On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:41:11 +0100, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> wrote: > The locking in our setup and teardown paths is rather arbitrary, but > generally we try to protect gem stuff with dev->struct_mutex. Further, > the ums/gem ioctl to setup gem _does_ take the look. So fix up this > benign inconsistency. It is completely arbitrary and only exists to keep lockdep and various BUG_ON(mutex_lock) happy. From your reading, we would have a lockdep warning with ums/gem? The extra little step towards consistency is likely to save a warning later, so Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> -Chris -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre