[PATCH 16/18] drm/radeon: Don't take dev->struct_mutex in pm functions

Thierry Reding thierry.reding at gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 04:00:27 PDT 2015


On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 11:32:48PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> We already grab 2 device-global locks (write-sema rdev->pm.mclk_lock
> and rdev->ring_lock), adding another global mutex won't serialize this
> code more. And since there's really nothing interesting that gets
> protected in radeon by dev->struct mutex (we only have the global z
> buffer owners and it's still serializing gem bo destruction in the drm
> core - which is irrelevant since radeon uses ttm anyway internally)
> this doesn't add protection. Remove it.
> 
> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
> Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig at amd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_pm.c | 5 -----
>  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

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