From 76fede2fa79d0d02f6874f023a39b8bd5f52e297 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maarten Lankhorst Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 12:34:00 +0100 Subject: drm/atomic: Fix outdated comment. Commit 0853695c3ba4 ("drm: Add reference counting to drm_atomic_state") adds reference counting to atomic state, but didn't update the comments in drm_atomic_(nonblocking_)commit. Clarify lifetime a bit more. Fixes: 0853695c3ba4 ("drm: Add reference counting to drm_atomic_state") Cc: # v4.10-rc1+ Cc: Chris Wilson Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/7acd1c78-ea86-7776-d98d-c846186e4b88@linux.intel.com --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c | 12 ++++-------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c') diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c index 681d5f9..672f1de 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c @@ -1599,10 +1599,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_atomic_check_only); * more locks but encountered a deadlock. The caller must then do the usual w/w * backoff dance and restart. All other errors are fatal. * - * Also note that on successful execution ownership of @state is transferred - * from the caller of this function to the function itself. The caller must not - * free or in any other way access @state. If the function fails then the caller - * must clean up @state itself. + * This function will take its own reference on @state. + * Callers should always release their reference with drm_atomic_state_put(). * * Returns: * 0 on success, negative error code on failure. @@ -1630,10 +1628,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_atomic_commit); * more locks but encountered a deadlock. The caller must then do the usual w/w * backoff dance and restart. All other errors are fatal. * - * Also note that on successful execution ownership of @state is transferred - * from the caller of this function to the function itself. The caller must not - * free or in any other way access @state. If the function fails then the caller - * must clean up @state itself. + * This function will take its own reference on @state. + * Callers should always release their reference with drm_atomic_state_put(). * * Returns: * 0 on success, negative error code on failure. -- cgit v1.1