Re: [PATCH v5 5/8] rust: drm: gem: shmem: Add DRM shmem helper abstraction

Lyude Paul
2025-12-02T22:02:03Z

Just to make sure the folks at home can follow the conversation that happened
here, this discussion was continued over on zulip:

https://rust-for-linux.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/415254-DRM/topic/Asahi.20GEM.20SHMEM.20changes/near/561274295

Since there's work ongoing elsewhere for adding compile-time bounds checks, it
seems like the current plan is to hold off on adding this and eventually
incorporate the work for this happening upstream

On Mon, 2025-11-24 at 12:41 -0300, Daniel Almeida wrote:
> Hi Lyude,
>
> +cc Sami Tolvanen
>
> This patch looks fine, but I think we should either introduce splittable vmaps
> now, or make sure that they can be fully implementable later. Do you think
> that's the case?
>
> > On 23 Oct 2025, at 18:22, Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Asahi Lina <lina@asahilina.net>
> >
> > The DRM shmem helper includes common code useful for drivers which
> > allocate GEM objects as anonymous shmem. Add a Rust abstraction for
> > this. Drivers can choose the raw GEM implementation or the shmem layer,
> > depending on their needs.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Asahi Lina <lina@asahilina.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > V2:
> > * Use the drm_gem_shmem_init() and drm_gem_shmem_release() that I extracted
> > so we can handle memory allocation in rust, which means we no longer have
> > to handle freeing rust members of the struct by hand and have a closer
> > implementation to the main gem object
> > (this also gets rid of gem_create_object)
> > * Get rid of GemObjectRef and UniqueGemObjectRef, we have ARef<T> at home.
> > * Use Device<T::Driver> in Object<T>
> > * Cleanup Object::<T>::new() a bit:
> > * Cleanup safety comment
> > * Use cast_mut()
> > * Just import container_of!(), we use it all over anyhow
> > * mut_shmem() -> as_shmem(), make it safe (there's no reason for being unsafe)
> > * Remove any *const and *muts in structs, just use NonNull
> > * Get rid of the previously hand-rolled sg_table bindings in shmem, use the
> > bindings from Abdiel's sg_table patch series
> > * Add a TODO at the top about DMA reservation APIs and a desire for WwMutex
> > * Get rid of map_wc() and replace it with a new ObjectConfig struct. While
> > it currently only specifies the map_wc flag, the idea here is that
> > settings like map_wc() and parent_resv_obj() shouldn't be exposed as
> > normal functions since the only place where it's safe to set them is
> > when we're still guaranteed unique access to the GEM object, e.g. before
> > returning it to the caller. Using a struct instead of individual
> > arguments here is mainly because we'll be adding at least one more
> > argument, and there's enough other gem shmem settings that trying to add
> > all of them as individual function arguments in the future would be a bit
> > messy.
> > * Get rid of vm_numa_fields!, Lina didn't like this macro much either and I
> > think that it's fine for us to just specify the #[cfg(…)] attributes by
> > hand since we only need to do it twice.
> > * Set drm_gem_object_funcs.vm_ops directly to drm_gem_shmem_vm_ops, don't
> > export the various shmem funcs. I'm not sure why this wasn't possible
> > before but it seems to work fine now.
> > V4:
> > * Switch from OpaqueObject to a normal Object<T> now that we've removed it
> > * Remove `dev` from Object, it's redundant as drm_gem_object already has a
> > device pointer we can use.
> > * Use &raw instead of addr_of!()
> > V5:
> > * Fix typo in shmem::Object::as_raw()
> > * Add type invariant around `obj` always being a valid
> > `drm_gem_shmem_object` for the duration of the lifetime of `Object`.
