[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v5 1/2] drm/i915: Fix failure paths around initial fbdev allocation

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Wed Oct 14 02:35:04 PDT 2015


On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 06:04:40PM +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > +	mutex_lock(&dev->struct_mutex);
> > +
> 
> I'm thinking we won't even need the lock here anymore. But maybe I'm
> missing something.

Yeah, not so much here atm, but there is a bug here where we don't take an
explicit pin on the VMA we setup for the fbdev which requires the lock.
-chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre


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