Re: [PATCH 2/6] drm: writeback: Add out-fences for writeback connectors

Brian Starkey
2017-04-18T17:35:19Z

On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 12:11:14PM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
>On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 16:49:00 +0000
>Brian Starkey <brian.starkey@arm.com> wrote:
>
>> Add the OUT_FENCE_PTR property to writeback connectors, to enable
>> userspace to get a fence which will signal once the writeback is
>> complete. It is not allowed to request an out-fence without a
>> framebuffer attached to the connector.
>>
>> A timeline is added to drm_writeback_connector for use by the writeback
>> out-fences.
>>
>> In the case of a commit failure or DRM_MODE_ATOMIC_TEST_ONLY, the fence
>> is set to -1.
>>
>> Changes from v2:
>> - Rebase onto Gustavo Padovan's v9 explicit sync series
>> - Change out_fence_ptr type to s32 __user *
>
>Don't know what happened, but I still see s32 __user * types in this
>patch (I had to patch it to make in work on top of 4.11-rc1).

Yeah this really confused me too when rebasing. Given that this patch
predates Gustavo's change to s32 I can only assume I typo'd and meant
s64 in this commit message.

-Brian