drm/i915: Ensure consistent control flow __i915_gem_active_get_rcu
This issue here is (I think) purely theoretical, since a compiler would need to be especially foolish to recompute the value of i915_gem_request_completed right after it was already used. Hence the additional barrier() is also not really a restriction. But I believe this to be at least permissible, and since our rcu trickery is a beast it's worth to annotate all the corner cases. Chris proposed to instead just wrap a READ_ONCE around request->fence.seqno in i915_gem_request_completed. But that has a measurable impact on code size, and everywhere we hold a full reference to the underlying request it's also not needed. And personally I'd like to have just enough barriers and locking needed for correctness, but not more - it makes it much easier in the future to understand what's going on. Since the busy ioctl has now fully embraced it's races there's no point annotating it there too. We really only need it in active_get_rcu, since that function _must_ deliver a correct snapshot of the active fences (and not chase something else). v2: Polish the comment a bit more (Chris). Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1471856122-466-1-git-send-email-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
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