> > * Use Opaque::cast_from() instead of unrestricted casts
> >
> > rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h | 2 +
> > rust/helpers/drm.c | 48 ++++++-
> > rust/kernel/drm/gem/mod.rs | 3 +-
> > rust/kernel/drm/gem/shmem.rs | 225 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 4 files changed, 276 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > create mode 100644 rust/kernel/drm/gem/shmem.rs
> >
> > diff --git a/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h b/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h
> > index 07f79e125c329..ad644f3d62cc3 100644
> > --- a/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h
> > +++ b/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h
> > @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
> > #include <drm/drm_drv.h>
> > #include <drm/drm_file.h>
> > #include <drm/drm_gem.h>
> > +#include <drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.h>
> > #include <drm/drm_ioctl.h>
> > #include <kunit/test.h>
> > #include <linux/auxiliary_bus.h>
> > @@ -60,6 +61,7 @@
> > #include <linux/interrupt.h>
> > #include <linux/fs.h>
> > #include <linux/ioport.h>
> > +#include <linux/iosys-map.h>
> > #include <linux/jiffies.h>
> > #include <linux/jump_label.h>
> > #include <linux/mdio.h>
> > diff --git a/rust/helpers/drm.c b/rust/helpers/drm.c
> > index 450b406c6f273..a4e997d0b4732 100644
> > --- a/rust/helpers/drm.c
> > +++ b/rust/helpers/drm.c
> > @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
> > // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> >
> > #include <drm/drm_gem.h>
> > +#include <drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.h>
> > #include <drm/drm_vma_manager.h>
> >
> > #ifdef CONFIG_DRM
> > @@ -20,4 +21,49 @@ __u64 rust_helper_drm_vma_node_offset_addr(struct drm_vma_offset_node *node)
> > return drm_vma_node_offset_addr(node);
> > }
> >
> > -#endif
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_DRM_GEM_SHMEM_HELPER
> > +void rust_helper_drm_gem_shmem_object_free(struct drm_gem_object *obj)
> > +{
> > + return drm_gem_shmem_object_free(obj);
> > +}
> > +
> > +void rust_helper_drm_gem_shmem_object_print_info(struct drm_printer *p, unsigned int indent,
> > + const struct drm_gem_object *obj)
> > +{
> > + drm_gem_shmem_object_print_info(p, indent, obj);
> > +}
> > +
> > +int rust_helper_drm_gem_shmem_object_pin(struct drm_gem_object *obj)
> > +{
> > + return drm_gem_shmem_object_pin(obj);
> > +}
> > +
> > +void rust_helper_drm_gem_shmem_object_unpin(struct drm_gem_object *obj)
> > +{
> > + drm_gem_shmem_object_unpin(obj);
> > +}
> > +
> > +struct sg_table *rust_helper_drm_gem_shmem_object_get_sg_table(struct drm_gem_object *obj)
> > +{
> > + return drm_gem_shmem_object_get_sg_table(obj);
> > +}
> > +
> > +int rust_helper_drm_gem_shmem_object_vmap(struct drm_gem_object *obj,
> > + struct iosys_map *map)
> > +{
> > + return drm_gem_shmem_object_vmap(obj, map);
> > +}
> > +
> > +void rust_helper_drm_gem_shmem_object_vunmap(struct drm_gem_object *obj,
> > + struct iosys_map *map)
> > +{
> > + drm_gem_shmem_object_vunmap(obj, map);
> > +}
> > +
> > +int rust_helper_drm_gem_shmem_object_mmap(struct drm_gem_object *obj, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> > +{
> > + return drm_gem_shmem_object_mmap(obj, vma);
> > +}
> > +
> > +#endif /* CONFIG_DRM_GEM_SHMEM_HELPER */
> > +#endif /* CONFIG_DRM */
> > diff --git a/rust/kernel/drm/gem/mod.rs b/rust/kernel/drm/gem/mod.rs
> > index d448c65fe5e13..2985dfa144027 100644
> > --- a/rust/kernel/drm/gem/mod.rs
> > +++ b/rust/kernel/drm/gem/mod.rs
> > @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
> > //! DRM GEM API
> > //!
> > //! C header: [`include/drm/drm_gem.h`](srctree/include/drm/drm_gem.h)
> > +#[cfg(CONFIG_DRM_GEM_SHMEM_HELPER = "y")]
> > +pub mod shmem;
> >
> > use crate::{
> > alloc::flags::*,
> > @@ -208,7 +210,6 @@ fn create_mmap_offset(&self) -> Result<u64> {
> > impl<T: IntoGEMObject> BaseObject for T {}
> >
> > /// Crate-private base operations shared by all GEM object classes.
> > -#[expect(unused)]
> > pub(crate) trait BaseObjectPrivate: IntoGEMObject {
> > /// Return a pointer to this object's dma_resv.
> > fn raw_dma_resv(&self) -> *mut bindings::dma_resv {
> > diff --git a/rust/kernel/drm/gem/shmem.rs b/rust/kernel/drm/gem/shmem.rs
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000000000..45b95d60a3ec7
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/rust/kernel/drm/gem/shmem.rs
> > @@ -0,0 +1,225 @@
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > +
> > +//! DRM GEM shmem helper objects
> > +//!
> > +//! C header: [`include/linux/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.h`](srctree/include/linux/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.h)
> > +
> > +// TODO:
> > +// - There are a number of spots here that manually acquire/release the DMA reservation lock using
> > +// dma_resv_(un)lock(). In the future we should add support for ww mutex, expose a method to
> > +// acquire a reference to the WwMutex, and then use that directly instead of the C functions here.
> > +
> > +use crate::{
> > + container_of,
> > + drm::{device, driver, gem, private::Sealed},
> > + error::{from_err_ptr, to_result},
> > + prelude::*,
> > + scatterlist,
> > + types::{ARef, Opaque},
> > +};
> > +use core::{
> > + ops::{Deref, DerefMut},
> > + ptr::NonNull,
> > +};
> > +use gem::{BaseObjectPrivate, DriverObject, IntoGEMObject};
> > +
> > +/// A struct for controlling the creation of shmem-backed GEM objects.
> > +///
> > +/// This is used with [`Object::new()`] to control various properties that can only be set when
> > +/// initially creating a shmem-backed GEM object.
> > +#[derive(Default)]
> > +pub struct ObjectConfig<'a, T: DriverObject> {
> > + /// Whether to set the write-combine map flag.
> > + pub map_wc: bool,
> > +
> > + /// Reuse the DMA reservation from another GEM object.
> > + ///
> > + /// The newly created [`Object`] will hold an owned refcount to `parent_resv_obj` if specified.
> > + pub parent_resv_obj: Option<&'a Object<T>>,
> > +}
> > +
> > +/// A shmem-backed GEM object.
> > +///
> > +/// # Invariants
> > +///
> > +/// `obj` contains a valid initialized `struct drm_gem_shmem_object` for the lifetime of this
> > +/// object.
> > +#[repr(C)]
> > +#[pin_data]
> > +pub struct Object<T: DriverObject> {
> > + #[pin]
> > + obj: Opaque<bindings::drm_gem_shmem_object>,
> > + // Parent object that owns this object's DMA reservation object
> > + parent_resv_obj: Option<ARef<Object<T>>>,
> > + #[pin]
> > + inner: T,
> > +}
> > +
> > +super::impl_aref_for_gem_obj!(impl<T> for Object<T> where T: DriverObject);
> > +
> > +impl<T: DriverObject> Object<T> {
> > + /// `drm_gem_object_funcs` vtable suitable for GEM shmem objects.
