drm/i915: Avoid blocking the kworker thread on a stuck mutex
Just reschedule the retire requests again if the device is currently
busy. The request list will be pruned along other paths so will never
grow unbounded and so we can afford to miss the occasional pruning.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
index 9a8e675..fe1424c 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -1901,7 +1901,12 @@
mm.retire_work.work);
dev = dev_priv->dev;
- mutex_lock(&dev->struct_mutex);
+ /* Come back later if the device is busy... */
+ if (!mutex_trylock(&dev->struct_mutex)) {
+ queue_delayed_work(dev_priv->wq, &dev_priv->mm.retire_work, HZ);
+ return;
+ }
+
i915_gem_retire_requests(dev);
if (!dev_priv->mm.suspended &&