Quoting Chris Wilson (2019-08-14 18:22:53)
> Quoting Chris Wilson (2019-08-14 18:06:18)
> > Quoting Chris Wilson (2019-08-14 17:42:48)
> > > Quoting Daniel Vetter (2019-08-14 16:39:08)
> > > > > > > + } while (rcu_access_pointer(obj->fence_excl) != *excl);
> > > >
> > > > What if someone is real fast (like really real fast) and recycles the
> > > > exclusive fence so you read the same pointer twice, but everything else
> > > > changed? reused fence pointer is a lot more likely than seqlock wrapping
> > > > around.
> > >
> > > It's an exclusive fence. If it is replaced, it must be later than all
> > > the shared fences (and dependent on them directly or indirectly), and
> > > so still a consistent snapshot.
> >
> > An extension of that argument says we don't even need to loop,
> >
> > *list = rcu_dereference(obj->fence);
> > *shared_count = *list ? (*list)->shared_count : 0;
> > smp_rmb();
> > *excl = rcu_dereference(obj->fence_excl);
> >
> > Gives a consistent snapshot. It doesn't matter if the fence_excl is
> > before or after the shared_list -- if it's after, it's a superset of all
> > fences, if it's before, we have a correct list of shared fences the
> > earlier fence_excl.
>
> The problem is that the point of the loop is that we do need a check on
> the fences after the full memory barrier.
>
> Thinking of the rationale beaten out for dma_fence_get_excl_rcu_safe()
>
> We don't have a full memory barrier here, so this cannot be used safely
> in light of fence reallocation.
i.e. we need to restore the loops in the callers,
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_busy.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_busy.c
index a2aff1d8290e..f019062c8cd7 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_busy.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_busy.c
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ i915_gem_busy_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
* to report the overall busyness. This is what the wait-ioctl does.
*
*/
+retry:
dma_resv_fences(obj->base.resv, &excl, &list, &shared_count);
/* Translate the exclusive fence to the READ *and* WRITE engine */
@@ -122,6 +123,10 @@ i915_gem_busy_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
args->busy |= busy_check_reader(fence);
}
+ smp_rmb();
+ if (excl != rcu_access_pointer(obj->base.resv->fence_excl))
+ goto retry;
+
wrap that up as
static inline bool
dma_resv_fences_retry(struct dma_resv *resv, struct dma_fence *excl)
{
smp_rmb();
return excl != rcu_access_pointer(resv->fence_excl);
}
-Chris
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