This instance now only happens during context creation so there's no way we can race with a context close/destroy. We don't need to bother with the RCU and can access the pointer directly. Signed-off-by: Jason Ekstrand <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c | 13 +++++-------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c index 5312142daa0c0..ffdfed536ce9a 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c @@ -787,15 +787,12 @@ static int intel_context_set_gem(struct intel_context *ce, ce->ring_size = SZ_16K; - if (rcu_access_pointer(ctx->vm)) { - struct i915_address_space *vm; - - rcu_read_lock(); - vm = context_get_vm_rcu(ctx); /* hmm */ - rcu_read_unlock(); - + if (ctx->vm) { + /* This only happens during context creation so no need to + * bother with any RCU nonsense. + */ i915_vm_put(ce->vm); - ce->vm = vm; + ce->vm = i915_vm_get(ctx->vm); } if (ctx->sched.priority >= I915_PRIORITY_NORMAL && -- 2.31.1