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Message-ID: <20090203114300.GB4523@viiv.ffwll.ch>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 12:43:00 +0100
From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, dri-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: + drivers-gpu-drm-i915-intel_lvdsc-fix-locking-snafu.patch
added to -mm tree
I can confirm that this patch fixes the problem. I tested with the locking
validator, and it looks like locking is now fine on my hardware.
Thanks everyone for tracking down this issue.
-Daniel
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 09:58:16AM +0000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > (cc's added)
> >
> > On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:25:08 +0100 Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 01:48:25PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:24:17 -0800
> > > > Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org> wrote:
> > > > > On Thursday, January 29, 2009 12:50 pm akpm@...ux-foundation.org wrote:
> >
> > So I assume that it would make sense to track this as a post-2.6.28
> > regression?
> >
>
> From ac048e1734699dd98f4bdf4daf2b9592d4a4d38e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>
> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 19:05:12 +1000
> Subject: [PATCH] i915: fix unneeded locking in i915 LVDS get modes code.
>
> This code is always called under the lock from the higher layers,
> so need to go locking it here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lvds.c | 2 --
> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lvds.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lvds.c
> index b36a521..cf8da64 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lvds.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lvds.c
> @@ -311,10 +311,8 @@ static int intel_lvds_get_modes(struct drm_connector *connector)
> if (dev_priv->panel_fixed_mode != NULL) {
> struct drm_display_mode *mode;
>
> - mutex_lock(&dev->mode_config.mutex);
> mode = drm_mode_duplicate(dev, dev_priv->panel_fixed_mode);
> drm_mode_probed_add(connector, mode);
> - mutex_unlock(&dev->mode_config.mutex);
>
> return 1;
> }
> --
> 1.6.0.6
>
--
Daniel Vetter
E-Mail: daniel.vetter@...ll.ch
Tel.: +41 (0)79 365 57 48
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