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    drm/ioctl: Ditch DRM_UNLOCKED except for the legacy vblank ioctl · 75426367
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    This completes Emil's series of removing DRM_UNLOCKED from modern
    drivers. It's entirely cargo-culted since we ignore it on
    non-DRIVER_LEGACY drivers since:
    
    commit ea487835
    Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
    Date:   Mon Sep 28 21:42:40 2015 +0200
    
        drm: Enforce unlocked ioctl operation for kms driver ioctls
    
    Now justifying why we can do this for legacy drives too (and hence
    close the source of all the bogus copypasting) is a bit more involved.
    DRM_UNLOCKED was introduced in:
    
    commit ed8b6704
    Author: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    Date:   Wed Dec 16 22:17:09 2009 +0000
    
        drm: convert drm_ioctl to unlocked_ioctl
    
    As a immediate hack to keep i810 happy, which would have deadlocked
    without this trickery. The old BKL is automatically dropped in
    schedule(), and hence the i810 vs. mmap_sem deadlock didn't actually
    cause a real deadlock. But with a mutex it would. The solution was to
    annotate these as DRM_UNLOCKED and mark i810 unsafe on SMP machines.
    
    This conversion caused a regression, because unlike the BKL a mutex
    isn't dropped over schedule (that thing again), which caused a vblank
    wait in one thread to block the entire desktop and all its apps. Back
    then we did vblank scheduling by blocking in the client, awesome isn't
    it. This was fixed quickly in (ok not so quickly, took 2 years):
    
    commit 8f4ff2b0
    Author: Ilija Hadzic <ihadzic@research.bell-labs.com>
    Date:   Mon Oct 31 17:46:18 2011 -0400
    
        drm: do not sleep on vblank while holding a mutex
    
    All the other DRM_UNLOCKED annotations for all the core ioctls was
    work to reach finer-grained locking for modern drivers. This took
    years, and culminated in:
    
    commit fdd5b877
    Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
    Date:   Sat Dec 10 22:52:54 2016 +0100
    
        drm: Enforce BKL-less ioctls for modern drivers
    
    DRM_UNLOCKED was never required by any legacy drivers, except for the
    vblank_wait IOCTL. Therefore we will not regress these old drivers by
    going back to where we've been in 2011. For all modern drivers nothing
    will change.
    
    To make this perfectly clear, also add a comment to DRM_UNLOCKED.
    
    v2: Don't forget about drm_ioc32.c (Michel).
    
    Cc: Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net>
    Cc: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarEmil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarMichel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
    Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190605120835.2798-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
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