From patchwork Tue Jun 21 11:49:03 2016 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Jani Nikula X-Patchwork-Id: 9190379 Return-Path: Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.125]) by pdx-korg-patchwork.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2C496075E for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2016 11:50:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DB181FF60 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2016 11:50:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id 6E41420072; Tue, 21 Jun 2016 11:50:08 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.2 required=2.0 tests=BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from gabe.freedesktop.org (gabe.freedesktop.org [131.252.210.177]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29D2E28066 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2016 11:49:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gabe.freedesktop.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 218FB6E6A0; Tue, 21 Jun 2016 11:49:44 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-To: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Delivered-To: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D93D6E6A2; Tue, 21 Jun 2016 11:49:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fmsmga002.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.26]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 21 Jun 2016 04:49:41 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.26,503,1459839600"; d="scan'208,217";a="1006606355" Received: from jnikula-mobl.fi.intel.com (HELO localhost) ([10.237.72.67]) by fmsmga002.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 21 Jun 2016 04:49:36 -0700 From: Jani Nikula To: Jani Nikula , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Dave Airlie , daniel@ffwll.ch Subject: [PATCH v2 7/7] Documentation/DocBook: remove gpu.tmpl Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 14:49:03 +0300 Message-Id: <8d673f75fe686371ed9838682c368a4e3b96bf54.1466506505.git.jani.nikula@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.1.4 In-Reply-To: References: In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Intel Finland Oy - BIC 0357606-4 - Westendinkatu 7, 02160 Espoo MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, Jonathan Corbet , Laurent Pinchart , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org X-BeenThere: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Direct Rendering Infrastructure - Development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Sender: "dri-devel" X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP The gpu documentation has now been converted to reStructuredText files under Documentation/gpu. Remove the obsolete DocBook template. Also remove it from MAINTAINERS. Good riddance. Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula --- Documentation/DocBook/Makefile | 2 +- Documentation/DocBook/gpu.tmpl | 3528 ---------------------------------------- MAINTAINERS | 1 - 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3530 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 Documentation/DocBook/gpu.tmpl diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile index e0c7e1e0590b..f4482f9b221f 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ DOCBOOKS := z8530book.xml device-drivers.xml \ genericirq.xml s390-drivers.xml uio-howto.xml scsi.xml \ 80211.xml debugobjects.xml sh.xml regulator.xml \ alsa-driver-api.xml writing-an-alsa-driver.xml \ - tracepoint.xml gpu.xml media_api.xml w1.xml \ + tracepoint.xml media_api.xml w1.xml \ writing_musb_glue_layer.xml crypto-API.xml iio.xml include Documentation/DocBook/media/Makefile diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/gpu.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/gpu.tmpl deleted file mode 100644 index d09536c91717..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/gpu.tmpl +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3528 +0,0 @@ - - - - - - Linux GPU Driver Developer's Guide - - - - Jesse - Barnes - Initial version - - Intel Corporation -
- jesse.barnes@intel.com -
- - - - Laurent - Pinchart - Driver internals - - Ideas on board SPRL -
- laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com -
- - - - Daniel - Vetter - Contributions all over the place - - Intel Corporation -
- daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch -
- - - - Lukas - Wunner - vga_switcheroo documentation - -
- lukas@wunner.de -
- - - - - - 2008-2009 - 2013-2014 - Intel Corporation - - - 2012 - Laurent Pinchart - - - 2015 - Lukas Wunner - - - - - The contents of this file may be used under the terms of the GNU - General Public License version 2 (the "GPL") as distributed in - the kernel source COPYING file. - - - - - - - 1.0 - 2012-07-13 - LP - Added extensive documentation about driver internals. - - - - 1.1 - 2015-10-11 - LW - Added vga_switcheroo documentation. - - - - - - - - - DRM Core - - - This first part of the GPU Driver Developer's Guide documents core DRM - code, helper libraries for writing drivers and generic userspace - interfaces exposed by DRM drivers. - - - - - Introduction - - The Linux DRM layer contains code intended to support the needs - of complex graphics devices, usually containing programmable - pipelines well suited to 3D graphics acceleration. Graphics - drivers in the kernel may make use of DRM functions to make - tasks like memory management, interrupt handling and DMA easier, - and provide a uniform interface to applications. - - - A note on versions: this guide covers features found in the DRM - tree, including the TTM memory manager, output configuration and - mode setting, and the new vblank internals, in addition to all - the regular features found in current kernels. - - - [Insert diagram of typical DRM stack here] - - - Style Guidelines - - For consistency this documentation uses American English. Abbreviations - are written as all-uppercase, for example: DRM, KMS, IOCTL, CRTC, and so - on. To aid in reading, documentations make full use of the markup - characters kerneldoc provides: @parameter for function parameters, @member - for structure members, &structure to reference structures and - function() for functions. These all get automatically hyperlinked if - kerneldoc for the referenced objects exists. When referencing entries in - function vtables please use ->vfunc(). Note that kerneldoc does - not support referencing struct members directly, so please add a reference - to the vtable struct somewhere in the same paragraph or at least section. - - - Except in special situations (to separate locked from unlocked variants) - locking requirements for functions aren't documented in the kerneldoc. - Instead locking should be check at runtime using e.g. - WARN_ON(!mutex_is_locked(...));. Since it's much easier to - ignore documentation than runtime noise this provides more value. And on - top of that runtime checks do need to be updated when the locking rules - change, increasing the chances that they're correct. Within the - documentation the locking rules should be explained in the relevant - structures: Either in the comment for the lock explaining what it - protects, or data fields need a note about which lock protects them, or - both. - - - Functions which have a non-void return value should have a - section called "Returns" explaining the expected return values in - different cases and their meanings. Currently there's no consensus whether - that section name should be all upper-case or not, and whether it should - end in a colon or not. Go with the file-local style. Other common section - names are "Notes" with information for dangerous or tricky corner cases, - and "FIXME" where the interface could be cleaned up. - - - - - - - - DRM Internals - - This chapter documents DRM internals relevant to driver authors - and developers working to add support for the latest features to - existing drivers. - - - First, we go over some typical driver initialization - requirements, like setting up command buffers, creating an - initial output configuration, and initializing core services. - Subsequent sections cover core internals in more detail, - providing implementation notes and examples. - - - The DRM layer provides several services to graphics drivers, - many of them driven by the application interfaces it provides - through libdrm, the library that wraps most of the DRM ioctls. - These include vblank event handling, memory - management, output management, framebuffer management, command - submission & fencing, suspend/resume support, and DMA - services. - - - - - - Driver Initialization - - At the core of every DRM driver is a drm_driver - structure. Drivers typically statically initialize a drm_driver structure, - and then pass it to drm_dev_alloc() to allocate a - device instance. After the device instance is fully initialized it can be - registered (which makes it accessible from userspace) using - drm_dev_register(). - - - The drm_driver structure contains static - information that describes the driver and features it supports, and - pointers to methods that the DRM core will call to implement the DRM API. - We will first go through the drm_driver static - information fields, and will then describe individual operations in - details as they get used in later sections. - - - Driver Information - - Driver Features - - Drivers inform the DRM core about their requirements and supported - features by setting appropriate flags in the - driver_features field. Since those flags - influence the DRM core behaviour since registration time, most of them - must be set to registering the drm_driver - instance. - - u32 driver_features; - - Driver Feature Flags - - DRIVER_USE_AGP - - Driver uses AGP interface, the DRM core will manage AGP resources. - - - - DRIVER_REQUIRE_AGP - - Driver needs AGP interface to function. AGP initialization failure - will become a fatal error. - - - - DRIVER_PCI_DMA - - Driver is capable of PCI DMA, mapping of PCI DMA buffers to - userspace will be enabled. Deprecated. - - - - DRIVER_SG - - Driver can perform scatter/gather DMA, allocation and mapping of - scatter/gather buffers will be enabled. Deprecated. - - - - DRIVER_HAVE_DMA - - Driver supports DMA, the userspace DMA API will be supported. - Deprecated. - - - - DRIVER_HAVE_IRQDRIVER_IRQ_SHARED - - DRIVER_HAVE_IRQ indicates whether the driver has an IRQ handler - managed by the DRM Core. The core will support simple IRQ handler - installation when the flag is set. The installation process is - described in . - DRIVER_IRQ_SHARED indicates whether the device & handler - support shared IRQs (note that this is required of PCI drivers). - - - - DRIVER_GEM - - Driver use the GEM memory manager. - - - - DRIVER_MODESET - - Driver supports mode setting interfaces (KMS). - - - - DRIVER_PRIME - - Driver implements DRM PRIME buffer sharing. - - - - DRIVER_RENDER - - Driver supports dedicated render nodes. - - - - DRIVER_ATOMIC - - Driver supports atomic properties. In this case the driver - must implement appropriate obj->atomic_get_property() vfuncs - for any modeset objects with driver specific properties. - - - - - - Major, Minor and Patchlevel - int major; -int minor; -int patchlevel; - - The DRM core identifies driver versions by a major, minor and patch - level triplet. The information is printed to the kernel log at - initialization time and passed to userspace through the - DRM_IOCTL_VERSION ioctl. - - - The major and minor numbers are also used to verify the requested driver - API version passed to DRM_IOCTL_SET_VERSION. When the driver API changes - between minor versions, applications can call DRM_IOCTL_SET_VERSION to - select a specific version of the API. If the requested major isn't equal - to the driver major, or the requested minor is larger than the driver - minor, the DRM_IOCTL_SET_VERSION call will return an error. Otherwise - the driver's set_version() method will be called with the requested - version. - - - - Name, Description and Date - char *name; -char *desc; -char *date; - - The driver name is printed to the kernel log at initialization time, - used for IRQ registration and passed to userspace through - DRM_IOCTL_VERSION. - - - The driver description is a purely informative string passed to - userspace through the DRM_IOCTL_VERSION ioctl and otherwise unused by - the kernel. - - - The driver date, formatted as YYYYMMDD, is meant to identify the date of - the latest modification to the driver. However, as most drivers fail to - update it, its value is mostly useless. The DRM core prints it to the - kernel log at initialization time and passes it to userspace through the - DRM_IOCTL_VERSION ioctl. - - - - - Device Instance and Driver Handling -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c driver instance overview -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c - - - Driver Load - - IRQ Registration - - The DRM core tries to facilitate IRQ handler registration and - unregistration by providing drm_irq_install and - drm_irq_uninstall functions. Those functions only - support a single interrupt per device, devices that use more than one - IRQs need to be handled manually. - - - Managed IRQ Registration - - drm_irq_install starts by calling the - irq_preinstall driver operation. The operation - is optional and must make sure that the interrupt will not get fired by - clearing all pending interrupt flags or disabling the interrupt. - - - The passed-in IRQ will then be requested by a call to - request_irq. If the DRIVER_IRQ_SHARED driver - feature flag is set, a shared (IRQF_SHARED) IRQ handler will be - requested. - - - The IRQ handler function must be provided as the mandatory irq_handler - driver operation. It will get passed directly to - request_irq and thus has the same prototype as all - IRQ handlers. It will get called with a pointer to the DRM device as the - second argument. - - - Finally the function calls the optional - irq_postinstall driver operation. The operation - usually enables interrupts (excluding the vblank interrupt, which is - enabled separately), but