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From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	DRI Development <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 28/50] drm: Remove DRM_WAIT_ON from all drivers
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 10:37:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52B16CF2.4050209@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131218082519.GC26371@phenom.ffwll.local>

On 12/18/2013 09:25 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:39:27AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> wrote:
>>> Since this is all old ums stuff (including the one in the radeon
>>> driver) I've just tried to perfectly replicate the existing semantics.
>>>
>>> Reinventing wait queue code with semantics that differ from all the
>>> standard linux wait functions is just hairy, so now we can get rid of
>>> this and so make sure it'll never again be used.
>>>
>>> Oh and: via futexes ... *shudder*
>> This one worries me, I've had numerous attempts to rip this out in the
>> past and they always changed semantics on some devices and broke
>> stuff.
>>
>> The sneaky timeout is essential for a lot of the hardware
>>
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://marc.info/?l%3Ddri-devel%26m%3D111383274225047%26w%3D1&k=oIvRg1%2BdGAgOoM1BIlLLqw%3D%3D%0A&r=l5Ago9ekmVFZ3c4M6eauqrJWGwjf6fTb%2BP3CxbBFkVM%3D%0A&m=wgfMdGK1q8n48mRclOyEBEeb4OB1u5PwhRxswGxwjGY%3D%0A&s=6e87c42702c679927c4e0fab27ef8874b2a22707cb860f0de000df4798199e63
>>
>> So I think I'd like a few more people to review this one before I go
>> near it again :-)
> Oh, and I've thought the only tricky stuff is mapping the errno's
> correctly. I think if we have such cases of racy drivers then the right
> thing to do is to shovel this macro into drivers and slap a big comment
> about signalling races on top of that code.
>
> Thomas report doesn't say so, but I guess it's for via. Thomas, do you
> still have a vague recollection of what this has been about?

Yes, this was with via, but IIRC there were other drivers affected as well,
but OTOH, I think the kernel wait code was fixed for races some time
after that....

/Thomas





>
> Dave, do you want me to just respin this one with via left as-is (and the
> macro pushed into the via driver)?
>
> Thanks, Daniel

  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-18  9:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-11 10:34 [PATCH 00/50] more drm de-midlayering Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 01/50] drm/rcar: call drm_put_dev directly in the ->remove hook Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 02/50] drm/exynos: call drm_put_dev directly from ->remove Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 03/50] drm/imx: directly call drm_put_dev in ->remove Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 04/50] drm/tilcdc: call drm_put_dev directly from ->remove Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 19:39   ` Rob Clark
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 05/50] drm/omap: call drm_put_dev directly in ->remove Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 12:02   ` Rob Clark
2013-12-11 13:20     ` [PATCH] " Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 19:35       ` Rob Clark
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 06/50] drm/shmob: call drm_put_dev directly from ->remove hook Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 12:21   ` Laurent Pinchart
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 07/50] drm/armada: directly call drm_put_dev in ->remove Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 08/50] drm/msm: call drm_put_dev directly " Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 19:38   ` Rob Clark
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 09/50] drm: rip out drm_platform_exit Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 10/50] drm: restrict the device list for shadow attached drivers Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 11/50] drm/bufs: remove handling of _DRM_GEM mappings Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 12/50] drm: kill DRIVER_REQUIRE_AGP Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 13/50] drm: ->agp_init can't fail Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 14/50] drm: rip out drm_core_has_AGP Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 15/50] drm: remove agp_init() bus callback Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 16/50] drm: inline drm_agp_destroy Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 17/50] drm: kill the ->agp_destroy callback Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 18/50] drm: remove global_mutex locking around agp_init Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 19/50] drm: rip out DRM_AGP_MEM and DRM_AGP_KERN Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 20/50] drm: Kill DRM_HZ Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 21/50] drm: Kill DRM_IRQ_ARGS Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 22/50] drm: Kill DRM_WAKUP and DRM_INIT_WAITQUEUE Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 23/50] drm: Kill DRM_COPY_(TO|FROM)_USER Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 24/50] drm: Kill DRM_*MEMORYBARRIER Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 25/50] drm: Kill DRM_SUSER Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 26/50] drm/gma500: Remove dead code Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:46   ` Patrik Jakobsson
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 27/50] drm/irq: Replace DRM_WAIT_ON with wait_event Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 28/50] drm: Remove DRM_WAIT_ON from all drivers Daniel Vetter
2013-12-18  1:39   ` Dave Airlie
2013-12-18  8:25     ` Daniel Vetter
2013-12-18  9:37       ` Thomas Hellstrom [this message]
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 29/50] drm/irq: simplify irq checks in drm_wait_vblank Daniel Vetter
2013-12-12 11:29   ` Thierry Reding
2013-12-12 12:51     ` Daniel Vetter
2013-12-16 10:30   ` [PATCH] " Daniel Vetter
2013-12-16 11:18     ` Thierry Reding
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 30/50] drm/pci: fold in irq_by_busid support Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 31/50] drm/irq: drm_control is a legacy ioctl, so pci devices only Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 32/50] drm/irq: remove cargo-culted locking from irq_install/unistall Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 33/50] drm: remove drm_dev_to_irq from drivers Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 34/50] drm: kill drm_bus->bus_type Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 35/50] drm: Rip out totally bogus vga_switcheroo->can_switch locking Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 36/50] drm: rename dev->count_lock to dev->buf_lock Daniel Vetter
2013-12-12 11:33   ` Thierry Reding
2013-12-12 12:52     ` Daniel Vetter
2013-12-16 10:29   ` [PATCH] " Daniel Vetter
2013-12-16 11:17     ` Thierry Reding
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 37/50] drm/irq: track the irq installed in drm_irq_install in dev->irq Daniel Vetter
2013-12-16 10:29   ` [PATCH] " Daniel Vetter
2013-12-16 11:17     ` Thierry Reding
2013-12-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 38/50] drm/irq: Look up the pci irq directly in the drm_control ioctl Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:35 ` [PATCH 39/50] drm: pass the irq explicitly to drm_irq_install Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:35 ` [PATCH 40/50] drm: remove bus->get_irq implementations Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:35 ` [PATCH 41/50] drm: inline drm_pci_set_unique Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:35 ` [PATCH 42/50] drm: rip out dev->devname Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:35 ` [PATCH 43/50] drm: remove drm_bus->get_name Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:35 ` [PATCH 44/50] drm: Remove dev->kdriver Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:35 ` [PATCH 45/50] drm/<drivers>: don't set driver->dev_priv_size to 0 Daniel Vetter
2014-01-10 15:25   ` Damien Lespiau
2013-12-11 10:35 ` [PATCH 46/50] drm: store the gem vma offset manager in a typed pointer Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:53   ` David Herrmann
2013-12-11 13:24     ` [PATCH 1/2] " Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 13:24       ` [PATCH 2/2] drm/gma500: Remove unused function declaration Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 16:04         ` Patrik Jakobsson
2013-12-18  1:04       ` [PATCH 1/2] drm: store the gem vma offset manager in a typed pointer Dave Airlie
2013-12-18  1:22         ` Rob Clark
2013-12-11 10:35 ` [PATCH 47/50] drm: rip out dev->ioctl_count tracking Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:35 ` [PATCH 48/50] drm: Kill file_priv->ioctl_count tracking Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:35 ` [PATCH 49/50] drm: remove dev->vma_count Daniel Vetter
2013-12-11 10:35 ` [PATCH 50/50] drm: use memdup_user() as a cleanup Daniel Vetter
2013-12-12 18:08 ` [PATCH 00/50] more drm de-midlayering Jakob Bornecrantz

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