Re: [PATCH 10/13] drm/radeon: return -ENOENT in fence_wait_*

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On Fre, 2012-04-20 at 12:24 +0200, Christian König wrote: 
> On 20.04.2012 11:15, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Fre, 2012-04-20 at 10:49 +0200, Christian König wrote:
> >> On 20.04.2012 09:20, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >>> On Fre, 2012-04-20 at 00:39 +0200, Christian König wrote:
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Christian König<deathsimple@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>    drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_fence.c |    4 ++--
> >>>>    1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_fence.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_fence.c
> >>>> index 1a9765a..764ab7e 100644
> >>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_fence.c
> >>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_fence.c
> >>>> @@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ int radeon_fence_wait_next(struct radeon_device *rdev, int ring)
> >>>>    	}
> >>>>    	if (list_empty(&rdev->fence_drv[ring].emitted)) {
> >>>>    		write_unlock_irqrestore(&rdev->fence_lock, irq_flags);
> >>>> -		return 0;
> >>>> +		return -ENOENT;
> >>>>    	}
> >>>>    	fence = list_entry(rdev->fence_drv[ring].emitted.next,
> >>>>    			   struct radeon_fence, list);
> >>>> @@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ int radeon_fence_wait_last(struct radeon_device *rdev, int ring)
> >>>>    	}
> >>>>    	if (list_empty(&rdev->fence_drv[ring].emitted)) {
> >>>>    		write_unlock_irqrestore(&rdev->fence_lock, irq_flags);
> >>>> -		return 0;
> >>>> +		return -ENOENT;
> >>>>    	}
> >>>>    	fence = list_entry(rdev->fence_drv[ring].emitted.prev,
> >>>>    			   struct radeon_fence, list);
> >>> It seems weird to declare a fence wait as failed when there are no
> >>> outstanding fences in the first place. If there are callers which
> >>> require outstanding fences, they should probably handle that themselves..
> >> Why that sounds so weird? Ok, maybe for radeon_fence_wait_last that's
> >> questionable,
> > Indeed. It happens not to break radeon_suspend_kms because it doesn't
> > check the return value, but otherwise it would fail spuriously.
> >
> >
> >> but for radeon_fence_wait_next it's quite clear to me that
> >> we should signal the caller that there is no fence to wait for.
> >>
> >> The problem I wanted to fix with that is the usage of
> >> radeon_fence_wait_next in radeon_ring_alloc (for example):
> >>> int radeon_ring_alloc(struct radeon_device *rdev, struct radeon_ring
> >>> *ring, unsigned ndw)
> >>> {
> >>>          int r;
> >>>
> >>>          /* Align requested size with padding so unlock_commit can
> >>>           * pad safely */
> >>>          ndw = (ndw + ring->align_mask)&  ~ring->align_mask;
> >>>          while (ndw>  (ring->ring_free_dw - 1)) {
> >>>                  radeon_ring_free_size(rdev, ring);
> >>>                  if (ndw<  ring->ring_free_dw) {
> >>>                          break;
> >>>                  }
> >>>                  r = radeon_fence_wait_next(rdev,
> >>> radeon_ring_index(rdev, ring));
> >>>                  if (r)
> >>>                          return r;
> >>>          }
> >>>          ring->count_dw = ndw;
> >>>          ring->wptr_old = ring->wptr;
> >>>          return 0;
> >>> }
> >> If the ring is full, but actually has no more fences in it (which in my
> >> case was caused by my stupidity and actually shouldn't happen otherwise)
> >> this loop will just busy wait with a critical mutex locked for something
> >> that never happens.
> > My suggestion was to explicitly check for that in radeon_ring_alloc. But
> > I guess right now it doesn't really matter, as it's the only caller. :)
> Yeah, but when we check that explicitly we need to call into the fence 
> code twice, without locking in between, so the result of the first call 
> could change before the second call happens etc... well that's just crap.
> 
> So what do you think of this: Just add the -ENOENT to fence_wait_next 
> and rename fence_wait_last to fence_wait_empty instead?

Sounds good.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer           |                   http://www.amd.com
Libre software enthusiast         |          Debian, X and DRI developer
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