On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 14:52:07 +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 05:05:30PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > Since 4.7 kernel, we've seen the error messages like > > > > kernel: [TTM] Buffer eviction failed > > kernel: qxl 0000:00:02.0: object_init failed for (4026540032, 0x00000001) > > kernel: [drm:qxl_alloc_bo_reserved [qxl]] *ERROR* failed to allocate VRAM BO > > > > on QXL when switching and accessing on VT. The culprit was the > > generic deferred_io code (qxl driver switched to it since 4.7). > > There is a race between the dirty clip update and the call of > > callback. > > > > In drm_fb_helper_dirty(), the dirty clip is updated in the spinlock, > > while it kicks off the update worker outside the spinlock. Meanwhile > > the update worker clears the dirty clip in the spinlock, too. Thus, > > when drm_fb_helper_dirty() is called concurrently, schedule_work() is > > called after the clip is cleared in the first worker call. > > > > This patch addresses it by validating the clip before calling the > > dirty fb callback. > > > > Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98322 > > Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1003298 > > Fixes: eaa434defaca ('drm/fb-helper: Add fb_deferred_io support') > > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> > > Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Daniel, could you pick this if it's OK as a quick fix? Currently qxl driver is utterly broken, and we should recover it ASAP. On top of this, we can put a more comprehensive fix covering both this and dirtyfb ioctl code paths. thanks, Takashi > > > --- > > v1->v2: simplified the code as suggested by Ville > > > > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c | 4 +++- > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c > > index 03414bde1f15..aae7df01864d 100644 > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c > > @@ -644,7 +644,9 @@ static void drm_fb_helper_dirty_work(struct work_struct *work) > > clip->x2 = clip->y2 = 0; > > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&helper->dirty_lock, flags); > > > > - helper->fb->funcs->dirty(helper->fb, NULL, 0, 0, &clip_copy, 1); > > + /* call dirty callback only when it has been really touched */ > > + if (clip_copy.x1 < clip_copy.x2 && clip_copy.y1 < clip_copy.y2) > > + helper->fb->funcs->dirty(helper->fb, NULL, 0, 0, &clip_copy, 1); > > } > > > > /** > > -- > > 2.10.1 > > -- > Ville Syrjälä > Intel OTC > _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
