Our current DRM design uses a single address_space for all users of the same DRM device. However, there is no way to create an anonymous address_space without an underlying inode. Therefore, we wait for the first ->open() callback on a registered char-dev and take-over the inode of the char-dev. This worked well so far, but has several drawbacks: - We screw with FS internals and rely on some non-obvious invariants like inode->i_mapping being the same as inode->i_data for char-devs. - We don't have any address_space prior to the first ->open() from user-space. This leads to ugly fallback code and we cannot allocate global objects early.
As pointed out by Al-Viro, fs/anon_inode.c is *not* supposed to be used by drivers for anonymous inode-allocation. Therefore, this patch follows the proposed alternative solution and adds a pseudo filesystem mount-point to DRM. We can then allocate private inodes including a private address_space for each DRM device at initialization time.
Note that we could use: sysfs_get_inode(sysfs_mnt->mnt_sb, drm_device->dev->kobj.sd); to get access to the underlying sysfs-inode of a "struct device" object. However, most of this information is currently hidden and it's not clear whether this address_space is suitable for driver access. Thus, unless linux allows anonymous address_space objects or driver-core provides a public inode per device, we're left with our own private internal mount point.
Cc: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Signed-off-by: David Herrmann dh.herrmann@gmail.com --- v3: - Move all stuff to drm_stub.c so we don't have to export it - Make drm.ko unloading work by switching to simple_pin_fs() instead of kern_mount().
Hey guys
So this is v3, this time with dynamic mount management. Downside is, if external code takes a reference to our inodes, we *may* end up with multiple internal vfsmounts during device hotplugging. However, this requires that there's a timespan where *no* DRM device is registered.
But the actualy downside is just more memory-consumption, so this seems fine. Comments welcome! Tested with i915 and nouveau.
Thanks David
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_stub.c | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 74 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_stub.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_stub.c index 98a33c580..f2903d7 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_stub.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_stub.c @@ -31,8 +31,10 @@ * DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. */
+#include <linux/fs.h> #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/moduleparam.h> +#include <linux/mount.h> #include <linux/slab.h> #include <drm/drmP.h> #include <drm/drm_core.h> @@ -416,6 +418,78 @@ void drm_unplug_dev(struct drm_device *dev) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_unplug_dev);
+/* + * DRM internal mount + * We want to be able to allocate our own "struct address_space" to control + * memory-mappings in VRAM (or stolen RAM, ...). However, core MM does not allow + * stand-alone address_space objects, so we need an underlying inode. As there + * is no way to allocate an independent inode easily, we need a fake internal + * VFS mount-point. + * + * The drm_fs_inode_new() function allocates a new inode, drm_fs_inode_free() + * frees it again. You are allowed to use iget() and iput() to get references to + * the inode. But each drm_fs_inode_new() call must be paired with exactly one + * drm_fs_inode_free() call (which does not have to be the last iput()). + * We use drm_fs_inode_*() to manage our internal VFS mount-point and share it + * between multiple inode-users. You could, technically, call + * iget() + drm_fs_inode_free() directly after alloc and sometime later do an + * iput(), but this way you'd end up with a new vfsmount for each inode. + */ + +static int drm_fs_cnt; +static struct vfsmount *drm_fs_mnt; + +static const struct dentry_operations drm_fs_dops = { + .d_dname = simple_dname, +}; + +static const struct super_operations drm_fs_sops = { + .statfs = simple_statfs, +}; + +static struct dentry *drm_fs_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type, int flags, + const char *dev_name, void *data) +{ + return mount_pseudo(fs_type, + "drm:", + &drm_fs_sops, + &drm_fs_dops, + 0x010203ff); +} + +static struct file_system_type drm_fs_type = { + .name = "drm", + .owner = THIS_MODULE, + .mount = drm_fs_mount, + .kill_sb = kill_anon_super, +}; + +static struct inode *drm_fs_inode_new(void) +{ + struct inode *inode; + int r; + + r = simple_pin_fs(&drm_fs_type, &drm_fs_mnt, &drm_fs_cnt); + if (r < 0) { + DRM_ERROR("Cannot mount pseudo fs: %d\n", r); + return ERR_PTR(r); + } + + inode = alloc_anon_inode(drm_fs_mnt->mnt_sb); + if (IS_ERR(inode)) + simple_release_fs(&drm_fs_mnt, &drm_fs_cnt); + + return inode; +} + +static void drm_fs_inode_free(struct inode *inode) +{ + if (inode) { + iput(inode); + simple_release_fs(&drm_fs_mnt, &drm_fs_cnt); + } +} + /** * drm_dev_alloc - Allocate new drm device * @driver: DRM driver to allocate device for