gem context refcounting is another exercise in least locking design it
seems, where most things get destroyed upon context closure (which can
race with anything really). Only the actual memory allocation and the
locks survive while holding a reference.
This tripped up Jason when reimplementing the single timeline feature
in
commit 00dae4d3d3
Author: Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net>
Date: Thu Jul 8 10:48:12 2021 -0500
drm/i915: Implement SINGLE_TIMELINE with a syncobj (v4)
We could fix the bug by holding ctx->mutex in execbuf and clear the
pointer (again while holding the mutex) context_close, but it's
cleaner to just make the context object actually invariant over its
_entire_ lifetime. This way any other ioctl that's potentially racing,
but holding a full reference, can still rely on ctx->syncobj being
an immutable pointer. Which without this change, is not the case.
Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Fixes: 00dae4d3d3 ("drm/i915: Implement SINGLE_TIMELINE with a syncobj (v4)")
Cc: Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Thomas Hellström" <thomas.hellstrom@intel.com>
Cc: Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210902142057.929669-2-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
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