On 30 November 2015 at 15:46, Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 03:25:35PM +0000, Emil Velikov wrote:
>> Hi Xinliang,
>>
>> On 28 November 2015 at 10:38, Xinliang Liu <xinliang.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Add DRM master driver for hi6220 SoC which used in HiKey board.
>> > Add dumb buffer feature.
>> > Add prime dmabuf feature.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Xinliang Liu <xinliang.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Signed-off-by: Xinwei Kong <kong.kongxinwei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy.green@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Your s-o-b should be the bottom of the list. There was a presentation
>> (ages ago) from Greg KH, who nicely described the order as a "chain of
>> command" or "guilt path". Looks like the rest of the series could use
>> this tweak.
>>
>> > ---
>> > drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig | 2 +
>> > drivers/gpu/drm/Makefile | 1 +
>> > drivers/gpu/drm/hisilicon/Kconfig | 9 ++
>> > drivers/gpu/drm/hisilicon/Makefile | 3 +
>> > drivers/gpu/drm/hisilicon/hisi_drm_drv.c | 214 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> > 5 files changed, 229 insertions(+)
>> > create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/hisilicon/Kconfig
>> > create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/hisilicon/Makefile
>> > create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/hisilicon/hisi_drm_drv.c
>> >
>> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
>> > index 8773fad..038aae8 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
>> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
>> > @@ -274,3 +274,5 @@ source "drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/Kconfig"
>> > source "drivers/gpu/drm/imx/Kconfig"
>> >
>> > source "drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/Kconfig"
>> > +
>> > +source "drivers/gpu/drm/hisilicon/Kconfig"
>> I could swear that we can a patch that sorts these alphabetically,
>> although it doesn't seem to have made it upstream yet :-(
>>
>> > --- /dev/null
>> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/hisilicon/hisi_drm_drv.c
>>
>> > +static int hisi_drm_load(struct drm_device *dev, unsigned long flags)
>> > +{
>> The use of .load (and .unload?) callbacks is not recommended. Take a
>> look at Laurent Pinchart's patch [1] about the whys and hows on the
>> topic
>>
>> > +static struct dma_buf *hisi_gem_prime_export(struct drm_device *dev,
>> > + struct drm_gem_object *obj,
>> > + int flags)
>> > +{
>> > + /* we want to be able to write in mmapped buffer */
>> > + flags |= O_RDWR;
>> Erm... something feels fishy here. Out of the existing 15 drivers
>> setting up the prime callbacks only one (sti) does a similar thing. So
>> either everyone else is missing something obvious or hisilicon and sti
>> can rework their inner working to remove this (dare I say it) hack.
>
> Mmap on drm dma-bufs doesn't work, and fairly intentionally. There's been
> some rfc patch series to address this:
>
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2015-August/089263.html
>
> Unfortunately it seems stuck with getting the userspace piece in shape.
> Might be best to ping Tiago for an update.
>
> Meanwhile please don't do this in drivers ;-)
It seems Tiago's patch is the best way to fix mmap issue.
I'll ping him, hope he will repsonse.
>
>> > +static int hisi_gem_cma_dumb_create(struct drm_file *file,
>> > + struct drm_device *dev,
>> > + struct drm_mode_create_dumb *args)
>> > +{
>> > + int min_pitch = DIV_ROUND_UP(args->width * args->bpp, 8);
>> > +
>> > + /* mali gpu need pitch 8 bytes alignment for 32bpp */
>> > + args->pitch = roundup(min_pitch, 8);
>> > +
>> I'm not sure you want this kind of dependency of an out of tree driver
>> upstream. If this is some limitation on the display engine so be it,
>> but tailoring things for an external module seems like a very bad
>> idea.
>
> Yup, nacked. dumb_create is for dumb buffers, not rendering. Mali needs to
> go upstream to fix this ...
Oh! I have use dumb buffers for rendering now. What does dumb buffer
mean and what's dumb buffers for?
For rendering buffer requirements how should I do then?
Thanks,
-xinliang
> -Daniel
> --
> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> http://blog.ffwll.ch
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