Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] mutex: Export an interface to wrap a mutex lock

On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 09:01:55AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: > In i915, we have a big mutex around our device struct - every time before > we attempt to communicate with the GPU, we acquire the mutex. This makes > it a convenient juncture to place our GPU error handling - before we take > the mute

[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] mutex: Export an interface to wrap a mutex lock

In i915, we have a big mutex around our device struct - every time before we attempt to communicate with the GPU, we acquire the mutex. This makes it a convenient juncture to place our GPU error handling - before we take the mutex we first check whether the GPU is hung or whether we are in the proc