linux-kernel - Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH 1/4] dma-buf: don't hold the mutex around map/unmap calls

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Date:	Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:33:01 +0530
From:	Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>
To:	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
Cc:	linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	DRI Development <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH 1/4] dma-buf: don't hold the mutex around
 map/unmap calls

On 19 March 2012 05:04, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch> wrote:
> The mutex protects the attachment list and hence needs to be held
> around the callbakc to the exporters (optional) attach/detach
> functions.
>
> Holding the mutex around the map/unmap calls doesn't protect any
> dma_buf state. Exporters need to properly protect any of their own
> state anyway (to protect against calls from their own interfaces).
> So this only makes the locking messier (and lockdep easier to anger).
>
> Therefore let's just drop this.
>
> v2: Rebased on top of latest dma-buf-next git.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
> Reviewed-by: Rob Clark <rob.clark@...aro.org>
Thanks; Applied to for-next.
> ---
<snip>
BR,
~Sumit.
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