[PATCH v2 0/3] drm/cma: use prime helpers instead GEM CMA specific dma_buf functionality

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi Joonyoung,

On Friday 05 July 2013 15:30:25 Joonyoung Shim wrote:
> On 07/05/2013 02:38 PM, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Joonyoung Shim wrote:
> >> On 07/04/2013 07:11 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> >>> On Friday 28 June 2013 14:24:43 Joonyoung Shim wrote:
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>> 
> >>>> This is the second version patchset.
> >>>> 
> >>>> GEM CMA supports dma_buf but it needs GEM CMA specific functionality
> >>>> for dma_buf. We can use prime helpers for dma_buf by commit
> >>>> 89177644a7b6306e6084a89eab7e290f4bfef397 "drm: add prime helpers", so
> >>>> this patchset is to replace from using GEM CMA specific functions to
> >>>> using prime helpers.
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> To Laurent,
> >>>> 
> >>>> It is merged a patch to cache mapping from DRM Prime, can this patchset
> >>>> get your ack?
> >>> 
> >>> There you go (and sorry for the late reply)
> >>> 
> >>> Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
> >>> 
> >>> By the way, between the initial version of the GEM CMA PRIME patch and
> >>> the version that got merged in v3.10, commit
> >>> 011c2282c74db120f01a8414edc66c3f217f5511 ("drm: prime: fix refcounting
> >>> on the dmabuf import error path") was introduced. The GEM CMA PRIME code
> >>> in v3.10 thus has a refcounting bug :-(
> >>> 
> >>> Should this patch set go to -stable, or should we cook up a special fix
> >>> ?
> >> 
> >> I'm not sure it's better to choose which way.
> >> 
> >> Dave, how we should do about that problem?
> > 
> > I think a special fix for stable once we get these merged to Linus.
> 
> OK, i will post a patch for a special fix.

Thank you.

We need to fix the problem for v3.11 as well, by applying either this set or 
the fix you have just sent. I have no strong preference regarding which 
patches to pick.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart