Rename "struct fence" to "struct dma_fence"

[Sean Paul]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 2:47 AM, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> I plan to usurp the short name of struct fence for a core kernel struct,
> and so I need to rename the specialised fence/timeline for DMA
> operations to make room.
>
> A consensus was reached in
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2016-July/113083.html
> that making clear this fence applies to DMA operations was a good thing.
> Since then the patch has grown a bit as usage increases (and we wanted
> to wait until after the sw_sync destage), so hopefully it remains a good
> thing!
>
> I've pushed the patch to
>
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~ickle/linux-2.6/commit/?h=dma-fence&id=a4a27d87e4fccefb9f9d55f9c73ccab8f2ade3cc
>
> as I suspect it might be too large for the list.
>
> Highlights of the change:
>
>         struct fence -> struct dma_fence (and all fence*() to dma_fence*())
>         struct fence_array -> struct dma_fence_array
>
>         107 files changed, 1174 insertions(+), 1136 deletions(-)
>
> Mostly generated with the provided cocci spatch, but even with
> --include-headers it seemed to miss some headers, and I never quite
> worked out the substition commands for macros, so there is some grep and
> replace.

For the curious (like me), here's the diff between ickle's HEAD and
what the cocci script outputs:

http://hastebin.com/udizixoyed.go

Sean


> -Chris
>
>
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