[RFC 00/29] De-stage android's sync framework

[Maarten Lankhorst]

Hey,

Op 15-01-16 om 15:55 schreef Gustavo Padovan:
> From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan at collabora.co.uk>
>
> This patch series de-stage the sync framework, and in order to accomplish that
> a bunch of cleanups/improvements on the sync and fence were made.
>
> The sync framework contained some abstractions around struct fence and those
> were removed in the de-staging process among other changes:
>
> Userspace visible changes
> -------------------------
>
>  * The sw_sync file was moved from /dev/sw_sync to <debugfs>/sync/sw_sync. No
>  other change.
>
> Kernel API changes
> ------------------
>
>  * struct sync_timeline is now struct fence_timeline
>  * sync_timeline_ops is now fence_timeline_ops and they now carry struct
>  fence as parameter instead of struct sync_pt
>  * a .cleanup() fence op was added to allow sync_fence to run a cleanup when
>  the fence_timeline is destroyed
>  * added fence_add_used_data() to pass a private point to struct fence. This
>  pointer is sent back on the .cleanup op.
>  * The sync timeline function were moved to be fence_timeline functions:
> 	 - sync_timeline_create()	-> fence_timeline_create()
> 	 - sync_timeline_get()		-> fence_timeline_get()
> 	 - sync_timeline_put()		-> fence_timeline_put()
> 	 - sync_timeline_destroy()	-> fence_timeline_destroy()
> 	 - sync_timeline_signal()	-> fence_timeline_signal()
>
>   * sync_pt_create() was replaced be fence_create_on_timeline()
>
> Internal changes
> ----------------
>
>  * fence_timeline_ops was removed in favor of direct use fence_ops
>  * fence default functions were created for fence_ops
>  * removed structs sync_pt, sw_sync_timeline and sw_sync_pt
>
> Gustavo Padovan (29):
>   staging/android: fix sync framework documentation
>   staging/android: fix checkpatch warning
>   staging/android: rename sync_fence_release
>   staging/android: rename 'android_fence' to 'sync_fence'
>   staging/android: remove not used sync_timeline ops
>   staging/android: create a 'sync' dir for debugfs information
>   staging/android: move sw_sync file to debugfs file
>   staging/android: Remove WARN_ON_ONCE when releasing sync_fence
>   staging/android: rename struct sync_fence's variables to 'sync_fence'
>   staging/android: rename 'sync_pt' to 'fence' in struct sync_fence_cb
>   dma-buf/fence: move sync_timeline to fence_timeline
>   staging/android: remove struct sync_pt
>   dma-buf/fence: create fence_default_enable_signaling()
>   dma-buf/fence: create fence_default_release()
>   dma-buf/fence: create fence_default_get_driver_name()
>   dma-buf/fence: create fence_default_timeline_name()
This is misleading. I think timeline_fence prefix would be more appropriate here.

I also believe this should be done in multiple series. First series should de-stage the userspace fence framework. The next series should fix up android_fence and maybe rename it to timeline_fence since sync_fence is already used for the userspace fd, which would add more confusion?
>   dma-buf/fence: store last signaled value on fence timeline
>   dma-buf/fence: create default .fence_value_str() and
>     .timeline_value_str()
>   dma-buf/fence: create fence_default_fill_driver_data()
>   dma-buf/fence: remove fence_timeline_ops
>   dma-buf/fence: add fence_create_on_timeline()
>   staging/android: remove sync_pt_create()
>   staging/android: remove sw_sync_timeline and sw_sync_pt
>   dma-buf/fence: add debug to fence timeline
>   dma-buf/fence: remove unused var from fence_timeline_signal()
>   dma-buf/fence: remove pointless fence_timeline_signal at destroy phase
>   dma-buf/fence: add .cleanup() callback
>   staging/android: use .cleanup() to interrupt any sync_fence waiter
>   dma-buf/fence: de-stage sync framework
>