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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst index 38360ede1221..159a4aba49e6 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst @@ -262,6 +262,44 @@ As a reference, take a look at the conversions already completed in drm core. Contact: Sean Paul, respective driver maintainers +Rename CMA helpers to DMA helpers +--------------------------------- + +CMA (standing for contiguous memory allocator) is really a bit an accident of +what these were used for first, a much better name would be DMA helpers. In the +text these should even be called coherent DMA memory helpers (so maybe CDM, but +no one knows what that means) since underneath they just use dma_alloc_coherent. + +Contact: Laurent Pinchart, Daniel Vetter + +Convert direct mode.vrefresh accesses to use drm_mode_vrefresh() +---------------------------------------------------------------- + +drm_display_mode.vrefresh isn't guaranteed to be populated. As such, using it +is risky and has been known to cause div-by-zero bugs. Fortunately, drm core +has helper which will use mode.vrefresh if it's !0 and will calculate it from +the timings when it's 0. + +Use simple search/replace, or (more fun) cocci to replace instances of direct +vrefresh access with a call to the helper. Check out +https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2019-January/205186.html for +inspiration. + +Once all instances of vrefresh have been converted, remove vrefresh from +drm_display_mode to avoid future use. + +Contact: Sean Paul + +Remove drm_display_mode.hsync +----------------------------- + +We have drm_mode_hsync() to calculate this from hsync_start/end, since drivers +shouldn't/don't use this, remove this member to avoid any temptations to use it +in the future. If there is any debug code using drm_display_mode.hsync, convert +it to use drm_mode_hsync() instead. + +Contact: Sean Paul + Core refactorings ================= @@ -360,10 +398,6 @@ KMS cleanups Some of these date from the very introduction of KMS in 2008 ... -- drm_display_mode doesn't need to be derived from drm_mode_object. That's - leftovers from older (never merged into upstream) KMS designs where modes - where set using their ID, including support to add/remove modes. - - 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 |