[PATCH] drm/doc: Drop misleading comment on drm_mode_config_cleanup

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Wed Oct 23 08:58:20 UTC 2019


On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 05:02:40PM +0000, Mihail Atanassov wrote:
> On Tuesday, 22 October 2019 17:37:17 BST Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > This is not something we'll fix, because failing to clean up stuff (or
> > doing it in the wrong order) is a driver bug. The offending FIXME goes
> > all the way back to the original modeset merge.
> > 
> > We've added a WARN_ON in
> > 
> > commit 2b677e8c08eed11e4ebe66a7c334f03e389a19a3
> > Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> > Date:   Mon Dec 10 21:16:05 2012 +0100
> > 
> >     drm: reference framebuffers which are on the idr
> > 
> > including a comment blaming drivers on this. Right thing to do is most
> > likely drm_atomic_helper_shutdown plus making sure that
> > drm_mode_config_cleanup is not called too early (i.e. not in driver
> > unload, but only in the final drm_device release callback).
> > 
> > Cc: Mihail Atanassov <Mihail.Atanassov at arm.com>
> > Reported-by: Mihail Atanassov <Mihail.Atanassov at arm.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mode_config.c | 2 --
> >  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mode_config.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mode_config.c
> > index 7bc03c3c154f..3b570a404933 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mode_config.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mode_config.c
> > @@ -428,8 +428,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_mode_config_init);
> >   * Note that since this /should/ happen single-threaded at driver/device
> >   * teardown time, no locking is required. It's the driver's job to ensure that
> >   * this guarantee actually holds true.
> > - *
> > - * FIXME: cleanup any dangling user buffer objects too
> >   */
> >  void drm_mode_config_cleanup(struct drm_device *dev)
> >  {
> > 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Reviewed-by: Mihail Atanassov <mihail.atanassov at arm.com>

Thanks for your review&report, patch applied.
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch


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