[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915: Only shrink the unbound objects during freeze

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Mon Sep 19 08:38:06 UTC 2016


On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:31:37AM +0300, Joonas Lahtinen wrote:
> On pe, 2016-09-16 at 20:23 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> >  int i915_gem_freeze_late(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
> >  {
> > >  	struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj;
> > @@ -4692,7 +4705,8 @@ int i915_gem_freeze_late(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
> > >  	 * the objects as well.
> > >  	 */
> >  
> > > -	i915_gem_shrink_all(dev_priv);
> > +	mutex_lock(&dev_priv->drm.struct_mutex);
> 
> Previously the shrinking here was without a mutex. And the new
> shrinking during _freeze is also mutex protected, any specific reason?

Silencing lockdep. We know we are single threaded here, but lockdep
doesn't. This version of i915_gem_shrink() doesn't automagically take
the struct_mutex (later versions do).
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre


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