From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Vetter Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Only free the unpin_work if cancelled before being run Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:44:01 +0200 Message-ID: <20120417134401.GN4104@phenom.ffwll.local> References: <1334654978-16021-1-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> <1334656418_11970@CP5-2952> <20120417103345.GJ4104@phenom.ffwll.local> <1334669450_13182@CP5-2952> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-ey0-f177.google.com (mail-ey0-f177.google.com [209.85.215.177]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBAB29E936 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:43:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by eaak13 with SMTP id k13so1604558eaa.36 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:43:05 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1334669450_13182@CP5-2952> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: intel-gfx-bounces+gcfxdi-intel-gfx=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: intel-gfx-bounces+gcfxdi-intel-gfx=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org To: Chris Wilson Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org List-Id: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 02:30:35PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:33:46 +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:53:24AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: > > > On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:29:38 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: > > > > The unpin worker frees it work struct and so during intel_crtc_disable > > > > we should only also free the work struct if cancel_work_sync() reports > > > > that it successfully cancelled the work prior to it being executed and > > > > thus avoid the double free. > > > > > > > > The impact is only for people unloading modules during a fullscreen game > > > > or movie playback, so extremely small. > > > > > > Futher review (hunting for some sign of workqueue corruption, cf > > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48798) says that if work is > > > non-NULL here it will not have been scheduled so cancel_work_sync() will > > > always return true. > > > > Well, I've failed to notice this while reviewing the unpin_work life-cycle > > ... > > > > > Which also means that we have no way of waiting upon the scheduled > > > unpin_work. :| > > > > ... but have noticed that we lose any reference from intel_crtc to the > > unpin work once it's scheduled, and checked that we properly flush the > > work queue: See the ordering of irq disable, flush workqueue, then crtc > > destroy (in mode_config_cleanup). > > > > We even have a flush_workqueu in i915_dma.c before tearing down gem, but > > that won't work too well now that unpin also frobs around with the fbc > > state (which is gone by now). But there's still the misleading comment > > that this syncs up with unpin work. > > > > Care to clean this up a bit by > > - ditching the unnecessary flush_workqueu in i915_dma.c > Indeed looks superfluous. If we consider the unlikelihood the cleanup > code being well-tested, I'd prefer that we did do something like > drain_workqueue() as the first step in unload(). Sounds good. > > - move the comment about syncing up with unpin_work to where we actually > > sync up > > I'm not finding another point where we explicitly sync with outstanding > unpin work. Probably due to the comment being in the wrong place... Well, I've just noticed that we call flush_scheduled_work instead of flush_workqueue (i.e. the global one instead of our own), but we also put the unpin work onto the global queue with schedule_work instead of our own with queue_work > > - and kill the superflous cancel_work? > Which also reminds me that the unpin_work holds onto a few references > that need to be released as well as the kfree. See above about these code > paths being relatively untrod. Oops. The problem is that unpin_work also calls the fbc update, so we need to ensure that this is done before the fbc cleanup happened. Fun. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Mail: daniel@ffwll.ch Mobile: +41 (0)79 365 57 48