Hi Daniel, On Wednesday 10 July 2013 13:54:33 Daniel Vetter wrote: > I've checked both implementations (radeon/nouveau) and they both grab > the page array from ttm simply by dereferencing it and then wrapping > it up with drm_prime_pages_to_sg in the callback and map it with > dma_map_sg (in the helper). Have you checked drm_gem_cma_prime_get_sg_table (in drm_gem_cma_helper.c) as well ? > Only the grabbing of the underlying page array is anything we need to > be concerned about, and either those pages are pinned independently, > or we're screwed no matter what. > > And indeed, nouveau/radeon pin the backing storage in their > attach/detach functions. > > The only thing we might claim it does is prevent concurrent mapping of > dma_buf attachments. But a) that's not allowed and b) the current code > is racy already since it checks whether the sg mapping exists _before_ > grabbing the lock. > > So the dev->struct_mutex locking here does absolutely nothing useful, > but only distracts. Remove it. > > This should also help Maarten's work to eventually pin the backing > storage more dynamically by preventing locking inversions around > dev->struct_mutex. > > Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c | 3 --- > 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c > index 85e450e..64a99b3 100644 > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c > @@ -167,8 +167,6 @@ static struct sg_table *drm_gem_map_dma_buf(struct > dma_buf_attachment *attach, if (WARN_ON(prime_attach->dir != DMA_NONE)) > return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY); > > - mutex_lock(&obj->dev->struct_mutex); > - > sgt = obj->dev->driver->gem_prime_get_sg_table(obj); > > if (!IS_ERR(sgt)) { > @@ -182,7 +180,6 @@ static struct sg_table *drm_gem_map_dma_buf(struct > dma_buf_attachment *attach, } > } > > - mutex_unlock(&obj->dev->struct_mutex); > return sgt; > } -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel