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Wysocki" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: intel-gfx-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Sender: "Intel-gfx" On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 03:55:28PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 3:38 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman > wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 02:32:51PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 3:58 PM Daniel Vetter wrote: > > > > > > > > In drm we've added nice drm_device (the main gpu driver thing, which > > > > also represents the userspace interfaces and has everything else > > > > dangling off it) init functions using devres, devm_drm_dev_init and > > > > soon devm_drm_dev_alloc (this patch series adds that). > > > > > > > > A slight trouble is that drm_device itself holds a reference on the > > > > struct device it's sitting on top (for sysfs links and dmesg debug and > > > > lots of other things), so there's a reference loop. For real drivers > > > > this is broken at remove/unplug time, where all devres resources are > > > > released device_release_driver(), before the final device reference is > > > > dropped. So far so good. > > > > > > > > There's 2 exceptions: > > > > - drm/vkms|vgem: Virtual drivers for which we create a fake/virtual > > > > platform device to make them look more like normal devices to > > > > userspace. These aren't drivers in the driver model sense, we simple > > > > create a platform_device and register it. > > > > > > > > - drm/i915/selftests, where we create minimal mock devices, and again > > > > the selftests aren't proper drivers in the driver model sense. > > > > > > > > For these two cases the reference loop isn't broken, because devres is > > > > only cleaned up when the last device reference is dropped. But that's > > > > not happening, because the drm_device holds that last struct device > > > > reference. > > > > > > > > Thus far this wasn't a problem since the above cases simply > > > > hand-rolled their cleanup code. But I want to convert all drivers over > > > > to the devm_ versions, hence it would be really nice if these > > > > virtual/fake/mock uses-cases could also be managed with devres > > > > cleanup. > > > > > > > > I see three possible approaches: > > > > > > Restarting this at the top level, because the discussion thus far just > > > ended in a long "you're doing it wrong", despite that I think we're > > > doing what v4l is doing (plus/minus that we can't do an exact matching > > > handling in drm because our uapi has a lot more warts, which we can't > > > change because no breaking userspace). > > > > > > So which one of the three below is the right approach? > > > > > > Aside, looking at the v4l solution I think there's also a confusion > > > about struct device representing a char device (which v4l directly > > > uses as its userspace interface refcounted thing, and which drm does > > > _not_ directly). And a struct device embedded into something like > > > platform_device or a virtual device, where a driver can bind to. My > > > question here is about the former, I don't care how cdev struct device > > > are cleaned up one bit. Now if other subsystems relies on the devres > > > cleanup behaviour we currently have because of such cdev usage, then > > > yeah first approach doesn't work (and I have a big surprised that use > > > case, but hey would actually learn something). > > > > > > End of aside, since again I want to figure out which of the tree > > > approaches it the right one. Not about how wrong one of them is, > > > ignoring the other three I laid out. And maybe there's even more > > > options for this. > > > > Sorry, been swamped with other things, give me a few days to get back to > > this, I need to dig into how you all are dealing with the virtual > > drivers. > > Sure, no problem. > > > Doing this in the middle of the merge window is a bit rough :) > > Ah I always forget ... we freeze drm at -rc6, so merge window is > actually my most relaxed time since everyone is busy and no one has > time to report drm bugs :-) Hi Greg, Since -rc3 is out, had any to ponder this? Otherwise we'll be right back in the next merge window ... Cheers, Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx