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Commit 5a198b8c authored by Chris Wilson's avatar Chris Wilson
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drm/i915: Do not overwrite the request with zero on reallocation



When using RCU lookup for the request, commit 0eafec6d ("drm/i915:
Enable lockless lookup of request tracking via RCU"), we acknowledge that
we may race with another thread that could have reallocated the request.
In order for the first thread not to blow up, the second thread must not
clear the request completed before overwriting it. In the RCU lookup, we
allow for the engine/seqno to be replaced but we do not allow for it to
be zeroed.

The choice we make is to either add extra checking to the RCU lookup, or
embrace the inherent races (as intended). It is more complicated as we
need to manually clear everything we depend upon being zero initialised,
but we benefit from not emiting the memset() to clear the entire
frequently allocated structure (that memset turns up in throughput
profiles). And at the same time, the lookup remains flexible for future
adjustments.

v2: Old style LRC requires another variable to be initialize. (The
danger inherent in not zeroing everything.)
v3: request->batch also needs to be cleared
v4: signaling.tsk is no long used unset, but pid still exists

Fixes: 0eafec6d ("drm/i915: Enable lockless lookup of request...")
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: "Goel, Akash" <akash.goel@intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470731014-6894-2-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
parent edf6b76f
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