[PATCH] drm/mm: Document locking rules

[Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>]

Drivers need to take care. Motivated by a discussion between Mark and
Rob on dri-devel.

Cc: Mark yao <mark.yao@rock-chips.com>
Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mm.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mm.c
index ca1e344f318d..6109e022e000 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mm.c
@@ -89,6 +89,11 @@
  *
  * Finally iteration helpers to walk all nodes and all holes are provided as are
  * some basic allocator dumpers for debugging.
+ *
+ * Note that this range allocator is not thread-safe, drivers need to protect
+ * allocation and freeing with their on locking. The idea behind this is that
+ * for a full memory manager additional data needs to be protected anyway, hence
+ * internal locking would be fully redundant.
  */
 
 static struct drm_mm_node *drm_mm_search_free_generic(const struct drm_mm *mm,
-- 
2.7.4

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