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From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To: "Łukasz Kuryło" <lukasz.kurylo@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	Intel Graphics Development <intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] drm/i915: don't trylock in the gpu reset code
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:34:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120626223419.GC5072@phenom.ffwll.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+jNtFqOrdES3kQfQANqjzAysB7Smp2RW_9EdvfPiDDPvqG4CA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:08:33AM +0200, Łukasz Kuryło wrote:
> >
> > -       if (!mutex_trylock(&dev->struct_mutex))
> > -               return -EBUSY;
> > +       mutex_lock(&dev->struct_mutex);
> >
> >        i915_gem_reset(dev);
> >
> 
> But ... the original code:
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong.
> In every manual I've found mutex_trylock(...) returns 0 on success.
> So

Qoting the kernel doc for mutex_trylock:

"Try to acquire the mutex atomically. Returns 1 if the mutex has been
acquired successfully, and 0 on contention."

Also, it's open-source, so you could double-check the implementation ...

-Daniel
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-26 22:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-26 21:08 [PATCH 1/4] drm/i915: don't return a spurious -EIO from intel_ring_begin Daniel Vetter
2012-06-26 21:08 ` [PATCH 2/4] drm/i915: don't trylock in the gpu reset code Daniel Vetter
2012-06-26 22:08   ` Łukasz Kuryło
2012-06-26 22:34     ` Daniel Vetter [this message]
2012-06-26 21:08 ` [PATCH 3/4] drm/i915: non-interruptible sleeps can't handle -EGAIN Daniel Vetter
2012-06-27 15:19   ` Ben Widawsky
2012-06-27 16:36     ` Daniel Vetter
2012-06-26 21:08 ` [PATCH 4/4] drm/i915: don't hange userspace when the gpu reset is stuck Daniel Vetter
2012-07-01  3:09 ` [PATCH 1/4] drm/i915: don't return a spurious -EIO from intel_ring_begin Ben Widawsky
2012-07-01 10:41   ` Daniel Vetter
2012-07-02 16:04     ` Ben Widawsky
2012-07-02 16:47       ` Daniel Vetter
2012-07-03 15:59 ` Chris Wilson
2012-07-03 18:11   ` Daniel Vetter

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