[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: return DRIVER_NAME for the fence driver name

[Thomas Zimmermann]

Hi

Am 16.06.21 um 14:28 schrieb Matthew Auld:
> The first tracepoint for a request is trace_dma_fence_init which is
> called in the ctor before we have properly setup the request->engine. So
> if it's a non-recycled request the rq->engine might be NULL, or some
> garbage value, which leads to a crash.
> 
> Since we are not permitted to use kmem_cache_zalloc() here with
> SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, one approach is simply to return DRIVER_NAME. We
> can then revisit this later if we decide to get rid of
> SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU.
> 
> Fixes: 855e39e65cfc ("drm/i915: Initialise basic fence before acquiring seqno")
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld at intel.com>
> Cc: Michael Mason <michael.w.mason at intel.com>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>
> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
> index 1014c71cf7f5..55fa94bde22e 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
> @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ static struct i915_global_request {
>   
>   static const char *i915_fence_get_driver_name(struct dma_fence *fence)
>   {
> -	return dev_name(to_request(fence)->engine->i915->drm.dev);
> +	return DRIVER_NAME;

There was recently a discussion about using struct drm_driver.name 
consistently throughout the source code. I'd like to suggest to do this 
here.

Best regards
Thomas

>   }
>   
>   static const char *i915_fence_get_timeline_name(struct dma_fence *fence)
> 

-- 
Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
(HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
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