Commit 31bbe16f authored by David Herrmann's avatar David Herrmann

drm: add pseudo filesystem for shared inodes

Our current DRM design uses a single address_space for all users of the
same DRM device. However, there is no way to create an anonymous
address_space without an underlying inode. Therefore, we wait for the
first ->open() callback on a registered char-dev and take-over the inode
of the char-dev. This worked well so far, but has several drawbacks:
 - We screw with FS internals and rely on some non-obvious invariants like
   inode->i_mapping being the same as inode->i_data for char-devs.
 - We don't have any address_space prior to the first ->open() from
   user-space. This leads to ugly fallback code and we cannot allocate
   global objects early.

As pointed out by Al-Viro, fs/anon_inode.c is *not* supposed to be used by
drivers for anonymous inode-allocation. Therefore, this patch follows the
proposed alternative solution and adds a pseudo filesystem mount-point to
DRM. We can then allocate private inodes including a private address_space
for each DRM device at initialization time.

Note that we could use:
  sysfs_get_inode(sysfs_mnt->mnt_sb, drm_device->dev->kobj.sd);
to get access to the underlying sysfs-inode of a "struct device" object.
However, most of this information is currently hidden and it's not clear
whether this address_space is suitable for driver access. Thus, unless
linux allows anonymous address_space objects or driver-core provides a
public inode per device, we're left with our own private internal mount
point.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
parent 786a7828
......@@ -31,8 +31,10 @@
* DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
*/
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/moduleparam.h>
#include <linux/mount.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <drm/drmP.h>
#include <drm/drm_core.h>
......@@ -416,6 +418,78 @@ void drm_unplug_dev(struct drm_device *dev)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_unplug_dev);
/*
* DRM internal mount
* We want to be able to allocate our own "struct address_space" to control
* memory-mappings in VRAM (or stolen RAM, ...). However, core MM does not allow
* stand-alone address_space objects, so we need an underlying inode. As there
* is no way to allocate an independent inode easily, we need a fake internal
* VFS mount-point.
*
* The drm_fs_inode_new() function allocates a new inode, drm_fs_inode_free()
* frees it again. You are allowed to use iget() and iput() to get references to
* the inode. But each drm_fs_inode_new() call must be paired with exactly one
* drm_fs_inode_free() call (which does not have to be the last iput()).
* We use drm_fs_inode_*() to manage our internal VFS mount-point and share it
* between multiple inode-users. You could, technically, call
* iget() + drm_fs_inode_free() directly after alloc and sometime later do an
* iput(), but this way you'd end up with a new vfsmount for each inode.
*/
static int drm_fs_cnt;
static struct vfsmount *drm_fs_mnt;
static const struct dentry_operations drm_fs_dops = {
.d_dname = simple_dname,
};
static const struct super_operations drm_fs_sops = {
.statfs = simple_statfs,
};
static struct dentry *drm_fs_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type, int flags,
const char *dev_name, void *data)
{
return mount_pseudo(fs_type,
"drm:",
&drm_fs_sops,
&drm_fs_dops,
0x010203ff);
}
static struct file_system_type drm_fs_type = {
.name = "drm",
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.mount = drm_fs_mount,
.kill_sb = kill_anon_super,
};
static struct inode *drm_fs_inode_new(void)
{
struct inode *inode;
int r;
r = simple_pin_fs(&drm_fs_type, &drm_fs_mnt, &drm_fs_cnt);
if (r < 0) {
DRM_ERROR("Cannot mount pseudo fs: %d\n", r);
return ERR_PTR(r);
}
inode = alloc_anon_inode(drm_fs_mnt->mnt_sb);
if (IS_ERR(inode))
simple_release_fs(&drm_fs_mnt, &drm_fs_cnt);
return inode;
}
static void drm_fs_inode_free(struct inode *inode)
{
if (inode) {
iput(inode);
simple_release_fs(&drm_fs_mnt, &drm_fs_cnt);
}
}
/**
* drm_dev_alloc - Allocate new drm device
* @driver: DRM driver to allocate device for
......
......@@ -3112,6 +3112,7 @@ char *simple_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen)
end = ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
return end;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_dname);
/*
* Write full pathname from the root of the filesystem into the buffer.
......
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