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authorThomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>2019-01-25 12:02:07 +0100
committerAlex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>2019-01-28 17:43:11 +0100
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drm/nouveau: Replace ttm_bo_unref with ttm_bo_put
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. Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
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