[PATCH 1/5] virtio-gpu: add virtio_gpu_queue_ctrl_buffer_nolock

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Thu Sep 10 07:04:48 PDT 2015


On Do, 2015-09-10 at 09:39 +0100, Emil Velikov wrote:
> Hi Gerd,
> 
> On 9 September 2015 at 12:42, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Add virtio_gpu_queue_ctrl_buffer_nolock function, which does the same as
> > virtio_gpu_queue_ctrl_buffer but does not take the virtqueue lock.  The
> > caller must hold the lock instead.
> >
> The drm subsystem tends to use *_locked and *_unlocked suffixes. With
> the latter being less common.
> Not a big deal but perhaps you can use one of those for virtio ?

_locked looks correct for this case to me (looking at drm_vm_close +
drm_vm_close_locked to compare).  I'll change it.

cheers,
  Gerd




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