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drm/i915: fix hpd work vs. flush_work in the pageflip code deadlock
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Historically we've run our own driver hotplug handling in our own
work-queue, which then launched the drm core hotplug handling in the
system workqueue. This is important since we flush our own driver
workqueue in the pageflip code while hodling modeset locks, and only
the drm hotplug code grabbed these locks. But with

commit 69787f7
Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Date:   Tue Oct 23 18:23:34 2012 +0000

    drm: run the hpd irq event code directly

this was changed and now we could deadlock in our flip handler if
there's a hotplug work blocking the progress of the crucial unpin
works. So this broke the careful deadlock avoidance implemented in

commit b4a98e5
Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Date:   Thu Nov 1 09:26:26 2012 +0000

    drm/i915: Flush outstanding unpin tasks before pageflipping

Since the rule thus far has been that work items on our own workqueue
may never grab modeset locks simply restore that rule again.

v2: Add a comment to the declaration of dev_priv->wq to warn readers
about the tricky implications of using it. Suggested by Chris Wilson.

Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Stuart Abercrombie <sabercrombie@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Stuart Abercrombie <sabercrombie@chromium.org>
References: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.drivers.intel/26239
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
[danvet: Squash in a comment at the place where we schedule the work.
Requested after-the-fact by Chris on irc since the hpd work isn't the
only place we botch this.]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
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Expand Up @@ -1236,6 +1236,13 @@ typedef struct drm_i915_private {

unsigned int fsb_freq, mem_freq, is_ddr3;

/**
* wq - Driver workqueue for GEM.
*
* NOTE: Work items scheduled here are not allowed to grab any modeset
* locks, for otherwise the flushing done in the pageflip code will
* result in deadlocks.
*/
struct workqueue_struct *wq;

/* Display functions */
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9 changes: 7 additions & 2 deletions drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c
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Expand Up @@ -1027,8 +1027,13 @@ static inline void intel_hpd_irq_handler(struct drm_device *dev,
dev_priv->display.hpd_irq_setup(dev);
spin_unlock(&dev_priv->irq_lock);

queue_work(dev_priv->wq,
&dev_priv->hotplug_work);
/*
* Our hotplug handler can grab modeset locks (by calling down into the
* fb helpers). Hence it must not be run on our own dev-priv->wq work
* queue for otherwise the flush_work in the pageflip code will
* deadlock.
*/
schedule_work(&dev_priv->hotplug_work);
}

static void gmbus_irq_handler(struct drm_device *dev)
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