[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 12/24] drm/i915: Merge pre/postclose hooks

[Daniel Vetter]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 03:07:48PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 03:12:45PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > There's really not a reason afaics that we can't just clean up
> > everything at the end, in the terminal postclose hook: Since this is
> > closing a file descriptor we know no one else can have a reference or
> > a thread doing something with that drm_file except the close code.
> > Ordering shouldn't matter, as long as we don't kfree before we clean
> > stuff up.
> 
> My gut feeling was that preclose is the one we want to keep, as that is
> closer to the onion unwind - during open, we do the core drm ops first
> (e.g. drm_gem_open) before the backend, so during close we should do the
> driver before the core.
> 
> Maybe completely wrong ofc.

I wasn't sure whether drivers might have some random pointers to fpriv
that they might chase when we tear down gem objects and stuff like that.
And if you look at what's before postclose, we still have onion
unwrapping: All the things before it (fb cleanup, gem cleanup, master
dropping) is stuff that userspace adds to the file _after_ it's fully
opened.

Well it's not entirely clear, because gem destroys the idr before
postclose, which might or might not trip up someone.

But afaik all the other destructive cleanup is done after postclose.

So maybe that's the split we want in drm_close?

- First release all runtime resources acquired after ->open. Not
  destructive cleanup, fpriv should keep working like right after ->open
  has returned. These functions would all have _release in their names.
- call the driver's ->postclose.
- All the destructive cleanup. Those functions would all have _destroy in
  their names.

Since there's not really a real issue right now I'd prefer if we postpone
this cleanup though, and first get all the driver patches merged. Just in
case I missed something ...

I kinda want to do an s/postclose/close/ using cocci anyway, so this isn't
the last series on this topic.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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