linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 26/29] dma-buf/fence: remove pointless fence_timeline

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Date:	Fri, 15 Jan 2016 15:42:04 -0800
From:	Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@...gle.com>
To:	Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@...labora.co.uk>,
	John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@...el.com>
Cc:	Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@...ovan.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, daniels@...labora.com,
	Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
	Riley Andrews <riandrews@...roid.com>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com>,
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...onical.com>,
	tomcherry@...gle.com, dtor@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [RFC 26/29] dma-buf/fence: remove pointless fence_timeline_signal
 at destroy phase

On 01/15/2016 10:02 AM, Gustavo Padovan wrote:
> Patches 27 and 28 are attempt to fix that. I assumed that if some code is
> calling fence_timeline_destroy() it wants to stop everything so I
> worked on a solution that stops any waiter and allows the timeline to be
> destroyed.
>
> No one is using fence_timeline_destroy() in mainline now, so it is
> definately a behaviour we can discuss.
>
> 	Gustavo
>

+Tom Cherry and Dmitry Torokhov recently discovered that this was broken 
by the refactoring of Android sync on top of dma-buf fences.

Tom and Dmitry, did you send the proposed fix upstream?