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Message-ID: <frroiz4f26rc7opeerwtg7mfindbbn52kyid4ekeiokmxfa5uq@mwtfapkaw6dk>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 10:44:20 +1000
From: Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>
To: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
Cc: rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
dakr@...nel.org, acourbot@...dia.com, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
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Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>, Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@...dia.com>,
Timur Tabi <ttabi@...dia.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/10] gpu: nova-core: Add a slice-buffer (sbuffer)
datastructure
On 2025-09-25 at 06:36 +1000, Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com> wrote...
> On Mon, 2025-09-22 at 21:30 +1000, Alistair Popple wrote:
> > From: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@...dia.com>
> >
> > A data structure that can be used to write across multiple slices which
> > may be out of order in memory. This lets SBuffer user correctly and
> > safely write out of memory order, without error-prone tracking of
> > pointers/offsets.
> >
> > let mut buf1 = [0u8; 3];
> > let mut buf2 = [0u8; 5];
> > let mut sbuffer = SBuffer::new([&mut buf1[..], &mut buf2[..]]);
> >
> > let data = b"hellowo";
>
> OwO!!!
Thanks.
> > let result = sbuffer.write(data);
> >
> > An internal conversion of gsp.rs to use this resulted in a nice -ve delta:
> > gsp.rs: 37 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-)
> >
> > Co-developed-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@...dia.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/gpu/nova-core/nova_core.rs | 1 +
> > drivers/gpu/nova-core/sbuffer.rs | 191 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 2 files changed, 192 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/nova-core/sbuffer.rs
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/nova_core.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/nova_core.rs
> > index fffcaee2249f..a6feeba6254c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/nova_core.rs
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/nova_core.rs
> > @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
> > mod gpu;
> > mod gsp;
> > mod regs;
> > +mod sbuffer;
> > mod util;
> > mod vbios;
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/sbuffer.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/sbuffer.rs
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..e768e4f1cb7d
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/sbuffer.rs
> > @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > +
> > +use core::ops::Deref;
> > +
> > +use kernel::alloc::KVec;
> > +use kernel::error::code::*;
> > +use kernel::prelude::*;
> > +
> > +/// A buffer abstraction for discontiguous byte slices.
> > +///
> > +/// This allows you to treat multiple non-contiguous `&mut [u8]` slices
> > +/// as a single stream-like read/write buffer.
> > +///
> > +/// Example:
> > +///
> > +/// let mut buf1 = [0u8; 3];
> > +/// let mut buf2 = [0u8; 5];
> > +/// let mut sbuffer = SWriteBuffer::new([&buf1, &buf2]);
> > +///
> > +/// let data = b"hellowo";
> > +/// let result = sbuffer.write_all(0, data);
> > +///
> > +/// A sliding window of slices to proceed.
> > +///
> > +/// Both read and write buffers are implemented in terms of operating on slices of a requested
> > +/// size. This base class implements logic that can be shared between the two to support that.
> > +///
> > +/// `S` is a slice type, `I` is an iterator yielding `S`.
> > +pub(crate) struct SBuffer<I: Iterator> {
> > + /// `Some` if we are not at the end of the data yet.
> > + cur_slice: Option<I::Item>,
> > + /// All the slices remaining after `cur_slice`.
> > + slices: I,
> > +}
> > +
> > +impl<'a, I> SBuffer<I>
> > +where
> > + I: Iterator,
> > +{
> > + #[expect(unused)]
> > + pub(crate) fn new_reader(slices: impl IntoIterator<IntoIter = I>) -> Self
> > + where
> > + I: Iterator<Item = &'a [u8]>,
> > + {
> > + Self::new(slices)
> > + }
> > +
> > + #[expect(unused)]
> > + pub(crate) fn new_writer(slices: impl IntoIterator<IntoIter = I>) -> Self
> > + where
> > + I: Iterator<Item = &'a mut [u8]>,
> > + {
> > + Self::new(slices)
> > + }
> > +
> > + fn new(slices: impl IntoIterator<IntoIter = I>) -> Self
> > + where
> > + I::Item: Deref<Target = [u8]>,
> > + {
> > + let mut slices = slices.into_iter();
> > +
> > + Self {
> > + // Skip empty slices to avoid trouble down the road.
> > + cur_slice: slices.find(|s| !s.deref().is_empty()),
> > + slices,
> > + }
> > + }
> > +
> > + fn get_slice_internal(
> > + &mut self,
> > + len: usize,
> > + mut f: impl FnMut(I::Item, usize) -> (I::Item, I::Item),
> > + ) -> Option<I::Item>
> > + where
> > + I::Item: Deref<Target = [u8]>,
> > + {
> > + match self.cur_slice.take() {
> > + None => None,
> > + Some(cur_slice) => {
> > + if len >= cur_slice.len() {
> > + // Caller requested more data than is in the current slice, return it entirely
> > + // and prepare the following slice for being used. Skip empty slices to avoid
> > + // trouble.
