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From: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
To: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
	 Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
	 David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>,
	Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>,
	 Andrzej Hajda <andrzej.hajda@intel.com>,
	 Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>,
	Robert Foss <rfoss@kernel.org>,
	 Laurent Pinchart <Laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
	 Jonas Karlman <jonas@kwiboo.se>,
	Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com>,
	 Inki Dae <inki.dae@samsung.com>,
	Jagan Teki <jagan@amarulasolutions.com>,
	 Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
	 Jessica Zhang <jesszhan0024@gmail.com>,
	 Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
	Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>,  Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>,
	Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp.com>,
	 Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>,
	 Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@pengutronix.de>,
	 Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Cc: Hui Pu <Hui.Pu@gehealthcare.com>,
	Ian Ray <ian.ray@gehealthcare.com>,
	 Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>,
	 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
	 dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 imx@lists.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH RFC v2 06/24] drm/display: bridge-connector: add APIs to add/remove the connector dynamically
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:42:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261001-drm-bridge-hotplug-v2-6-8e34986dcb68@bootlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261001-drm-bridge-hotplug-v2-0-8e34986dcb68@bootlin.com>

drm_bridge_connector_init() adds a drmm-allocated connector. For bridge
hotplug drmm allocations are not suitable because a connector may have to
be added and removed multiple times in the lifetime of a card.

In preparation for bridge hotplug, add APIs to add and remove a connector
using regular non-managed allocations.

For the dynamic connector, this requires the kfree() the allocated struct
drm_bridge_connector in the destroy func. However that func will be called
even when using the pre-existing drmm API, leading to a double free
(kfree() in the destroy callback + drmm).

One option to avoid this issue is introducing two mostly identical
drm_connector_funcs instances, one with .destroy and one without. But that
would be an annoying code duplication. Instead take a different approach:
always allocate using non-drmm kzalloc_obj(), so that deallocation always
happen in destroy->kfree().

Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>

---

Uhm, maybe the change from drmm_kzalloc to kzalloc_obj and addition of
kfree to the destroy callback should eb a separate commit?
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_bridge_connector.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
 include/drm/drm_bridge_connector.h             |  4 ++++
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_bridge_connector.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_bridge_connector.c
index 1c222e27767d..2a0065208fb8 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_bridge_connector.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_bridge_connector.c
@@ -285,6 +285,7 @@ static void drm_bridge_connector_dynconn_destroy(struct drm_connector *connector
 
 	drm_connector_cleanup(connector);
 	drm_bridge_connector_put_bridges(bridge_connector);
+	kfree(bridge_connector);
 }
 
 static const struct drm_connector_funcs drm_bridge_connector_funcs = {
@@ -1184,7 +1185,7 @@ struct drm_connector *drm_bridge_connector_init(struct drm_device *drm,
 	struct drm_connector *connector;
 	int ret;
 
-	bridge_connector = drmm_kzalloc(drm, sizeof(*bridge_connector), GFP_KERNEL);
+	bridge_connector = kzalloc_obj(*bridge_connector);
 	if (!bridge_connector)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
@@ -1199,3 +1200,24 @@ struct drm_connector *drm_bridge_connector_init(struct drm_device *drm,
 	return connector;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(drm_bridge_connector_init);
+
+struct drm_connector *drm_bridge_connector_dynamic_add(struct drm_device *drm,
+						       struct drm_encoder *encoder)
+{
+	struct drm_bridge_connector *bridge_connector;
+
+	bridge_connector = kzalloc_obj(*bridge_connector);
+	if (!bridge_connector)
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+
+	return drm_bridge_connector_initialize(bridge_connector, drm, encoder);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(drm_bridge_connector_dynamic_add);
+
+void drm_bridge_connector_dynamic_remove(struct drm_connector *connector)
+{
+	struct drm_bridge_connector *bridge_connector = to_drm_bridge_connector(connector);
+
+	drm_bridge_connector_fini(bridge_connector);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(drm_bridge_connector_dynamic_remove);
diff --git a/include/drm/drm_bridge_connector.h b/include/drm/drm_bridge_connector.h
index 69630815fb09..de6ec91dbfab 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_bridge_connector.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_bridge_connector.h
@@ -9,8 +9,12 @@
 struct drm_connector;
 struct drm_device;
 struct drm_encoder;
+struct drm_bridge_connector;
 
