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authorFedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@ispras.ru>2026-08-31 10:58:09 +0300
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thunderbolt: Fix NULL dereference in tb_remove_work()grafted
There is a slight race between tb_remove_work() and tb_domain_remove() which leads to dereferencing a NULL tb->root_switch pointer inside tb_free_unplugged_xdomains(): Thread A Thread B tb_remove_work() tb_domain_remove() mutex_lock(&tb->lock) tb_stop() /* doesn't cancel a running callback */ cancel_delayed_work(&tcm->remove_work) ... tb_switch_remove(tb->root_switch) tb->root_switch = NULL mutex_unlock(&tb->lock) mutex_lock(&tb->lock) ... /* without checking ->root_switch */ tb_free_unplugged_xdomains(tb->root_switch) mutex_unlock(&tb->lock) Commit a8937f35cf39 ("thunderbolt: Remove XDomain from the bus without holding tb->lock") doesn't seem right to move tb_free_unplugged_xdomains() out of the &tb->lock section and the check for tb->root_switch, in particular. It states: For this reason separate removing the XDomain from the topology data structures (where we need the lock) from unregistering the device from the bus (where remove callbacks of the drivers are being called). tb_free_unplugged_xdomains() belongs to the former group of functions requiring the lock. And it also calls tb_xdomain_remove() which should only be called with &tb->lock held. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Svace static analysis tool. Fixes: a8937f35cf39 ("thunderbolt: Remove XDomain from the bus without holding tb->lock") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@ispras.ru> Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
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+==================================
+Long running workloads and compute
+==================================
+
+Long running workloads (compute) are workloads that will not complete in 10
+seconds. (The time let the user wait before he reaches for the power button).
+This means that other techniques need to be used to manage those workloads,
+that cannot use fences.
+
+Some hardware may schedule compute jobs, and have no way to pre-empt them, or
+have their memory swapped out from them. Or they simply want their workload
+not to be preempted or swapped out at all.
+
+This means that it differs from what is described in driver-api/dma-buf.rst.
+
+As with normal compute jobs, dma-fence may not be used at all. In this case,
+not even to force preemption. The driver with is simply forced to unmap a BO
+from the long compute job's address space on unbind immediately, not even
+waiting for the workload to complete. Effectively this terminates the workload
+when there is no hardware support to recover.
+
+Since this is undesirable, there need to be mitigations to prevent a workload
+from being terminated. There are several possible approach, all with their
+advantages and drawbacks.
+
+The first approach you will likely try is to pin all buffers used by compute.
+This guarantees that the job will run uninterrupted, but also allows a very
+denial of service attack by pinning as much memory as possible, hogging the
+all GPU memory, and possibly a huge chunk of CPU memory.
+
+A second approach that will work slightly better on its own is adding an option
+not to evict when creating a new job (any kind). If all of userspace opts in
+to this flag, it would prevent cooperating userspace from forced terminating
+older compute jobs to start a new one.
+
+If job preemption and recoverable pagefaults are not available, those are the
+only approaches possible. So even with those, you want a separate way of
+controlling resources. The standard kernel way of doing so is cgroups.
+
+This creates a third option, using cgroups to prevent eviction. Both GPU and
+driver-allocated CPU memory would be accounted to the correct cgroup, and
+eviction would be made cgroup aware. This allows the GPU to be partitioned
+into cgroups, that will allow jobs to run next to each other without
+interference.
+
+The interface to the cgroup would be similar to the current CPU memory
+interface, with similar semantics for min/low/high/max, if eviction can
+be made cgroup aware.
+
+What should be noted is that each memory region (tiled memory for example)
+should have its own accounting.
+
+The key is set to the regionid set by the driver, for example "tile0".
+For the value of $card, we use drmGetUnique().