Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:09:26 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/fence: Do not use TIMER_IRQSAFE |
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On Thu, 28 Feb 2019, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Sebastian Andrzej Siewior (2019-02-26 16:00:38) > > On 2019-02-12 17:28:57 [+0100], To linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org wrote: > > > The timer is initialized with TIMER_IRQSAFE flag. It does look like the > > > timer callback requires this flag at all. Its sole purpose is to ensure > > > synchronisation in the workqueue code. > > > > > > Remove TIMER_IRQSAFE flag because it is not required. > > > > ping > > We call del_timer_sync from irq context, which mandates using > TIMER_IRQSAFE. Failure to do so results in lots of explosions across CI > -- every machine managed to hit the warning. > > It may not be the best of api, but it's the only one available for the > driver to use...
The comment in the header files says clearly:
* Note: The irq disabled callback execution is a special case for * workqueue locking issues. It's not meant for executing random crap * with interrupts disabled. Abuse is monitored!
So what's so special in drm that you need to call del_timer_sync() from interrupt context?
Thanks
tglx
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