Requests within a timeline are ordered by that timeline, so awaiting for the start of a request within the timeline is a no-op. This used to work by falling out of the mutex_trylock() as the signaler and waiter had the same timeline and not returning an error. Fixes: 6a79d848403d ("drm/i915: Lock signaler timeline while navigating") Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v5.5+ --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c index 46dae33c1a20..ca5361eb1f0b 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c @@ -837,8 +837,8 @@ i915_request_await_start(struct i915_request *rq, struct i915_request *signal) struct dma_fence *fence; int err; - GEM_BUG_ON(i915_request_timeline(rq) == - rcu_access_pointer(signal->timeline)); + if (i915_request_timeline(rq) == rcu_access_pointer(signal->timeline)) + return 0; if (i915_request_started(signal)) return 0; -- 2.25.1