[PATCH v2] drm/radeon: restore hardware polling in fence_is_signaled to fix performance regression

From: Wang Jiang <[email protected]>

Commit 9eb00b5f5697b ("drm/radeon: delete radeon_fence_process in
is_signaled, no deadlock") removed the hardware status check from
radeon_fence_is_signaled() to fix a self-deadlock caused by
wake_up_all(&rdev->fence_queue) being called with the fence queue
lock held.

However, removing the hardware poll entirely causes significant
performance regression (e.g. glxgears FPS drop) because the signaled
check becomes purely passive — it only reads the cached last_seq
without probing the GPU, so completed GPU work is not detected in
time, causing unnecessary CPU stalls in sync-heavy workloads.

Fix this by calling radeon_fence_read() directly in
radeon_fence_is_signaled() to poll the hardware fence counter
without updating last_seq or calling wake_up_all(). This restores
timely fence detection while avoiding the original deadlock, since
last_seq update and waiter wakeup remain solely in the interrupt
handler's responsibility.

Fixes: 9eb00b5f5697b ("drm/radeon: delete radeon_fence_process in is_signaled, no deadlock")
Signed-off-by: Wang Jiang <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_fence.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_fence.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_fence.c
index 02a40e4750c7..047ec5a1d194 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_fence.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_fence.c
@@ -360,6 +360,18 @@ static bool radeon_fence_is_signaled(struct dma_fence *f)
 	if (atomic64_read(&rdev->fence_drv[ring].last_seq) >= seq)
 		return true;
 
+	/*
+	* Poll hardware directly without updating last_seq.
+	* This allows immediate detection of signaled fences (performance)
+	* while leaving last_seq update and wake_up_all() to the interrupt
+	* handler, avoiding:
+	* 1. Deadlock from calling wake_up_all() with fence lock held
+	* 2. Wake event stealing by advancing last_seq without waking waiters
+	* 3. rw_semaphore usage in atomic/irq context (unsafe on PREEMPT_RT)
+	*/
+	if (radeon_fence_read(rdev, ring) >= (u32)seq)
+			return true;
+
 	return false;
 }
 
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