[DPU PATCH 06/11] drm/msm: Remove msm_commit/kthread, use atomic helper commit

[Sean Paul]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 04:23:10PM -0400, Sean Paul wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 05:08:03PM -0800, Jeykumar Sankaran wrote:
> > On 2018-03-02 06:56, Sean Paul wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 07:37:10PM -0500, Rob Clark wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 3:37 PM,  <jsanka at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> > > > > On 2018-03-01 07:27, Sean Paul wrote:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 08:07:00PM -0800, jsanka at codeaurora.org
> > > wrote:
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> On 2018-02-28 11:19, Sean Paul wrote:
> > > > >>> > Moving further towards switching fully to the the atomic helpers,
> > > this
> > > > >>> > patch removes the hand-rolled kthread nonblock commit code and
> > > uses
> > > > >>
> > > > >> the
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> > atomic helpers commit_work model.
> > > > >>> >
> > > > >>> > There's still a lot of copypasta here, but it's still needed to
> > > > >>> > facilitate the swap_state and prepare_fence private functions.
> > > These
> > > > >>> > will be sorted out in a follow-on patch.
> > > > >>> >
> > > > >>> > Change-Id: I9fcba27824ba63d3fab96cb2bc194bfa6f3475b7
> > > > >>> > Signed-off-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul at chromium.org>
> > > > >>> > ---

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> > > > >>
> > > > >>> > -                                     /* only return zero if work
> > > is
> > > > >>> > -                                      * queued successfully.
> > > > >>> > -                                      */
> > > > >>> > -                                     ret = 0;
> > > > >>> > -                             } else {
> > > > >>> > -                                     DRM_ERROR(" Error for
> > > crtc_id:
> > > > >>> > %d\n",
> > > > >>> > -
> > > > >>> > priv->disp_thread[j].crtc_id);
> > > > >>> > -                             }
> > > > >>> > -                             break;
> > > > >>> > -                     }
> > > > >>> > -             }
> > 
> > Care to remove priv->disp_thread and all its references as a part of this
> > change?
> 
> Definitely! Will revise.
> 

Now that I look at it, disp_thread doesn't seem relevant to this change. It
seems like it's used for deferred cleanup. So perhaps we could get rid of it,
but IMO that would be a different patch.

> Sean
> 
> > 
> > - Jeykumar S

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Sean Paul, Software Engineer, Google / Chromium OS