Re: [PATCH 1/9] drm/tegra: hub: Remove bogus connection mutex check

Daniel Vetter
2019-11-29T19:03:09Z

On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 11:12:55AM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 10:06:43AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 04:37:33PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > > From: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
> > >
> > > I have no recollection why that check is there, but it seems to trigger
> > > all the time, so remove it. Everything works fine without.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/hub.c | 3 ---
> > > 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/hub.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/hub.c
> > > index 6aca0fd5a8e5..e56c0f7d3a13 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/hub.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/hub.c
> > > @@ -615,11 +615,8 @@ static struct tegra_display_hub_state *
> > > tegra_display_hub_get_state(struct tegra_display_hub *hub,
> > > struct drm_atomic_state *state)
> > > {
> > > - struct drm_device *drm = dev_get_drvdata(hub->client.parent);
> > > struct drm_private_state *priv;
> > >
> > > - WARN_ON(!drm_modeset_is_locked(&drm->mode_config.connection_mutex));
> >
> > I suspect copypasta from the mst private state stuff, which relied on this
> > lock to protect it. Except your code never bothered to grab that lock (or
> > any other) so was technically broken until we added generic locking in
> >
> > commit b962a12050a387e4bbf3a48745afe1d29d396b0d
> > Author: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
> > Date: Mon Oct 22 14:31:22 2018 +0200
> >
> > drm/atomic: integrate modeset lock with private objects
> >
> > Hence this is now ok to drop, originally it wasnt.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
>
> Great, thanks for pointing that out. I'll update the commit message with
> that explanation.
>
> > Aside: You're single-thread all your atomic updates on the hub->lock,
> > which might not be what you want. At least updates to separate crtc should
> > go through in parallel. Usual way to fix this is to add a
> > tegra_crtc_state->hub_changed that your earlier code sets, and then you
> > walk the crtc states in the atomic commit (only those, not all, otherwise
> > you just rebuild that global lock again), and then only grab the hub state
> > when you need to update something.
>
> I'm confused. Where do you see hub->lock? Did you mean wgrp->lock?

struct tegra_display_hub->base.lock I have no idea what wgrp->lock is
protecting - the functions seem to be only called from driver load/cleanup
code, and that is single-threaded. If I'm not missing anything then
wgrp->lock does nothing for you.

Cheers, Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation