linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v3 07/33] rust: drm/kms: Add drm

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Message-ID: <514f42ce85cbb9867109e9e69d02818953315aec.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:42:19 -0400
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC v3 07/33] rust: drm/kms: Add drm_encoder bindings

On Fri, 2025-03-14 at 12:48 +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 05:59:23PM -0500, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > +unsafe extern "C" fn encoder_destroy_callback<T: DriverEncoder>(
> > +    encoder: *mut bindings::drm_encoder,
> > +) {
> > +    // SAFETY: DRM guarantees that `encoder` points to a valid initialized `drm_encoder`.
> > +    unsafe { bindings::drm_encoder_cleanup(encoder) };
> > +
> > +    // SAFETY:
> > +    // - DRM guarantees we are now the only one with access to this [`drm_encoder`].
> > +    // - This cast is safe via `DriverEncoder`s type invariants.
> > +    unsafe { drop(KBox::from_raw(encoder as *mut Encoder<T>)) };
> > +}
> 
> I'm not sure we should expose drm_encoder_cleanup() there, if only
> because it's not really up to the driver to deal with it anymore. We're
> switching to drmm_encoder_alloc/init where having a destroy hook is
> explicitly rejected.

so - I'm totally for doing this on the C side of things, but unless I'm
misunderstanding something I don't think we can use managed resources like
this in rust. Mainly because dropping objects in rust is very often more
complicated then just dropping an allocation due to RAII. So we need -
somewhere- to hook in additional behavior when a subclassed structure is
destroyed.

...unless you're saying we could have ->destroy without drm_encoder_cleanup()?

> 
> Maxime

-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat

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