[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 4/5] drm/i915: Remove the deferred-free list

[Chris Wilson]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:38:51 +0100, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 09:30:33PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> I haven't looked much at the patch, but the deferred-free looks more bogus
> the more I stare at it. As long as an object is active, we /should/ have a
> reference on it, so we should never fail to wait for outstanding rendering
> on the final free. The only execption is the ilk/vt-d unbind w/a, but that
> one is already uninterruptible.
> 
> So I think we should just drop the deferred free list, check for any
> errors from unbind with a WARN_ON and bail out (leaking the bo) in that
> case.

Right. I am just worried because we did have a bug with a case where it
appeared that we did free an active object. I will have to dig through
that and see if could be explained by some other use-after-free.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre