Re: [PATCH 1/8] fbdev/smscufx: Use fb_ops helpers for deferred I/O

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Hi Javier

Am 04.09.23 um 14:59 schrieb Javier Martinez Canillas:
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> writes:

Hello Thomas,

Generate callback functions for struct fb_ops with the fbdev macro
FB_GEN_DEFAULT_DEFERRED_SYSMEM_OPS(). Initialize struct fb_ops to
the generated functions with fbdev initializer macros.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---

The patch looks good to me, but I've a question below.

Acked-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx>

  drivers/video/fbdev/smscufx.c | 85 +++++++++--------------------------
  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/smscufx.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/smscufx.c

[...]

  static const struct fb_ops ufx_ops = {
  	.owner = THIS_MODULE,
-	.fb_read = fb_sys_read,
-	.fb_write = ufx_ops_write,
+	__FB_DEFAULT_DEFERRED_OPS_RDWR(ufx_ops),
  	.fb_setcolreg = ufx_ops_setcolreg,
-	.fb_fillrect = ufx_ops_fillrect,
-	.fb_copyarea = ufx_ops_copyarea,
-	.fb_imageblit = ufx_ops_imageblit,
+	__FB_DEFAULT_DEFERRED_OPS_DRAW(ufx_ops),
  	.fb_mmap = ufx_ops_mmap,

There are no generated functions for .fb_mmap, I wonder what's the value
of __FB_DEFAULT_DEFERRED_OPS_MMAP() ? Maybe just removing that macro and
setting .fb_mmap = fb_deferred_io_mmap instead if there's no custom mmap
handler would be easier to read ?

At least two drivers could use __FB_DEFAULT_DEFERRED_OPS_MMAP: picolcd-fb and hyperv_fb. At some point, we might want to set/clear fb_mmap depending on some Kconfig value. Having __FB_DEFAULT_DEFERRED_OPS_MMAP might be helpful then.


Alternatively, __FB_DEFAULT_DEFERRED_OPS_MMAP() could still be left but
not taking a __prefix argument since that is not used anyways ?

The driver optionally provides mmap without deferred I/O, hence the mmap function. That makes no sense, as these writes to the buffer would never make it to the device memory. But I didn't want to remove the code either. So I just left the existing function as-is. Usually, the deferred-I/O mmap is called immediately. [1]

Best regards
Thomas

[1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.5.1/source/drivers/video/fbdev/smscufx.c#L784



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