Ages ago Rob Clark noted,

"Currently with fence-array, we have a potential deadlock situation.  If
we fence_add_callback() on an array-fence, the array-fence's lock is
acquired first, and in it's ->enable_signaling() callback, it will install
cbs on it's array-member fences, so the array-member's lock is acquired
second.

But in the signal path, the array-member's lock is acquired first, and
the array-fence's lock acquired second."

Rob proposed either extensive changes to dma-fence to unnest the
fence-array signaling, or to defer the signaling onto a workqueue. This
is a more refined version of the later, that should keep the latency
of the fence signaling to a minimum by using an irq-work, which is
executed asap.
Reported-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
References: 1476635975-21981-1-git-send-email-robdclark@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171114162719.30958-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk