Keep in mind that under SRIOV you can read registers while in atomic context, e.g. while holding a spinlock. Please double check if that won't bite us. Apart from that the change looks good to me, Christian. Am 30.05.2018 um 12:19 schrieb Shirish S: > mutex's lead to sleeps which should be avoided in > atomic context. > Hence this patch replaces it with the spin_locks. > > Signed-off-by: Shirish S <shirish.s at amd.com> > --- > drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_atombios.c | 2 +- > drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atom.c | 4 ++-- > drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atom.h | 3 ++- > 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_atombios.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_atombios.c > index bf872f6..ba3d4b9 100644 > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_atombios.c > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_atombios.c > @@ -2033,7 +2033,7 @@ int amdgpu_atombios_init(struct amdgpu_device *adev) > return -ENOMEM; > } > > - mutex_init(&adev->mode_info.atom_context->mutex); > + spin_lock_init(&adev->mode_info.atom_context->lock); > if (adev->is_atom_fw) { > amdgpu_atomfirmware_scratch_regs_init(adev); > amdgpu_atomfirmware_allocate_fb_scratch(adev); > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atom.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atom.c > index 69500a8..bfd98f0 100644 > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atom.c > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atom.c > @@ -1261,7 +1261,7 @@ int amdgpu_atom_execute_table(struct atom_context *ctx, int index, uint32_t * pa > { > int r; > > - mutex_lock(&ctx->mutex); > + spin_lock(&ctx->lock); > /* reset data block */ > ctx->data_block = 0; > /* reset reg block */ > @@ -1274,7 +1274,7 @@ int amdgpu_atom_execute_table(struct atom_context *ctx, int index, uint32_t * pa > ctx->divmul[0] = 0; > ctx->divmul[1] = 0; > r = amdgpu_atom_execute_table_locked(ctx, index, params); > - mutex_unlock(&ctx->mutex); > + spin_unlock(&ctx->lock); > return r; > } > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atom.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atom.h > index a391709..cdfb0d0 100644 > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atom.h > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atom.h > @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ > #define ATOM_H > > #include <linux/types.h> > +#include <linux/spinlock_types.h> > #include <drm/drmP.h> > > #define ATOM_BIOS_MAGIC 0xAA55 > @@ -125,7 +126,7 @@ struct card_info { > > struct atom_context { > struct card_info *card; > - struct mutex mutex; > + spinlock_t lock; > void *bios; > uint32_t cmd_table, data_table; > uint16_t *iio;