[PATCH] [RFC]drm: add syncobj timeline support v5

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Am 19.09.2018 um 05:20 schrieb zhoucm1:
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> On 2018å¹´09æ??18æ?¥ 16:32, Christian König wrote:
>>>>> +    for (i = 0; i < args->count_handles; i++) {
>>>>> +        if (syncobjs[i]->type == DRM_SYNCOBJ_TYPE_TIMELINE) {
>>>>> +            DRM_ERROR("timeline syncobj cannot reset!\n");
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>>>> Why not? I mean that should still work or do I miss anything?
>>> timeline semaphore spec doesn't require reset interface, it says the 
>>> timeline value only can be changed by signal operations.
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>> Yeah, but we don't care about the timeline spec in the kernel.
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>> Question is rather if that still makes sense to support that and as 
>> far as I can see it should be trivial to reinitialize the object. 
> Hi Daniel Rakos,
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> Could you give a comment on this question? Is it necessary to support 
> timeline reset interface?  I only see the timeline value can be 
> changed by signal operations in Spec.

I think the Vulkan spec is rather irrelevant here. We added the reset 
operation because of drivers which wanted to re-use an existing syncobj.

That is still a valid use case even when Vulkan doesn't have an 
interface for it.

Christian.

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> Thanks,
> David Zhou
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