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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst index 23a3c986ef6d..906771e03103 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) ========================= Drivers must initialize the mode setting core by calling -:c:func:`drm_mode_config_init()` on the DRM device. The function +drm_mode_config_init() on the DRM device. The function initializes the :c:type:`struct drm_device <drm_device>` mode_config field and never fails. Once done, mode configuration must be setup by initializing the following fields. @@ -181,8 +181,7 @@ Setting`_). The somewhat surprising part here is that properties are not directly instantiated on each object, but free-standing mode objects themselves, represented by :c:type:`struct drm_property <drm_property>`, which only specify the type and value range of a property. Any given property can be attached -multiple times to different objects using :c:func:`drm_object_attach_property() -<drm_object_attach_property>`. +multiple times to different objects using drm_object_attach_property(). .. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_mode_object.h :internal: @@ -260,7 +259,8 @@ Taken all together there's two consequences for the atomic design: drm_connector_state <drm_connector_state>` for connectors. These are the only objects with userspace-visible and settable state. For internal state drivers can subclass these structures through embeddeding, or add entirely new state - structures for their globally shared hardware functions. + structures for their globally shared hardware functions, see :c:type:`struct + drm_private_state<drm_private_state>`. - An atomic update is assembled and validated as an entirely free-standing pile of structures within the :c:type:`drm_atomic_state <drm_atomic_state>` @@ -269,6 +269,14 @@ Taken all together there's two consequences for the atomic design: to the driver and modeset objects. This way rolling back an update boils down to releasing memory and unreferencing objects like framebuffers. +Locking of atomic state structures is internally using :c:type:`struct +drm_modeset_lock <drm_modeset_lock>`. As a general rule the locking shouldn't be +exposed to drivers, instead the right locks should be automatically acquired by +any function that duplicates or peeks into a state, like e.g. +drm_atomic_get_crtc_state(). Locking only protects the software data +structure, ordering of committing state changes to hardware is sequenced using +:c:type:`struct drm_crtc_commit <drm_crtc_commit>`. + Read on in this chapter, and also in :ref:`drm_atomic_helper` for more detailed coverage of specific topics. @@ -479,6 +487,9 @@ Color Management Properties .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_color_mgmt.c :export: +.. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_color_mgmt.h + :internal: + Tile Group Property ------------------- |