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Martin Peres d3f09691b3 drm/nouveau/pm/fan: drop the fan lock in fan_update() before rescheduling
commit 61679fe153 upstream.

This should fix a deadlock that has been reported to us where fan_update()
would hold the fan lock and try to grab the alarm_program_lock to reschedule
an update. On an other CPU, the alarm_program_lock would have been taken
before calling fan_update(), leading to a deadlock.

We should Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.9+

Reported-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Timothée Ravier <tim@siosm.fr>
Tested-by: Boris Fersing (IRC nick fersingb, no public email address)
Signed-off-by: Martin Peres <martin.peres@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-06-07 13:25:34 -07:00
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2013-04-30 15:15:58 +02:00
2013-04-30 10:02:25 +10:00
2013-04-26 10:20:00 +10:00

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* For the very latest on DRI development, please see:      *
*     http://dri.freedesktop.org/                          *
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The Direct Rendering Manager (drm) is a device-independent kernel-level
device driver that provides support for the XFree86 Direct Rendering
Infrastructure (DRI).

The DRM supports the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) in four major
ways:

    1. The DRM provides synchronized access to the graphics hardware via
       the use of an optimized two-tiered lock.

    2. The DRM enforces the DRI security policy for access to the graphics
       hardware by only allowing authenticated X11 clients access to
       restricted regions of memory.

    3. The DRM provides a generic DMA engine, complete with multiple
       queues and the ability to detect the need for an OpenGL context
       switch.

    4. The DRM is extensible via the use of small device-specific modules
       that rely extensively on the API exported by the DRM module.


Documentation on the DRI is available from:
    http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Documentation
    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=387
    http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/

For specific information about kernel-level support, see:

    The Direct Rendering Manager, Kernel Support for the Direct Rendering
    Infrastructure
    http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/drm_low_level.html

    Hardware Locking for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure
    http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/hardware_locking_low_level.html

    A Security Analysis of the Direct Rendering Infrastructure
    http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/security_low_level.html