> > + const VTABLE: bindings::drm_gem_object_funcs = bindings::drm_gem_object_funcs {
> > + free: Some(Self::free_callback),
> > + open: Some(super::open_callback::<T>),
> > + close: Some(super::close_callback::<T>),
> > + print_info: Some(bindings::drm_gem_shmem_object_print_info),
> > + export: None,
> > + pin: Some(bindings::drm_gem_shmem_object_pin),
> > + unpin: Some(bindings::drm_gem_shmem_object_unpin),
> > + get_sg_table: Some(bindings::drm_gem_shmem_object_get_sg_table),
> > + vmap: Some(bindings::drm_gem_shmem_object_vmap),
> > + vunmap: Some(bindings::drm_gem_shmem_object_vunmap),
> > + mmap: Some(bindings::drm_gem_shmem_object_mmap),
> > + status: None,
> > + rss: None,
> > + // SAFETY: `drm_gem_shmem_vm_ops` is static const on the C side, so immutable references are
> > + // safe here and such references shall be valid forever
> > + vm_ops: unsafe { &bindings::drm_gem_shmem_vm_ops },
> > + evict: None,
> > + };
> > +
> > + /// Return a raw pointer to the embedded drm_gem_shmem_object.
> > + fn as_shmem(&self) -> *mut bindings::drm_gem_shmem_object {
> > + self.obj.get()
> > + }
> > +
> > + /// Create a new shmem-backed DRM object of the given size.
> > + ///
> > + /// Additional config options can be specified using `config`.
> > + pub fn new(
> > + dev: &device::Device<T::Driver>,
> > + size: usize,
> > + config: ObjectConfig<'_, T>,
> > + args: T::Args,
> > + ) -> Result<ARef<Self>> {
> > + let new: Pin<KBox<Self>> = KBox::try_pin_init(
> > + try_pin_init!(Self {
> > + obj <- Opaque::init_zeroed(),
> > + parent_resv_obj: config.parent_resv_obj.map(|p| p.into()),
> > + inner <- T::new(dev, size, args),
> > + }),
> > + GFP_KERNEL,
> > + )?;
> > +
> > + // SAFETY: `obj.as_raw()` is guaranteed to be valid by the initialization above.
> > + unsafe { (*new.as_raw()).funcs = &Self::VTABLE };
> > +
> > + // SAFETY: The arguments are all valid via the type invariants.
> > + to_result(unsafe { bindings::drm_gem_shmem_init(dev.as_raw(), new.as_shmem(), size) })?;
> > +
> > + // SAFETY: We never move out of `self`.
> > + let new = KBox::into_raw(unsafe { Pin::into_inner_unchecked(new) });
> > +
> > + // SAFETY: We're taking over the owned refcount from `drm_gem_shmem_init`.
> > + let obj = unsafe { ARef::from_raw(NonNull::new_unchecked(new)) };
> > +
> > + // Start filling out values from `config`
> > + if let Some(parent_resv) = config.parent_resv_obj {
> > + // SAFETY: We have yet to expose the new gem object outside of this function, so it is
> > + // safe to modify this field.
> > + unsafe { (*obj.obj.get()).base.resv = parent_resv.raw_dma_resv() };
> > + }
> > +
> > + // SAFETY: We have yet to expose this object outside of this function, so we're guaranteed
> > + // to have exclusive access - thus making this safe to hold a mutable reference to.
> > + let shmem = unsafe { &mut *obj.as_shmem() };
> > + shmem.set_map_wc(config.map_wc);
> > +
> > + Ok(obj)
> > + }
> > +
> > + /// Returns the `Device` that owns this GEM object.
> > + pub fn dev(&self) -> &device::Device<T::Driver> {
> > + // SAFETY: `dev` will have been initialized in `Self::new()` by `drm_gem_shmem_init()`.
> > + unsafe { device::Device::from_raw((*self.as_raw()).dev) }
> > + }
> > +
> > + extern "C" fn free_callback(obj: *mut bindings::drm_gem_object) {
> > + // SAFETY:
> > + // - DRM always passes a valid gem object here
> > + // - We used drm_gem_shmem_create() in our create_gem_object callback, so we know that
> > + // `obj` is contained within a drm_gem_shmem_object
> > + let this = unsafe { container_of!(obj, bindings::drm_gem_shmem_object, base) };
> > +
> > + // SAFETY:
> > + // - We're in free_callback - so this function is safe to call.
