From: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
To: "Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
"Nathan Chancellor" <nathan@kernel.org>,
"Nicolas Schier" <nsc@kernel.org>,
"Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
"Boqun Feng" <boqun@kernel.org>, "Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
"Benno Lossin" <lossin@kernel.org>,
"Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
"Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@google.com>,
"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
"Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>,
"David Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>,
"Simona Vetter" <simona@ffwll.ch>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>,
Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>,
Timur Tabi <ttabi@nvidia.com>, Zhi Wang <zhiw@nvidia.com>,
Eliot Courtney <ecourtney@nvidia.com>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, nova-gpu@lists.linux.dev,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/7] gpu: drm: nova: enable calling into nova-core
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:55:03 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260430-nova-exports-v1-0-7ca31664e983@nvidia.com> (raw)
`nova-drm` is scheduled to expose a user-space API to receive IOCTLs
from user-mode drivers, and to call into `nova-core` to perform the
actual work. We are about to reach the state where we need the ability
to call into `nova-core`, but the current Rust build system does not
currently support this, and the solution will likely take at least a
couple of cycles to be merged.
In the meantime, this series would like to introduce a Nova-local
workaround for `nova-drm` to call into `nova-core`. It generates the
`nova-core` metadata that `nova-drm` can use to resolve references at
build-time, and also builds a list of exported symbols for symbol
resolution when modules are loaded.
Since Rust symbols are long, this work ran into the limits of `modpost`,
which the first two patches try to address: the first one, by detecting
and reporting buffer overflow situations that were ignored until now;
the second, by increasing the size of the buffer used to build the
symbol names, so `nova-core`'s symbols can fit.
@Miguel: I expect the design used here will allow us to smoothly switch
to the new build system once it is merged; I hope you are ok with this
temporary workaround.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
---
Alexandre Courbot (7):
scripts: modpost: detect and report truncated buf_printf() output
scripts: modpost: increase buf_printf's buffer size
gpu: nova-core: rename module from nova_core to nova-core
gpu: nova-core: export Rust symbols for dependent modules
gpu: nova-core: emit Rust metadata for dependent modules
gpu: drm: nova: build after nova-core metadata
[POC] drm: nova: demonstrate interaction with nova-core
drivers/gpu/drm/nova/Makefile | 15 ++++++++++
drivers/gpu/drm/nova/driver.rs | 6 ++++
drivers/gpu/nova-core/Kconfig | 2 +-
drivers/gpu/nova-core/Makefile | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
drivers/gpu/nova-core/driver.rs | 20 +++++++++++--
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gpu.rs | 9 ++++--
drivers/gpu/nova-core/nova_core.rs | 4 +--
drivers/gpu/nova-core/nova_core_exports.c | 11 +++++++
scripts/mod/modpost.c | 13 +++++++--
9 files changed, 117 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 11a63a5335eb7b5da4ca38014fa83be5d437144d
change-id: 20260430-nova-exports-502f996c5aab
Best regards,
--
Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
next reply other threads:[~2026-04-30 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-30 14:55 Alexandre Courbot [this message]
2026-04-30 14:55 ` [PATCH 1/7] scripts: modpost: detect and report truncated buf_printf() output Alexandre Courbot
2026-04-30 14:55 ` [PATCH 2/7] scripts: modpost: increase buf_printf's buffer size Alexandre Courbot
2026-05-01 13:02 ` Gary Guo
2026-05-01 15:31 ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-04-30 14:55 ` [PATCH 3/7] gpu: nova-core: rename module from nova_core to nova-core Alexandre Courbot
2026-04-30 15:07 ` Joel Fernandes
2026-05-01 3:25 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-05-01 10:38 ` John Hubbard
2026-05-01 12:31 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-04-30 14:55 ` [PATCH 4/7] gpu: nova-core: export Rust symbols for dependent modules Alexandre Courbot
2026-04-30 15:22 ` Joel Fernandes
2026-05-01 3:30 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-05-01 10:24 ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-04-30 14:55 ` [PATCH 5/7] gpu: nova-core: emit Rust metadata " Alexandre Courbot
2026-04-30 14:55 ` [PATCH 6/7] gpu: drm: nova: build after nova-core metadata Alexandre Courbot
2026-04-30 14:55 ` [PATCH POC 7/7] drm: nova: demonstrate interaction with nova-core Alexandre Courbot
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