Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 3/3] drm/i915: Attempt to uncouple object after catastrophic failure in unbind

On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:18:51 +0100, Chris Wilson ch...@chris-wilson.co.uk wrote: If we fail to flush outstanding GPU writes but return the memory to the system, we risk corrupting memory should the GPU recovery and complete those writes. On the other hand, if we bail early and free the object

[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 3/3] drm/i915: Attempt to uncouple object after catastrophic failure in unbind

If we fail to flush outstanding GPU writes but return the memory to the system, we risk corrupting memory should the GPU recovery and complete those writes. On the other hand, if we bail early and free the object then we have a definite use-after-free and real memory corruption. Choose the lesser