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    drm: rcar-du: Fix race condition in hardware plane allocator · 5ee5a81d
    Laurent Pinchart authored
    
    
    The plane allocator has been inherently racy since the beginning of the
    transition to atomic updates, as the allocator lock is released between
    free plane check (at .atomic_check() time) and the reservation (at
    .atomic_update() time).
    
    To fix it, create a new allocator solely based on the atomic plane
    states without keeping any external state and perform allocation in the
    .atomic_check() handler. The core idea is to replace the free planes
    bitmask with a collective knowledge based on the allocated hardware
    plane(s) for each KMS plane. The allocator then loops over all plane
    states to compute the free planes bitmask, allocates hardware planes
    based on that bitmask, and stores the result back in the plane states.
    
    For this to work we need to access the current state of planes not
    touched by the atomic update. To ensure that it won't be modified, we
    need to lock all planes using drm_atomic_get_plane_state(). This
    effectively serializes atomic updates from .atomic_check() up to
    completion, either when swapping the states if the check step has
    succeeded, or when freeing the states if the check step has failed.
    
    Suggested-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLaurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
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