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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst index f872d3d33218..0631b9b323d5 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst @@ -459,52 +459,6 @@ Contact: Emil Velikov, respective driver maintainers Level: Intermediate -Plumb drm_atomic_state all over -------------------------------- - -Currently various atomic functions take just a single or a handful of -object states (eg. plane state). While that single object state can -suffice for some simple cases, we often have to dig out additional -object states for dealing with various dependencies between the individual -objects or the hardware they represent. The process of digging out the -additional states is rather non-intuitive and error prone. - -To fix that most functions should rather take the overall -drm_atomic_state as one of their parameters. The other parameters -would generally be the object(s) we mainly want to interact with. - -For example, instead of - -.. code-block:: c - - int (*atomic_check)(struct drm_plane *plane, struct drm_plane_state *state); - -we would have something like - -.. code-block:: c - - int (*atomic_check)(struct drm_plane *plane, struct drm_atomic_state *state); - -The implementation can then trivially gain access to any required object -state(s) via drm_atomic_get_plane_state(), drm_atomic_get_new_plane_state(), -drm_atomic_get_old_plane_state(), and their equivalents for -other object types. - -Additionally many drivers currently access the object->state pointer -directly in their commit functions. That is not going to work if we -eg. want to allow deeper commit pipelines as those pointers could -then point to the states corresponding to a future commit instead of -the current commit we're trying to process. Also non-blocking commits -execute locklessly so there are serious concerns with dereferencing -the object->state pointers without holding the locks that protect them. -Use of drm_atomic_get_new_plane_state(), drm_atomic_get_old_plane_state(), -etc. avoids these problems as well since they relate to a specific -commit via the passed in drm_atomic_state. - -Contact: Ville Syrjälä, Daniel Vetter - -Level: Intermediate - Use struct dma_buf_map throughout codebase ------------------------------------------ |