On 19 January 2015 at 21:03, Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Fixes a case where we call vmw_fifo_idle() from within a wait function with > task state !TASK_RUNNING, which is illegal. > > In addition, make the locking fine-grained, so that it is performed once > for every read- and write operation. This is of course more costly, but we > don't perform much register access in the timing critical paths anyway. Instead > we have the extra benefit of being sure that we don't forget the hw lock around > register accesses. I think currently the kms code was quite buggy w r t this. So what is your feeling on this for -fixes? Dave. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html