Re: [PATCH] drm/atomic: Paper over locking WARN in default_state_clear

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On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 03:41:15PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 10:34:43AM +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > Op 29-07-15 om 12:51 schreef Daniel Vetter:
> > > In
> > >
> > > commit 6f75cea66c8dd043ced282016b21a639af176642
> > > Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> > > Date:   Wed Nov 19 18:38:07 2014 +0100
> > >
> > >     drm/atomic: Only destroy connector states with connection mutex held
> > >
> > > I tried to fix races of atomic commits against connector
> > > hot-unplugging. The idea is to ensure lifetimes by holding the
> > > connection_mutex long enough. That works for synchronous commits, but
> > > not for async ones.
> > >
> > > For async atomic commit we really need to fix up connector lifetimes
> > > for real. But that's a much bigger task, so just add more duct-tape:
> > > For cleaning up connector states we currently don't need the connector
> > > itself. So NULL it out and remove the locking check. Of course that
> > > check was to protect the entire sequence, but the modeset itself
> > > should be save since currently DP MST hot-removal does a dpms-off. And
> > > that should synchronize with any outstanding async atomic commit.
> > >
> > > Or at least that's my hope, this is all a giant mess.
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c | 12 +++++++++---
> > >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c
> > > index 3efd91c0c6cb..434915448ea0 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c
> > > @@ -153,9 +153,15 @@ void drm_atomic_state_default_clear(struct drm_atomic_state *state)
> > >  		if (!connector)
> > >  			continue;
> > >  
> > > -		WARN_ON(!drm_modeset_is_locked(&config->connection_mutex));
> > > -
> > > -		connector->funcs->atomic_destroy_state(connector,
> > > +		/*
> > > +		 * FIXME: Async commits can race with connector unplugging and
> > > +		 * there's currently nothing that prevents cleanup up state for
> > > +		 * deleted connectors. As long as the callback doesn't look at
> > > +		 * the connector we'll be fine though, so make sure that's the
> > > +		 * case by setting all connector pointers to NULL.
> > > +		 */
> > > +		state->connector_states[i]->connector = NULL;
> > > +		connector->funcs->atomic_destroy_state(NULL,
> > >  						       state->connector_states[i]);
> > >
> > This wouldn't provide any additional guarantee during the async commit
> > itself, so please don't do this. :-)
> 
> Nope, it's really just a big reminder that we have a bug here.

Ok, picked up to drm-misc with Maarten's irc r-b.
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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