Re: [PATCH 1/7] drm/i915: Remove tasklet flush before disable

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Quoting Mika Kuoppala (2018-05-16 09:39:14)
> Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > The idea was to try and let the existing tasklet run to completion
> > before we began the reset, but it involves a racy check against anything
> > else that tries to run the tasklet. Rather than acknowledge and ignore
> > the race, let it be and don't try and be too clever.
> >
> > The tasklet will resume execution after reset (after spinning a bit
> > during reset), but before we allow it to resume we will have cleared all
> > the pending state.
> 
> The disable works only on all future reschedules and
> the dequeue is behind timeline lock. But what guards against
> the tasklet being currently reading the ports?

tasklet_disable() itself is synchronous and waits for completion of the
current execution before returning. See tasklet_disable_nosync() for the
complimentary function just to prevent future schedules from executing.
-Chris
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