linux/include
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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acpi treewide: replace obsolete _refok by __ref 2016-08-02 17:31:41 -04:00
asm-generic locking/qrwlock: Fix write unlock bug on big endian systems 2016-08-10 14:13:27 +02:00
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crypto A number of improvements for the /dev/random driver; the most 2016-07-27 15:11:55 -07:00
drm Merge remote-tracking branch 'airlied/drm-next' into drm-intel-next-queued 2016-08-15 10:41:47 +02:00
dt-bindings ARM: DT updates for v4.8 2016-08-01 18:37:45 -04:00
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kvm KVM/ARM Changes for v4.8 - Take 2 2016-08-04 13:59:56 +02:00
linux Merge tag 'topic/drm-misc-2016-08-12' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm-intel into drm-next 2016-08-15 16:46:36 +10:00
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media dma-mapping: use unsigned long for dma_attrs 2016-08-04 08:50:07 -04:00
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misc cxl: Add cxl_check_and_switch_mode() API to switch bi-modal cards 2016-07-14 20:28:11 +10:00
net virtio/vhost: new features for 4.8 2016-08-06 09:20:13 -04:00
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ras tracing, RAS: Cleanup on __get_str() usage 2016-07-15 15:51:16 -04:00
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scsi Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2016-08-04 20:04:37 -04:00
soc ARM: SoC driver updates for v4.8 2016-08-01 18:36:01 -04:00
sound Merge tag 'drm-for-v4.8' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux 2016-08-01 21:44:08 -04:00
target target: Fix ordered task CHECK_CONDITION early exception handling 2016-07-20 00:58:40 -07:00
trace Luiz Capitulino noticed that the tick_stop tracepoint wasn't being parsed 2016-08-09 10:34:09 -07:00
uapi drm/i915: Embrace the race in busy-ioctl 2016-08-16 10:35:02 +01:00
video gpu: ipu-v3: Add missing IDMAC channel names 2016-08-08 11:44:20 +02:00
xen dma-mapping: use unsigned long for dma_attrs 2016-08-04 08:50:07 -04:00
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