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To simply code lines, I guess we can drop variable 'r'. And use 'return 
svm_ioctl(p, args->op.... ' directly.

Regards,
Guchun

-----Original Message-----
From: amd-gfx <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Philip Yang
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 2:04 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Yang, Philip <[email protected]>; Kuehling, Felix <[email protected]>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] drm/amdkfd: Don't take process mutex for svm ioctls

SVM ioctls take proper svms->lock to handle race conditions, don't need take 
process mutex to serialize ioctls. This also fixes circular locking
warning:

WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected

  Possible unsafe locking scenario:

        CPU0                    CPU1
        ----                    ----
   lock((work_completion)(&svms->deferred_list_work));
                                lock(&process->mutex);
                     lock((work_completion)(&svms->deferred_list_work));
   lock(&process->mutex);

   *** DEADLOCK ***

Signed-off-by: Philip Yang <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_chardev.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_chardev.c 
b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_chardev.c
index 337953af7c2f..70122978bdd0 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_chardev.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_chardev.c
@@ -1846,13 +1846,9 @@ static int kfd_ioctl_svm(struct file *filep, struct 
kfd_process *p, void *data)
        if (!args->start_addr || !args->size)
                return -EINVAL;
 
-       mutex_lock(&p->mutex);
-
        r = svm_ioctl(p, args->op, args->start_addr, args->size, args->nattr,
                      args->attrs);
 
-       mutex_unlock(&p->mutex);
-
        return r;
 }
 #else
--
2.17.1

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