[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 3/3] drm/i915: Attempt to uncouple object after catastrophic failure in unbind

[Eric Anholt]

On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:18:51 +0100, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> If we fail to flush outstanding GPU writes but return the memory to the
> system, we risk corrupting memory should the GPU recovery and complete
> those writes. On the other hand, if we bail early and free the object
> then we have a definite use-after-free and real memory corruption.
> Choose the lesser of two evils, since in order to recover from the hung
> GPU we need to completely reset it, those pending writes should
> never happen.

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