Hi everybody, The idea of ref-counting dma_resv or ww_mutex came up multiple times from different people, but so far at least I have abandoned that as to complicated to implement considering how widely used that object is.
Thanks to AI I gave the task to refcount dma_resv to Claude Sonet 4 just to check how horrible it would look like. Well turns out that this is actually a cleanup we should most likely aim for and I'm really wondering why we haven't done it like this in the first place. Not only resolves it a bunch of issues with dma_resv instances shared by multiple GEM objects (we just recently had a bunch of patches for that on the mailing list), but also allows TTM to implement it's delayed delete handling without any zombie resurrection or similar hacks. The patch set is totally work in progress and only survives a smoke test with amdgpu, but I still wanted to check if the idea is valuable and should be looked in further. Please comment and/or tear apart :) Cheers, Christian.
