Re: [PATCH] staging/android: add TODO to de-stage android sync framework

[Greg Hackmann]

On 11/23/15 11:41 AM, Gustavo Padovan wrote:
> + - remove sw_sync, it is used only for testing/debugging and should not be
> +upstreamed.
> + - port sw_sync testcases to use debugfs somehow

A quick but important nitpick:

sw_sync itself is just an in-kernel helper for creating fences, when you 
don't have something like sync timeline primitives baked into your hardware.

CONFIG_SW_SYNC_USER adds the interface for creating and signaling 
sw_sync objects from userspace.  This is the part that's dangerous and 
only intended for testing, etc.

AFAIK CONFIG_SW_SYNC_USER is the only part people have been objecting 
to.  I'm fine with removing it.  Removing the kernel-facing side of 
sw_sync would be a problem for us, since many drivers use it to create 
their fences.
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