Re: [PATCH] Partially revert "rust: drm: gem: Implement AlwaysRefCounted for all gem objects automatically"

[Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 2025-07-24 at 22:03 +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> On Thu Jul 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM CEST, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > -// SAFETY: All gem objects are refcounted.
> > -unsafe impl<T: IntoGEMObject> AlwaysRefCounted for T {
> > -    fn inc_ref(&self) {
> > -        // SAFETY: The existence of a shared reference guarantees that the refcount is non-zero.
> > -        unsafe { bindings::drm_gem_object_get(self.as_raw()) };
> > -    }
> > -
> > -    unsafe fn dec_ref(obj: NonNull<Self>) {
> > -        // SAFETY: We either hold the only refcount on `obj`, or one of many - meaning that no one
> > -        // else could possibly hold a mutable reference to `obj` and thus this immutable reference
> > -        // is safe.
> > -        let obj = unsafe { obj.as_ref() }.as_raw();
> > -
> > -        // SAFETY:
> > -        // - The safety requirements guarantee that the refcount is non-zero.
> > -        // - We hold no references to `obj` now, making it safe for us to potentially deallocate it.
> > -        unsafe { bindings::drm_gem_object_put(obj) };
> > -    }
> > -}
> 
> IIUC, you'll add rust/kernel/drm/gem/shmem.rs with a new type shmem::Object that
> implements IntoGEMObject, right?
> 
> If this is correct, I think that should work.

Do you mean you think the blanket implementation that we had would work, or
that getting rid of it would work? Since the blanket implementation we have
definitely doesn't compile on my machine once we add more then one
IntoGEMObject impl. (before adding it, it works just fine)

Either way - the plan I have is to just introduce a macro like
impl_aref_for_gem_object! that just copies this AlwaysRefCounted
implementation for each type of gem interface.

> 
> Do I miss anything?
> 

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Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat

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