[PATCH] staging/vboxvideo: Replace ttm_bo_unref with ttm_bo_put
Greg KH
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Aug 2 07:29:57 UTC 2018
On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 08:37:35AM +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> The function ttm_bo_put releases a reference to a TTM buffer object. The
> function's name is more aligned to the Linux kernel convention of naming
> ref-counting function _get and _put.
>
> A call to ttm_bo_unref takes the address of the TTM BO object's pointer and
> clears the pointer's value to NULL. This is not necessary in most cases and
> sometimes even worked around by the calling code. A call to ttm_bo_put only
> releases the reference without clearing the pointer.
>
> The current behaviour of cleaning the pointer is kept in the calling code,
> but should be removed if not required in a later patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
> ---
> drivers/staging/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c | 5 ++---
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c b/drivers/staging/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c
> index 9d2018cd544e..fc7293b756b2 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c
> @@ -490,9 +490,8 @@ static void vbox_bo_unref(struct vbox_bo **bo)
> return;
>
> tbo = &((*bo)->bo);
> - ttm_bo_unref(&tbo);
> - if (!tbo)
> - *bo = NULL;
> + ttm_bo_put(tbo);
This function is not in my tree, so it causes a build error. I guess
merge this through the drm tree?
thanks,
greg k-h
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