Re: [PATCH v3 7/8] drm/vgem/vgem_drv convert to use faux_device

Lyude Paul
2025-02-06T20:04:31Z

Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>

On Thu, 2025-02-06 at 18:38 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> The vgem driver does not need to create a platform device, as there is
> no real platform resources associated it, it only did so because it was
> simple to do that in order to get a device to use for resource
> management of drm resources. Change the driver to use the faux device
> instead as this is NOT a real platform device.
>
> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
> Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>
> Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
> v3: new patch in the series. For an example of the api working, does
> not have to be merged at this time, but I can take it if the
> maintainers give an ack.
> drivers/gpu/drm/vgem/vgem_drv.c | 30 +++++++++++++++---------------
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vgem/vgem_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vgem/vgem_drv.c
> index 2752ab4f1c97..2a50c0b76fac 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vgem/vgem_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vgem/vgem_drv.c
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
>
> #include <linux/dma-buf.h>
> #include <linux/module.h>
> -#include <linux/platform_device.h>
> +#include <linux/device/faux.h>
> #include <linux/shmem_fs.h>
> #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
>
> @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
>
> static struct vgem_device {
> struct drm_device drm;
> - struct platform_device *platform;
> + struct faux_device *faux_dev;
> } *vgem_device;
>
> static int vgem_open(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_file *file)
> @@ -127,27 +127,27 @@ static const struct drm_driver vgem_driver = {
> static int __init vgem_init(void)
> {
> int ret;
> - struct platform_device *pdev;
> + struct faux_device *fdev;
>
> - pdev = platform_device_register_simple("vgem", -1, NULL, 0);
> - if (IS_ERR(pdev))
> - return PTR_ERR(pdev);
> + fdev = faux_device_create("vgem", NULL);
> + if (!fdev)
> + return -ENODEV;
>
> - if (!devres_open_group(&pdev->dev, NULL, GFP_KERNEL)) {
> + if (!devres_open_group(&fdev->dev, NULL, GFP_KERNEL)) {
> ret = -ENOMEM;
> goto out_unregister;
> }
>
> - dma_coerce_mask_and_coherent(&pdev->dev,
> + dma_coerce_mask_and_coherent(&fdev->dev,
> DMA_BIT_MASK(64));
>
> - vgem_device = devm_drm_dev_alloc(&pdev->dev, &vgem_driver,
> + vgem_device = devm_drm_dev_alloc(&fdev->dev, &vgem_driver,
> struct vgem_device, drm);
> if (IS_ERR(vgem_device)) {
> ret = PTR_ERR(vgem_device);
> goto out_devres;
> }
> - vgem_device->platform = pdev;
> + vgem_device->faux_dev = fdev;
>
> /* Final step: expose the device/driver to userspace */
> ret = drm_dev_register(&vgem_device->drm, 0);
> @@ -157,19 +157,19 @@ static int __init vgem_init(void)
> return 0;
>
> out_devres:
> - devres_release_group(&pdev->dev, NULL);
> + devres_release_group(&fdev->dev, NULL);
> out_unregister:
> - platform_device_unregister(pdev);
> + faux_device_destroy(fdev);
> return ret;
> }
>
> static void __exit vgem_exit(void)
> {
> - struct platform_device *pdev = vgem_device->platform;
> + struct faux_device *fdev = vgem_device->faux_dev;
>
> drm_dev_unregister(&vgem_device->drm);
> - devres_release_group(&pdev->dev, NULL);
> - platform_device_unregister(pdev);
> + devres_release_group(&fdev->dev, NULL);
> + faux_device_destroy(fdev);
> }
>
> module_init(vgem_init);

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

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