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[v2,04/38] drm/doc: drop struct_mutex references

Message ID 20200515095118.2743122-5-emil.l.velikov@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Fareless gem_free_object | expand

Commit Message

Emil Velikov May 15, 2020, 9:50 a.m. UTC 
From: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>

There's little point in providing partial and ancient information about
the struct_mutex. Some drivers are using it, new ones should not.

As-it this only provides for confusion.

Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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 Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst
index 1839762044be..5ba2ead8f317 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst
@@ -178,11 +178,8 @@  GEM Objects Lifetime
 --------------------
 
 All GEM objects are reference-counted by the GEM core. References can be
-acquired and release by calling drm_gem_object_get() and drm_gem_object_put()
-respectively. The caller must hold the :c:type:`struct drm_device <drm_device>`
-struct_mutex lock when calling drm_gem_object_get(). As a convenience, GEM
-provides drm_gem_object_put_unlocked() functions that can be called without
-holding the lock.
+acquired and release by calling drm_gem_object_get() and drm_gem_object_put_unlocked()
+respectively.
 
 When the last reference to a GEM object is released the GEM core calls
 the :c:type:`struct drm_driver <drm_driver>` gem_free_object_unlocked