Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 08:52:00 -0700
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com>
Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
        Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fence: Use smp_mb__before_atomic()
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On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 02:00:16PM +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> >I don't think the question about whether we need something like fence
> >to augment dma-buf is really in doubt.  Maybe it should live somewhere
> >else, I'm not sure.  But it makes sense for it to live wherever
> >dma-buf does, as they are intended to work together.
> >
> Additionally we already have a user for this in the kernel: the GPU
> drivers that use TTM.

What about the sync code in the android directory?  I thought that was
supposed to be what GPU drivers were going to use for this type of
thing.

thanks,

greg k-h
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