[PATCH 0/6] drm/ttm: lru lock atomicity removal

Thomas Hellstrom thellstrom at vmware.com
Fri Nov 30 07:59:16 PST 2012


On 11/30/2012 01:11 PM, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> With all the previous patches there shouldn't be anything lying on the reservations being atomic
> with removal of the bo's from the lru lists any more.
>
> As such we can finally fix the locking primitives and make it act like normal mutex calls.
>
> Patch 1 is the actual removal of the guarantee in ttm_bo_reserve
> patch 2 is a cleanup of ttm_eu_backoff_reservation from removing that guarantee
> patch 3...6 are introducing ttm_bo_reserve_slowpath.
>
> After this series, this should directly map to my proposed extensions to mutex.
>

Maarten,
I'm going on parental leave next week and don't have time to review 
these patches in detail for at least three weeks.
In principle I'm OK with the changes, introduced, though, but I guess we 
need another reviewer to step up.

/Thomas



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