[RFC 26/29] dma-buf/fence: remove pointless fence_timeline_signal at destroy phase

Greg Hackmann ghackmann at google.com
Fri Jan 15 23:42:04 UTC 2016


On 01/15/2016 10:02 AM, Gustavo Padovan wrote:
> Patches 27 and 28 are attempt to fix that. I assumed that if some code is
> calling fence_timeline_destroy() it wants to stop everything so I
> worked on a solution that stops any waiter and allows the timeline to be
> destroyed.
>
> No one is using fence_timeline_destroy() in mainline now, so it is
> definately a behaviour we can discuss.
>
> 	Gustavo
>

+Tom Cherry and Dmitry Torokhov recently discovered that this was broken 
by the refactoring of Android sync on top of dma-buf fences.

Tom and Dmitry, did you send the proposed fix upstream?


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