On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 05:06:42PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 11:53:28AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > >> A more complete solution would be to do the mutex_init in the drm core > >> only for legacy drivers, plus add it to each modern driver that still > >> needs it, which would also give each its own lockdep key. Trying to do > >> that dynamically doesn't work, because lockdep requires it's keys to > >> be statically allocated. > > > > Would something like the below work? Its not pretty, but would give each > > user of drm_dev_init() its own key. > > We're very close to getting rid of struct_mutex, neither nouveau.ko > nor i915.ko use it, and only about 4 drivers really still need it (out > of about 30+). I think the minimal patch is enough, and then not > initializing the mutex to prevent more users croping up again in the > future. Whatever you want of course. I was just going by that one paragraphy I quoted :-) _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
