[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Check locking in i915_gem_request_unreference
Chris Wilson
chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Wed Nov 26 11:39:33 CET 2014
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:28:13AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> With refcounting it looks like you can just drop that refcount, but
> that's not really the case. So make sure no one forgets.
>
> Motivated by the unlocked call in the mmio flip code.
I had an unlocked variant for exactly this purpose (and a few others
where we do not want to take the lock again) and so also had the WARN
inside i915_request_free.
Drop the _gem_, the requests are lower level than GEM itself.
-Chris
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