Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Jul 2014 22:37:58 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Updated fence patch series |
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On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 12:57:02PM +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote: > So after some more hacking I've moved dma-buf to its own subdirectory, > drivers/dma-buf and applied the fence patches to its new place. I believe that the > first patch should be applied regardless, and the rest should be ready now. > :-) > > Changes to the fence api: > - release_fence -> fence_release etc. > - __fence_init -> fence_init > - __fence_signal -> fence_signal_locked > - __fence_is_signaled -> fence_is_signaled_locked > - Changing BUG_ON to WARN_ON in fence_later, and return NULL if it triggers. > > Android can expose fences to userspace. It's possible to make the new fence > mechanism expose the same fences to userspace by changing sync_fence_create > to take a struct fence instead of a struct sync_pt. No other change is needed, > because only the fence parts of struct sync_pt are used. But because the > userspace fences are a separate problem and I haven't really looked at it yet > I feel it should stay in staging, for now.
Ok, that's reasonable.
At first glance, this all looks "sane" to me, any objection from anyone if I merge this through my driver-core tree for 3.17?
thanks,
greg k-h
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