[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 3/3] drm/i915: Move the fbdev async_schedule() into intel_fbdev.c

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 05:27:55PM +0100, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> Hi Ville,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 01:00:50PM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 05:44:37PM +0100, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> > > Hi Ville,
> > > 
> > > On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 03:08:33PM +0200, ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com wrote:
> > > > From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> > > > 
> > > > Reading the driver load/unload code leaves one confused as there's
> > > > an async_schedule() in the load, but not async_synchronize_full()
> > > > in sight. In fact it's hidden inside intel_fbdev.c. So let's move the
> > > > async_schedule() into intel_fbdev.c as well so that it's next to the
> > > > async_synchronize_full(), which should make the relationship easier
> > > > to see.
> > > 
> > > Hm, what do you think about solving it the other way round, i.e. moving
> > > the async_synchronize_full() to i915_driver_unload()? Incidentally I was
> > > working on this same part of the code and that's how I solved it. This way
> > > it's possible to call intel_fbdev_fini() from intel_fbdev_initial_config().
> > > With your solution this would deadlock.
> > > 
> > > Link: https://github.com/l1k/linux/commit/aa12badac846
> > > Message-Id: <aa12badac846f24b49d83768146b62e2ac159eb3.1446987413.git.lukas at wunner.de>
> > > 
> > 
> > I think I'd still like to hide it all in intel_fbdev.c. You could just
> > split the fbdev_fini() into two parts; one doing the real work, and the
> > second one just doing async_synchronize + call the first one.
> 
> Looking at this with a fresh pair of eyeballs I realized I could simply
> call async_synchronize_full() conditionally if (!current_is_async()),
> thereby differentiating between fbdev_fini() being called from
> i915_driver_unload() versus intel_fbdev_initial_config().
> If your patch gets pushed, I think I'll rebase and solve it like that.
 
OK.

Series pushed to dinq. Thanks for the reviews.

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Ville Syrjälä
Intel OTC