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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>


             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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