[PATCH] drm/hisilicon: Replace ttm_bo_unref with ttm_bo_put

Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann at suse.de
Tue Jul 31 06:33:05 UTC 2018


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/gpu/drm/hisilicon/hibmc/hibmc_ttm.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/hisilicon/hibmc/hibmc_ttm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/hisilicon/hibmc/hibmc_ttm.c
index 4871025f7573..2e3e0bdb8932 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/hisilicon/hibmc/hibmc_ttm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/hisilicon/hibmc/hibmc_ttm.c
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ static void hibmc_bo_unref(struct hibmc_bo **bo)
 		return;
 
 	tbo = &((*bo)->bo);
-	ttm_bo_unref(&tbo);
+	ttm_bo_put(tbo);
 	*bo = NULL;
 }
 
-- 
2.18.0



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