[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 08/35] drm: Protect dev->filelist with its own mutex

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Wed Apr 27 08:04:12 UTC 2016


On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:01:16AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 08:17:08AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > drm/i915: s/struct_mutex/bfg9000/
> 
> Can't do that yet because holding struct_mutex prevents objects from
> disappearing, speficially all our mm and lru lists only hold a weak
> reference. We need to rework our shrinkers first and switch over to
> gem_object_free_unlocked before we can disengage from struct_mutex in
> i915.

Done. Just a few years of backlog still to go...
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre


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