[RFC] drm/scheduler: Unwrap job dependencies

[Christian König]

Am 04.12.23 um 22:54 schrieb Rob Clark:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 2:30 PM Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>> [SNIP]
> So, this patch turns out to blow up spectacularly with dma_fence
> refcnt underflows when I enable DRIVER_SYNCOBJ_TIMELINE .. I think,
> because it starts unwrapping fence chains, possibly in parallel with
> fence signaling on the retire path.  Is it supposed to be permissible
> to unwrap a fence chain concurrently?

The DMA-fence chain object and helper functions were designed so that 
concurrent accesses to all elements are always possible.

See dma_fence_chain_walk() and dma_fence_chain_get_prev() for example. 
dma_fence_chain_walk() starts with a reference to the current fence (the 
anchor of the walk) and tries to grab an up to date reference on the 
previous fence in the chain. Only after that reference is successfully 
acquired we drop the reference to the anchor where we started.

Same for dma_fence_array_first(), dma_fence_array_next(). Here we hold a 
reference to the array which in turn holds references to each fence 
inside the array until it is destroyed itself.

When this blows up we have somehow mixed up the references somewhere.

Regards,
Christian.

>
> BR,
> -R