> > + self.cur_slice = self.slices.find(|s| !s.deref().is_empty());
>
> Do we actually need deref() here? I would have assumed !s.is_empty() would be
> enough (and if not, we could just do *s instead of calling deref().
Nope. !s.is_empty() appears to build just fine. Have fixed.
> With that addressed:
>
> Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
Thanks!
> > +
> > + Some(cur_slice)
> > + } else {
> > + // The current slice can satisfy the request, split it and return a slice of
> > + // the requested size.
> > + let (ret, next) = f(cur_slice, len);
> > + self.cur_slice = Some(next);
> > +
> > + Some(ret)
> > + }
> > + }
> > + }
> > + }
> > +}
> > +
> > +/// Provides a way to get non-mutable slices of data to read from.
> > +impl<'a, I> SBuffer<I>
> > +where
> > + I: Iterator<Item = &'a [u8]>,
> > +{
> > + /// Returns a slice of at most `len` bytes, or `None` if we are at the end of the data.
> > + ///
> > + /// If a slice shorter than `len` bytes has been returned, the caller can call this method
> > + /// again until it returns `None` to try and obtain the remainder of the data.
> > + fn get_slice(&mut self, len: usize) -> Option<&'a [u8]> {
> > + self.get_slice_internal(len, |s, pos| s.split_at(pos))
> > + }
> > +
> > + /// Ideally we would implement `Read`, but it is not available in `core`.
> > + /// So mimic `std::io::Read::read_exact`.
> > + #[expect(unused)]
> > + pub(crate) fn read_exact(&mut self, mut dst: &mut [u8]) -> Result {
> > + while !dst.is_empty() {
> > + match self.get_slice(dst.len()) {
> > + None => return Err(ETOOSMALL),
> > + Some(src) => {
> > + let dst_slice;
> > + (dst_slice, dst) = dst.split_at_mut(src.len());
> > + dst_slice.copy_from_slice(src);
> > + }
> > + }
> > + }
> > +
> > + Ok(())
> > + }
> > +
> > + /// Read all the remaining data into a `KVec`.
> > + ///
> > + /// `self` will be empty after this operation.
> > + #[expect(unused)]
> > + pub(crate) fn read_into_kvec(&mut self, flags: kernel::alloc::Flags) -> Result<KVec<u8>> {
> > + let mut buf = KVec::<u8>::new();
> > +
> > + if let Some(slice) = core::mem::take(&mut self.cur_slice) {
> > + buf.extend_from_slice(slice, flags)?;
> > + }
> > + for slice in &mut self.slices {
> > + buf.extend_from_slice(slice, flags)?;
> > + }
> > +
> > + Ok(buf)
> > + }
> > +}
> > +
> > +/// Provides a way to get mutable slices of data to write into.
> > +impl<'a, I> SBuffer<I>
> > +where
> > + I: Iterator<Item = &'a mut [u8]>,
> > +{
> > + /// Returns a mutable slice of at most `len` bytes, or `None` if we are at the end of the data.
> > + ///
> > + /// If a slice shorter than `len` bytes has been returned, the caller can call this method
> > + /// again until it returns `None` to try and obtain the remainder of the data.
> > + fn get_slice_mut(&mut self, len: usize) -> Option<&'a mut [u8]> {
> > + self.get_slice_internal(len, |s, pos| s.split_at_mut(pos))
> > + }
> > +
> > + /// Ideally we would implement `Write`, but it is not available in `core`.
> > + /// So mimic `std::io::Write::write_all`.
> > + #[expect(unused)]
> > + pub(crate) fn write_all(&mut self, mut src: &[u8]) -> Result {
> > + while !src.is_empty() {
> > + match self.get_slice_mut(src.len()) {
> > + None => return Err(ETOOSMALL),
> > + Some(dst) => {
> > + let src_slice;
> > + (src_slice, src) = src.split_at(dst.len());
> > + dst.copy_from_slice(src_slice);
> > + }
> > + }
> > + }
> > +
> > + Ok(())
> > + }
> > +}
> > +
> > +impl<'a, I> Iterator for SBuffer<I>
> > +where
> > + I: Iterator<Item = &'a [u8]>,
> > +{
> > + type Item = u8;
> > +
> > + fn next(&mut self) -> Option<Self::Item> {
> > + // Returned slices are guaranteed to not be empty so we can safely index the first entry.
> > + self.get_slice(1).map(|s| s[0])
> > + }
> > +}
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Lyude Paul (she/her)
> Software Engineer at Red Hat
>
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