[Spice-devel] [PATCH 4/4] drm/qxl: add drm_driver.release callback.

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Fri Dec 20 13:00:25 UTC 2019


On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 07:09:20AM -0500, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> > 
> > Move final cleanups to qxl_drm_release() callback.
> 
> Can you explain in the commit why this is better or preferable?

It gets called when the drm device refcount goes down to zero.
It's needed for a proper cleanup in the correct order.

> > Add drm_atomic_helper_shutdown() call to qxl_pci_remove().
> 
> I suppose this is to replace the former manual cleanup calls,
> which were moved to qxl_drm_release, I think this could be
> added in the commit message ("why"), I don't see much value
> in describing "how" this was done.

The call is part of the shutdown sequence for atomic drm drivers
and wasn't present in qxl for some reason.

> > Reorder calls in qxl_device_fini().  Cleaning up gem & ttm
> > might trigger qxl commands, so we should do that before
> > releaseing command rings.
> 
> Typo: releaseing -> releasing
> Why not putting this in a separate commit? Was this behaviour
> changed? It does not seem so to me.

Yes, I can make that a separate commit.

No, behavior didn't change.  qxl_device_fini() is simply broken
without this.

cheers,
  Gerd



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