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From: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
To: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org,
	Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>,
	Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Cc: "Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>,
	"David Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>,
	"Simona Vetter" <simona@ffwll.ch>,
	"Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
	"Alex Gaynor" <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>,
	"Boqun Feng" <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
	"Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
	"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
	"Benno Lossin" <lossin@kernel.org>,
	"Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
	"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
	"Asahi Lina" <lina+kernel@asahilina.net>,
	"Shankari Anand" <shankari.ak0208@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: [PATCH v4 1/9] Partially revert "rust: drm: gem: Implement AlwaysRefCounted for all gem objects automatically"
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:08:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251016210955.2813186-2-lyude@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251016210955.2813186-1-lyude@redhat.com>

Currently in order to implement AlwaysRefCounted for gem objects, we use a
blanket implementation:

  unsafe impl<T: IntoGEMObject> AlwaysRefCounted for T { … }

While this technically works, it comes with the rather unfortunate downside
that attempting to create a similar blanket implementation in any other
kernel crate will now fail in a rather confusing way.

Using an example from the (not yet upstream) rust DRM KMS bindings, if we
were to add:

  unsafe impl<T: RcModeObject> AlwaysRefCounted for T { … }

Then the moment that both blanket implementations are present in the same
kernel tree, compilation fails with the following:

   error[E0119]: conflicting implementations of trait `types::AlwaysRefCounted`
      --> rust/kernel/drm/kms.rs:504:1
       |
   504 | unsafe impl<T: RcModeObject> AlwaysRefCounted for T {
       | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ conflicting implementation
       |
      ::: rust/kernel/drm/gem/mod.rs:97:1
       |
   97  | unsafe impl<T: IntoGEMObject> AlwaysRefCounted for T {
       | ---------------------------------------------------- first implementation here

So, revert these changes for now. The proper fix for this is to introduce a
macro for copy/pasting the same implementation of AlwaysRefCounted around.

This reverts commit 38cb08c3fcd3f3b1d0225dcec8ae50fab5751549.

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

---
V2:
* Rewrite the commit message to explain a bit more why we don't want a
  blanket implementation for this.

Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
---
 rust/kernel/drm/gem/mod.rs | 36 ++++++++++++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rust/kernel/drm/gem/mod.rs b/rust/kernel/drm/gem/mod.rs
index 30c853988b942..20c2769a8c9d6 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/drm/gem/mod.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/drm/gem/mod.rs
@@ -55,26 +55,6 @@ pub trait IntoGEMObject: Sized + super::private::Sealed + AlwaysRefCounted {
     unsafe fn from_raw<'a>(self_ptr: *mut bindings::drm_gem_object) -> &'a Self;
 }
 
-// SAFETY: All gem objects are refcounted.
-unsafe impl<T: IntoGEMObject> AlwaysRefCounted for T {
-    fn inc_ref(&self) {
-        // SAFETY: The existence of a shared reference guarantees that the refcount is non-zero.
-        unsafe { bindings::drm_gem_object_get(self.as_raw()) };
-    }
-
-    unsafe fn dec_ref(obj: NonNull<Self>) {
-        // SAFETY: We either hold the only refcount on `obj`, or one of many - meaning that no one
-        // else could possibly hold a mutable reference to `obj` and thus this immutable reference
-        // is safe.
-        let obj = unsafe { obj.as_ref() }.as_raw();
-
-        // SAFETY:
-        // - The safety requirements guarantee that the refcount is non-zero.
-        // - We hold no references to `obj` now, making it safe for us to potentially deallocate it.
-        unsafe { bindings::drm_gem_object_put(obj) };
-    }
-}
-
 extern "C" fn open_callback<T: DriverObject>(
     raw_obj: *mut bindings::drm_gem_object,
     raw_file: *mut bindings::drm_file,
@@ -273,6 +253,22 @@ extern "C" fn free_callback(obj: *mut bindings::drm_gem_object) {
     }
 }
 
+// SAFETY: Instances of `Object<T>` are always reference-counted.
+unsafe impl<T: DriverObject> crate::types::AlwaysRefCounted for Object<T> {
+    fn inc_ref(&self) {
+        // SAFETY: The existence of a shared reference guarantees that the refcount is non-zero.
+        unsafe { bindings::drm_gem_object_get(self.as_raw()) };
+    }
+
+    unsafe fn dec_ref(obj: NonNull<Self>) {
+        // SAFETY: `obj` is a valid pointer to an `Object<T>`.
+        let obj = unsafe { obj.as_ref() };
+
+        // SAFETY: The safety requirements guarantee that the refcount is non-zero.
+        unsafe { bindings::drm_gem_object_put(obj.as_raw()) }
+    }
+}
+
 impl<T: DriverObject> super::private::Sealed for Object<T> {}
 
 impl<T: DriverObject> Deref for Object<T> {
-- 
2.51.0


  reply	other threads:[~2025-10-16 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-16 21:08 [PATCH v4 0/9] Rust bindings for gem shmem + iosys_map Lyude Paul
2025-10-16 21:08 ` Lyude Paul [this message]
2025-10-17 13:11   ` [PATCH v4 1/9] Partially revert "rust: drm: gem: Implement AlwaysRefCounted for all gem objects automatically" Alice Ryhl
2025-10-16 21:08 ` [PATCH v4 2/9] rust/drm: Add gem::impl_aref_for_gem_obj! Lyude Paul
2025-10-17 13:22   ` Alice Ryhl
2025-10-21 17:33     ` Lyude Paul
2025-10-22  8:14       ` Alice Ryhl
2025-10-16 21:08 ` [PATCH v4 3/9] rust: helpers: Add bindings/wrappers for dma_resv_lock Lyude Paul
2025-10-17 13:23   ` Alice Ryhl
2025-10-16 21:08 ` [PATCH v4 4/9] rust: drm: gem: Add raw_dma_resv() function Lyude Paul
2025-10-16 21:08 ` [PATCH v4 5/9] rust: gem: Introduce DriverObject::Args Lyude Paul
2025-10-17 13:24   ` Alice Ryhl
2025-10-16 21:08 ` [PATCH v4 6/9] rust: drm: gem: shmem: Add DRM shmem helper abstraction Lyude Paul
2025-10-17 13:30   ` Alice Ryhl
2025-10-16 21:08 ` [PATCH v4 7/9] rust: drm: gem: Introduce shmem::SGTable Lyude Paul
2025-10-16 21:08 ` [PATCH v4 8/9] rust: Introduce iosys_map bindings Lyude Paul
2025-10-16 22:26   ` Lyude Paul
2025-10-16 21:08 ` [PATCH v4 9/9] rust: drm/gem: Add vmap functions to shmem bindings Lyude Paul

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