[PATCH 03/36] drm/todo: mention i915 in the struct_mutex section
Emil Velikov
emil.l.velikov at gmail.com
Thu May 7 15:07:49 UTC 2020
From: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
---
i915 uses the _unlocked version of the grm_gem_object API. Yet makes an
extensive use of the struct_mutex.
Did not check how exactly it all work though.
---
Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
index 658b52f7ffc6..2ce52c5917f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
@@ -157,8 +157,8 @@ private lock. The tricky part is the BO free functions, since those can't
reliably take that lock any more. Instead state needs to be protected with
suitable subordinate locks or some cleanup work pushed to a worker thread. For
performance-critical drivers it might also be better to go with a more
-fine-grained per-buffer object and per-context lockings scheme. Currently only the
-``msm`` driver still use ``struct_mutex``.
+fine-grained per-buffer object and per-context lockings scheme. Currently only
+the ``msm`` and `i915` drivers use ``struct_mutex``.
Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers
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