From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>,
dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>, Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run>,
David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
"open list:DRM DRIVER FOR MSM ADRENO GPU"
<linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org>,
"open list:DRM DRIVER FOR MSM ADRENO GPU"
<freedreno@lists.freedesktop.org>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Menon, Nishanth" <nm@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/22] drm/msm: Do rpm get sooner in the submit path
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 16:54:13 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201020112413.xbk2vow2kgjky3pb@vireshk-i7> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKMK7uHAgVUPHOPxDdt3LeAWqokxfuzqjZj4qqFkoKxFbRbRrg@mail.gmail.com>
On 20-10-20, 12:56, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> Yeah that's bad practice. Generally you shouldn't need to hold locks
> in setup/teardown code, since there's no other thread which can
> possible hold a reference to anything your touching anymore. Ofc
> excluding quickly grabbing/dropping a lock to insert/remove objects
> into lists and stuff.
>
> The other reason is that especially with anything related to sysfs or
> debugfs, the locking dependencies you're pulling in are enormous: vfs
> locks pull in mm locks (due to mmap) and at that point there's pretty
> much nothing left you're allowed to hold while acquiring such a lock.
> For simple drivers this is no issue, but for fancy drivers (like gpu
> drivers) which need to interact with core mm) this means your
> subsystem is a major pain to use.
>
> Usually the correct fix is to only hold your subsystem locks in
> setup/teardown when absolutely required, and fix any data
> inconsistency issues by reordering your setup/teardown code: When you
> register as the last step and unregister as the first step, there's no
> need for any additional locking. And hence no need to call debugfs
> functions while holding your subsystem locks.
>
> The catch phrase I use for this is "don't solve object lifetime issues
> with locking". Instead use refcounting and careful ordering in
> setup/teardown code.
This is exactly what I have done in the OPP core, the locks were taken
only when really necessary, though as we have seen now I have missed
that at a single place and that should be fixed as well. Will do that,
thanks.
--
viresh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-20 11:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-12 2:09 [PATCH 00/14] drm/msm: de-struct_mutex-ification Rob Clark
2020-10-12 2:09 ` [PATCH v2 01/22] drm/msm/gem: Add obj->lock wrappers Rob Clark
2020-10-12 2:09 ` [PATCH v2 02/22] drm/msm/gem: Rename internal get_iova_locked helper Rob Clark
2020-10-12 2:09 ` [PATCH v2 03/22] drm/msm/gem: Move prototypes to msm_gem.h Rob Clark
2020-10-12 2:09 ` [PATCH v2 04/22] drm/msm/gem: Add some _locked() helpers Rob Clark
2020-10-12 2:09 ` [PATCH v2 05/22] drm/msm/gem: Move locking in shrinker path Rob Clark
2020-10-12 2:09 ` [PATCH v2 06/22] drm/msm/submit: Move copy_from_user ahead of locking bos Rob Clark
2020-10-12 2:09 ` [PATCH v2 07/22] drm/msm: Do rpm get sooner in the submit path Rob Clark
2020-10-12 14:35 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-10-12 15:43 ` Rob Clark
2020-10-20 9:07 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-10-20 10:56 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-10-20 11:24 ` Viresh Kumar [this message]
2020-10-20 11:42 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-10-20 14:13 ` Rob Clark
2020-10-22 8:06 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-10-25 17:39 ` Rob Clark
2020-10-27 11:35 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-11-03 5:47 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-11-03 16:50 ` Rob Clark
2020-11-04 3:03 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-11-05 19:24 ` Rob Clark
2020-11-06 7:16 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-11-17 10:03 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-11-17 17:02 ` Rob Clark
2020-11-18 5:28 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-11-18 16:53 ` Rob Clark
2020-11-19 6:05 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-12-07 6:16 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-12-16 5:22 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-10-12 2:09 ` [PATCH v2 08/22] drm/msm/gem: Switch over to obj->resv for locking Rob Clark
2020-10-12 2:09 ` [PATCH v2 09/22] drm/msm: Use correct drm_gem_object_put() in fail case Rob Clark
2020-10-12 2:09 ` [PATCH v2 10/22] drm/msm: Drop chatty trace Rob Clark
2020-10-12 2:09 ` [PATCH v2 11/22] drm/msm: Move update_fences() Rob Clark
2020-10-12 2:09 ` [PATCH v2 12/22] drm/msm: Add priv->mm_lock to protect active/inactive lists Rob Clark
2020-10-12 2:09 ` [PATCH v2 13/22] drm/msm: Document and rename preempt_lock Rob Clark
2020-10-12 2:09 ` [PATCH v2 14/22] drm/msm: Protect ring->submits with it's own lock Rob Clark
2020-10-12 2:09 ` [PATCH v2 15/22] drm/msm: Refcount submits Rob Clark
2020-10-12 2:09 ` [PATCH v2 16/22] drm/msm: Remove obj->gpu Rob Clark
2020-10-12 2:09 ` [PATCH v2 17/22] drm/msm: Drop struct_mutex from the retire path Rob Clark
2020-10-12 2:09 ` [PATCH v2 18/22] drm/msm: Drop struct_mutex in free_object() path Rob Clark
2020-10-12 2:09 ` [PATCH v2 19/22] drm/msm: remove msm_gem_free_work Rob Clark
2020-10-12 2:09 ` [PATCH v2 20/22] drm/msm: drop struct_mutex in madvise path Rob Clark
2020-10-12 2:09 ` [PATCH v2 21/22] drm/msm: Drop struct_mutex in shrinker path Rob Clark
2020-10-12 2:09 ` [PATCH v2 22/22] drm/msm: Don't implicit-sync if only a single ring Rob Clark
2020-10-12 14:40 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-10-12 15:07 ` Rob Clark
2020-10-13 11:08 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-10-13 16:15 ` [Freedreno] " Rob Clark
2020-10-15 8:22 ` Daniel Vetter
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