linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/8] drm/virtio: track created object state

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Date:   Thu, 18 Oct 2018 07:57:38 +0200
From:   Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>
To:     Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
Cc:     dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:VIRTIO CORE, NET..." 
        <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] drm/virtio: track created object state

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 11:25:22AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 at 20:33, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Track whenever the virtio_gpu_object is already created (i.e. host knows
> > about it) in a new variable.  Add checks to virtio_gpu_object_attach()
> > to do nothing on objects not created yet.
> >
> > Make virtio_gpu_ttm_bo_destroy() use the new variable too, instead of
> > expecting hw_res_handle indicating the object state.
> 
> Is there a potential patch ordering issue here? If this patch changes
> the code to avoid using hw_res_handle,
> is after patches that start filling in hw_res_handle in places we
> haven't filled it in before.
> Maybe this patch should happen earlier.

Didn't run into trouble in testing, but yes, it might be an issue in
error paths.  I'll reorder the patches.

cheers,
  Gerd