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Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 14:00:12 +0200
From: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...labora.com>
To: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>
Cc: Adrián Larumbe <adrian.larumbe@...labora.com>, Qiang
 Yu <yuq825@...il.com>, Maarten Lankhorst
 <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>, Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
 David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>, Rob
 Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Steven Price <steven.price@....com>, Sumit
 Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>, Christian Koenig=
 <christian.koenig@....com>, Dmitry Osipenko
 <dmitry.osipenko@...labora.com>, Zack Rusin <zack.rusin@...adcom.com>,
 kernel@...labora.com, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
 lima@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] drm: Fix dma_resv deadlock at drm object pin
 time

On Thu, 2 May 2024 13:59:41 +0200
Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...labora.com> wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
> 
> On Thu, 2 May 2024 13:51:16 +0200
> Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > ignoring my r-b on patch 1, I'd like to rethink the current patches in 
> > general.
> > 
> > I think drm_gem_shmem_pin() should become the locked version of _pin(), 
> > so that drm_gem_shmem_object_pin() can call it directly. The existing 
> > _pin_unlocked() would not be needed any longer. Same for the _unpin() 
> > functions. This change would also fix the consistency with the semantics 
> > of the shmem _vmap() functions, which never take reservation locks.
> > 
> > There are only two external callers of drm_gem_shmem_pin(): the test 
> > case and panthor. These assume that drm_gem_shmem_pin() acquires the 
> > reservation lock. The test case should likely call drm_gem_pin() 
> > instead. That would acquire the reservation lock and the test would 
> > validate that shmem's pin helper integrates well into the overall GEM 
> > framework. The way panthor uses drm_gem_shmem_pin() looks wrong to me. 
> > For now, it could receive a wrapper that takes the lock and that's it.  
> 
> I do agree that the current inconsistencies in the naming is
> troublesome (sometimes _unlocked, sometimes _locked, with the version
> without any suffix meaning either _locked or _unlocked depending on
> what the suffixed version does), and that's the very reason I asked
> Dmitry to address that in his shrinker series [1]. So, ideally I'd
> prefer if patches from Dmitry's series were applied instead of
> trying to fix that here (IIRC, we had an ack from Maxime).

With the link this time :-).

[1]https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240105184624.508603-1-dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com/T/

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Boris


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