[PATCH] drm/todo: Add entry for moving to dma_resv_lock

[Daniel Vetter]

Requested by Thomas. I think it justifies a new level, since I tried
to make some forward progress on this last summer, and gave up (for
now). This is very tricky.

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>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal at linaro.org>
Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig at amd.com>
Cc: linux-media at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linaro-mm-sig at lists.linaro.org
---
 Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
index dea9082c0e5f..f872d3d33218 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ Advanced: Tricky tasks that need fairly good understanding of the DRM subsystem
 and graphics topics. Generally need the relevant hardware for development and
 testing.
 
+Expert: Only attempt these if you've successfully completed some tricky
+refactorings already and are an expert in the specific area
+
 Subsystem-wide refactorings
 ===========================
 
@@ -168,6 +171,22 @@ Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers
 
 Level: Advanced
 
+Move Buffer Object Locking to dma_resv_lock()
+---------------------------------------------
+
+Many drivers have their own per-object locking scheme, usually using
+mutex_lock(). This causes all kinds of trouble for buffer sharing, since
+depending which driver is the exporter and importer, the locking hierarchy is
+reversed.
+
+To solve this we need one standard per-object locking mechanism, which is
+dma_resv_lock(). This lock needs to be called as the outermost lock, with all
+other driver specific per-object locks removed. The problem is tha rolling out
+the actual change to the locking contract is a flag day, due to struct dma_buf
+buffer sharing.
+
+Level: Expert
+
 Convert logging to drm_* functions with drm_device paramater
 ------------------------------------------------------------
 
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