[Nouveau] [PATCH] instmem/gk20a: exclusively acquire instobjs

[Alexandre Courbot]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:19 AM, Ben Skeggs <skeggsb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/26/2015 03:54 PM, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
>> Although I would not have expected this to happen, we seem to run into
>> race conditions if instobjs are accessed concurrently. Use a global lock
>> for safety.
> I wouldn't expect this to be an issue either.
>
> Before merging such a large hammer of a fix, I'd strongly prefer to see
> at least a better justification for why this is happening rather than
> potentially papering over a larger issue.

I was afraid you would say that. ;)

But you're right. I am really busy with lots of stuff but will try to
rootcause this more precisely...