linux/include/uapi
Chris Wilson 1255501d86 drm/i915: Embrace the race in busy-ioctl
Daniel Vetter proposed a new challenge to the serialisation inside the
busy-ioctl that exposed a flaw that could result in us reporting the
wrong engine as being busy. If the request is reallocated as we test
its busyness and then reassigned to this object by another thread, we
would not notice that the test itself was incorrect.

We are faced with a choice of using __i915_gem_active_get_request_rcu()
to first acquire a reference to the request preventing the race, or to
acknowledge the race and accept the limitations upon the accuracy of the
busy flags. Note that we guarantee that we never falsely report the
object as idle (providing userspace itself doesn't race), and so the
most important use of the busy-ioctl and its guarantees are fulfilled.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1471337440-16777-1-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
2016-08-16 10:35:02 +01:00
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asm-generic asm-generic: Drop renameat syscall from default list 2016-05-05 00:42:21 +02:00
drm drm/i915: Embrace the race in busy-ioctl 2016-08-16 10:35:02 +01:00
linux virtio-vsock: fix include guard typo 2016-08-09 13:42:38 +03:00
misc cxl: Use fixed width predefined types in data structure. 2016-08-09 16:52:01 +10:00
mtd mtd: kill the nand_ecclayout struct 2016-05-05 23:51:51 +02:00
rdma Second round of merge items for 4.8 2016-08-04 20:26:31 -04:00
scsi
sound ALSA: uapi: Add three missing header files to Kbuild file 2016-05-31 17:33:32 +02:00
video
xen xen/evtchn: add IOCTL_EVTCHN_RESTRICT 2016-07-25 10:59:31 +01:00
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