This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/amdgpu: hold reference to fences in amdgpu_sa_bo_new (v2) to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: drm-amdgpu-hold-reference-to-fences-in-amdgpu_sa_bo_new-v2.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a8d81b36267366603771431747438d18f32ae2d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Nicolai=20H=C3=A4hnle?= <nicolai.haehnle@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 10:59:43 -0500 Subject: drm/amdgpu: hold reference to fences in amdgpu_sa_bo_new (v2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Nicolai Hähnle <nicolai.haehnle@xxxxxxx> commit a8d81b36267366603771431747438d18f32ae2d5 upstream. An arbitrary amount of time can pass between spin_unlock and fence_wait_any_timeout, so we need to ensure that nobody frees the fences from under us. A stress test (rapidly starting and killing hundreds of glxgears instances) ran into a deadlock in fence_wait_any_timeout after about an hour, and this race condition appears to be a plausible cause. v2: agd: rebase on upstream Signed-off-by: Nicolai Hähnle <nicolai.haehnle@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_sa.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_sa.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_sa.c @@ -354,12 +354,15 @@ int amdgpu_sa_bo_new(struct amdgpu_sa_ma for (i = 0, count = 0; i < AMDGPU_MAX_RINGS; ++i) if (fences[i]) - fences[count++] = fences[i]; + fences[count++] = fence_get(fences[i]); if (count) { spin_unlock(&sa_manager->wq.lock); t = fence_wait_any_timeout(fences, count, false, MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT); + for (i = 0; i < count; ++i) + fence_put(fences[i]); + r = (t > 0) ? 0 : t; spin_lock(&sa_manager->wq.lock); } else { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nicolai.haehnle@xxxxxxx are queue-4.4/drm-amdgpu-remove-unnecessary-forward-declaration.patch queue-4.4/drm-amdgpu-hold-reference-to-fences-in-amdgpu_sa_bo_new-v2.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html