>
> I have an application that takes the hardware DRI lock and then does an
> usleep(1) while polling hardware status. Entering the polling function, I've
> verified that the lock is indeed taken
> 0x80000002, with 2 corresponding to the correct DRM context. Upon exit from
> the polling function, sometimes the X server has stolen the lock, 0x80000001,
> or even 0x1, signalling the X server already did it's processing.
> The lock has never been touched by the application in-between.
Don't sleep holding the lock unless you have a good reason, the X server
will take it back forcibly if it can't get it nicely as it is in charge
and a locked up Xserver waiting for a client is a bad idea in terms of
sharing resources.. it would be a DoS if a DRI client can just take the
lock and sit on it ..
take a look at the programs/Xserver/GL/dri/dri.c:DRISpinLockTimeout
/* Didn't get lock, so take it. The worst
that can happen is that there is some
garbage written to the wrong part of
the
framebuffer that a refresh will repair.
That's undesirable, but better than
locking the server. This should be a
very rare event. */
is a comment from that function..
Dave.
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