linux-kernel - [PATCH RT 6/8] drm/vmwgfx: Drop preempt_disable() in vmw_fifo_ping

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Message-Id: <20200306184052.697292686@goodmis.org>
Date:   Fri, 06 Mar 2020 13:40:41 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Carsten Emde <C.Emde@...dl.org>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>,
        Julia Cartwright <julia@...com>,
        Daniel Wagner <wagi@...om.org>,
        Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org>,
        "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa@...il.mit.edu>
Subject: [PATCH RT 6/8] drm/vmwgfx: Drop preempt_disable() in vmw_fifo_ping_host()

4.19.106-rt45-rc1 stable review patch.
If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>

[ Upstream commit b901491e7b9b7a676818d84e482b69be72fc142f ]

vmw_fifo_ping_host() disables preemption around a test and a register
write via vmw_write(). The write function acquires a spinlock_t typed
lock which is not allowed in a preempt_disable()ed section on
PREEMPT_RT. This has been reported in the bugzilla.

It has been explained by Thomas Hellstrom that this preempt_disable()ed
section is not required for correctness.

Remove the preempt_disable() section.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206591
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0b5e1c65d89951de993deab06d1d197b40fd67aa.camel@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fifo.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fifo.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fifo.c
index d0fd147ef75f..fb5a3461bb8c 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fifo.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fifo.c
@@ -167,10 +167,8 @@ void vmw_fifo_ping_host(struct vmw_private *dev_priv, uint32_t reason)
 {
 	u32 *fifo_mem = dev_priv->mmio_virt;
 
-	preempt_disable();
 	if (cmpxchg(fifo_mem + SVGA_FIFO_BUSY, 0, 1) == 0)
 		vmw_write(dev_priv, SVGA_REG_SYNC, reason);
-	preempt_enable();
 }
 
 void vmw_fifo_release(struct vmw_private *dev_priv, struct vmw_fifo_state *fifo)
-- 
2.25.0