drivers may choose to enable/disable interrupts - at a different time. - - - drm_irq_uninstall is similarly used to uninstall an - IRQ handler. It starts by waking up all processes waiting on a vblank - interrupt to make sure they don't hang, and then calls the optional - irq_uninstall driver operation. The operation - must disable all hardware interrupts. Finally the function frees the IRQ - by calling free_irq. - - - - Manual IRQ Registration - - Drivers that require multiple interrupt handlers can't use the managed - IRQ registration functions. In that case IRQs must be registered and - unregistered manually (usually with the request_irq - and free_irq functions, or their devm_* equivalent). - - - When manually registering IRQs, drivers must not set the DRIVER_HAVE_IRQ - driver feature flag, and must not provide the - irq_handler driver operation. They must set the - drm_device irq_enabled - field to 1 upon registration of the IRQs, and clear it to 0 after - unregistering the IRQs. - - - - - Memory Manager Initialization - - Every DRM driver requires a memory manager which must be initialized at - load time. DRM currently contains two memory managers, the Translation - Table Manager (TTM) and the Graphics Execution Manager (GEM). - This document describes the use of the GEM memory manager only. See - for details. - - - - Miscellaneous Device Configuration - - Another task that may be necessary for PCI devices during configuration - is mapping the video BIOS. On many devices, the VBIOS describes device - configuration, LCD panel timings (if any), and contains flags indicating - device state. Mapping the BIOS can be done using the pci_map_rom() call, - a convenience function that takes care of mapping the actual ROM, - whether it has been shadowed into memory (typically at address 0xc0000) - or exists on the PCI device in the ROM BAR. Note that after the ROM has - been mapped and any necessary information has been extracted, it should - be unmapped; on many devices, the ROM address decoder is shared with - other BARs, so leaving it mapped could cause undesired behaviour like - hangs or memory corruption. - - - - - - Bus-specific Device Registration and PCI Support - - A number of functions are provided to help with device registration. - The functions deal with PCI and platform devices respectively and are - only provided for historical reasons. These are all deprecated and - shouldn't be used in new drivers. Besides that there's a few - helpers for pci drivers. - -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_pci.c -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_platform.c - - - - - - - Memory management - - Modern Linux systems require large amount of graphics memory to store - frame buffers, textures, vertices and other graphics-related data. Given - the very dynamic nature of many of that data, managing graphics memory - efficiently is thus crucial for the graphics stack and plays a central - role in the DRM infrastructure. - - - The DRM core includes two memory managers, namely Translation Table Maps - (TTM) and Graphics Execution Manager (GEM). TTM was the first DRM memory - manager to be developed and tried to be a one-size-fits-them all - solution. It provides a single userspace API to accommodate the need of - all hardware, supporting both Unified Memory Architecture (UMA) devices - and devices with dedicated video RAM (i.e. most discrete video cards). - This resulted in a large, complex piece of code that turned out to be - hard to use for driver development. - - - GEM started as an Intel-sponsored project in reaction to TTM's - complexity. Its design philosophy is completely different: instead of - providing a solution to every graphics memory-related problems, GEM - identified common code between drivers and created a support library to - share it. GEM has simpler initialization and execution requirements than - TTM, but has no video RAM management capabilities and is thus limited to - UMA devices. - - - The Translation Table Manager (TTM) - - TTM design background and information belongs here. - - - TTM initialization - This section is outdated. - - Drivers wishing to support TTM must fill out a drm_bo_driver - structure. The structure contains several fields with function - pointers for initializing the TTM, allocating and freeing memory, - waiting for command completion and fence synchronization, and memory - migration. See the radeon_ttm.c file for an example of usage. - - - The ttm_global_reference structure is made up of several fields: - - - struct ttm_global_reference { - enum ttm_global_types global_type; - size_t size; - void *object; - int (*init) (struct ttm_global_reference *); - void (*release) (struct ttm_global_reference *); - }; - - - There should be one global reference structure for your memory - manager as a whole, and there will be others for each object - created by the memory manager at runtime. Your global TTM should - have a type of TTM_GLOBAL_TTM_MEM. The size field for the global - object should be sizeof(struct ttm_mem_global), and the init and - release hooks should point at your driver-specific init and - release routines, which probably eventually call - ttm_mem_global_init and ttm_mem_global_release, respectively. - - - Once your global TTM accounting structure is set up and initialized - by calling ttm_global_item_ref() on it, - you need to create a buffer object TTM to - provide a pool for buffer object allocation by clients and the - kernel itself. The type of this object should be TTM_GLOBAL_TTM_BO, - and its size should be sizeof(struct ttm_bo_global). Again, - driver-specific init and release functions may be provided, - likely eventually calling ttm_bo_global_init() and - ttm_bo_global_release(), respectively. Also, like the previous - object, ttm_global_item_ref() is used to create an initial reference - count for the TTM, which will call your initialization function. - - - - - The Graphics Execution Manager (GEM) - - The GEM design approach has resulted in a memory manager that doesn't - provide full coverage of all (or even all common) use cases in its - userspace or kernel API. GEM exposes a set of standard memory-related - operations to userspace and a set of helper functions to drivers, and let - drivers implement hardware-specific operations with their own private API. - - - The GEM userspace API is described in the - GEM - the Graphics - Execution Manager article on LWN. While slightly - outdated, the document provides a good overview of the GEM API principles. - Buffer allocation and read and write operations, described as part of the - common GEM API, are currently implemented using driver-specific ioctls. - - - GEM is data-agnostic. It manages abstract buffer objects without knowing - what individual buffers contain. APIs that require knowledge of buffer - contents or purpose, such as buffer allocation or synchronization - primitives, are thus outside of the scope of GEM and must be implemented - using driver-specific ioctls. - - - On a fundamental level, GEM involves