Re: [PATCH 3/8] rust: drm: add driver abstractions

[Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 00:54 +0100, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> diff --git a/rust/kernel/drm/driver.rs b/rust/kernel/drm/driver.rs
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..1ac770482ae0
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/rust/kernel/drm/driver.rs
> @@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR MIT
> +
> +//! DRM driver core.
> +//!
> +//! C header: [`include/linux/drm/drm_drv.h`](srctree/include/linux/drm/drm_drv.h)
> +
> +use crate::{bindings, drm, str::CStr};
> +use macros::vtable;
> +
> +/// Driver use the GEM memory manager. This should be set for all modern drivers.
> +pub const FEAT_GEM: u32 = bindings::drm_driver_feature_DRIVER_GEM;
> +/// Driver supports mode setting interfaces (KMS).
> +pub const FEAT_MODESET: u32 = bindings::drm_driver_feature_DRIVER_MODESET;
> +/// Driver supports dedicated render nodes.
> +pub const FEAT_RENDER: u32 = bindings::drm_driver_feature_DRIVER_RENDER;
> +/// Driver supports the full atomic modesetting userspace API.
> +///
> +/// Drivers which only use atomic internally, but do not support the full userspace API (e.g. not
> +/// all properties converted to atomic, or multi-plane updates are not guaranteed to be tear-free)
> +/// should not set this flag.
> +pub const FEAT_ATOMIC: u32 = bindings::drm_driver_feature_DRIVER_ATOMIC;
> +/// Driver supports DRM sync objects for explicit synchronization of command submission.
> +pub const FEAT_SYNCOBJ: u32 = bindings::drm_driver_feature_DRIVER_SYNCOBJ;
> +/// Driver supports the timeline flavor of DRM sync objects for explicit synchronization of command
> +/// submission.
> +pub const FEAT_SYNCOBJ_TIMELINE: u32 = bindings::drm_driver_feature_DRIVER_SYNCOBJ_TIMELINE;
> +/// Driver supports compute acceleration devices. This flag is mutually exclusive with `FEAT_RENDER`
> +/// and `FEAT_MODESET`. Devices that support both graphics and compute acceleration should be
> +/// handled by two drivers that are connected using auxiliary bus.
> +pub const FEAT_COMPUTE_ACCEL: u32 = bindings::drm_driver_feature_DRIVER_COMPUTE_ACCEL;
> +/// Driver supports user defined GPU VA bindings for GEM objects.
> +pub const FEAT_GEM_GPUVA: u32 = bindings::drm_driver_feature_DRIVER_GEM_GPUVA;
> +/// Driver supports and requires cursor hotspot information in the cursor plane (e.g. cursor plane
> +/// has to actually track the mouse cursor and the clients are required to set hotspot in order for
> +/// the cursor planes to work correctly).
> +pub const FEAT_CURSOR_HOTSPOT: u32 = bindings::drm_driver_feature_DRIVER_CURSOR_HOTSPOT;

IMHO I don't think that we should be exposing any of these constants, building
the feature flag mask should honestly be abstracted away into the rust
bindings as not doing so means it's very easy to break assumptions that could
lead to unsoundness.

As an example using the KMS bindings, assume we're handling passing the flags
manually. If I were to have a type implement drm::drv::Driver and
drm::kms::KmsDriver, we now have access to various Kms method calls on the
drm::device::Device. But all of those method calls assume that we actually set
up Kms in the first place, since checking this at runtime would lead to most
of the Kms API being fallible in places that don't make sense. So if we tried
calling a Kms specific method on a device that didn't set FEAT_MODESET |
FEAT_ATOMIC, we'd hit undefined behavior.
-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat

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