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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/5] dma-buf: remove fallback for !CONFIG_DMA_SHARED_BUFFER
On 10/03/2012 10:53 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> wrote:
>>>> So if I understand you correctly, the reservation changes in TTM are
>>>> motivated by the
>>>> fact that otherwise, in the generic reservation code, lockdep can only be
>>>> annotated for a trylock and not a waiting lock, when it *is* in fact a
>>>> waiting lock.
>>>>
>>>> I'm completely unfamiliar with setting up lockdep annotations, but the
>>>> only
>>>> place a
>>>> deadlock might occur is if the trylock fails and we do a
>>>> wait_for_unreserve().
>>>> Isn't it possible to annotate the call to wait_for_unreserve() just like
>>>> an
>>>> interruptible waiting lock
>>>> (that is always interrupted, but at least any deadlock will be catched?).
>>> Hm, I have to admit that idea hasn't crossed my mind, but it's indeed
>>> a hole in our current reservation lockdep annotations - since we're
>>> blocking for the unreserve, other threads could potential block
>>> waiting on us to release a lock we're holding already, resulting in a
>>> deadlock.
>>>
>>> Since no other locking primitive that I know of has this
>>> wait_for_unlocked interface, I don't know how we could map this in
>>> lockdep. One idea is to grab the lock and release it again immediately
>>> (only in the annotations, not the real lock ofc). But I need to check
>>> the lockdep code to see whether that doesn't trip it up.
>>
>> I imagine doing the same as mutex_lock_interruptible() does in the
>> interrupted path should work...
> It simply calls the unlock lockdep annotation function if it breaks
> out. So doing a lock/unlock cycle in wait_unreserve should do what we
> want.
>
> And to properly annotate the ttm reserve paths we could just add an
> unconditional wait_unreserve call at the beginning like you suggested
> (maybe with #ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING in case ppl freak out about
> the added atomic read in the uncontended case).
> -Daniel

I think atomic_read()s are cheap, at least on intel as IIRC they don't
require bus locking,
still I think we should keep it within CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING

which btw reminds me there's an optimization that can be done in that
one should really only
call atomic_cmpxchg() if a preceding atomic_read() hints that it will
succeed.

Now, does this mean TTM can keep the atomic reserve <-> lru list removal?

Thanks,
Thomas




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