Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/psr: Chase psr.enabled only under the psr.lock

[Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>]

On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 10:05:25AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Rodrigo Vivi (2018-04-06 23:18:16)
> > On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 11:12:27AM -0700, Souza, Jose wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 12:49 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > > +           struct drm_crtc *crtc =
> > > > +                   dp_to_dig_port(intel_dp)->base.base.crtc;
> > 
> > I'm afraid that the issue is this pointer here. So this will only mask
> > the issue.
> > 
> > Should we maybe stash the pipe? :/
> 
> It's not that bad. pipe cannot change until after psr_disable is called,
> right? And psr_disable ensures that this worker is flushed. The current
> problem is just the coordination of cancelling the worker, where we may
> set psr.enabled to NULL right before the worker grabs it and
> dereferences it.
> 
> So if we lock until we have the pipe, we know that dereference chain is
> valid, and we know that psr_disable() cannot complete until we complete
> the wait. So the pipe remains valid until we return (so long as the pipe
> exists when we start).

hmm... it makes sense and I have no better suggestion actually.
So, as long it really fixes the regression we introduced:

Acked-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

> -Chris
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