[PATCH v4 5/6] dma-buf: Change locking policy for mmap()

Christian König christian.koenig at amd.com
Wed Jun 21 05:42:44 UTC 2023


Am 20.06.23 um 17:58 schrieb Dmitry Osipenko:
> On 5/31/23 22:58, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>> On 5/30/23 01:39, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>>> Change locking policy of mmap() callback, making exporters responsible
>>> for handling dma-buf reservation locking. Previous locking policy stated
>>> that dma-buf is locked for both importers and exporters by the dma-buf
>>> core, which caused a deadlock problem for DRM drivers in a case of
>>> self-imported dma-bufs which required to take the lock from the DRM
>>> exporter side.
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko at collabora.com>
>>> ---
>>>   drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c | 17 +++--------------
>>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>> Christian, you acked the drm patch of this series sometime ago, perhaps
>> it also implies implicit ack to this patch, but I'd prefer to have the
>> explicit ack. I'll apply this series to drm-misc later this week if
>> you'll approve this dma-buf change. Thanks in advance!
> I'll merge the patches tomorrow. If there are any additional comments,
> then please don't hesitate to post them.

Sorry for not responding earlier, I have been moving both my office as 
well as my household and still catching up.

I don't have time for an in-deep review, but my ack stands for the whole 
series.

Regards,
Christian.


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