Doesn't protect anything at all, and probably just here because a long
time ago dev->struct_mutex was required to allocate gem objects.

With this patch exynos is completely struct_mutex free!

Cc: Inki Dae <inki.dae at samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_fbdev.c | 22 ++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_fbdev.c 
b/drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_fbdev.c
index f6118baa8e3e..e1f7abaa61df 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_fbdev.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_fbdev.c
@@ -138,8 +138,6 @@ static int exynos_drm_fbdev_create(struct drm_fb_helper 
*helper,
        mode_cmd.pixel_format = drm_mode_legacy_fb_format(sizes->surface_bpp,
                                                          sizes->surface_depth);

-       mutex_lock(&dev->struct_mutex);
-
        size = mode_cmd.pitches[0] * mode_cmd.height;

        exynos_gem = exynos_drm_gem_create(dev, EXYNOS_BO_CONTIG, size);
@@ -154,10 +152,8 @@ static int exynos_drm_fbdev_create(struct drm_fb_helper 
*helper,
                                                   size);
        }

-       if (IS_ERR(exynos_gem)) {
-               ret = PTR_ERR(exynos_gem);
-               goto out;
-       }
+       if (IS_ERR(exynos_gem))
+               return PTR_ERR(exynos_gem);

        exynos_fbdev->exynos_gem = exynos_gem;

@@ -173,7 +169,6 @@ static int exynos_drm_fbdev_create(struct drm_fb_helper 
*helper,
        if (ret < 0)
                goto err_destroy_framebuffer;

-       mutex_unlock(&dev->struct_mutex);
        return ret;

 err_destroy_framebuffer:
@@ -181,13 +176,12 @@ err_destroy_framebuffer:
 err_destroy_gem:
        exynos_drm_gem_destroy(exynos_gem);

-/*
- * if failed, all resources allocated above would be released by
- * drm_mode_config_cleanup() when drm_load() had been called prior
- * to any specific driver such as fimd or hdmi driver.
- */
-out:
-       mutex_unlock(&dev->struct_mutex);
+       /*
+        * if failed, all resources allocated above would be released by
+        * drm_mode_config_cleanup() when drm_load() had been called prior
+        * to any specific driver such as fimd or hdmi driver.
+        */
+
        return ret;
 }

-- 
2.5.1

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