[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/4] drm: Add a non-locking version of drm_kms_helper_poll_enable().

Egbert Eich eich at suse.com
Tue Sep 1 15:10:19 PDT 2015


Lukas Wunner writes:
 > Hi Egbert,
 > 
 > On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 10:21:32PM +0200, Egbert Eich wrote:
 > > drm_kms_helper_poll_enable() was converted to lock the mode_config
 > > mutex in commit 8c4ccc4ab6f64e859d4ff8d7c02c2ed2e956e07f
 > > ("drm/probe-helper: Grab mode_config.mutex in poll_init/enable").
 > > 
 > > This disregarded the cases where this function is called from a context
 > > where this mutex is already locked.
 > 
 > Which ones would that be?

Have you missed the next patch in the series?

Egbert.


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