 struct drm_connector *drm_bridge_connector_init(struct drm_device *drm,
 						struct drm_encoder *encoder);
+struct drm_connector *drm_bridge_connector_dynamic_add(struct drm_device *drm,
+						       struct drm_encoder *encoder);
+void drm_bridge_connector_dynamic_remove(struct drm_connector *connector);
 
 #endif /* __DRM_BRIDGE_CONNECTOR_H__ */

-- 
2.55.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-01 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-01 12:42 [PATCH RFC v2 00/24] drm bridge hotplug Luca Ceresoli
2026-10-01 12:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 01/24] drm/connector: split drmm_connector_hdmi_init() in 3 parts Luca Ceresoli
2026-10-01 12:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 02/24] drm/connector: add drm_connector_hdmi_dynamic_init() Luca Ceresoli
2026-10-01 12:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 03/24] drm/display: bridge-connector: split code allocation from initialization Luca Ceresoli
2026-10-01 12:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 04/24] drm/display: bridge-connector: hoist error management to common code Luca Ceresoli
2026-10-01 12:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 05/24] drm/display: bridge-connector: use a dynamic connector Luca Ceresoli
2026-10-01 12:42 ` Luca Ceresoli [this message]
2026-10-01 12:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 07/24] drm/bridge: samsung-dsim: move drm_bridge_add() call to probe Luca Ceresoli
2026-10-01 12:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 08/24] drm/bridge: initialize chain_node list head on allocation Luca Ceresoli
2026-10-01 12:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 09/24] drm/bridge: initialize chain_node list head on detach and attach errors Luca Ceresoli
2026-10-01 12:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 10/24] drm/encoder: add drm_encoder_cleanup_from() Luca Ceresoli
2026-10-01 12:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 11/24] drm/atomic: move drm_atomic_helper_disable_all() and drm_atomic_helper_shutdown() from drm_atomic_helper to drm_atomic Luca Ceresoli
2026-10-01 12:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 12/24] drm/bridge: shutdown and cleanup on bridge unplug Luca Ceresoli
2026-10-01 12:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 13/24] drm/mipi-dsi: turn DRM_MIPI_DSI into a tristate Luca Ceresoli
2026-10-01 12:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 14/24] drm: event-notifier: add mechanism to notify about hotplug events Luca Ceresoli
2026-10-01 12:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 15/24] drm/bridge: notify about detached bridges Luca Ceresoli
2026-10-01 12:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 16/24] drm/mipi-dsi: notify about DSI attach Luca Ceresoli
2026-10-01 12:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 17/24] drm/bridge: add drm_bridge_get_next() and supporting func Luca Ceresoli
2026-10-01 12:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 18/24] drm/panel: implement .get_next_bridge Luca Ceresoli
2026-10-01 12:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 19/24] drm/bridge: display-connector: " Luca Ceresoli
2026-10-01 12:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 20/24] drm/bridge: ti-sn65dsi83: " Luca Ceresoli
2026-10-01 12:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 21/24] drm/bridge: ti-sn65dsi86: " Luca Ceresoli
2026-10-01 12:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 22/24] drm/bridge: samsung-dsim: " Luca Ceresoli
2026-10-01 12:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 23/24] drm: drm_hotplug_helper: new helper to implement bridge hotplug Luca Ceresoli
2026-10-01 12:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 24/24] drm/mxsfb/lcdif: enable " Luca Ceresoli

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