Merge v5.2-rc5 into drm-next

Maarten needs -rc4 backmerged so he can pull in the fbcon notifier
removal topic branch into drm-misc-next.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h b/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h
index f36be43bd052..6b18c8adfe9d 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h
@@ -1234,6 +1234,14 @@ struct drm_plane_helper_funcs {
 	 * current one with the new plane configurations in the new
 	 * plane_state.
 	 *
+	 * Drivers should also swap the framebuffers between current plane
+	 * state (&drm_plane.state) and new_state.
+	 * This is required since cleanup for async commits is performed on
+	 * the new state, rather than old state like for traditional commits.
+	 * Since we want to give up the reference on the current (old) fb
+	 * instead of our brand new one, swap them in the driver during the
+	 * async commit.
+	 *
 	 * FIXME:
 	 *  - It only works for single plane updates
 	 *  - Async Pageflips are not supported yet