This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drm/nouveau: hold mutex while syncing to kernel channel
to the 3.13-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
drm-nouveau-hold-mutex-while-syncing-to-kernel-channel.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.13 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From d5c1e84b3a130f0743b218b33ff7d9cb493ab5b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maarten Lankhorst <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:48:58 +0100
Subject: drm/nouveau: hold mutex while syncing to kernel channel
From: Maarten Lankhorst <[email protected]>
commit d5c1e84b3a130f0743b218b33ff7d9cb493ab5b4 upstream.
Not holding the mutex potentially causes corruption of the kernel
channel when page flipping.
Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_display.c | 15 ++++++++-------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_display.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_display.c
@@ -603,6 +603,14 @@ nouveau_crtc_page_flip(struct drm_crtc *
if (!s)
return -ENOMEM;
+ if (new_bo != old_bo) {
+ ret = nouveau_bo_pin(new_bo, TTM_PL_FLAG_VRAM);
+ if (ret)
+ goto fail_free;
+ }
+
+ mutex_lock(&chan->cli->mutex);
+
/* synchronise rendering channel with the kernel's channel */
spin_lock(&new_bo->bo.bdev->fence_lock);
fence = nouveau_fence_ref(new_bo->bo.sync_obj);
@@ -612,13 +620,6 @@ nouveau_crtc_page_flip(struct drm_crtc *
if (ret)
goto fail_free;
- if (new_bo != old_bo) {
- ret = nouveau_bo_pin(new_bo, TTM_PL_FLAG_VRAM);
- if (ret)
- goto fail_free;
- }
-
- mutex_lock(&chan->cli->mutex);
ret = ttm_bo_reserve(&old_bo->bo, true, false, false, NULL);
if (ret)
goto fail_unpin;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from
[email protected] are
queue-3.13/drm-nouveau-fix-m2mf-copy-to-tiled-gart.patch
queue-3.13/drm-nouveau-hold-mutex-while-syncing-to-kernel-channel.patch
queue-3.13/drm-nouveau-fix-lock-unbalance-in-nouveau_crtc_page_flip.patch
queue-3.13/drm-vmwgfx-fix-regression-caused-by-drm-ttm-make-ttm-reservation-calls-behave-like-reservation-calls.patch
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