From: Dave Airlie on
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Arnd,
> this commit:
>
> commit 58374713c9dfb4d231f8c56cac089f6fbdedc2ec
> Author: Arnd Bergmann <arnd(a)arndb.de>
> Date: � Sat Jul 10 23:51:39 2010 +0200
>
> � �drm: kill BKL from common code
>
>
> moved the call to (inside drm_release) drm_lastclose inside dev->count_lock
> spinlock.
> drm_lastclose however takes dev->struct_mutex (now inside an atomic
> context):

I have a patch from Chris Wilson that I need to push to fix this,
basically reducing the spin lock coverage,
and relying on the global mutex to handle the open race.

Dave.

>
> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at /home/kronos/src/linux-2.6.git/kernel/mutex.c:94
> in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 3331, name: Xorg
> Pid: 3331, comm: Xorg Not tainted 2.6.35-06113-gf6cec0a #272
> Call Trace:
> �[<ffffffff8102770e>] __might_sleep+0xf8/0xfa
> �[<ffffffff8127cf18>] mutex_lock+0x1f/0x3e
> �[<ffffffffa052d1c1>] drm_lastclose+0x92/0x2ad [drm]
> �[<ffffffffa052dbc7>] drm_release+0x5ca/0x60d [drm]
> �[<ffffffff810b118f>] fput+0x130/0x1f7
> �[<ffffffff810ae77d>] filp_close+0x63/0x6d
> �[<ffffffff810ae82f>] sys_close+0xa8/0xe2
> �[<ffffffff8100296b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>
>
> Luca
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From: Arnd Bergmann on
On Wednesday 11 August 2010, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > moved the call to (inside drm_release) drm_lastclose inside dev->count_lock
> > spinlock.
> > drm_lastclose however takes dev->struct_mutex (now inside an atomic
> > context):

Yes, that's obviously been broken by me, sorry about the trouble.

I must have been trying to simplify the error handling by adding a
goto at the end of drm_release, which then happened to break
the common path.

The easiest way to fix this would be to go back to the way drm_release()
worked previously and /only/ replace {,un}lock_kernel() with
mutex_{,un}lock(&drm_global_mutex);.

> I have a patch from Chris Wilson that I need to push to fix this,
> basically reducing the spin lock coverage,
> and relying on the global mutex to handle the open race.

Yes, that sounds good, it's what the code used to do before my broken
change.

You might also be able to find a way to remove drm_global_lock from the
open/close path entirely.

Arnd
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