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From: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
To: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org,
	Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/core: Do not preserve framebuffer on rmfb, v3.
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 09:30:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <570B5288.40702@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1459423563-27558-1-git-send-email-maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>

Op 31-03-16 om 13:26 schreef Maarten Lankhorst:
> It turns out that preserving framebuffers after the rmfb call breaks
> vmwgfx userspace. This was originally introduced because it was thought
> nobody relied on the behavior, but unfortunately it seems there are
> exceptions.
>
> drm_framebuffer_remove may fail with -EINTR now, so a straight revert
> is impossible. There is no way to remove the framebuffer from the lists
> and active planes without introducing a race because of the different
> locking requirements. Instead call drm_framebuffer_remove from a
> workqueue, which is unaffected by signals.
>
Ping?
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-11  7:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-22  9:58 [PATCH] drm/core: Do not preserve framebuffer on rmfb, v2 Maarten Lankhorst
2016-03-22 11:35 ` ✗ Fi.CI.BAT: failure for " Patchwork
2016-03-31 11:26 ` [PATCH] drm/core: Do not preserve framebuffer on rmfb, v3 Maarten Lankhorst
2016-04-11  7:30   ` Maarten Lankhorst [this message]
2016-04-12 10:42   ` Daniel Vetter
2016-05-02  9:07     ` [REBASED PATCH] " Maarten Lankhorst
2016-05-03 12:01   ` [PATCH] " Thomas Hellstrom
2016-05-04 12:10     ` [PATCH i-g-t] tests/kms: Add test for testing rmfb framebuffer removal handling Maarten Lankhorst
2016-05-05  9:11       ` [Intel-gfx] " Tvrtko Ursulin
2016-05-05 11:50         ` Daniel Vetter
2016-05-04 12:38     ` [PATCH] drm/core: Do not preserve framebuffer on rmfb, v4 Maarten Lankhorst
2016-05-05  9:07       ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2016-05-05 11:51         ` [Intel-gfx] " Daniel Vetter

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