[PATCH 12/18] drm/nouveau: Don't take dev->struct_mutex in fbcon init

[Thierry Reding]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 11:32:44PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> It doesn't protect anything at all. fbdev helper state is all
> protected by modeset locks, and nouveau bo state is taken care of by
> ttm. There's also nothing else grabbing struct_mutex that might need
> to coordinate with this code. Also this is driver load code, no one
> can get at the device yet anyway so locking is fairly futile.
> There's also no drm_gem_object_unreference that would now suddenly
> need the _unlocked variant.
> 
> Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fbcon.c | 11 +++--------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)


Reviewed-by: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
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