[PATCH] accel/amdxdna: Fix deadlock between context destroy and job timeout

From: Lizhi Hou

Date: Fri Nov 07 2025 - 13:10:57 EST


Hardware context destroy function holds dev_lock while waiting for all jobs
to complete. The timeout job also needs to acquire dev_lock, this leads to
a deadlock.

Fix the issue by temporarily releasing dev_lock before waiting for all
jobs to finish, and reacquiring it afterward.

Fixes: 4fd6ca90fc7f ("accel/amdxdna: Refactor hardware context destroy routine")
Signed-off-by: Lizhi Hou <lizhi.hou@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_ctx.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_ctx.c b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_ctx.c
index bdc90fe8a47e..42d876a427c5 100644
--- a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_ctx.c
+++ b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_ctx.c
@@ -690,17 +690,19 @@ void aie2_hwctx_fini(struct amdxdna_hwctx *hwctx)
xdna = hwctx->client->xdna;

XDNA_DBG(xdna, "%s sequence number %lld", hwctx->name, hwctx->priv->seq);
- drm_sched_entity_destroy(&hwctx->priv->entity);
-
aie2_hwctx_wait_for_idle(hwctx);

/* Request fw to destroy hwctx and cancel the rest pending requests */
aie2_release_resource(hwctx);

+ mutex_unlock(&xdna->dev_lock);
+ drm_sched_entity_destroy(&hwctx->priv->entity);
+
/* Wait for all submitted jobs to be completed or canceled */
wait_event(hwctx->priv->job_free_wq,
atomic64_read(&hwctx->job_submit_cnt) ==
atomic64_read(&hwctx->job_free_cnt));
+ mutex_lock(&xdna->dev_lock);

drm_sched_fini(&hwctx->priv->sched);
aie2_ctx_syncobj_destroy(hwctx);
--
2.34.1