drm/doc: Unify KMS Locking docs

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1464599449-12509-1-git-send-email-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
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Daniel Vetter
2016-05-30 11:10:49 +02:00
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@@ -30,12 +30,12 @@
*
* As KMS moves toward more fine grained locking, and atomic ioctl where
* userspace can indirectly control locking order, it becomes necessary
* to use ww_mutex and acquire-contexts to avoid deadlocks. But because
* to use &ww_mutex and acquire-contexts to avoid deadlocks. But because
* the locking is more distributed around the driver code, we want a bit
* of extra utility/tracking out of our acquire-ctx. This is provided
* by drm_modeset_lock / drm_modeset_acquire_ctx.
*
* For basic principles of ww_mutex, see: Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.txt
* For basic principles of &ww_mutex, see: Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.txt
*
* The basic usage pattern is to:
*
@@ -51,6 +51,13 @@
* ... do stuff ...
* drm_modeset_drop_locks(&ctx);
* drm_modeset_acquire_fini(&ctx);
*
* On top of of these per-object locks using &ww_mutex there's also an overall
* dev->mode_config.lock, for protecting everything else. Mostly this means
* probe state of connectors, and preventing hotplug add/removal of connectors.
*
* Finally there's a bunch of dedicated locks to protect drm core internal
* lists and lookup data structures.
*/
/**