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Daniel Vetter 9e1ed9fb1e drm: Add docs for managed resources 
All collected together to provide a consistent story in one patch,
instead of the somewhat bumpy refactor-evolution leading to this.

Also some thoughts on what the next steps could be:

- Create a macro called devm_drm_dev_alloc() which essentially wraps
  the kzalloc(); devm_drm_dev_init(); drmm_add_final_kfree() combo.
  Needs to be a macro since we'll have to do some typeof trickery and
  casting to make this fully generic for all drivers that embed struct
  drm_device into their own thing.

- A lot of the simple drivers now have essentially just
  drm_dev_unplug(); drm_atomic_helper_shutdown(); as their
  $bus_driver->remove hook. We could create a devm_mode_config_reset
  which sets drm_atomic_helper_shutdown as it's cleanup action, and a
  devm_drm_dev_register with drm_dev_unplug as it's cleanup action,
  and simple drivers wouldn't have a need for a ->remove function at
  all, and we could delete them.

- For more complicated drivers we need drmm_ versions of a _lot_ more
  things. All the userspace visible objects (crtc, plane, encoder,
  crtc), anything else hanging of those (maybe a drmm_get_edid, at
  least for panels and other built-in stuff).

Also some more thoughts on why we're not reusing devm_ with maybe a
fake struct device embedded into the drm_device (we can't use the
kdev, since that's in each drm_minor).

- Code review gets extremely tricky, since every time you see a devm_
  you need to carefully check whether the fake device (with the
  drm_device lifetim) or the real device (with the lifetim of the
  underlying physical device and driver binding) are used. That's not
  going to help at all, and we have enormous amounts of drivers who
  use devm_ where they really shouldn't. Having different types makes
  sure the compiler type checks this for us and ensures correctness.

- The set of functions are very much non-overlapping. E.g.
  devm_ioremap makes total sense, drmm_ioremap has the wrong lifetime,
  since hw resources need to be cleaned out at driver unbind and wont
  outlive that like a drm_device. Similar, but other way round for
  drmm_connector_init (which is the only correct version, devm_ for
  drm_connector is just buggy). Simply not having the wrong version
  again prevents bugs.

Finally I guess this opens a huge todo for all the drivers. I'm
semi-tempted to do a tree-wide s/devm_kzalloc/drmm_kzalloc/ since most
likely that'll fix an enormous amount of bugs and most likely not
cause any issues at all (aside from maybe holding onto memory slightly
too long).

v2:
- Doc improvements from Laurent.
- Also add kerneldoc for the new drmm_add_action_or_reset.

v3:
- Remove kerneldoc for drmm_remove_action.

Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>

fixup docs
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200323144950.3018436-52-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
2020-03-26 16:09:48 +01:00

