[PATCH 04/12] drm: extract legacy ctxbitmap flushing
David Herrmann
dh.herrmann at gmail.com
Thu Jul 24 02:34:45 PDT 2014
Hi
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 05:26:39PM +0200, David Herrmann wrote:
>> The ctxbitmap code is only used by legacy drivers so lets try to keep it
>> as separated as possible. Furthermore, the locking is non-obvious and
>> kinda weird with ctxlist_mutex *and* struct_mutex. Keeping all ctxbitmap
>> access in one file is much easier to review and makes drm_release() more
>> readable.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann at gmail.com>
>
> I've started to sprinkle _legacy_ over all the functions only used for
> non-kms drivers, so that the dragon dungeons are clearly marked off. With
> that this is Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>.
Yeah, that sounds good. But I'd prefer if we keep this patch as-is and
I will send a follow-up which renames all "drm_ctxbitmap_*" functions
to "drm_legacy_ctxbitmap_*". All those are internal to DRM-core so I
can rename them all together and add drivers/gpu/drm/drm-legacy.h.
Comments?
David
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