The function ttm_bo_put releases a reference to a TTM buffer object. The function's name is more aligned to the Linux kernel convention of naming ref-counting function _get and _put.
A call to ttm_bo_unref takes the address of the TTM BO object's pointer and clears the pointer's value to NULL. This is not necessary in most cases and sometimes even worked around by the calling code. A call to ttm_bo_put only releases the reference without clearing the pointer.
The current behaviour of cleaning the pointer is kept in the calling code, but should be removed if not required in a later patch.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann@suse.de --- drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_main.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_main.c index dac355812adc..ff83cd56e6a8 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_main.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_main.c @@ -644,7 +644,7 @@ static void ast_bo_unref(struct ast_bo **bo) return;
tbo = &((*bo)->bo); - ttm_bo_unref(&tbo); + ttm_bo_put(tbo); *bo = NULL; }