[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Replace racy object bookkeeping

[Daniel Vetter]

On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 01:18:05PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 09:57:04AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Now that we track objects for their entire lifetime in a list, we can
> > move the cost of the bookkeeping to the infrequent query of
> > i915_gem_objects. This also removes the race where we would increment the
> > global object count and size without holding any locks.
> > 
> > Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67121
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> 
> I love it when I can check off items from my todo list simply by merging a
> patch ;-) Queued for -next, thanks for the patch.

This now omits allocated objects for which obj->pages is NULL, so we'd
miss some classes of leaks. So I've dropped this patch again, I guess we
should add spinlock or something. Or use and atomic_t and just count
objects.
-Daniel
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