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SubjectRe: Deadlock cpuctx_mutex / pmus_lock / &mm->mmap_lock#2
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 03:19:14PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 01:25:11PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Quoting Peter Zijlstra (2020-11-19 13:02:44)
> > >
> > > Chris, I suspect this is due to i915 calling stop machine with all sorts
> > > of locks held. Is there anything to be done about this? stop_machine()
> > > is really nasty to begin with.
> > >
> > > What problem is it typing to solve?
> >
> > If there is any concurrent access through a PCI bar (that is exported to
> > userspace via mmap) as the GTT is updated, results in undefined HW
> > behaviour (where that is not limited to users writing to other system
> > pages).
> >
> > stop_machine() is the most foolproof method we know that works.
>
> Sorry, I don't understand. It tries to do what? And why does it need to
> do that holding locks.
>
> Really, this is very bad form.

Having poked around at the code; do I get it correct that this is using
stop-machine to set IOMMU page-table entries, because the hardware
cannot deal with two CPUs writing to the same device page-tables; which
would be possible because that memory is exposed through PCI bars?

Can't you simply exclude that memory from being visible through the PCI
bar crud? Having to use stop-machine seems tragic, doubly so because
nobody should actually be having that memory mapped in the first place.


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