linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] drm/fb-helper: Don't call dirty callback for untouched clips

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Message-Id: <20161020150530.5787-1-tiwai@suse.de>
Date:   Thu, 20 Oct 2016 17:05:30 +0200
From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:     dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Ville Syrjälä 
        <ville.syrjala@...ux.intel.com>,
        Noralf Trønnes <noralf@...nnes.org>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
Subject: [PATCH v2] drm/fb-helper: Don't call dirty callback for untouched clips

Since 4.7 kernel, we've seen the error messages like

 kernel: [TTM] Buffer eviction failed
 kernel: qxl 0000:00:02.0: object_init failed for (4026540032, 0x00000001)
 kernel: [drm:qxl_alloc_bo_reserved [qxl]] *ERROR* failed to allocate VRAM BO

on QXL when switching and accessing on VT.  The culprit was the
generic deferred_io code (qxl driver switched to it since 4.7).
There is a race between the dirty clip update and the call of
callback.

In drm_fb_helper_dirty(), the dirty clip is updated in the spinlock,
while it kicks off the update worker outside the spinlock.  Meanwhile
the update worker clears the dirty clip in the spinlock, too.  Thus,
when drm_fb_helper_dirty() is called concurrently, schedule_work() is
called after the clip is cleared in the first worker call.

This patch addresses it by validating the clip before calling the
dirty fb callback.

Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98322
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1003298
Fixes: eaa434defaca ('drm/fb-helper: Add fb_deferred_io support')
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
---
v1->v2: simplified the code as suggested by Ville

 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
index 03414bde1f15..aae7df01864d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
@@ -644,7 +644,9 @@ static void drm_fb_helper_dirty_work(struct work_struct *work)
 	clip->x2 = clip->y2 = 0;
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&helper->dirty_lock, flags);
 
-	helper->fb->funcs->dirty(helper->fb, NULL, 0, 0, &clip_copy, 1);
+	/* call dirty callback only when it has been really touched */
+	if (clip_copy.x1 < clip_copy.x2 && clip_copy.y1 < clip_copy.y2)
+		helper->fb->funcs->dirty(helper->fb, NULL, 0, 0, &clip_copy, 1);
 }
 
 /**
-- 
2.10.1