linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 10/14] rust: drm: gem: shmem: Add DRM shmem helper abstraction

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Message-ID: <bdade02663459784f9406a4fcb41864abb81f8af.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 18:43:13 -0400
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@...labora.com>
Cc: dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Asahi Lina <lina@...hilina.net>, Miguel Ojeda
	 <ojeda@...nel.org>, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>, Boqun Feng	
 <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>, 
 Björn Roy Baron	 <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>, Benno
 Lossin <lossin@...nel.org>, Andreas Hindborg	 <a.hindborg@...nel.org>,
 Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>, Trevor Gross	 <tmgross@...ch.edu>,
 Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>, David Airlie	 <airlied@...il.com>,
 Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>, Maarten Lankhorst	
 <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>, Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>, 
 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>, Greg Kroah-Hartman
 <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Asahi Lina	 <lina+kernel@...hilina.net>,
 Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>, Wedson Almeida Filho
 <wedsonaf@...il.com>, Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@...enzweig.io>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 10/14] rust: drm: gem: shmem: Add DRM shmem helper
 abstraction

On Fri, 2025-09-05 at 14:04 -0300, Daniel Almeida wrote:
> I think what we are seeing here is the same issue with the dma code.
> 
> If we are going to offer slices (which we definitely should!), then IMHO one of those should apply:
> 
> a) The functions are unsafe or,
> b) There can only be one VMap object.
> 
> IIUC, it’s trivial to get two VMaps in the current code and then call
> as_mut_slice() on each of them, which technically grants mutable access to the
> same memory region.

Agreed - admittedly I totally forgot about this bit of code since I think it's
one of the last untouched excerpts from Asahi. I'll go for b and see what I
can do

> 
> > +
> > +    /// Returns mutable a byte slice view of the mapping.
> > +    pub fn as_mut_slice(&mut self) -> &mut [u8] {
> > +        // SAFETY: The vmap maps valid memory up to the owner size
> > +        unsafe { slice::from_raw_parts_mut(self.as_mut_ptr().cast(), self.owner.size()) }
> > +    }
> > +
> > +    /// Borrows a reference to the object that owns this virtual mapping.
> > +    pub fn owner(&self) -> &Object<T> {
> > +        &self.owner
> > +    }
> > +}
> > +
> > +impl<T: DriverObject> Drop for VMap<T> {
> > +    fn drop(&mut self) {
> > +        // SAFETY:
> > +        // - This function is safe to call with the DMA reservation lock held
> > +        // - Our `ARef` is proof that the underlying gem object here is initialized and thus safe to
> > +        //   dereference.
> > +        unsafe {
> > +            let resv = self.owner.raw_dma_resv();
> > +
> > +            // TODO: see top of file
> 
> Note: Onur is working on ww_mutexes, and IMHO his latest patches [0] seem to be
> converging towards the API we want . We should perhaps check whether his work
> is a good fit here?

Thanks for the reminder! And yes - definitely :), will do so before sending
out the next version of this.

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

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