* [PATCH] drm/mm: Document locking rules
@ 2016-12-27 10:10 Daniel Vetter
2016-12-28 11:14 ` Chris Wilson
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Vetter @ 2016-12-27 10:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: DRI Development; +Cc: Daniel Vetter, Daniel Vetter
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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* Re: [PATCH] drm/mm: Document locking rules
2016-12-27 10:10 [PATCH] drm/mm: Document locking rules Daniel Vetter
@ 2016-12-28 11:14 ` Chris Wilson
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From: Chris Wilson @ 2016-12-28 11:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Daniel Vetter; +Cc: Daniel Vetter, DRI Development
On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 11:10:57AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> 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.
> */
I was going to write the same after that question, the only difference
is trying to avoid using the terms allocation/freeing (since it
doesn't!) - probably just replace both with "modification".
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
-Chris
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* [PATCH] drm/mm: Document locking rules
@ 2016-12-27 9:24 Daniel Vetter
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Vetter @ 2016-12-27 9:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: DRI Development; +Cc: Daniel Vetter, Daniel Vetter
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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