Re: [WIP RFC v2 06/35] rust: drm/kms: Add drm_plane bindings

[Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 2024-10-03 at 10:30 +0200, Louis Chauvet wrote:
> Hi Lyude
> 
> Thank you for all this amazing work!
> 
> [...]
> 
> > +impl<T: DriverPlane> Plane<T> {
> > +    /// Construct a new [`Plane`].
> > +    ///
> > +    /// A driver may use this from their [`Kms::create_objects`] callback in order to construct new
> > +    /// [`Plane`] objects.
> > +    ///
> > +    /// [`Kms::create_objects`]: kernel::drm::kms::Kms::create_objects
> > +    pub fn new<'a, 'b: 'a, const FMT_COUNT: usize, const MOD_COUNT: usize>(
> > +        dev: &'a UnregisteredKmsDevice<'a, T::Driver>,
> > +        possible_crtcs: u32,
> > +        formats: &'static FormatList<FMT_COUNT>,
> > +        format_modifiers: Option<&'static ModifierList<MOD_COUNT>>,
> > +        type_: PlaneType,
> > +        name: Option<&CStr>,
> > +        args: T::Args,
> > +    ) -> Result<&'b Self> {
> 
> Here I have a little comment about this API, I really like the fact that
> FormatList and ModifierList have a type fixed length, but I fear it will
> be limiting for the drivers. The same apply for the &'static lifetime,
> does it really need to be static?
> 
> For example, with the introduction of ConfigFS interface in VKMS (I did
> not send this part), I need to be able to create a plane with any number 
> of formats/modifier dynamically according to the userspace configuration: 
> so a dynamically allocated array, which is not 'static and not 
> fixed-length.
> 
> I think here you can easly remove the &'static requirement as the
> format list and format modifiers are copied by drm core [1]. Do you think
> it is also feasable to use a slice instead of a custom *List type?

Good catch! I thought it was required to be static, but looking at the code
for __drm_universal_plane_init you're right - we copy the contents of each
array into a separate array so there's no need for static references here.

Since there's no need for static references, we could then certainly just pass
array slices and then .collect() them into a Vec we temporarily pass to
drm_universal_plane_init from Plane::new(). I will make sure to do that on the
next iteration of this series :)

> 
> [1]:https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.11.1/source/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c#L442
> 
> 
> > +        let this: Pin<Box<Self>> = Box::try_pin_init(
> > +            try_pin_init!(Self {
> > +                plane: Opaque::new(bindings::drm_plane {
> > +                    helper_private: &T::OPS.helper_funcs,
> > +                    ..Default::default()
> > +                }),
> > +                inner <- T::new(dev, args),
> > +                _p: PhantomPinned
> > +            }),
> > +            GFP_KERNEL
> > +        )?;
> > +
> > +        // SAFETY: FFI call with no special requirements
> 
> I don't know what should be the granularity of safety comments, but I
> think drm_universal_plane_init requires some pointers to be valid (at
> least dev, this, formats, funcs)

Ah yes you're right - this is definitely a safety comment I should have
updated.

> 
> > +        to_result(unsafe {
> > +            bindings::drm_universal_plane_init(
> > +                dev.as_raw(),
> > +                this.as_raw(),
> > +                possible_crtcs,
> > +                &T::OPS.funcs,
> > +                formats.as_ptr(),
> > +                formats.raw_len() as _,
> > +                format_modifiers.map_or(null(), |f| f.as_ptr()),
> > +                type_ as _,
> > +                name.map_or(null(), |n| n.as_char_ptr())
> > +            )
> > +        })?;
> > +
> > +        // Convert the box into a raw pointer, we'll re-assemble it in plane_destroy_callback()
> > +        // SAFETY: We don't move anything
> > +        Ok(unsafe { &*Box::into_raw(Pin::into_inner_unchecked(this)) })
> > +    }
> > +}
> 
> [...]
> 

-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat

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