[PATCH v2 2/2] drm/tests: Handle EDEADLK in set_up_atomic_state()

From: José Expósito
Date: Tue Nov 04 2025 - 05:26:31 EST


Fedora/CentOS/RHEL CI is reporting intermittent failures while running
the drm_validate_modeset test [1]:

# drm_test_check_connector_changed_modeset: EXPECTATION FAILED at
# drivers/gpu/drm/tests/drm_atomic_state_test.c:162
Expected ret == 0, but
ret == -35 (0xffffffffffffffdd)

Change the set_up_atomic_state() helper function to return on error and
restart the atomic sequence when the returned error is EDEADLK.

[1] https://s3.amazonaws.com/arr-cki-prod-trusted-artifacts/trusted-artifacts/2106744096/test_x86_64/11762450343/artifacts/jobwatch/logs/recipes/19797909/tasks/204139142/results/945095586/logs/dmesg.log
Fixes: 73d934d7b6e3 ("drm/tests: Add test for drm_atomic_helper_commit_modeset_disables()")
Closes: https://datawarehouse.cki-project.org/issue/4004
Reviewed-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: José Expósito <jose.exposito89@xxxxxxxxx>

---

v2: Added Reviewed-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/tests/drm_atomic_state_test.c | 27 +++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/tests/drm_atomic_state_test.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/tests/drm_atomic_state_test.c
index 1e857d86574c..bc27f65b2823 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/tests/drm_atomic_state_test.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/tests/drm_atomic_state_test.c
@@ -156,24 +156,29 @@ static int set_up_atomic_state(struct kunit *test,

if (connector) {
conn_state = drm_atomic_get_connector_state(state, connector);
- KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, conn_state);
+ if (IS_ERR(conn_state))
+ return PTR_ERR(conn_state);

ret = drm_atomic_set_crtc_for_connector(conn_state, crtc);
- KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, ret, 0);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
}

crtc_state = drm_atomic_get_crtc_state(state, crtc);
- KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, crtc_state);
+ if (IS_ERR(crtc_state))
+ return PTR_ERR(crtc_state);

ret = drm_atomic_set_mode_for_crtc(crtc_state, &drm_atomic_test_mode);
- KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, ret, 0);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;

crtc_state->enable = true;
crtc_state->active = true;

if (connector) {
ret = drm_atomic_commit(state);
- KUNIT_ASSERT_EQ(test, ret, 0);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
} else {
// dummy connector mask
crtc_state->connector_mask = DRM_TEST_CONN_0;
@@ -206,7 +211,13 @@ static void drm_test_check_connector_changed_modeset(struct kunit *test)
drm_modeset_acquire_init(&ctx, 0);

// first modeset to enable
+retry_set_up:
ret = set_up_atomic_state(test, priv, old_conn, &ctx);
+ if (ret == -EDEADLK) {
+ ret = drm_modeset_backoff(&ctx);
+ if (!ret)
+ goto retry_set_up;
+ }
KUNIT_ASSERT_EQ(test, ret, 0);

state = drm_kunit_helper_atomic_state_alloc(test, drm, &ctx);
@@ -277,7 +288,13 @@ static void drm_test_check_valid_clones(struct kunit *test)

drm_modeset_acquire_init(&ctx, 0);

+retry_set_up:
ret = set_up_atomic_state(test, priv, NULL, &ctx);
+ if (ret == -EDEADLK) {
+ ret = drm_modeset_backoff(&ctx);
+ if (!ret)
+ goto retry_set_up;
+ }
KUNIT_ASSERT_EQ(test, ret, 0);

state = drm_kunit_helper_atomic_state_alloc(test, drm, &ctx);
--
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