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-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mm.c34
-rw-r--r--include/drm/drm_mm.h19
2 files changed, 31 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mm.c
index fd2667052c73..767cfd05c628 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mm.c
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
/**************************************************************************
*
* Copyright 2006 Tungsten Graphics, Inc., Bismarck, ND., USA.
+ * Copyright 2016 Intel Corporation
* All Rights Reserved.
*
* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
@@ -31,9 +32,9 @@
* class implementation for more advanced memory managers.
*
* Note that the algorithm used is quite simple and there might be substantial
- * performance gains if a smarter free list is implemented. Currently it is just an
- * unordered stack of free regions. This could easily be improved if an RB-tree
- * is used instead. At least if we expect heavy fragmentation.
+ * performance gains if a smarter free list is implemented. Currently it is
+ * just an unordered stack of free regions. This could easily be improved if
+ * an RB-tree is used instead. At least if we expect heavy fragmentation.
*
* Aligned allocations can also see improvement.
*
@@ -67,7 +68,7 @@
* where an object needs to be created which exactly matches the firmware's
* scanout target. As long as the range is still free it can be inserted anytime
* after the allocator is initialized, which helps with avoiding looped
- * depencies in the driver load sequence.
+ * dependencies in the driver load sequence.
*
* drm_mm maintains a stack of most recently freed holes, which of all
* simplistic datastructures seems to be a fairly decent approach to clustering
@@ -78,14 +79,14 @@
*
* drm_mm supports a few features: Alignment and range restrictions can be
* supplied. Further more every &drm_mm_node has a color value (which is just an
- * opaqua unsigned long) which in conjunction with a driver callback can be used
+ * opaque unsigned long) which in conjunction with a driver callback can be used
* to implement sophisticated placement restrictions. The i915 DRM driver uses
* this to implement guard pages between incompatible caching domains in the
* graphics TT.
*
- * Two behaviors are supported for searching and allocating: bottom-up and top-down.
- * The default is bottom-up. Top-down allocation can be used if the memory area
- * has different restrictions, or just to reduce fragmentation.
+ * Two behaviors are supported for searching and allocating: bottom-up and
+ * top-down. The default is bottom-up. Top-down allocation can be used if the
+ * memory area has different restrictions, or just to reduce fragmentation.
*
* Finally iteration helpers to walk all nodes and all holes are provided as are
* some basic allocator dumpers for debugging.
@@ -510,7 +511,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_mm_insert_node_in_range_generic);
*
* This just removes a node from its drm_mm allocator. The node does not need to
* be cleared again before it can be re-inserted into this or any other drm_mm
- * allocator. It is a bug to call this function on a un-allocated node.
+ * allocator. It is a bug to call this function on a unallocated node.
*/
void drm_mm_remove_node(struct drm_mm_node *node)
{
@@ -689,16 +690,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_mm_replace_node);
* efficient when we simply start to select all objects from the tail of an LRU
* until there's a suitable hole: Especially for big objects or nodes that
* otherwise have special allocation constraints there's a good chance we evict
- * lots of (smaller) objects unecessarily.
+ * lots of (smaller) objects unnecessarily.
*
* The DRM range allocator supports this use-case through the scanning
* interfaces. First a scan operation needs to be initialized with
- * drm_mm_init_scan() or drm_mm_init_scan_with_range(). The the driver adds
+ * drm_mm_init_scan() or drm_mm_init_scan_with_range(). The driver adds
* objects to the roaster (probably by walking an LRU list, but this can be
* freely implemented) until a suitable hole is found or there's no further
- * evitable object.
+ * evictable object.
*
- * The the driver must walk through all objects again in exactly the reverse
+ * The driver must walk through all objects again in exactly the reverse
* order to restore the allocator state. Note that while the allocator is used
* in the scan mode no other operation is allowed.
*
@@ -838,9 +839,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_mm_scan_add_block);
* drm_mm_scan_remove_block - remove a node from the scan list
* @node: drm_mm_node to remove
*
- * Nodes _must_ be removed in the exact same order from the scan list as they
- * have been added, otherwise the internal state of the memory manager will be
- * corrupted.
+ * Nodes _must_ be removed in exactly the reverse order from the scan list as
+ * they have been added (e.g. using list_add as they are added and then
+ * list_for_each over that eviction list to remove), otherwise the internal
+ * state of the memory manager will be corrupted.
*
* When the scan list is empty, the selected memory nodes can be freed. An
* immediately following drm_mm_search_free with !DRM_MM_SEARCH_BEST will then
diff --git a/include/drm/drm_mm.h b/include/drm/drm_mm.h
index 0ce8c3678c11..7eeb98b5bf70 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_mm.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_mm.h
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
/**************************************************************************
*
* Copyright 2006-2008 Tungsten Graphics, Inc., Cedar Park, TX. USA.
+ * Copyright 2016 Intel Corporation
* All Rights Reserved.
*
* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
@@ -117,7 +118,10 @@ struct drm_mm {
* drm_mm_node_allocated - checks whether a node is allocated
* @node: drm_mm_node to check
*
- * Drivers should use this helpers for proper encapusulation of drm_mm
+ * Drivers are required to clear a node prior to using it with the
+ * drm_mm range manager.
+ *
+ * Drivers should use this helper for proper encapsulation of drm_mm
* internals.
*
* Returns:
@@ -132,7 +136,10 @@ static inline bool drm_mm_node_allocated(const struct drm_mm_node *node)
* drm_mm_initialized - checks whether an allocator is initialized
* @mm: drm_mm to check
*
- * Drivers should use this helpers for proper encapusulation of drm_mm
+ * Drivers should clear the struct drm_mm prior to initialisation if they
+ * want to use this function.
+ *
+ * Drivers should use this helper for proper encapsulation of drm_mm
* internals.
*
* Returns:
@@ -152,8 +159,8 @@ static inline u64 __drm_mm_hole_node_start(const struct drm_mm_node *hole_node)
* drm_mm_hole_node_start - computes the start of the hole following @node
* @hole_node: drm_mm_node which implicitly tracks the following hole
*
- * This is useful for driver-sepific debug dumpers. Otherwise drivers should not
- * inspect holes themselves. Drivers must check first whether a hole indeed
+ * This is useful for driver-specific debug dumpers. Otherwise drivers should
+ * not inspect holes themselves. Drivers must check first whether a hole indeed
* follows by looking at node->hole_follows.
*
* Returns:
@@ -174,8 +181,8 @@ static inline u64 __drm_mm_hole_node_end(const struct drm_mm_node *hole_node)
* drm_mm_hole_node_end - computes the end of the hole following @node
* @hole_node: drm_mm_node which implicitly tracks the following hole
*
- * This is useful for driver-sepific debug dumpers. Otherwise drivers should not
- * inspect holes themselves. Drivers must check first whether a hole indeed
+ * This is useful for driver-specific debug dumpers. Otherwise drivers should
+ * not inspect holes themselves. Drivers must check first whether a hole indeed
* follows by looking at node->hole_follows.
*
* Returns: