[PATCH] drm/amdgpu: amdgpu_fence: remove ops->release()
From: Philipp Stanner
Date: Tue Oct 27 2026 - 09:45:58 EST
amdgpu's fence implements the deprecated fence_ops->release() callback
which prevents the driver from ever unloading robustly.
amdgpu's implementation merely uses a call_rcu() that performs a kfree()
on the fence - this functionality is already centrally implemented by
the dma_fence backend.
The dma_fence backend invokes a kfree_rcu() on the dma_fence, which is
fine since this is always the first member of a struct amdgpu_fence.
Thus, amdgpu's implementation is redundant.
Remove fence_ops->release().
Signed-off-by: Philipp Stanner <phasta@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Just saw that this should be unnecessary? Don't have a setup for amdgpu
testing right now, so please take a close look, just compile-tested.
P.
---
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_fence.c | 29 -----------------------
1 file changed, 29 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_fence.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_fence.c
index 3043ad041bb4..3f8b2571d74a 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_fence.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_fence.c
@@ -892,39 +892,10 @@ static bool amdgpu_fence_enable_signaling(struct dma_fence *f)
return true;
}
-/**
- * amdgpu_fence_free - free up the fence memory
- *
- * @rcu: RCU callback head
- *
- * Free up the fence memory after the RCU grace period.
- */
-static void amdgpu_fence_free(struct rcu_head *rcu)
-{
- struct dma_fence *f = container_of(rcu, struct dma_fence, rcu);
-
- /* free fence_slab if it's separated fence*/
- kfree(to_amdgpu_fence(f));
-}
-
-/**
- * amdgpu_fence_release - callback that fence can be freed
- *
- * @f: fence
- *
- * This function is called when the reference count becomes zero.
- * It just RCU schedules freeing up the fence.
- */
-static void amdgpu_fence_release(struct dma_fence *f)
-{
- call_rcu(&f->rcu, amdgpu_fence_free);
-}
-
static const struct dma_fence_ops amdgpu_fence_ops = {
.get_driver_name = amdgpu_fence_get_driver_name,
.get_timeline_name = amdgpu_fence_get_timeline_name,
.enable_signaling = amdgpu_fence_enable_signaling,
- .release = amdgpu_fence_release,
};
/*
base-commit: 731ba09867520c047c7de53f92e384808e0b638e
--
2.56.0