[PATCH] drm/atomic: Make the kerneldoc a bit clearer

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Fri Oct 2 07:56:20 UTC 2020


Crank up the warning a notch and point at the right set of locking
functions for atomic drivers.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard at kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied at linux.ie>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c
index aac9122f1da2..b2d20eb6c807 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c
@@ -1642,11 +1642,11 @@ static void __drm_state_dump(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_printer *p,
  * to dmesg in case of error irq's.  (Hint, you probably want to
  * ratelimit this!)
  *
- * The caller must drm_modeset_lock_all(), or if this is called
- * from error irq handler, it should not be enabled by default.
- * (Ie. if you are debugging errors you might not care that this
- * is racey.  But calling this without all modeset locks held is
- * not inherently safe.)
+ * The caller must wrap this drm_modeset_lock_all_ctx() and
+ * drm_modeset_drop_locks(). If this is called from error irq handler, it should
+ * not be enabled by default - if you are debugging errors you might
+ * not care that this is racey, but calling this without all modeset locks held
+ * is inherently unsafe.
  */
 void drm_state_dump(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_printer *p)
 {
-- 
2.28.0



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