[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/2] drm/fb-helper: Explain unload sequence a bit better

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Tue Feb 7 14:10:49 UTC 2017


While reviewing Chris' patches to properly cancel our async workers I
checked that this happens after the fbdev is already unregistered.
That's the case, but I found a small gap in our docs, fill that in.

Note that I don't explain what release_fbi does, because that function
will disappear in the next patch ...

Cc: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
index c7fafa175755..5220a7b5e6ff 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(kernel_fb_helper_lock);
  * drm_fb_helper_init(), drm_fb_helper_single_add_all_connectors() and
  * drm_fb_helper_initial_config(). Drivers with fancier requirements than the
  * default behaviour can override the third step with their own code.
- * Teardown is done with drm_fb_helper_fini().
+ * Teardown is done with drm_fb_helper_fini() after the fbdev device is
+ * unregisters using drm_fb_helper_unregister_fbi().
  *
  * At runtime drivers should restore the fbdev console by calling
  * drm_fb_helper_restore_fbdev_mode_unlocked() from their &drm_driver.lastclose
@@ -709,7 +710,7 @@ void drm_fb_helper_prepare(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_fb_helper *helper,
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_fb_helper_prepare);
 
 /**
- * drm_fb_helper_init - initialize a drm_fb_helper structure
+ * drm_fb_helper_init - initialize a &struct drm_fb_helper
  * @dev: drm device
  * @fb_helper: driver-allocated fbdev helper structure to initialize
  * @crtc_count: maximum number of crtcs to support in this fbdev emulation
@@ -823,7 +824,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_fb_helper_alloc_fbi);
  * @fb_helper: driver-allocated fbdev helper
  *
  * A wrapper around unregister_framebuffer, to release the fb_info
- * framebuffer device
+ * framebuffer device. This must be called before releasing all resources for
+ * @fb_helper by calling drm_fb_helper_fini().
  */
 void drm_fb_helper_unregister_fbi(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper)
 {
@@ -855,6 +857,13 @@ void drm_fb_helper_release_fbi(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_fb_helper_release_fbi);
 
+/**
+ * drm_fb_helper_fini - finialize a &struct drm_fb_helper
+ * @fb_helper: driver-allocated fbdev helper
+ *
+ * This cleans up all remaining resources associated with @fb_helper. Must be
+ * called after drm_fb_helper_unlink_fbi() was called.
+ */
 void drm_fb_helper_fini(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper)
 {
 	if (!drm_fbdev_emulation)
-- 
2.11.0



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