drm/dp_mst: Introduce new refcounting scheme for mstbs and ports
The current way of handling refcounting in the DP MST helpers is really confusing and probably just plain wrong because it's been hacked up many times over the years without anyone actually going over the code and seeing if things could be simplified. To the best of my understanding, the current scheme works like this: drm_dp_mst_port and drm_dp_mst_branch both have a single refcount. When this refcount hits 0 for either of the two, they're removed from the topology state, but not immediately freed. Both ports and branch devices will reinitialize their kref once it's hit 0 before actually destroying themselves. The intended purpose behind this is so that we can avoid problems like not being able to free a remote payload that might still be active, due to us having removed all of the port/branch device structures in memory, as per: commit 91a25e46 ("drm/dp/mst: deallocate payload on port destruction") Which may have worked, but then it...
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