Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] rust: Add dma_buf stub bindings

[Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 2025-09-12 at 10:25 +0200, Christian König wrote:
> On 12.09.25 00:57, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > In order to implement the gem export callback, we need a type to represent
> > struct dma_buf. So - this commit introduces a set of stub bindings for
> > dma_buf. These bindings provide a ref-counted DmaBuf object, but don't
> > currently implement any functionality for using the DmaBuf.
> 
> Especially the last sentence is a bit problematic.
> 
> Wrapping a DMA-buf object should be pretty easy, the hard part is the operations on the DMA-buf object.
> 
> E.g. how are locking and sg_table creation handled?

Mind clarifying a bit what you're talking about here?

FWIW: regarding sg_table creation, we currently have two ways of doing this in
rust:

 * Manually, using the scatterlist rust bindings that were recently merged
   into drm-rust-next
 * Through a DRM helper provided by gem shmem, ATM this would be either
    - `gem::shmem::BaseObject::<T: DriverObject>::sg_table()`
    - `gem::shmem::BaseObject::<T: DriverObject>::owned_sg_table()`
      (both of these just use drm_gem_shmem_get_pages_sgt())

However, I don't think we currently have any interactions in the bindings
we've written so far between SGTable and DmaBuf and I don't currently have any
plans for this on my roadmap.

Regarding locking: I'm not totally sure what locking you're referring to here?
To be clear - I'm explicitly /not/ trying to deal with the issue of solving
how operations on the DmaBuf object work in rust, and instead simply come up
with the bare minimum interface needed so that we can return a DmaBuf created
from the drm_gem_prime_export() helper (e.g. gem::BaseObject::prime_export())
from a driver's gem::DriverObject::export() callback. Or alternatively,
destroy it in the event that said callback fails.

Unless there's some locking interaction I missed that we need to solve to
fulfill those two goals, I'm not aware of any rust driver that needs anything
beyond that just yet. As such, I assumed this interface would touch a small
enough surface of the dma-buf API that it shouldn't set any concrete
requirements on how a fully-fledged dma-buf api in rust would work in the
future. And at the same time, still allow us to move forward with the shmem
bindings, and make sure that the surface area of the stub API is small enough
that adding the rest of the functionality to it later doesn't require any non-
trivial changes to current users.

> 
> Regards,
> Christian.
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>
> > 
> > ---
> > V3:
> > * Rename as_ref() to from_raw()
> > V4:
> > * Add missing period to rustdoc at top of file
> > 
> >  rust/kernel/dma_buf.rs | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  rust/kernel/lib.rs     |  1 +
> >  2 files changed, 41 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 rust/kernel/dma_buf.rs
> > 
> > diff --git a/rust/kernel/dma_buf.rs b/rust/kernel/dma_buf.rs
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000000000..50be3e4dd4098
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/rust/kernel/dma_buf.rs
> > @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > +
> > +//! DMA buffer API.
> > +//!
> > +//! C header: [`include/linux/dma-buf.h`](srctree/include/linux/dma-buf.h)
> > +
> > +use bindings;
> > +use kernel::types::*;
> > +
> > +/// A DMA buffer object.
> > +///
> > +/// # Invariants
> > +///
> > +/// The data layout of this type is equivalent to that of `struct dma_buf`.
> > +#[repr(transparent)]
> > +pub struct DmaBuf(Opaque<bindings::dma_buf>);
> > +
> > +// SAFETY: `struct dma_buf` is thread-safe
> > +unsafe impl Send for DmaBuf {}
> > +// SAFETY: `struct dma_buf` is thread-safe
> > +unsafe impl Sync for DmaBuf {}
> > +
> > +#[expect(unused)]
> > +impl DmaBuf {
> > +    /// Convert from a `*mut bindings::dma_buf` to a [`DmaBuf`].
> > +    ///
> > +    /// # Safety
> > +    ///
> > +    /// The caller guarantees that `self_ptr` points to a valid initialized `struct dma_buf` for the
> > +    /// duration of the lifetime of `'a`, and promises to not violate rust's data aliasing rules
> > +    /// using the reference provided by this function.
> > +    pub(crate) unsafe fn from_raw<'a>(self_ptr: *mut bindings::dma_buf) -> &'a Self {
> > +        // SAFETY: Our data layout is equivalent to `dma_buf` .
> > +        unsafe { &*self_ptr.cast() }
> > +    }
> > +
> > +    pub(crate) fn as_raw(&self) -> *mut bindings::dma_buf {
> > +        self.0.get()
> > +    }
> > +}
> > diff --git a/rust/kernel/lib.rs b/rust/kernel/lib.rs
> > index fcffc3988a903..59242d83efe21 100644
> > --- a/rust/kernel/lib.rs
> > +++ b/rust/kernel/lib.rs
> > @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@
> >  pub mod device_id;
> >  pub mod devres;
> >  pub mod dma;
> > +pub mod dma_buf;
> >  pub mod driver;
> >  #[cfg(CONFIG_DRM = "y")]
> >  pub mod drm;

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