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From: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] drm/i915: close PM interrupt masking races in the rps work func
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 23:51:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110904235152.36175596@bwidawsk.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110905063807.GA2921@phenom.ffwll.local>

On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 08:38:07 +0200
Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 09:38:56PM +0000, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> > Oops, you're totally right, I think I meant:
> > -       I915_WRITE(GEN6_PMIMR, pm_imr & ~pm_iir);
> > +       I915_WRITE(GEN6_PMIMR, dev_priv->pm_iir);
> 
> Imo still racy without the irqsafe rps_lock around it. gcc is free to
> compile that into a separate load and store which the irq handler can
> get in between and change dev_priv->pm_iir and PMIMR. The race is now
> only one instruction wide, though ;-)
> -Daniel

You are absolutely correct. The modification to GEN6_PMIMR must be
within the protection of rps_lock.

Ben

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-05  6:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-04  3:24 [PATCH] drm/i915: Fix rps irq warning Ben Widawsky
2011-09-04  9:03 ` Chris Wilson
2011-09-04 15:49   ` Ben Widawsky
2011-09-04 15:34     ` [PATCH 0/3] slaughter rps races some more Daniel Vetter
2011-09-04 15:35       ` [PATCH 1/3] drm/i915: close PM interrupt masking races in the irq handler Daniel Vetter
2011-09-04 17:09         ` Ben Widawsky
2011-09-04 15:35       ` [PATCH 2/3] drm/i915: close PM interrupt masking races in the rps work func Daniel Vetter
2011-09-04 17:08         ` Ben Widawsky
2011-09-04 19:26           ` Daniel Vetter
2011-09-04 19:56             ` Ben Widawsky
2011-09-04 20:10               ` Daniel Vetter
2011-09-04 21:38                 ` Ben Widawsky
2011-09-05  6:38                   ` Daniel Vetter
2011-09-05  6:51                     ` Ben Widawsky [this message]
2011-09-05 12:15                       ` Chris Wilson
2011-09-04 15:35       ` [PATCH 3/3] drm/i915: close rps work vs. rps disable races Daniel Vetter
2011-09-04 17:23         ` Ben Widawsky
2011-09-04 19:17           ` Daniel Vetter
2011-09-04 19:50             ` Ben Widawsky
2011-09-04 19:57               ` Daniel Vetter
2011-09-05  8:15                 ` [PATCH] drm/i915: properly cancel rps_work on module unload Daniel Vetter
2011-09-05 17:27                   ` Ben Widawsky
2011-09-08 12:00 [PATCH 1/3] drm/i915: close PM interrupt masking races in the irq handler Daniel Vetter
2011-09-08 12:00 ` [PATCH 2/3] drm/i915: close PM interrupt masking races in the rps work func Daniel Vetter
2011-09-08 15:19   ` Ben Widawsky

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