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Commit d793b8f7 authored by Desmond Cheong Zhi Xi's avatar Desmond Cheong Zhi Xi Committed by Daniel Vetter
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drm: clarify usage of drm leases



We make the following changes to the documentation of drm leases to
make it easier to reason about their usage. In particular, we clarify
the lifetime and locking rules of lease fields in drm_master:

1. Make it clear that &drm_device.mode_config.idr_mutex protects the
lease idr and list structures for drm_master. The lessor field itself
doesn't need to be protected as it doesn't change after it's set in
drm_lease_create.

2. Add descriptions for the lifetime of lessors and leases.

3. Add an overview DOC: section in drm-uapi.rst that defines the
terminology for drm leasing, and explains how leases work and why
they're used.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDesmond Cheong Zhi Xi <desmondcheongzx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210728102739.441543-1-desmondcheongzx@gmail.com
parent 7835ed6a
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