[Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH] drm/todo: Add entry for moving to dma_resv_lock

[Christian König]

Am 22.01.21 um 14:36 schrieb 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
> +

Could you name some examples of driver locks here? I'm not aware in 
anything like this in amdgpu, radeon or neveau.

And yes sounds like a job for the appropriate driver maintainer.

Thanks,
Christian.

>   Convert logging to drm_* functions with drm_device paramater
>   ------------------------------------------------------------
>