From fc8fd40eb29a936cc689d0008863d39a67741c67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Vetter Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 20:46:34 +0100 Subject: drm: Rip out totally bogus vga_switcheroo->can_switch locking So I just wanted to add a new field to struct drm_device and accidentally stumbled over something. According to comments dev->open_count is protected by dev->count_lock, but that's totally not the case. It's protected by drm_global_mutex. Unfortunately the vga switcheroo callbacks took this comment at face value. The problem is that we can't just take the drm_global_mutex because: - It would lead to a locking inversion with the driver load/unload paths. - It wouldn't actually protect anything, for that we'd need to wrap the entire vga switcheroo code in the drm_global_mutex. And I'm not sure whether that would actually solve anything. What we probably want is a try_to_grab_switcheroo reference kind of thing which is used in the driver's ->open callback. Then we could move all that ->can_switch madness into the vga switcheroo core where it really belongs. But since that would amount to real work take the easy way out and just add a comment. It's definitely not going to make anything worse since doing switcheroo state changes while restarting X just isn't recommended. Even though the delayed switching code does exactly that. v2: - Simplify the ->can_switch implementations more (Thierry) - Fix comment about the dev->open_count locking (Thierry) Cc: Thierry Reding Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart (v1) Reviewed-by: Thierry Reding Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter --- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_vga.c | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_vga.c') diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_vga.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_vga.c index fb84da3..4f4c3fe 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_vga.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_vga.c @@ -64,12 +64,13 @@ static bool nouveau_switcheroo_can_switch(struct pci_dev *pdev) { struct drm_device *dev = pci_get_drvdata(pdev); - bool can_switch; - spin_lock(&dev->count_lock); - can_switch = (dev->open_count == 0); - spin_unlock(&dev->count_lock); - return can_switch; + /* + * FIXME: open_count is protected by drm_global_mutex but that would lead to + * locking inversion with the driver load path. And the access here is + * completely racy anyway. So don't bother with locking for now. + */ + return dev->open_count == 0; } static const struct vga_switcheroo_client_ops -- cgit v1.1