drm/atomic: document how to handle driver private objects

DK put some nice docs into the commit introducing driver private
state, but in the git history alone it'll be lost.

Also, since Ville remove the void* usage it's a good opportunity to
give the driver private stuff some tlc on the doc front.

Finally try to explain why the "let's just subclass drm_atomic_state"
approach wasn't the greatest, and annotate all those functions as
deprecated in favour of more standardized driver private states. Also
note where we could/should extend driver private states going forward
(atm neither locking nor synchronization is handled in core/helpers,
which isn't really all that great).

v2: Spelling and phrasing improvements (Alex, DK).

Cc: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@amd.com>
Cc: Dhinakaran Pandiyan <dhinakaran.pandiyan@intel.com>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dhinakaran Pandiyan <dhinakaran.pandiyan@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171214203054.20141-5-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch

2 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/drm/drm_atomic.h b/include/drm/drm_atomic.h
index 5afd6e364fb6..22b60075142e 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_atomic.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_atomic.h
@@ -189,12 +189,40 @@ struct drm_private_state_funcs {
 				     struct drm_private_state *state);
 };
 
+/**
+ * struct drm_private_obj - base struct for driver private atomic object
+ *
+ * A driver private object is initialized by calling
+ * drm_atomic_private_obj_init() and cleaned up by calling
+ * drm_atomic_private_obj_fini().
+ *
+ * Currently only tracks the state update functions and the opaque driver
+ * private state itself, but in the future might also track which
+ * &drm_modeset_lock is required to duplicate and update this object's state.
+ */
 struct drm_private_obj {
+	/**
+	 * @state: Current atomic state for this driver private object.
+	 */
 	struct drm_private_state *state;
 
+	/**
+	 * @funcs:
+	 *
+	 * Functions to manipulate the state of this driver private object, see
+	 * &drm_private_state_funcs.
+	 */
 	const struct drm_private_state_funcs *funcs;
 };
 
+/**
+ * struct drm_private_state - base struct for driver private object state
+ * @state: backpointer to global drm_atomic_state
+ *
+ * Currently only contains a backpointer to the overall atomic update, but in
+ * the future also might hold synchronization information similar to e.g.
+ * &drm_crtc.commit.
+ */
 struct drm_private_state {
 	struct drm_atomic_state *state;
 };
diff --git a/include/drm/drm_mode_config.h b/include/drm/drm_mode_config.h
index a0afeb591dcb..e5f3b43014e1 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_mode_config.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_mode_config.h
@@ -268,6 +268,9 @@ struct drm_mode_config_funcs {
 	 * state easily. If this hook is implemented, drivers must also
 	 * implement @atomic_state_clear and @atomic_state_free.
 	 *
+	 * Subclassing of &drm_atomic_state is deprecated in favour of using
+	 * &drm_private_state and &drm_private_obj.
+	 *
 	 * RETURNS:
 	 *
 	 * A new &drm_atomic_state on success or NULL on failure.
@@ -289,6 +292,9 @@ struct drm_mode_config_funcs {
 	 *
 	 * Drivers that implement this must call drm_atomic_state_default_clear()
 	 * to clear common state.
+	 *
+	 * Subclassing of &drm_atomic_state is deprecated in favour of using
+	 * &drm_private_state and &drm_private_obj.
 	 */
 	void (*atomic_state_clear)(struct drm_atomic_state *state);
 
@@ -301,6 +307,9 @@ struct drm_mode_config_funcs {
 	 *
 	 * Drivers that implement this must call
 	 * drm_atomic_state_default_release() to release common resources.
+	 *
+	 * Subclassing of &drm_atomic_state is deprecated in favour of using
+	 * &drm_private_state and &drm_private_obj.
 	 */
 	void (*atomic_state_free)(struct drm_atomic_state *state);
 };