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* As KMS moves toward more fine grained locking, and atomic ioctl where
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* userspace can indirectly control locking order, it becomes necessary
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- * to use ww_mutex and acquire-contexts to avoid deadlocks. But because
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+ * to use &ww_mutex and acquire-contexts to avoid deadlocks. But because
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* the locking is more distributed around the driver code, we want a bit
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* of extra utility/tracking out of our acquire-ctx. This is provided
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* by drm_modeset_lock / drm_modeset_acquire_ctx.
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*
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- * For basic principles of ww_mutex, see: Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.txt
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+ * For basic principles of &ww_mutex, see: Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.txt
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*
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* The basic usage pattern is to:
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*
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@@ -51,6 +51,13 @@
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* ... do stuff ...
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* drm_modeset_drop_locks(&ctx);
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* drm_modeset_acquire_fini(&ctx);
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+ *
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+ * On top of of these per-object locks using &ww_mutex there's also an overall
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+ * dev->mode_config.lock, for protecting everything else. Mostly this means
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+ * probe state of connectors, and preventing hotplug add/removal of connectors.
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+ *
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+ * Finally there's a bunch of dedicated locks to protect drm core internal
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+ * lists and lookup data structures.
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*/
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/**
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