Quoting Daniel Vetter (2020-02-04 15:01:46)
> This catches the majority of drivers (unfortunately not if we take
> users into account, because all the big drivers have at least a
> lastclose hook).
>
> With the prep patches out of the way all drm state is fully protected
> and either prevents or can deal with the races from dropping the BKL
> around open/close. The only thing left to audit are the various driver
> hooks - by keeping the BKL around if any of them are set we have a
> very simple cop-out!
>
> Note that one of the biggest prep pieces to get here was making
> dev->open_count atomic, which was done in
>
> commit 7e13ad896484a0165a68197a2e64091ea28c9602
> Author: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri Jan 24 13:01:07 2020 +0000
>
> drm: Avoid drm_global_mutex for simple inc/dec of dev->open_count
>
> v2:
> - Rebase and fix locking in drm_open() (Chris)
> - Indentation fix in drm_release
> - Typo fix in the commit message (Sam)
>
> Cc: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
-Chris
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