Now that we have the ability to represent the context in which a DRM device
is in at compile-time, we can start carrying around this context with GEM
object types in order to allow a driver to safely create GEM objects before
a DRM device has registered with userspace.
Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260507220044.3204919-4-lyude@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
One of the tricky things about DRM bindings in Rust is the fact that
initialization of a DRM device is a multi-step process. It's quite normal
for a device driver to start making use of its DRM device for tasks like
creating GEM objects before userspace registration happens. This is an
issue in rust though, since prior to userspace registration the device is
only partly initialized. This means there's a plethora of DRM device
operations we can't yet expose without opening up the door to UB if the DRM
device in question isn't yet registered.
Additionally, this isn't something we can reliably check at runtime. And
even if we could, performing an operation which requires the device be
registered when the device isn't actually registered is a programmer bug,
meaning there's no real way to gracefully handle such a mistake at runtime.
And even if that wasn't the case, it would be horrendously annoying and
noisy to have to check if a device is registered constantly throughout a
driver.
In order to solve this, we first take inspiration from
`kernel::device::DeviceContext` and introduce `kernel::drm::DeviceContext`.
This provides us with a ZST type that we can generalize over to represent
contexts where a device is known to have been registered with userspace at
some point in time (`Registered`), along with contexts where we can't make
such a guarantee (`Uninit`).
It's important to note we intentionally do not provide a `DeviceContext`
which represents an unregistered device. This is because there's no
reasonable way to guarantee that a device with long-living references to
itself will not be registered eventually with userspace. Instead, we
provide a new-type for this: `UnregisteredDevice` which can
provide a guarantee that the `Device` has never been registered with
userspace. To ensure this, we modify `Registration` so that creating a new
`Registration` requires passing ownership of an `UnregisteredDevice`.
Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260507220044.3204919-2-lyude@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Split NovaDriver into a unit struct for trait implementations and a
separate Nova struct for the private driver data.
Reviewed-by: Eliot Courtney <ecourtney@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260525225838.276108-6-dakr@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Replace drvdata() with registration data on the auxiliary bus. Private
data is now scoped to the registration object, removing the ordering
constraints and lifetime complications that came with drvdata().
Add Higher-Ranked Lifetime Types (HRT) so driver structs can borrow
device resources like pci::Bar and IoMem directly, tied to the device
binding scope. This removes the need for Devres indirection and
ARef<Device> in most driver code.
This is a stable tag for other trees to merge.
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Merge tag 'dd-lifetimes-7.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core into drm-rust-next
Higher-Ranked Lifetime Types for Rust device drivers
Replace drvdata() with registration data on the auxiliary bus. Private
data is now scoped to the registration object, removing the ordering
constraints and lifetime complications that came with drvdata().
Add Higher-Ranked Lifetime Types (HRT) so driver structs can borrow
device resources like pci::Bar and IoMem directly, tied to the device
binding scope. This removes the need for Devres indirection and
ARef<Device> in most driver code.
This is a stable tag for other trees to merge.
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Add a 'bound lifetime to the associated Data, changing type Data to type
Data<'bound>.
This allows the driver's bus device private data to capture the device /
driver bound lifetime; device resources can be stored directly by
reference rather than requiring Devres.
The probe() and unbind() callbacks thus gain a 'bound lifetime parameter
on the methods themselves; avoiding a global lifetime on the trait impl.
Existing drivers set type Data<'bound> = Self, preserving the current
behavior.
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260525202921.124698-15-dakr@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Device<Core> references in probe callbacks are scoped to the callback,
not the full binding duration. Add a lifetime parameter to Core and
CoreInternal to accurately represent this in the type system.
Suggested-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Eliot Courtney <ecourtney@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260525202921.124698-12-dakr@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Add a type Data<'bound> associated type to all bus driver traits,
decoupling the driver's bus device private data type from the driver
struct itself.
In the context of adding a 'bound lifetime, making this an associated
type has the advantage that it allows us to avoid a driver trait global
lifetime and it avoids the need for ForLt for bus device private data;
both of which make the subsequent implementation by buses much simpler.
All existing drivers and doc examples set type Data = Self to preserve
the current behavior.
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260525202921.124698-5-dakr@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Update nova/Makefile and nova-core/Makefile so that nova-drm.ko and
nova-core.ko are produced, matching the module names set in patch 1.
Update drm::DriverInfo with the correct driver name and vendor
description. Fix Kconfig help text for both drivers and the debugfs
directory name in nova-core to match the new module names.
Closes: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1228
Signed-off-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260507185012.1527139-3-yphbchou0911@gmail.com
[ Change commit subject to "gpu: nova: Use module names consistently";
slightly adjust commit message. - Danilo ]
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Driver names must follow kernel kebab-case convention before they are
exposed as UAPI via driver_override.
Rename the nova-drm module from "Nova" to "nova-drm" and the nova-core
module from "NovaCore" to "nova-core".
Update NOVA_CORE_MODULE_NAME to match the renamed nova-core module.
Suggested-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Timur Tabi <ttabi@nvidia.com>
Closes: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1228
Signed-off-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260507185012.1527139-2-yphbchou0911@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
The driver model defines the lifetime of the private data stored in (and
owned by) a bus device to be valid from when the driver is bound to a
device (i.e. from successful probe()) until the driver is unbound from
the device.
This is already taken care of by the Rust implementation of the driver
model. However, we still ask drivers to return a Result<Pin<KBox<Self>>>
from probe().
Unlike in C, where we do not have the concept of initializers, but
rather deal with uninitialized memory, drivers can just return an
impl PinInit<Self, Error> instead.
This contributes to more clarity to the fact that a driver returns it's
device private data in probe() and the Rust driver model owns the data,
manages the lifetime and - considering the lifetime - provides (safe)
accessors for the driver.
Hence, let probe() functions return an impl PinInit<Self, Error> instead
of Result<Pin<KBox<Self>>>.
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Update nova to import `ARef` from `sync::aref` instead of `types`.
This aligns with the ongoing effort to move `ARef` and
`AlwaysRefCounted` to sync.
Suggested-by: Benno Lossin <lossin@kernel.org>
Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1173
Signed-off-by: Shankari Anand <shankari.ak0208@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250716090941.811418-1-shankari.ak0208@gmail.com
[ Alter subject and commit message to be nova specific. - Danilo ]
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Add the initial nova-drm driver skeleton.
nova-drm is connected to nova-core through the auxiliary bus and
implements the DRM parts of the nova driver stack.
For now, it implements the fundamental DRM abstractions, i.e. creates a
DRM device and registers it, exposing a three sample IOCTLs.
DRM_IOCTL_NOVA_GETPARAM
- provides the PCI bar size from the bar that maps the GPUs VRAM
from nova-core
DRM_IOCTL_NOVA_GEM_CREATE
- creates a new dummy DRM GEM object and returns a handle
DRM_IOCTL_NOVA_GEM_INFO
- provides metadata for the DRM GEM object behind a given handle
I implemented a small userspace test suite [1] that utilizes this
interface.
Link: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dakr/drm-test [1]
Reviewed-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250424160452.8070-3-dakr@kernel.org
[ Kconfig: depend on DRM=y rather than just DRM. - Danilo ]
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
