drm/nouveau: Don't take struct_mutex around the pushbuf IOCTL.
We don't need it and it can lead to lock order inversions with respect
to drm_global_mutex, potentially causing dead locks.
Signed-off-by: Francisco Jerez <currojerez@riseup.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c
index 93711df..10cace9 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@
list_del(&nvbo->entry);
nvbo->reserved_by = NULL;
ttm_bo_unreserve(&nvbo->bo);
- drm_gem_object_unreference(nvbo->gem);
+ drm_gem_object_unreference_unlocked(nvbo->gem);
}
}
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@
validate_fini(op, NULL);
if (ret == -EAGAIN)
ret = ttm_bo_wait_unreserved(&nvbo->bo, false);
- drm_gem_object_unreference(gem);
+ drm_gem_object_unreference_unlocked(gem);
if (ret) {
NV_ERROR(dev, "fail reserve\n");
return ret;
@@ -616,8 +616,6 @@
return PTR_ERR(bo);
}
- mutex_lock(&dev->struct_mutex);
-
/* Mark push buffers as being used on PFIFO, the validation code
* will then make sure that if the pushbuf bo moves, that they
* happen on the kernel channel, which will in turn cause a sync
@@ -731,7 +729,6 @@
out:
validate_fini(&op, fence);
nouveau_fence_unref((void**)&fence);
- mutex_unlock(&dev->struct_mutex);
kfree(bo);
kfree(push);