linux/drivers/gpu
Jerome Glisse a698cf34ea drm: mm always protect change to unused_nodes with unused_lock spinlock
unused_nodes modification needs to be protected by unused_lock spinlock.
Here is an example of an usage where there is no such protection without
this patch.

  Process 1: 1-drm_mm_pre_get(this function modify unused_nodes list)
             2-spin_lock(spinlock protecting mm struct)
             3-drm_mm_put_block(this function might modify unused_nodes
               list but doesn't protect modification with unused_lock)
             4-spin_unlock(spinlock protecting mm struct)
  Process2:  1-drm_mm_pre_get(this function modify unused_nodes list)
At this point Process1 & Process2 might both be doing modification to
unused_nodes list. This patch add unused_lock protection into
drm_mm_put_block to avoid such issue.

Signed-off-by: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2009-11-24 13:02:18 +10:00
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drm drm: mm always protect change to unused_nodes with unused_lock spinlock 2009-11-24 13:02:18 +10:00
vga PCI/vgaarb: cleanup some warnings + cleanup some comments. 2009-09-09 13:29:41 -07:00
Makefile PCI/GPU: implement VGA arbitration on Linux 2009-09-09 13:29:36 -07:00