Re: [PATCH v2 11/15] drm/i915: Protect DSPARB registers with a spinlock

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Op 05-12-16 om 15:13 schreef ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Each DSPARB register can house bits for two separate pipes, hence
> we must protect the registers during reprogramming so that parallel
> FIFO reconfigurations happening simultaneosly on multiple pipes won't
> corrupt each others values.
>
> We'll use a new spinlock for this instead of the wm_mutex since we'll
> have to move the DSPARB programming to happen from the vblank evade
> critical section, and we can't use mutexes in there.
>
> v2: Document why we use a spinlock instead of a mutex (Maarten)
>
> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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