[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Remove locking for get-caching query

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Thu May 7 04:14:55 PDT 2015


Reading a single value from the object, the locking only provides futile
protection against userspace races. The locking is useless so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 17 ++++-------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
index 2b2b74dbb446..d071d0af2a6c 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -3983,17 +3983,10 @@ int i915_gem_get_caching_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
 {
 	struct drm_i915_gem_caching *args = data;
 	struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj;
-	int ret;
-
-	ret = i915_mutex_lock_interruptible(dev);
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
 
 	obj = to_intel_bo(drm_gem_object_lookup(dev, file, args->handle));
-	if (&obj->base == NULL) {
-		ret = -ENOENT;
-		goto unlock;
-	}
+	if (&obj->base == NULL)
+		return -ENOENT;
 
 	switch (obj->cache_level) {
 	case I915_CACHE_LLC:
@@ -4010,10 +4003,8 @@ int i915_gem_get_caching_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
 		break;
 	}
 
-	drm_gem_object_unreference(&obj->base);
-unlock:
-	mutex_unlock(&dev->struct_mutex);
-	return ret;
+	drm_gem_object_unreference_unlocked(&obj->base);
+	return 0;
 }
 
 int i915_gem_set_caching_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
-- 
2.1.4



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