Quoting Daniel Vetter (2020-02-04 15:01:45) > We want to only take the BKL on crap drivers, but to know whether > we have a crap driver we first need to look it up. Split this shuffle > out from the main BKL-disabling patch, for more clarity. Historical > aside: When the kernel-wide BKL was removed, it was replaced by > drm_global_mutex within the scope of the drm subsystem hence why these > two things are (almost) interchangeable as concepts here. > > Since the minors are refcounted drm_minor_acquire is purely internal > and this does not have a driver visible effect. > > v2: Push the locking even further into drm_open(), suggested by Chris. > This gives us more symmetry with drm_release(), and maybe a futuer > avenue where we make drm_global_mutex locking (partially) opt-in like > with drm_release_noglobal(). > > v3: > - Actually push this stuff correctly, don't unlock twice (Chris) > - Fix typo on commit message, plus explain why BKL = drm_global_mutex > (Sam) > > Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -Chris _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
