[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 00/11] [RFC] drm_for_each_* macros and list locking

[Daniel Vetter]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 08:44:47AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:45:51PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Dave&I have been discussing connector hotplug and unplugging around DP MST and
> > if there's one thing that's clear it's that we don't even really know where all
> > the problems are. Hence first step is to figure that out. One of the bigger
> > items is walking the encoder/connector lists without appropriate locking to
> > protect against concurrent hotadd/removal of connectors.
> > 
> > This patch series tries to untangle things a bit here. RFC since only lightly
> > tested and missing conversion of the radoen mst code to the new locking scheme.
> > I think rolling out the new macros for i915 should be done as a second step, to
> > avoid hitting too many WARN_ON ;-)
> 
> Bah, I was hoping to see scru! :)

This is just to start figuring out how bad the situation is and who's all
affected. Later on we need to figure out how to properly protect the
connector/encoder list without just grabbing all kinds of locks in the
hotadd/remove code - stalling screen updates on the main screen just
because you plug something in tends to upset people.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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