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From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 1/8] dma-buf/fence: add fence_collection fences
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:02:08 -0300
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2016-04-26 Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>:

> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 07:33:21PM -0300, Gustavo Padovan wrote:
> > From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
> >=20
> > struct fence_collection inherits from struct fence and carries a
> > collection of fences that needs to be waited together.
> >=20
> > It is useful to translate a sync_file to a fence to remove the comp=
lexity
> > of dealing with sync_files on DRM drivers. So even if there are man=
y
> > fences in the sync_file that needs to waited for a commit to happen=
,
> > they all get added to the fence_collection and passed for DRM use a=
s
> > a standard struct fence.
> >=20
> > That means that no changes needed to any driver besides supporting =
fences.
> >=20
> > fence_collection's fence doesn't belong to any timeline context, so
> > fence_is_later() and fence_later() are not meant to be called with
> > fence_collections fences.
> >=20
> > v2: Comments by Daniel Vetter:
> > 	- merge fence_collection_init() and fence_collection_add()
> > 	- only add callbacks at ->enable_signalling()
> > 	- remove fence_collection_put()
> > 	- check for type on to_fence_collection()
> > 	- adjust fence_is_later() and fence_later() to WARN_ON() if they
> > 	are used with collection fences.
> >=20
> > Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
>=20
> FENCE_NO_CONTEXT semantics needs an ack from amdgpu maintainers. I'm =
not
> entirely sure they might not hit the new WARN_ON by accident now. Ple=
ase
> cc Alex Deucher & Christian K=F6nig.

Sure, I'll Cc then in the revision. But if they use
fence_context_alloc() to get the context they should never hit any
WARN_ON as context numbers now starts at 1. 0 is reserved for
=46ENCE_NO_CONTEXT.

	Gustavo