Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/2] drm/core: Preserve the framebuffer after removing it.

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On 09/09/2015 08:06 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Tvrtko Ursulin
<tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am not even going that far, just talking about last frame stuck on screen.
For me making that easier is a regression.

So let's look at various systems:
- super-modern fbdev less system: logind keeps a dup of every
master-capabel drm fd. Compositor crashing won't ever result in
close() getting called since logind still has its copy. Cleanup needs
to be done manually anyway with the system compositor.
- Current systems: Compositor restarts and cleans up the mess we left behind.

What if the compositor doesn't restart? Or logind crashes in the former case?

Maybe I don't understand something, but I don't see how it is not quite bad to expect userspace to clean up the kernel structures after the previous userspace client.

What happens if something keeps crashing leaving framebuffers around?

If the only reason is to avoid modeset, why SETPLANE with NULL fb to disable planes associated with a framebuffers to be released wouldn't work?

Regards,

Tvrtko
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