On Wed, 02 Mar 2016 08:59:23 +0100, Yang, Libin wrote: > > Hi Takashi, > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Takashi Iwai [mailto:ti...@suse.de] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 3:44 PM > > To: libin.y...@linux.intel.com > > Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org; conselv...@gmail.com; > > jani.nik...@linux.intel.com; ville.syrj...@linux.intel.com; Vetter, Daniel; > > ti...@suse.de; Yang, Libin > > Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: add audio_ptr pointer check > > > > On Wed, 02 Mar 2016 03:24:31 +0100, > > libin.y...@linux.intel.com wrote: > > > > > > From: Libin Yang <libin.y...@linux.intel.com> > > > > > > check to make sure audio_ptr is not NULL before > > > using it. > > > > I don't think non-NULL is mandatory. If any invalid access is seen, > > it should be fixed rather in the audio side. > > When I enable MST with other patches (not submitted so far), > I found system may be random hang when boot up. > > After apply this patch and another patch (I sent the patch in > ALSA Mail list: ALSA: hda - hdmi defer to register acomp eld notifier), > the hang issue is fixed. > > I make the patch because in sound driver side, setting audio_ptr and > audio_ops is not in the lock. I'm wondering that the compiler or CPU > may optimize and change the setting order (the gfx code and alsa code > may run parallelly?).
There are several ways to deal with such a thing. An easy one would be the memory barrier. Takashi _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
