[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm: Paper over locking inversion after registration rework

Jiri Kosina jikos at kernel.org
Fri Aug 5 08:57:58 UTC 2016


On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, Daniel Vetter wrote:

> drm_connector_register_all requires a few too many locks because our
> connector_list locking is busted. Add another FIXME+hack to work
> around this. This should address the below lockdep splat:
[ ... snip ... ]
> v2: Rebase onto the right branch (hand-editing patches ftw) and add more
> reporters.
> 
> Reported-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak at intel.com>
> Cc: Imre Deak <imre.deak at intel.com>
> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Acked-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Reported-by: Jiri Kosina <jikos at kernel.org>

Although I have no idea why this is safe thing to do :) I can confirm that 
it removes the lockdep complaint on my system. So in that regard,

	Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina at suse.cz>

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs



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