0d384eec10
Updating the image in a cursor's HW BO requires a mapping of the BO's buffer in the kernel's address space. Cursor image updates can happen frequently and create CPU overhead. As cursor HW BOs are small and never move, they are now map exactly once during the initialization and the mapping is used throughout the driver's lifetime. This change also removes a possible source of failures from ast_cursor_show(). As the helper does not establish mappings, it cannot fail. As a result, the cursor plane's atomic-update helper does not call any failable interfaces. All failures are detected before trying to update the cursor plane. Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200702115029.5281-10-tzimmermann@suse.de
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.