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    drm: Fix locking for sysfs dpms file · 621bd0f6
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    With atomic drivers we need to make sure that (at least in general)
    property reads hold the right locks. But the legacy dpms property is
    special and can be read locklessly. Since userspace loves to just
    randomly look at that all the time (like with "status") do that.
    
    To make it clear that we play tricks use the READ_ONCE compiler
    barrier (and also for paranoia).
    
    Note that there's not really anything bad going on since even with the
    new atomic paths we eventually end up not chasing any pointers (and
    hence possibly freed memory and other fun stuff). The locking WARNING
    has been added in
    
    commit 88a48e29
    Author: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
    Date:   Thu Dec 18 16:01:50 2014 -0500
    
        drm: add atomic properties
    
    but since drivers are converting not everyone will have seen this from
    the start.
    
    Jens reported this and submitted a patch to just grab the
    mode_config.connection_mutex, but we can do a bit better.
    
    v2: Remove unused variables I failed to git add for real.
    
    Reference: http://mid.gmane.org/20150928194822.GA3930@kernel.dkReported-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
    Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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