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=============
DRM Internals
=============
This chapter documents DRM internals relevant to driver authors and
developers working to add support for the latest features to existing
drivers.
First, we go over some typical driver initialization requirements, like
setting up command buffers, creating an initial output configuration,
and initializing core services. Subsequent sections cover core internals
in more detail, providing implementation notes and examples.
The DRM layer provides several services to graphics drivers, many of
them driven by the application interfaces it provides through libdrm,
the library that wraps most of the DRM ioctls. These include vblank
event handling, memory management, output management, framebuffer
management, command submission & fencing, suspend/resume support, and
DMA services.
Driver Initialization
=====================
At the core of every DRM driver is a :c:type:`struct drm_driver
<drm_driver>` structure. Drivers typically statically initialize
a drm_driver structure, and then pass it to
drm_dev_alloc() to allocate a device instance. After the
device instance is fully initialized it can be registered (which makes
it accessible from userspace) using drm_dev_register().
The :c:type:`struct drm_driver <drm_driver>` structure
contains static information that describes the driver and features it
supports, and pointers to methods that the DRM core will call to
implement the DRM API. We will first go through the :c:type:`struct
drm_driver <drm_driver>` static information fields, and will
then describe individual operations in details as they get used in later
sections.
Driver Information
------------------
Major, Minor and Patchlevel
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
int major; int minor; int patchlevel;
The DRM core identifies driver versions by a major, minor and patch
level triplet. The information is printed to the kernel log at
initialization time and passed to userspace through the
DRM_IOCTL_VERSION ioctl.
The major and minor numbers are also used to verify the requested driver
API version passed to DRM_IOCTL_SET_VERSION. When the driver API
changes between minor versions, applications can call
DRM_IOCTL_SET_VERSION to select a specific version of the API. If the
requested major isn't equal to the driver major, or the requested minor
is larger than the driver minor, the DRM_IOCTL_SET_VERSION call will
return an error. Otherwise the driver's set_version() method will be
called with the requested version.
Name, Description and Date
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
char \*name; char \*desc; char \*date;
The driver name is printed to the kernel log at initialization time,
used for IRQ registration and passed to userspace through
DRM_IOCTL_VERSION.
The driver description is a purely informative string passed to
userspace through the DRM_IOCTL_VERSION ioctl and otherwise unused by
the kernel.
The driver date, formatted as YYYYMMDD, is meant to identify the date of
the latest modification to the driver. However, as most drivers fail to
update it, its value is mostly useless. The DRM core prints it to the
kernel log at initialization time and passes it to userspace through the
DRM_IOCTL_VERSION ioctl.
Device Instance and Driver Handling
-----------------------------------
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
:doc: driver instance overview
.. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_device.h
:internal:
.. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_drv.h
:internal:
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
:export:
Driver Load
-----------
Component Helper Usage
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
:doc: component helper usage recommendations
IRQ Helper Library
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c
:doc: irq helpers
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c
:export:
Memory Manager Initialization
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Every DRM driver requires a memory manager which must be initialized at
load time. DRM currently contains two memory managers, the Translation
Table Manager (TTM) and the Graphics Execution Manager (GEM). This
document describes the use of the GEM memory manager only. See ? for
details.
Miscellaneous Device Configuration
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Another task that may be necessary for PCI devices during configuration
is mapping the video BIOS. On many devices, the VBIOS describes device
configuration, LCD panel timings (if any), and contains flags indicating
device state. Mapping the BIOS can be done using the pci_map_rom()
call, a convenience function that takes care of mapping the actual ROM,
whether it has been shadowed into memory (typically at address 0xc0000)
or exists on the PCI device in the ROM BAR. Note that after the ROM has
been mapped and any necessary information has been extracted, it should
be unmapped; on many devices, the ROM address decoder is shared with
other BARs, so leaving it mapped could cause undesired behaviour like
hangs or memory corruption.
Managed Resources
-----------------
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_managed.c
:doc: managed resources
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_managed.c
:export:
.. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_managed.h
:internal:
Bus-specific Device Registration and PCI Support
------------------------------------------------
A number of functions are provided to help with device registration. The
functions deal with PCI and platform devices respectively and are only
provided for historical reasons. These are all deprecated and shouldn't
be used in new drivers. Besides that there's a few helpers for pci
drivers.
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_pci.c
:export:
Open/Close, File Operations and IOCTLs
======================================
.. _drm_driver_fops:
File Operations
---------------
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c
:doc: file operations
.. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_file.h
:internal:
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c
:export:
Misc Utilities
==============
Printer
-------
.. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_print.h
:doc: print
.. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_print.h
:internal:
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_print.c
:export:
Utilities
---------
.. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_util.h
:doc: drm utils
.. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_util.h
:internal:
Legacy Support Code
===================
The section very briefly covers some of the old legacy support code
which is only used by old DRM drivers which have done a so-called
shadow-attach to the underlying device instead of registering as a real
driver. This also includes some of the old generic buffer management and
command submission code. Do not use any of this in new and modern
drivers.
Legacy Suspend/Resume
---------------------
The DRM core provides some suspend/resume code, but drivers wanting full
suspend/resume support should provide save() and restore() functions.
These are called at suspend, hibernate, or resume time, and should
perform any state save or restore required by your device across suspend
or hibernate states.
int (\*suspend) (struct drm_device \*, pm_message_t state); int
(\*resume) (struct drm_device \*);
Those are legacy suspend and resume methods which *only* work with the
legacy shadow-attach driver registration functions. New driver should
use the power management interface provided by their bus type (usually
through the :c:type:`struct device_driver <device_driver>`
dev_pm_ops) and set these methods to NULL.
Legacy DMA Services
-------------------
This should cover how DMA mapping etc. is supported by the core. These
functions are deprecated and should not be used.
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