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-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_dmm_tiler.c15
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_dmm_tiler.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_dmm_tiler.c
index dfebdc4aa0f2..67edf839dce3 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_dmm_tiler.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_dmm_tiler.c
@@ -309,6 +309,21 @@ static int fill(struct tcm_area *area, struct page **pages,
struct tcm_area slice, area_s;
struct dmm_txn *txn;
+ /*
+ * FIXME
+ *
+ * Asynchronous fill does not work reliably, as the driver does not
+ * handle errors in the async code paths. The fill operation may
+ * silently fail, leading to leaking DMM engines, which may eventually
+ * lead to deadlock if we run out of DMM engines.
+ *
+ * For now, always set 'wait' so that we only use sync fills. Async
+ * fills should be fixed, or alternatively we could decide to only
+ * support sync fills and so the whole async code path could be removed.
+ */
+
+ wait = true;
+
txn = dmm_txn_init(omap_dmm, area->tcm);
if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(txn))
return -ENOMEM;