linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 054/164] drm/nouveau/tmr: handle races with hw when updating the next alarm time

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Date:   Tue, 23 May 2017 22:07:51 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 054/164] drm/nouveau/tmr: handle races with hw when updating the next alarm time

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>

commit 1b0f84380b10ee97f7d2dd191294de9017e94d1d upstream.

If the time to the next alarm is short enough, we could race with HW and
end up with an ~4 second delay until it triggers.

Fix this by checking again after we update HW.

Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/timer/base.c |   26 ++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/timer/base.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/timer/base.c
@@ -36,23 +36,29 @@ nvkm_timer_alarm_trigger(struct nvkm_tim
 	unsigned long flags;
 	LIST_HEAD(exec);
 
-	/* move any due alarms off the pending list */
+	/* Process pending alarms. */
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&tmr->lock, flags);
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(alarm, atemp, &tmr->alarms, head) {
-		if (alarm->timestamp <= nvkm_timer_read(tmr))
-			list_move_tail(&alarm->head, &exec);
+		/* Have we hit the earliest alarm that hasn't gone off? */
+		if (alarm->timestamp > nvkm_timer_read(tmr)) {
+			/* Schedule it.  If we didn't race, we're done. */
+			tmr->func->alarm_init(tmr, alarm->timestamp);
+			if (alarm->timestamp > nvkm_timer_read(tmr))
+				break;
+		}
+
+		/* Move to completed list.  We'll drop the lock before
+		 * executing the callback so it can reschedule itself.
+		 */
+		list_move_tail(&alarm->head, &exec);
 	}
 
-	/* reschedule interrupt for next alarm time */
-	if (!list_empty(&tmr->alarms)) {
-		alarm = list_first_entry(&tmr->alarms, typeof(*alarm), head);
-		tmr->func->alarm_init(tmr, alarm->timestamp);
-	} else {
+	/* Shut down interrupt if no more pending alarms. */
+	if (list_empty(&tmr->alarms))
 		tmr->func->alarm_fini(tmr);
-	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tmr->lock, flags);
 
-	/* execute any pending alarm handlers */
+	/* Execute completed callbacks. */
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(alarm, atemp, &exec, head) {
 		list_del_init(&alarm->head);
 		alarm->func(alarm);