* drm_atomic_helper_commit - commit validated state object
* @dev: DRM device
* @state: the driver state object
- * @async: asynchronous commit
+ * @nonblocking: whether nonblocking behavior is requested.
*
* This function commits a with drm_atomic_helper_check() pre-validated state
* object. This can still fail when e.g. the framebuffer reservation fails. For
- * now this doesn't implement asynchronous commits.
+ * now this doesn't implement nonblocking commits.
*
- * Note that right now this function does not support async commits, and hence
+ * Note that right now this function does not support nonblocking commits, hence
* driver writers must implement their own version for now. Also note that the
* default ordering of how the various stages are called is to match the legacy
* modeset helper library closest. One peculiarity of that is that it doesn't
*/
int drm_atomic_helper_commit(struct drm_device *dev,
struct drm_atomic_state *state,
- bool async)
+ bool nonblock)
{
int ret;
- if (async)
+ if (nonblock)
return -EBUSY;
ret = drm_atomic_helper_prepare_planes(dev, state);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_atomic_helper_commit);
/**
- * DOC: implementing async commit
+ * DOC: implementing nonblocking commit
*
- * For now the atomic helpers don't support async commit directly. If there is
- * real need it could be added though, using the dma-buf fence infrastructure
- * for generic synchronization with outstanding rendering.
+ * For now the atomic helpers don't support nonblocking commit directly. If
+ * there is real need it could be added though, using the dma-buf fence
+ * infrastructure for generic synchronization with outstanding rendering.
*
- * For now drivers have to implement async commit themselves, with the following
- * sequence being the recommended one:
+ * For now drivers have to implement nonblocking commit themselves, with the
+ * following sequence being the recommended one:
*
* 1. Run drm_atomic_helper_prepare_planes() first. This is the only function
* which commit needs to call which can fail, so we want to run it first and
* synchronously.
*
- * 2. Synchronize with any outstanding asynchronous commit worker threads which
+ * 2. Synchronize with any outstanding nonblocking commit worker threads which
* might be affected the new state update. This can be done by either cancelling
* or flushing the work items, depending upon whether the driver can deal with
* cancelled updates. Note that it is important to ensure that the framebuffer
* 3. The software state is updated synchronously with
* drm_atomic_helper_swap_state(). Doing this under the protection of all modeset
* locks means concurrent callers never see inconsistent state. And doing this
- * while it's guaranteed that no relevant async worker runs means that async
- * workers do not need grab any locks. Actually they must not grab locks, for
- * otherwise the work flushing will deadlock.
+ * while it's guaranteed that no relevant nonblocking worker runs means that
+ * nonblocking workers do not need grab any locks. Actually they must not grab
+ * locks, for otherwise the work flushing will deadlock.
*
* 4. Schedule a work item to do all subsequent steps, using the split-out
* commit helpers: a) pre-plane commit b) plane commit c) post-plane commit and
* drm_atomic_helper_commit(), or one of the exported sub-functions of
* it.
*
- * Asynchronous commits (as indicated with the async parameter) must
+ * Nonblocking commits (as indicated with the nonblock parameter) must
* do any preparatory work which might result in an unsuccessful commit
* in the context of this callback. The only exceptions are hardware
* errors resulting in -EIO. But even in that case the driver must
* The driver must wait for any pending rendering to the new
* framebuffers to complete before executing the flip. It should also
* wait for any pending rendering from other drivers if the underlying
- * buffer is a shared dma-buf. Asynchronous commits must not wait for
+ * buffer is a shared dma-buf. Nonblocking commits must not wait for
* rendering in the context of this callback.
*
* An application can request to be notified when the atomic commit has
*
* 0 on success or one of the below negative error codes:
*
- * - -EBUSY, if an asynchronous updated is requested and there is
+ * - -EBUSY, if a nonblocking updated is requested and there is
* an earlier updated pending. Drivers are allowed to support a queue
* of outstanding updates, but currently no driver supports that.
* Note that drivers must wait for preceding updates to complete if a
*/
int (*atomic_commit)(struct drm_device *dev,
struct drm_atomic_state *state,
- bool async);
+ bool nonblock);
/**
* @atomic_state_alloc: