On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 3:31 PM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmerm...@suse.de> wrote: > > Hi > > we talked about making dma_resv the default lock for GEM objects. Could > you add an entry for this? Some interns might feel adventurous. :)
Level: Too hard for Daniel Not sure that's a great internship tasks :-P But yeah I'll try to type up something around this maybe. -Daniel > > Best regards > Thomas > > Am 21.01.21 um 12:29 schrieb Daniel Vetter: > > Interrnship season is starting, let's review this. One thing that's > > pending is Maxime's work to roll out drm_atomic_state pointers to all > > callbacks, he said he'll remove that entry once it's all done. > > > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@intel.com> > > Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankho...@linux.intel.com> > > Cc: Maxime Ripard <mrip...@kernel.org> > > Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmerm...@suse.de> > > Cc: David Airlie <airl...@linux.ie> > > Cc: Daniel Vetter <dan...@ffwll.ch> > > --- > > Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 28 +++++++++++++++------------- > > 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst > > index 009d8e6c7e3c..492768dd2fd9 100644 > > --- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst > > +++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst > > @@ -577,20 +577,24 @@ Contact: Daniel Vetter > > > > Level: Intermediate > > > > -KMS cleanups > > ------------- > > +Object lifetime fixes > > +--------------------- > > + > > +There's two related issues here > > + > > +- Cleanup up the various ->destroy callbacks, which often are all the same > > + simple code. > > > > -Some of these date from the very introduction of KMS in 2008 ... > > +- Lots of drivers erroneously allocate DRM modeset objects using > > devm_kzalloc, > > + which results in use-after free issues on driver unload. This can be > > serious > > + trouble even for drivers for hardwared integrated on the SoC due to > > + EPROBE_DEFERRED backoff. > > > > -- Make ->funcs and ->helper_private vtables optional. There's a bunch of > > empty > > - function tables in drivers, but before we can remove them we need to > > make sure > > - that all the users in helpers and drivers do correctly check for a NULL > > - vtable. > > +Both these problems can be solved by switching over to drmm_kzalloc(), and > > the > > +various convenience wrappers provided, e.g. drmm_crtc_alloc_with_planes(), > > +drmm_universal_plane_alloc(), ... and so on. > > > > -- Cleanup up the various ->destroy callbacks. A lot of them just wrapt the > > - drm_*_cleanup implementations and can be removed. Some tack a kfree() at > > the > > - end, for which we could add drm_*_cleanup_kfree(). And then there's the > > (for > > - historical reasons) misnamed drm_primary_helper_destroy() function. > > +Contact: Daniel Vetter > > > > Level: Intermediate > > > > @@ -626,8 +630,6 @@ See the documentation of :ref:`VKMS <vkms>` for more > > details. This is an ideal > > internship task, since it only requires a virtual machine and can be > > sized to > > fit the available time. > > > > -Contact: Daniel Vetter > > - > > Level: See details > > > > Backlight Refactoring > > > > -- > Thomas Zimmermann > Graphics Driver Developer > SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH > Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany > (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) > Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer > -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
