[Nouveau] [PATCH] drm/nouveau: handle same-fb page flips

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Fri, 5 Oct 2012 21:37:59 +0200
Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's questionable use case, but weston/wayland already relies on this behaviour,
> and other drivers don't care about it, so it's a matter of compatibility.
> Without it, process invoking such page flip hangs in unkillable state, trying
> to reserve the same buffer twice.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz at gmail.com>

I'd say a process going into unkillable state for something like
this is already a bug in itself.

I'm very happy if this makes Weston run on Nouveau, we've had many
unhappy users so far.

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Pekka Paalanen
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