Re: [PATCH RESEND drm-misc-next 4/7] drm/arm/hdlcd: plane: use drm managed resources

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On 9/13/22 10:58, Liviu Dudau wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 09:50:26PM +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
Hi Liviu,

Hi Danilo,


Thanks for having a look!

This is not about this patch, it's about patch 3/7 "drm/arm/hdlcd: crtc: use
drmm_crtc_init_with_planes()".

Agree! However, this is the patch that removes the .destroy hook, so I've replied here.

This is a different .destroy hook, it's the struct drm_plane_funcs one, not the struct drm_crtc_funcs one, which the warning is about. Anyway, as said, we can just drop the mentioned patch. :-)



And there it's the other way around. When using drmm_crtc_init_with_planes()
we shouldn't have a destroy hook in place, that's the whole purpose of
drmm_crtc_init_with_planes().

We should just drop patch 3/7 "drm/arm/hdlcd: crtc: use
drmm_crtc_init_with_planes()", it's wrong.

So we end up with mixed use of managed and unmanaged APIs?

In this case, yes. However, I don't think this makes it inconsistent. They only thing drmm_crtc_init_with_planes() does different than drm_crtc_init_with_planes() is that it set's things up to automatically call drm_crtc_cleanup() on .destroy. Since this driver also does a register write in the .destroy callback and hence we can't get rid of the callback we can just keep it as it is.



Do you want me to send a v2 for that?

Yes please! It would help me to understand your thinking around the whole lifecycle of the driver.

BTW, I appreciate the care in patches 5-7 to make sure that the driver doesn't access freed resources,
however I'm not sure I like the fact that rmmod-ing the hdlcd driver while I have an fbcon running
hangs now the command and prevents a kernel reboot, while it works without your series. Can you explain
to me again what are you trying to fix?

Sure! DRM managed resources are cleaned up whenever the last reference is put. This is not necessarily the case when the driver is unbound, hence there might still be calls into the driver and therefore we must protect resources that are bound to the driver/device lifecycle (e.g. a MMIO region mapped via devm_ioremap_resource()) from being accessed. That's why the hdlcd_write() and hdlcd_read() calls in the crtc callbacks need to be protected.

However, of course, the changes needed to achieve that should not result into hanging rmmod. Unfortunately, just by looking at the patches again I don't see how this could happen.

Do you mind trying again with my v2 (although v2 shouldn't make a difference for this issue) and provide the back-trace when it hangs?

Thanks,
Danilo


Best regards,
Liviu



- Danilo



On 9/12/22 19:36, Liviu Dudau wrote:
Hi Danilo,

I have applied your patch series for HDLCD on top of drm-next (commit 213cb76ddc8b)
and on start up I get a warning:

[   12.882554] hdlcd 7ff50000.hdlcd: drm_WARN_ON(funcs && funcs->destroy)
[   12.882596] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 211 at drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c:393 __drmm_crtc_init_with_planes+0x70/0xf0 [drm]

It looks like the .destroy hook is still required or I'm missing some other required
series where the WARN has been removed?

Best regards,
Liviu




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