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[3/3] drm/v3d: Add a note about locking of v3d_fence_create().

Message ID 20180605190302.18279-3-eric@anholt.net (mailing list archive)
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Eric Anholt June 5, 2018, 7:03 p.m. UTC
This isn't the first time I've had to argue to myself why the '++' was
safe.

Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
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 drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_fence.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Comments

Lucas Stach June 8, 2018, 10:24 a.m. UTC | #1
Am Dienstag, den 05.06.2018, 12:03 -0700 schrieb Eric Anholt:
> This isn't the first time I've had to argue to myself why the '++' was
> safe.

And now you need to do the same thing with me...

> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_fence.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_fence.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_fence.c
> index bfe31a89668b..6265e9ab4a13 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_fence.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_fence.c
> @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
>  
>  #include "v3d_drv.h"
>  
> +/* Note that V3D fences are created during v3d_job_run(), so we're
> + * already implictly locked.
> + */
I don't see where you would be locked in the job_run path. I think what
you mean is that this path needs no locks, as it is driven by a single
scheduler thread, right?

Regards,
Lucas
Eric Anholt June 8, 2018, 5:08 p.m. UTC | #2
Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de> writes:

> Am Dienstag, den 05.06.2018, 12:03 -0700 schrieb Eric Anholt:
>> This isn't the first time I've had to argue to myself why the '++' was
>> safe.
>
> And now you need to do the same thing with me...
>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
>> ---
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_fence.c | 3 +++
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_fence.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_fence.c
>> index bfe31a89668b..6265e9ab4a13 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_fence.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_fence.c
>> @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
>>  
>>  #include "v3d_drv.h"
>>  
>> +/* Note that V3D fences are created during v3d_job_run(), so we're
>> + * already implictly locked.
>> + */
> I don't see where you would be locked in the job_run path. I think what
> you mean is that this path needs no locks, as it is driven by a single
> scheduler thread, right?

Yeah, it's only called from run_job, and run_job can't reenter.
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diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_fence.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_fence.c
index bfe31a89668b..6265e9ab4a13 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_fence.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_fence.c
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ 
 
 #include "v3d_drv.h"
 
+/* Note that V3D fences are created during v3d_job_run(), so we're
+ * already implictly locked.
+ */
 struct dma_fence *v3d_fence_create(struct v3d_dev *v3d, enum v3d_queue queue)
 {
 	struct v3d_fence *fence;