On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Ville Syrjälä
<ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 09:54:49AM -0500, Rob Clark wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 9:49 AM, Ville Syrjälä
>> <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 09:37:21AM -0500, Rob Clark wrote:
>> >> Follow the same pattern of locking as with other state objects. This
>> >> avoids boilerplate in the driver.
>> >
>> > I'm not sure we really want to do this. What if the driver wants a
>> > custom locking scheme for this state?
>>
>> That seems like something we want to discourage, ie. all the more
>> reason for this patch.
>>
>> There is no reason drivers could not split their global state into
>> multiple private objs's, each with their own lock, for more fine
>> grained locking. That is basically the only valid reason I can think
>> of for "custom locking".
>
> In i915 we have at least one case that would want something close to an
> rwlock. Any crtc lock is enough for read, need all of them for write.
> Though if we wanted to use private objs for that we might need to
> actually make the states refcounted as well, otherwise I can imagine
> we might land in some use-after-free issues once again.
>
> Maybe we could duplicate the state into per-crtc and global copies, but
> then we have to keep all of those in sync somehow which doesn't sound
> particularly pleasant.
Or just keep your own driver lock for read, and use that plus the core
modeset lock for write?
BR,
-R
>
>>
>> (And ofc drivers could add there own locks in addition to what is done
>> by core, but I'd rather look at that on a case by case basis, rather
>> than it being part of the boilerplate in each driver.)
>>
>> BR,
>> -R
>>
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >> ---
>> >> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c | 9 ++++++++-
>> >> include/drm/drm_atomic.h | 5 +++++
>> >> 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c
>> >> index fc8c4da409ff..004e621ab307 100644
>> >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c
>> >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c
>> >> @@ -1078,6 +1078,8 @@ drm_atomic_private_obj_init(struct drm_private_obj *obj,
>> >> {
>> >> memset(obj, 0, sizeof(*obj));
>> >>
>> >> + drm_modeset_lock_init(&obj->lock);
>> >> +
>> >> obj->state = state;
>> >> obj->funcs = funcs;
>> >> }
>> >> @@ -1093,6 +1095,7 @@ void
>> >> drm_atomic_private_obj_fini(struct drm_private_obj *obj)
>> >> {
>> >> obj->funcs->atomic_destroy_state(obj, obj->state);
>> >> + drm_modeset_lock_fini(&obj->lock);
>> >> }
>> >> EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_atomic_private_obj_fini);
>> >>
>> >> @@ -1113,7 +1116,7 @@ struct drm_private_state *
>> >> drm_atomic_get_private_obj_state(struct drm_atomic_state *state,
>> >> struct drm_private_obj *obj)
>> >> {
>> >> - int index, num_objs, i;
>> >> + int index, num_objs, i, ret;
>> >> size_t size;
>> >> struct __drm_private_objs_state *arr;
>> >> struct drm_private_state *obj_state;
>> >> @@ -1122,6 +1125,10 @@ drm_atomic_get_private_obj_state(struct drm_atomic_state *state,
>> >> if (obj == state->private_objs[i].ptr)
>> >> return state->private_objs[i].state;
>> >>
>> >> + ret = drm_modeset_lock(&obj->lock, state->acquire_ctx);
>> >> + if (ret)
>> >> + return ERR_PTR(ret);
>> >> +
>> >> num_objs = state->num_private_objs + 1;
>> >> size = sizeof(*state->private_objs) * num_objs;
>> >> arr = krealloc(state->private_objs, size, GFP_KERNEL);
>> >> diff --git a/include/drm/drm_atomic.h b/include/drm/drm_atomic.h
>> >> index 09076a625637..9ae53b73c9d2 100644
>> >> --- a/include/drm/drm_atomic.h
>> >> +++ b/include/drm/drm_atomic.h
>> >> @@ -218,6 +218,11 @@ struct drm_private_state_funcs {
>> >> * &drm_modeset_lock is required to duplicate and update this object's state.
>> >> */
>> >> struct drm_private_obj {
>> >> + /**
>> >> + * @lock: Modeset lock to protect the state object.
>> >> + */
>> >> + struct drm_modeset_lock lock;
>> >> +
>> >> /**
>> >> * @state: Current atomic state for this driver private object.
>> >> */
>> >> --
>> >> 2.14.3
>> >>
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>> > Ville Syrjälä
>> > Intel OTC
>
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> Ville Syrjälä
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