Re: [PATCH] drm/probe-helper: Sort and set crtcinfo before dropping the modeset locks

["Ville Syrjälä" <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2026 at 03:26:42PM +0000, Hugo Sales wrote:
> On 11/02/2026 12:05 PM WET Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 31, 2026 at 04:19:52PM +0000, Hugo Sales wrote:
> > > amdgpu walks connector->modes from its atomic_check, in
> >
> > That is just wrong. connector->modes is protected by mode_config.mutex
> 
> You're right, I should have fixed the real issue rather than work around
> it. Please drop this one
> 
> I'll try to fix it in amdgpu instead. atomic_check can't take
> mode_config.mutex there, so amdgpu would pick the mode it needs while
> probing and keep its own copy, like it already does for freesync_vid_base

Yeah, that should be doable.

> 
> > And regardless of changing the locking rules or not, someone
> > should probably sprinkle lockdep asserts to bunch of places
> > where connector->modes is consulted. Perhaps even introduce
> > custom list iterator macros that include the assert...
> 
> Makes sense. amdgpu would trip them today, so I'll look at that once
> the amdgpu side is fixed

Sounds good.

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Ville Syrjälä
Intel