> > + // - We won't be using the gem resources on `this` after this call.
> > + unsafe { bindings::drm_gem_shmem_release(this) };
> > +
> > + // SAFETY:
> > + // - We verified above that `obj` is valid, which makes `this` valid
> > + // - This function is set in AllocOps, so we know that `this` is contained within a
> > + // `Object<T>`
> > + let this = unsafe { container_of!(Opaque::cast_from(this), Self, obj) }.cast_mut();
> > +
> > + // SAFETY: We're recovering the Kbox<> we created in gem_create_object()
> > + let _ = unsafe { KBox::from_raw(this) };
> > + }
> > +
> > + /// Creates (if necessary) and returns an immutable reference to a scatter-gather table of DMA
> > + /// pages for this object.
> > + ///
> > + /// This will pin the object in memory.
> > + #[inline]
> > + pub fn sg_table(&self) -> Result<&scatterlist::SGTable> {
> > + // SAFETY:
> > + // - drm_gem_shmem_get_pages_sgt is thread-safe.
> > + // - drm_gem_shmem_get_pages_sgt returns either a valid pointer to a scatterlist, or an
> > + // error pointer.
> > + let sgt = from_err_ptr(unsafe { bindings::drm_gem_shmem_get_pages_sgt(self.as_shmem()) })?;
> > +
> > + // SAFETY: We checked above that `sgt` is not an error pointer, so it must be a valid
> > + // pointer to a scatterlist
> > + Ok(unsafe { scatterlist::SGTable::from_raw(sgt) })
> > + }
> > +}
>
> ^ Here, for example: would it be ok to return the sg_table for the whole
> allocation, even though we might have multiple vmapped regions?
>
> I assume so, since these are two distinct concepts, but it’s worth
> confirming anyways.
>
> > +
> > +impl<T: DriverObject> Deref for Object<T> {
> > + type Target = T;
> > +
> > + fn deref(&self) -> &Self::Target {
> > + &self.inner
> > + }
> > +}
> > +
> > +impl<T: DriverObject> DerefMut for Object<T> {
> > + fn deref_mut(&mut self) -> &mut Self::Target {
> > + &mut self.inner
> > + }
> > +}
> > +
> > +impl<T: DriverObject> Sealed for Object<T> {}
> > +
> > +impl<T: DriverObject> gem::IntoGEMObject for Object<T> {
> > + fn as_raw(&self) -> *mut bindings::drm_gem_object {
> > + // SAFETY:
> > + // - Our immutable reference is proof that this is safe to dereference.
> > + // - `obj` is always a valid drm_gem_shmem_object via our type invariants.
> > + unsafe { &raw mut (*self.obj.get()).base }
> > + }
> > +
> > + unsafe fn from_raw<'a>(obj: *mut bindings::drm_gem_object) -> &'a Object<T> {
> > + // SAFETY: The safety contract of from_gem_obj() guarantees that `obj` is contained within
> > + // `Self`
> > + unsafe {
> > + let obj = Opaque::cast_from(container_of!(obj, bindings::drm_gem_shmem_object, base));
> > +
> > + &*container_of!(obj, Object<T>, obj)
> > + }
> > + }
> > +}
> > +
> > +impl<T: DriverObject> driver::AllocImpl for Object<T> {
> > + type Driver = T::Driver;
> > +
> > + const ALLOC_OPS: driver::AllocOps = driver::AllocOps {
> > + gem_create_object: None,
> > + prime_handle_to_fd: None,
> > + prime_fd_to_handle: None,
> > + gem_prime_import: None,
> > + gem_prime_import_sg_table: Some(bindings::drm_gem_shmem_prime_import_sg_table),
> > + dumb_create: Some(bindings::drm_gem_shmem_dumb_create),
> > + dumb_map_offset: None,
> > + };
> > +}
> > --
> > 2.51.0
> >
> >

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

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