Re: [PATCH v4 2/6] dma-buf/heaps: Don't assert held reservation lock for dma-buf mmapping

[Dmitry Osipenko]

Hi,

On 6/21/23 20:21, T.J. Mercier wrote:
> On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 3:46 PM Dmitry Osipenko
> <dmitry.osipenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Don't assert held dma-buf reservation lock on memory mapping of exported
>> buffer.
>>
>> We're going to change dma-buf mmap() locking policy such that exporters
>> will have to handle the lock. The previous locking policy caused deadlock
>> problem for DRM drivers in a case of self-imported dma-bufs once these
>> drivers are moved to use reservation lock universally. The problem
>> solved by moving the lock down to exporters. This patch prepares dma-buf
>> heaps for the locking policy update.
>>
> Hi Dmitry,
> 
> I see that in patch 6 of this series calls to
> dma_resv_lock/dma_resv_unlock have been added to the
> drm_gem_shmem_helper functions and some exporters. But I'm curious why
> no dma_resv_lock/dma_resv_unlock calls were added to these two dma-buf
> heap exporters for mmap?

DMA-buf heaps are exporters, drm_gem_shmem_helper is importer. Locking
rules are different for importers and exporters.

DMA-heaps use own locking, they can be moved to resv lock in the future.

DMA-heaps don't protect internal data in theirs mmap() implementations,
nothing to protect there.

-- 
Best regards,
Dmitry