[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/shrinker: Wrap need_resched() inside preempt-disable

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Fri Aug 4 10:41:35 UTC 2017


In order for us to successfully detect the end of a timeslice,
preemption must be disabled. Otherwise, inside the loop we may be
preempted many times without our noticing, and each time our timeslice
will be reset, invalidating need_resched()

Reported-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Tomi Sarvela <tomi.p.sarvela at intel.com>
Fixes: 290271de34f6 ("drm/i915: Spin for struct_mutex inside shrinker")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
Cc: <drm-intel-fixes at lists.freedesktop.org> # v4.13-rc1+
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c
index 26697c9e317d..3a34dcf00174 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c
@@ -43,16 +43,21 @@ static bool shrinker_lock(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, bool *unlock)
 		return true;
 
 	case MUTEX_TRYLOCK_FAILED:
+		*unlock = false;
+		preempt_disable();
 		do {
 			cpu_relax();
 			if (mutex_trylock(&dev_priv->drm.struct_mutex)) {
-	case MUTEX_TRYLOCK_SUCCESS:
 				*unlock = true;
-				return true;
+				break;
 			}
 		} while (!need_resched());
+		preempt_enable();
+		return *unlock;
 
-		return false;
+	case MUTEX_TRYLOCK_SUCCESS:
+		*unlock = true;
+		return true;
 	}
 
 	BUG();
-- 
2.13.3



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