[PATCH 00/12] drm/atomic: Rename async to nonblocking.

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Mon May 2 14:39:11 UTC 2016


On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 04:34:05PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 04:11:33PM +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> > Userspace calls the atomic ioctl with DRM_MODE_ATOMIC_NONBLOCK
> > when it doesn't want the ioctl to block for completion.
> > 
> > In the kernel it's called async commit, which is confusing. The legacy
> > pageflip and atomic ioctl also have a flag DRM_MODE_PAGE_FLIP_ASYNC
> > which means that the flip should happen as soon as possible,
> > even if it causes tearing.
> > 
> > Because of this we should rename async commit to nonblocking commit,
> > which should reduce a lot of the confusion.
> > 
> > This is done partially with a cocci script, and inspection by hand
> > because cocci doesn't patch comments.
> > 
> > Maarten Lankhorst (12):
> >   drm/atomic: Rename async parameter to nonblocking.
> >   drm/atomic: Rename drm_atomic_async_commit to nonblocking.
> >   drm/arm/hdlcd: Rename async to nonblock.
> >   drm/exynos: Rename async to nonblock.
> >   drm/msm: Rename async to nonblock.
> >   drm/omapdrm: Rename async to nonblock.
> >   drm/rcar-du: Rename async to nonblock.
> >   drm/sti: Rename async to nonblock.
> >   drm/tegra: Rename async to nonblock.
> >   drm/rockchip: Rename async to nonblock.
> >   drm/vc4: Rename async to nonblock.
> >   drm/i915: Rename async to nonblock.
> 
> Yeah, this clarifies stuff a lot imo. Bit a funny split-up in the first
> two patches, but meh.
> 
> I think I'll apply it all to drm-misc once driver maintainers had some
> time to ack, but will merge anyway if they miss.

Ok, pulled this all into drm-misc. There's new drivers now in drm-next,
can you please re-run the cocci for those?

Thanks, Daniel

> -Daniel
> 
> > 
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/arm/hdlcd_drv.c            |  2 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c               | 12 +++++------
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c        | 34 +++++++++++++++---------------
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_drv.c    |  4 ++--
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_drv.h    |  2 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c       | 16 +++++++-------
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_atomic.c           |  9 ++++----
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h              |  2 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_drv.c         |  4 ++--
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_kms.c      |  5 +++--
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_fb.c |  6 +++---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_drv.c              |  6 +++---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/drm.c                |  6 +++---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_kms.c              |  6 +++---
> >  include/drm/drm_atomic.h                   |  2 +-
> >  include/drm/drm_atomic_helper.h            |  2 +-
> >  include/drm/drm_crtc.h                     |  8 +++----
> >  17 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)
> > 
> > -- 
> > 2.5.5
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> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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Daniel Vetter
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