,

looking at it, seems alright. Not sure why the lock was supposedly
needed, maybe it was at some point (it seems like all usage of this lock
was introduced way back in 2015, commit 153b3d5b037ee).

For the series: Reviewed-by: Roland Scheidegger <sroland at vmware.com>

Roland

Am 12.01.21 um 09:49 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
> Hi Roland,
> 
> Hopefully you had a nice start into the new year! Ping for some
> review/testing on this series.
> 
> Thanks, Daniel
> 
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 5:29 PM Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> wrote:
>>
>> This isn't actually protecting anything becuase:
>> - when running, ttm_resource_manager->use_type is protected through
>>   vmw_private->reservation_semaphore against concurrent execbuf or
>>   well anything else that might evict or reserve buffers
>> - during suspend/resume there's nothing else running, hence
>>   vmw_pm_freeze and vmw_pm_restore do not need to take the same lock.
>> - this also holds for the SVGA_REG_ENABLE register write
>>
>> Hence it is safe to just remove that spinlock.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
>> Cc: VMware Graphics <linux-graphics-maintainer at vmware.com>
>> Cc: Roland Scheidegger <sroland at vmware.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c | 10 +---------
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.h |  1 -
>>  2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c
>> index 0008be02d31c..204f7a1830f0 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c
>> @@ -672,7 +672,6 @@ static int vmw_driver_load(struct drm_device *dev, unsigned long chipset)
>>         spin_lock_init(&dev_priv->hw_lock);
>>         spin_lock_init(&dev_priv->waiter_lock);
>>         spin_lock_init(&dev_priv->cap_lock);
>> -       spin_lock_init(&dev_priv->svga_lock);
>>         spin_lock_init(&dev_priv->cursor_lock);
>>
>>         for (i = vmw_res_context; i < vmw_res_max; ++i) {
>> @@ -1189,12 +1188,10 @@ static void __vmw_svga_enable(struct vmw_private *dev_priv)
>>  {
>>         struct ttm_resource_manager *man = ttm_manager_type(&dev_priv->bdev, TTM_PL_VRAM);
>>
>> -       spin_lock(&dev_priv->svga_lock);
>>         if (!ttm_resource_manager_used(man)) {
>>                 vmw_write(dev_priv, SVGA_REG_ENABLE, SVGA_REG_ENABLE);
>>                 ttm_resource_manager_set_used(man, true);
>>         }
>> -       spin_unlock(&dev_priv->svga_lock);
>>  }
>>
>>  /**
>> @@ -1220,14 +1217,12 @@ static void __vmw_svga_disable(struct vmw_private *dev_priv)
>>  {
>>         struct ttm_resource_manager *man = ttm_manager_type(&dev_priv->bdev, TTM_PL_VRAM);
>>
>> -       spin_lock(&dev_priv->svga_lock);
>>         if (ttm_resource_manager_used(man)) {
>>                 ttm_resource_manager_set_used(man, false);
>>                 vmw_write(dev_priv, SVGA_REG_ENABLE,
>>                           SVGA_REG_ENABLE_HIDE |
>>                           SVGA_REG_ENABLE_ENABLE);
>>         }
>> -       spin_unlock(&dev_priv->svga_lock);
>>  }
>>
>>  /**
>> @@ -1254,17 +1249,14 @@ void vmw_svga_disable(struct vmw_private *dev_priv)
>>          */
>>         vmw_kms_lost_device(dev_priv->dev);
>>         ttm_write_lock(&dev_priv->reservation_sem, false);
>> -       spin_lock(&dev_priv->svga_lock);
>>         if (ttm_resource_manager_used(man)) {
>>                 ttm_resource_manager_set_used(man, false);
>> -               spin_unlock(&dev_priv->svga_lock);
>>                 if (ttm_resource_manager_evict_all(&dev_priv->bdev, man))
>>                         DRM_ERROR("Failed evicting VRAM buffers.\n");
>>                 vmw_write(dev_priv, SVGA_REG_ENABLE,
>>                           SVGA_REG_ENABLE_HIDE |
>>                           SVGA_REG_ENABLE_ENABLE);
>> -       } else
>> -               spin_unlock(&dev_priv->svga_lock);
>> +       }
>>         ttm_write_unlock(&dev_priv->reservation_sem);
>>  }
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.h
>> index 5b9a28157dd3..715f2bfee08a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.h
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.h
>> @@ -596,7 +596,6 @@ struct vmw_private {
>>
>>         bool stealth;
>>         bool enable_fb;
>> -       spinlock_t svga_lock;
>>
>>         /**
>>          * PM management.
>> --
>> 2.29.2
>>
> 
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