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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst index 009d8e6c7e3c..22ce801e3a8d 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ Advanced: Tricky tasks that need fairly good understanding of the DRM subsystem and graphics topics. Generally need the relevant hardware for development and testing. +Expert: Only attempt these if you've successfully completed some tricky +refactorings already and are an expert in the specific area + Subsystem-wide refactorings =========================== @@ -168,6 +171,22 @@ Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers Level: Advanced +Move Buffer Object Locking to dma_resv_lock() +--------------------------------------------- + +Many drivers have their own per-object locking scheme, usually using +mutex_lock(). This causes all kinds of trouble for buffer sharing, since +depending which driver is the exporter and importer, the locking hierarchy is +reversed. + +To solve this we need one standard per-object locking mechanism, which is +dma_resv_lock(). This lock needs to be called as the outermost lock, with all +other driver specific per-object locks removed. The problem is tha rolling out +the actual change to the locking contract is a flag day, due to struct dma_buf +buffer sharing. + +Level: Expert + Convert logging to drm_* functions with drm_device paramater ------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -594,6 +613,27 @@ Some of these date from the very introduction of KMS in 2008 ... Level: Intermediate +Remove automatic page mapping from dma-buf importing +---------------------------------------------------- + +When importing dma-bufs, the dma-buf and PRIME frameworks automatically map +imported pages into the importer's DMA area. drm_gem_prime_fd_to_handle() and +drm_gem_prime_handle_to_fd() require that importers call dma_buf_attach() +even if they never do actual device DMA, but only CPU access through +dma_buf_vmap(). This is a problem for USB devices, which do not support DMA +operations. + +To fix the issue, automatic page mappings should be removed from the +buffer-sharing code. Fixing this is a bit more involved, since the import/export +cache is also tied to &drm_gem_object.import_attach. Meanwhile we paper over +this problem for USB devices by fishing out the USB host controller device, as +long as that supports DMA. Otherwise importing can still needlessly fail. + +Contact: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>, Daniel Vetter + +Level: Advanced + + Better Testing ============== @@ -669,7 +709,7 @@ for fbdev. https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/306579/ - [RFC PATCH v2 00/13] Kernel based bootsplash - https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/13/764 + https://lore.kernel.org/r/20171213194755.3409-1-mstaudt@suse.de Contact: Sam Ravnborg |