several operations: - - Memory allocation and freeing - Command execution - Aperture management at command execution time - - Buffer object allocation is relatively straightforward and largely - provided by Linux's shmem layer, which provides memory to back each - object. - - - Device-specific operations, such as command execution, pinning, buffer - read & write, mapping, and domain ownership transfers are left to - driver-specific ioctls. - - - GEM Initialization - - Drivers that use GEM must set the DRIVER_GEM bit in the struct - drm_driver - driver_features field. The DRM core will - then automatically initialize the GEM core before calling the - load operation. Behind the scene, this will - create a DRM Memory Manager object which provides an address space - pool for object allocation. - - - In a KMS configuration, drivers need to allocate and initialize a - command ring buffer following core GEM initialization if required by - the hardware. UMA devices usually have what is called a "stolen" - memory region, which provides space for the initial framebuffer and - large, contiguous memory regions required by the device. This space is - typically not managed by GEM, and must be initialized separately into - its own DRM MM object. - - - - GEM Objects Creation - - GEM splits creation of GEM objects and allocation of the memory that - backs them in two distinct operations. - - - GEM objects are represented by an instance of struct - drm_gem_object. Drivers usually need to extend - GEM objects with private information and thus create a driver-specific - GEM object structure type that embeds an instance of struct - drm_gem_object. - - - To create a GEM object, a driver allocates memory for an instance of its - specific GEM object type and initializes the embedded struct - drm_gem_object with a call to - drm_gem_object_init. The function takes a pointer to - the DRM device, a pointer to the GEM object and the buffer object size - in bytes. - - - GEM uses shmem to allocate anonymous pageable memory. - drm_gem_object_init will create an shmfs file of - the requested size and store it into the struct - drm_gem_object filp - field. The memory is used as either main storage for the object when the - graphics hardware uses system memory directly or as a backing store - otherwise. - - - Drivers are responsible for the actual physical pages allocation by - calling shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp for each page. - Note that they can decide to allocate pages when initializing the GEM - object, or to delay allocation until the memory is needed (for instance - when a page fault occurs as a result of a userspace memory access or - when the driver needs to start a DMA transfer involving the memory). - - - Anonymous pageable memory allocation is not always desired, for instance - when the hardware requires physically contiguous system memory as is - often the case in embedded devices. Drivers can create GEM objects with - no shmfs backing (called private GEM objects) by initializing them with - a call to drm_gem_private_object_init instead of - drm_gem_object_init. Storage for private GEM - objects must be managed by drivers. - - - - GEM Objects Lifetime - - All GEM objects are reference-counted by the GEM core. References can be - acquired and release by calling drm_gem_object_reference - and drm_gem_object_unreference respectively. The - caller must hold the drm_device - struct_mutex lock when calling - drm_gem_object_reference. As a convenience, GEM - provides drm_gem_object_unreference_unlocked - functions that can be called without holding the lock. - - - When the last reference to a GEM object is released the GEM core calls - the drm_driver - gem_free_object operation. That operation is - mandatory for GEM-enabled drivers and must free the GEM object and all - associated resources. - - - void (*gem_free_object) (struct drm_gem_object *obj); - Drivers are responsible for freeing all GEM object resources. This includes - the resources created by the GEM core, which need to be released with - drm_gem_object_release. - - - - GEM Objects Naming - - Communication between userspace and the kernel refers to GEM objects - using local handles, global names or, more recently, file descriptors. - All of those are 32-bit integer values; the usual Linux kernel limits - apply to the file descriptors. - - - GEM handles are local to a DRM file. Applications get a handle to a GEM - object through a driver-specific ioctl, and can use that handle to refer - to the GEM object in other standard or driver-specific ioctls. Closing a - DRM file handle frees all its GEM handles and dereferences the - associated GEM objects. - - - To create a handle for a GEM object drivers call - drm_gem_handle_create. The function takes a pointer - to the DRM file and the GEM object and returns a locally unique handle. - When the handle is no longer needed drivers delete it with a call to - drm_gem_handle_delete. Finally the GEM object - associated with a handle can be retrieved by a call to - drm_gem_object_lookup. - - - Handles don't take ownership of GEM objects, they only take a reference - to the object that will be dropped when the handle is destroyed. To - avoid leaking GEM objects, drivers must make sure they drop the - reference(s) they own (such as the initial reference taken at object - creation time) as appropriate, without any special consideration for the - handle. For example, in the particular case of combined GEM object and - handle creation in the implementation of the - dumb_create operation, drivers must drop the - initial reference to the GEM object before returning the handle. - - - GEM names are similar in purpose to handles but are not local to DRM - files. They can be passed between processes to reference a GEM object - globally. Names can't be used directly to refer to objects in the DRM - API, applications must convert handles to names and names to handles - using the DRM_IOCTL_GEM_FLINK and DRM_IOCTL_GEM_OPEN ioctls - respectively. The conversion is handled by the DRM core without any - driver-specific support. - - - GEM also supports buffer sharing with dma-buf file descriptors through - PRIME. GEM-based drivers must use the provided helpers functions to - implement the exporting and importing correctly. See . - Since sharing file descriptors is inherently more secure than the - easily guessable and global GEM names it is the preferred buffer - sharing mechanism. Sharing buffers through GEM names is only supported - for legacy userspace. Furthermore PRIME also allows cross-device - buffer sharing since it is based on dma-bufs. - - - - GEM Objects Mapping - - Because mapping operations are fairly heavyweight GEM favours - read/write-like access to buffers, implemented through driver-specific - ioctls, over mapping buffers to userspace. However, when random access - to the buffer is needed (to perform software rendering for instance), - direct access to the object can be more efficient. - - - The mmap system call can't be used directly to map GEM objects, as they - don't have their own file handle. Two alternative methods currently - co-exist to map GEM objects to userspace. The first method uses a - driver-specific ioctl to perform the mapping operation, calling - do_mmap under the hood. This is often considered - dubious, seems to be discouraged for new GEM-enabled drivers, and will - thus not be described here. - - - The second method uses the mmap system call on the DRM file handle. - void *mmap(void *addr, size_t length, int prot, int flags, int fd, - off_t offset); - DRM identifies the GEM object to be mapped by a fake offset passed - through the mmap offset argument. Prior to being mapped, a GEM object - must thus be associated with a fake offset. To do so, drivers must call - drm_gem_create_mmap_offset on the object. - - - Once allocated, the fake offset value - must be passed to the application in a driver-specific way and can then - be used as the mmap offset argument. - - - The GEM core provides a helper method drm_gem_mmap - to handle object mapping. The method can be set directly as the mmap - file operation handler. It will look up the GEM object based on the - offset value and set the VMA operations to the - drm_driver gem_vm_ops - field. Note that drm_gem_mmap doesn't map memory to - userspace, but relies on the driver-provided fault handler to map pages - individually. - - - To use drm_gem_mmap, drivers must fill the struct - drm_driver gem_vm_ops - field with a pointer to VM operations. - - - struct vm_operations_struct *gem_vm_ops - - struct vm_operations_struct { - void (*open)(struct vm_area_struct * area); - void (*close)(struct vm_area_struct * area); - int (*fault)(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf); - }; - - - The open and close - operations must update the GEM object reference count. Drivers can use - the drm_gem_vm_open and - drm_gem_vm_close helper functions directly as open - and close handlers. - - - The fault operation handler is responsible for mapping individual pages - to userspace when a page fault occurs. Depending on the memory - allocation scheme, drivers can allocate pages at fault time, or can - decide to allocate memory for the GEM object at the time the object is - created. - - - Drivers that want to map the GEM object upfront instead of handling page - faults can implement their own mmap file operation handler. - - - - Memory Coherency - - When mapped to the device or used in a command buffer, backing pages - for an object are flushed to memory and marked write combined so as to - be coherent with the GPU. Likewise, if the CPU accesses an object - after the GPU has finished rendering to the object, then the object - must be made coherent with the CPU's view of memory, usually involving - GPU cache flushing of various kinds. This core CPU<->GPU - coherency management is provided by a device-specific ioctl, which - evaluates an object's current domain and performs any necessary - flushing or synchronization to put the object into the desired - coherency domain (note that the object may be busy, i.e. an active - render target; in that case, setting the domain blocks the client and - waits for rendering to complete before performing any necessary - flushing operations). - - - - Command Execution - - Perhaps the most important GEM function for GPU devices is providing a - command execution interface to clients. Client programs construct - command buffers containing references to previously allocated memory - objects, and then submit them to GEM. At that point, GEM takes care to - bind all the objects into the GTT, execute the buffer, and provide - necessary synchronization between clients accessing the same buffers. - This often involves evicting some objects from the GTT and re-binding - others (a fairly expensive operation), and providing relocation - support which hides fixed GTT offsets from clients. Clients must take - care not to submit command buffers that reference more objects than - can fit in the GTT; otherwise, GEM will reject them and no rendering - will occur. Similarly, if several objects in the buffer require fence - registers to be allocated for correct rendering (e.g. 2D blits on - pre-965 chips), care must be taken not to require more fence registers - than are available to the client. Such resource management should be - abstracted from the client in libdrm. - - - - - GEM Function Reference -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c -!Iinclude/drm/drm_gem.h - - - VMA Offset Manager -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_vma_manager.c vma offset manager -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_vma_manager.c -!Iinclude/drm/drm_vma_manager.h - - - PRIME Buffer Sharing - - PRIME is the cross device buffer sharing framework in drm, originally - created for the OPTIMUS range of multi-gpu platforms. To userspace - PRIME buffers are dma-buf based file descriptors. - - - Overview and Driver Interface - - Similar to GEM global names, PRIME file descriptors are - also used to share buffer objects across processes. They offer - additional security: as file descriptors must be explicitly sent over - UNIX domain sockets to be shared between applications, they can't be - guessed like the globally unique GEM names. - - - Drivers that support the PRIME - API must set the DRIVER_PRIME bit in the struct - drm_driver - driver_features field, and implement the - prime_handle_to_fd and - prime_fd_to_handle operations. - - - int (*prime_handle_to_fd)(struct drm_device *dev, - struct drm_file *file_priv, uint32_t handle, - uint32_t flags, int *prime_fd); -int (*prime_fd_to_handle)(struct drm_device *dev, - struct drm_file *file_priv, int prime_fd, - uint32_t *handle); - Those two operations convert a handle to a PRIME file descriptor and - vice versa. Drivers must use the kernel dma-buf buffer sharing framework - to manage the PRIME file descriptors. Similar to the mode setting - API PRIME is agnostic to the underlying buffer object manager, as - long as handles are 32bit unsigned integers. - - - While non-GEM drivers must implement the operations themselves, GEM - drivers must use the drm_gem_prime_handle_to_fd - and drm_gem_prime_fd_to_handle helper functions. - Those helpers rely on the driver - gem_prime_export and - gem_prime_import operations to create a dma-buf - instance from a GEM object (dma-buf exporter role) and to create a GEM - object from a dma-buf instance (dma-buf importer role). - - - struct dma_buf * (*gem_prime_export)(struct drm_device *dev, - struct drm_gem_object *obj, - int flags); -struct drm_gem_object * (*gem_prime_import)(struct drm_device *dev, - struct dma_buf *dma_buf); - These two operations are mandatory for GEM drivers that support - PRIME. - - - - PRIME Helper Functions -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c PRIME Helpers - - - - PRIME Function References -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c - - - DRM MM Range Allocator - - Overview -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_mm.c Overview - - - LRU Scan/Eviction Support -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_mm.c lru scan roaster - - - - DRM MM Range Allocator Function References -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_mm.c -!Iinclude/drm/drm_mm.h - - - CMA Helper Functions Reference -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_cma_helper.c cma helpers -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_cma_helper.c -!Iinclude/drm/drm_gem_cma_helper.h - - - - - - - Mode Setting - - Drivers must initialize the mode setting core by calling - drm_mode_config_init on the DRM device. The function - initializes the drm_device - mode_config field and never fails. Once done, - mode configuration must be setup by initializing the following fields. - - - - int min_width, min_height; -int max_width, max_height; - - Minimum and maximum width and height of the frame buffers in pixel - units. - - - - struct drm_mode_config_funcs *funcs; - Mode setting functions. - - - - Display Modes Function Reference -!Iinclude/drm/drm_modes.h -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_modes.c - - - Atomic Mode Setting Function Reference -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c -!Idrivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c - - - Frame Buffer Abstraction - - Frame buffers are abstract memory objects that provide a source of - pixels to scanout to a CRTC. Applications explicitly request the - creation of frame buffers through the DRM_IOCTL_MODE_ADDFB(2) ioctls and - receive an opaque handle that can be passed to the KMS CRTC control, - plane configuration and page flip functions. - - - Frame buffers rely on the underneath memory manager for low-level memory - operations. When creating a frame buffer applications pass a memory - handle (or a list of memory handles for multi-planar formats) through - the drm_mode_fb_cmd2 argument. For drivers using - GEM as their userspace buffer management interface this would be a GEM - handle. Drivers are however free to use their own backing storage object - handles, e.g. vmwgfx directly exposes special TTM handles to userspace - and so expects TTM handles in the create ioctl and not GEM handles. - - - The lifetime of a drm framebuffer is controlled with a reference count, - drivers can grab additional references with - drm_framebuffer_referenceand drop them - again with drm_framebuffer_unreference. For - driver-private framebuffers for which the last reference is never - dropped (e.g. for the fbdev framebuffer when the struct - drm_framebuffer is embedded into the fbdev - helper struct) drivers can manually clean up a framebuffer at module - unload time with - drm_framebuffer_unregister_private. - - - - DRM Format Handling -!Iinclude/drm/drm_fourcc.h -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_fourcc.c - - - Dumb Buffer Objects - - The KMS API doesn't standardize backing storage object creation and - leaves it to driver-specific ioctls. Furthermore actually creating a - buffer object even for GEM-based drivers is done through a - driver-specific ioctl - GEM only has a common userspace interface for - sharing and destroying objects. While not an issue for full-fledged - graphics stacks that include device-specific userspace components (in - libdrm for instance), this limit makes DRM-based early boot graphics - unnecessarily complex. - - - Dumb objects partly alleviate the problem by providing a standard - API to create dumb buffers suitable for scanout, which can then be used - to create KMS frame buffers. - - - To support dumb objects drivers must implement the - dumb_create, - dumb_destroy and - dumb_map_offset operations. - - - - int (*dumb_create)(struct drm_file *file_priv, struct drm_device *dev, - struct drm_mode_create_dumb *args); - - The dumb_create operation creates a driver - object (GEM or TTM handle) suitable for scanout based on the - width, height and depth from the struct - drm_mode_create_dumb argument. It fills the - argument's handle, - pitch and size - fields with a handle for the newly created object and its line - pitch and size in bytes. - - - - int (*dumb_destroy)(struct drm_file *file_priv, struct drm_device *dev, - uint32_t handle); - - The dumb_destroy operation destroys a dumb - object created by dumb_create. - - - - int (*dumb_map_offset)(struct drm_file *file_priv, struct drm_device *dev, - uint32_t handle, uint64_t *offset); - - The dumb_map_offset operation associates an - mmap fake offset with the object given by the handle and returns - it. Drivers must use the - drm_gem_create_mmap_offset function to - associate the fake offset as described in - . - - - - - Note that dumb objects may not be used for gpu acceleration, as has been - attempted on some ARM embedded platforms. Such drivers really must have - a hardware-specific ioctl to allocate suitable buffer objects. - - - - Output Polling - void (*output_poll_changed)(struct drm_device *dev); - - This operation notifies the driver that the status of one or more - connectors has changed. Drivers that use the fb helper can just call the - drm_fb_helper_hotplug_event function to handle this - operation. - - - - - - - - KMS Initialization and Cleanup - - A KMS device is abstracted and exposed as a set of planes, CRTCs, encoders - and connectors. KMS drivers must thus create and initialize all those - objects at load time after initializing mode setting. - - - CRTCs (struct <structname>drm_crtc</structname>) - - A CRTC is an abstraction representing a part of the chip that contains a - pointer to a scanout buffer. Therefore, the number of CRTCs available - determines how many independent scanout buffers can be active at any - given time. The CRTC structure contains several fields to support this: - a pointer to some video memory (abstracted as a frame buffer object), a - display mode, and an (x, y) offset into the video memory to support - panning or configurations where one piece of video memory spans multiple - CRTCs. - - - CRTC Initialization - - A KMS device must create and register at least one struct - drm_crtc instance. The instance is allocated - and zeroed by the driver, possibly as part of a larger structure, and - registered with a call to drm_crtc_init with a - pointer to CRTC functions. - - - - - Planes (struct <structname>drm_plane</structname>) - - A plane represents an image source that can be blended with or overlayed - on top of a CRTC during the scanout process. Planes are associated with - a frame buffer to crop a portion of the image memory (source) and - optionally scale it to a destination size. The result is then blended - with or overlayed on top of a CRTC. - - - The DRM core recognizes three types of planes: - - - DRM_PLANE_TYPE_PRIMARY represents a "main" plane for a CRTC. Primary - planes are the planes operated upon by CRTC modesetting and flipping - operations described in the page_flip hook in drm_crtc_funcs. - - - DRM_PLANE_TYPE_CURSOR represents a "cursor" plane for a CRTC. Cursor - planes are the planes operated upon by the DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CURSOR and - DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CURSOR2 ioctls. - - - DRM_PLANE_TYPE_OVERLAY represents all non-primary, non-cursor planes. - Some drivers refer to these types of planes as "sprites" internally. - - - For compatibility with legacy userspace, only overlay planes are made - available to userspace by default. Userspace clients may set the - DRM_CLIENT_CAP_UNIVERSAL_PLANES client capability bit to indicate that - they wish to receive a universal plane list containing all plane types. - - - Plane Initialization - - To create a plane, a KMS drivers allocates and - zeroes an instances of struct drm_plane - (possibly as part of a larger structure) and registers it with a call - to drm_universal_plane_init. The function takes a bitmask - of the CRTCs that can be associated with the plane, a pointer to the - plane functions, a list of format supported formats, and the type of - plane (primary, cursor, or overlay) being initialized. - - - Cursor and overlay planes are optional. All drivers should provide - one primary plane per CRTC (although this requirement may change in - the future); drivers that do not wish to provide special handling for - primary planes may make use of the helper functions described in - to create and register a - primary plane with standard capabilities. - - - - - Encoders (struct <structname>drm_encoder</structname>) - - An encoder takes pixel data from a CRTC and converts it to a format - suitable for any attached connectors. On some devices, it may be - possible to have a CRTC send data to more than one encoder. In that - case, both encoders would receive data from the same scanout buffer, - resulting in a "cloned" display configuration across the connectors - attached to each encoder. - - - Encoder Initialization - - As for CRTCs, a KMS driver must create, initialize and register at - least one struct drm_encoder instance. The - instance is allocated and zeroed by the driver, possibly as part of a - larger structure. - - - Drivers must initialize the struct drm_encoder - possible_crtcs and - possible_clones fields before registering the - encoder. Both fields are bitmasks of respectively the CRTCs that the - encoder can be connected to, and sibling encoders candidate for cloning. - - - After being initialized, the encoder must be registered with a call to - drm_encoder_init. The function takes a pointer to - the encoder functions and an encoder type. Supported types are - - - DRM_MODE_ENCODER_DAC for VGA and analog on DVI-I/DVI-A - - - DRM_MODE_ENCODER_TMDS for DVI, HDMI and (embedded) DisplayPort - - - DRM_MODE_ENCODER_LVDS for display panels - - - DRM_MODE_ENCODER_TVDAC for TV output (Composite, S-Video, Component, - SCART) - - - DRM_MODE_ENCODER_VIRTUAL for virtual machine displays - - - - - Encoders must be attached to a CRTC to be used. DRM drivers leave - encoders unattached at initialization time. Applications (or the fbdev - compatibility layer when implemented) are responsible for attaching the - encoders they want to use to a CRTC. - - - - - Connectors (struct <structname>drm_connector</structname>) - - A connector is the final destination for pixel data on a device, and - usually connects directly to an external display device like a monitor - or laptop panel. A connector can only be attached to one encoder at a - time. The connector is also the structure where information about the - attached display is kept, so it contains fields for display data, EDID - data, DPMS & connection status, and information about modes - supported on the attached displays. - - - Connector Initialization - - Finally a KMS driver must create, initialize, register and attach at - least one struct drm_connector instance. The - instance is created as other KMS objects and initialized by setting the - following fields. - - - - interlace_allowed - - Whether the connector can handle interlaced modes. - - - - doublescan_allowed - - Whether the connector can handle doublescan. - - - - display_info - - - Display information is filled from EDID information when a display - is detected. For non hot-pluggable displays such as flat panels in - embedded systems, the driver should initialize the - display_info.width_mm - and - display_info.height_mm - fields with the physical size of the display. - - - - polled - - Connector polling mode, a combination of - - - DRM_CONNECTOR_POLL_HPD - - The connector generates hotplug events and doesn't need to be - periodically polled. The CONNECT and DISCONNECT flags must not - be set together with the HPD flag. - - - - DRM_CONNECTOR_POLL_CONNECT - - Periodically poll the connector for connection. - - - - DRM_CONNECTOR_POLL_DISCONNECT - - Periodically poll the connector for disconnection. - - - - Set to 0 for connectors that don't support connection status - discovery. - - - - - The connector is then registered with a call to - drm_connector_init with a pointer to the connector - functions and a connector type, and exposed through sysfs with a call to - drm_connector_register. - - - Supported connector types are - - DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_VGA - DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_DVII - DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_DVID - DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_DVIA - DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_Composite - DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_SVIDEO - DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_LVDS - DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_Component - DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_9PinDIN - DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_DisplayPort - DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_HDMIA - DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_HDMIB - DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_TV - DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_eDP - DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_VIRTUAL - - - - Connectors must be attached to an encoder to be used. For devices that - map connectors to encoders 1:1, the connector should be attached at - initialization time with a call to - drm_mode_connector_attach_encoder. The driver must - also set the drm_connector - encoder field to point to the attached - encoder. - - - Finally, drivers must initialize the connectors state change detection - with a call to drm_kms_helper_poll_init. If at - least one connector is pollable but can't generate hotplug interrupts - (indicated by the DRM_CONNECTOR_POLL_CONNECT and - DRM_CONNECTOR_POLL_DISCONNECT connector flags), a delayed work will - automatically be queued to periodically poll for changes. Connectors - that can generate hotplug interrupts must be marked with the - DRM_CONNECTOR_POLL_HPD flag instead, and their interrupt handler must - call drm_helper_hpd_irq_event. The function will - queue a delayed work to check the state of all connectors, but no - periodic polling will be done. - - - - Connector Operations - - Unless otherwise state, all operations are mandatory. - - - DPMS - void (*dpms)(struct drm_connector *connector, int mode); - - The DPMS operation sets the power state of a connector. The mode - argument is one of - - DRM_MODE_DPMS_ON - DRM_MODE_DPMS_STANDBY - DRM_MODE_DPMS_SUSPEND - DRM_MODE_DPMS_OFF - - - - In all but DPMS_ON mode the encoder to which the connector is attached - should put the display in low-power mode by driving its signals - appropriately. If more than one connector is attached to the encoder - care should be taken not to change the power state of other displays as - a side effect. Low-power mode should be propagated to the encoders and - CRTCs when all related connectors are put in low-power mode. - - - - Modes - int (*fill_modes)(struct drm_connector *connector, uint32_t max_width, - uint32_t max_height); - - Fill the mode list with all supported modes for the connector. If the - max_width and max_height - arguments are non-zero, the implementation must ignore all modes wider - than max_width or higher than - max_height. - - - The connector must also fill in this operation its - display_info - width_mm and - height_mm fields with the connected display - physical size in millimeters. The fields should be set to 0 if the value - isn't known or is not applicable (for instance for projector devices). - - - - Connection Status - - The connection status is updated through polling or hotplug events when - supported (see ). The status - value is reported to userspace through ioctls and must not be used - inside the driver, as it only gets initialized by a call to - drm_mode_getconnector from userspace. - - enum drm_connector_status (*detect)(struct drm_connector *connector, - bool force); - - Check to see if anything is attached to the connector. The - force parameter is set to false whilst polling or - to true when checking the connector due to user request. - force can be used by the driver to avoid - expensive, destructive operations during automated probing. - - - Return connector_status_connected if something is connected to the - connector, connector_status_disconnected if nothing is connected and - connector_status_unknown if the connection state isn't known. - - - Drivers should only return connector_status_connected if the connection - status has really been probed as connected. Connectors that can't detect - the connection status, or failed connection status probes, should return - connector_status_unknown. - - - - - - Cleanup - - The DRM core manages its objects' lifetime. When an object is not needed - anymore the core calls its destroy function, which must clean up and - free every resource allocated for the object. Every - drm_*_init call must be matched with a - corresponding drm_*_cleanup call to cleanup CRTCs - (drm_crtc_cleanup), planes - (drm_plane_cleanup), encoders - (drm_encoder_cleanup) and connectors - (drm_connector_cleanup). Furthermore, connectors - that have been added to sysfs must be removed by a call to - drm_connector_unregister before calling - drm_connector_cleanup. - - - Connectors state change detection must be cleanup up with a call to - drm_kms_helper_poll_fini. - - - - Output discovery and initialization example - base; - drm_connector_init(dev, &intel_output->base, - &intel_crt_connector_funcs, DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_VGA); - - drm_encoder_init(dev, &intel_output->enc, &intel_crt_enc_funcs, - DRM_MODE_ENCODER_DAC); - - drm_mode_connector_attach_encoder(&intel_output->base, - &intel_output->enc); - - /* Set up the DDC bus. */ - intel_output->ddc_bus = intel_i2c_create(dev, GPIOA, "CRTDDC_A"); - if (!intel_output->ddc_bus) { - dev_printk(KERN_ERR, &dev->pdev->dev, "DDC bus registration " - "failed.\n"); - return; - } - - intel_output->type = INTEL_OUTPUT_ANALOG; - connector->interlace_allowed = 0; - connector->doublescan_allowed = 0; - - drm_encoder_helper_add(&intel_output->enc, &intel_crt_helper_funcs); - drm_connector_helper_add(connector, &intel_crt_connector_helper_funcs); - - drm_connector_register(connector); -}]]> - - In the example above (taken from the i915 driver), a CRTC, connector and - encoder combination is created. A device-specific i2c bus is also - created for fetching EDID data and performing monitor detection. Once - the process is complete, the new connector is registered with sysfs to - make its properties available to applications. - - - - KMS API Functions -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c - - - KMS Data Structures -!Iinclude/drm/drm_crtc.h - - - KMS Locking -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_modeset_lock.c kms locking -!Iinclude/drm/drm_modeset_lock.h -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_modeset_lock.c - - - - - - - Mode Setting Helper Functions - - The plane, CRTC, encoder and connector functions provided by the drivers - implement the DRM API. They're called by the DRM core and ioctl handlers - to handle device state changes and configuration request. As implementing - those functions often requires logic not specific to drivers, mid-layer - helper functions are available to avoid duplicating boilerplate code. - - - The DRM core contains one mid-layer implementation. The mid-layer provides - implementations of several plane, CRTC, encoder and connector functions - (called from the top of the mid-layer) that pre-process requests and call - lower-level functions provided by the driver (at the bottom of the - mid-layer). For instance, the - drm_crtc_helper_set_config function can be used to - fill the struct drm_crtc_funcs - set_config field. When called, it will split - the set_config operation in smaller, simpler - operations and call the driver to handle them. - - - To use the mid-layer, drivers call drm_crtc_helper_add, - drm_encoder_helper_add and - drm_connector_helper_add functions to install their - mid-layer bottom operations handlers, and fill the - drm_crtc_funcs, - drm_encoder_funcs and - drm_connector_funcs structures with pointers to - the mid-layer top API functions. Installing the mid-layer bottom operation - handlers is best done right after registering the corresponding KMS object. - - - The mid-layer is not split between CRTC, encoder and connector operations. - To use it, a driver must provide bottom functions for all of the three KMS - entities. - - - Atomic Modeset Helper Functions Reference - - Overview -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c overview - - - Implementing Asynchronous Atomic Commit -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c implementing nonblocking commit - - - Atomic State Reset and Initialization -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c atomic state reset and initialization - -!Iinclude/drm/drm_atomic_helper.h -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c - - - Modeset Helper Reference for Common Vtables -!Iinclude/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h -!Pinclude/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h overview - - - Legacy CRTC/Modeset Helper Functions Reference -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc_helper.c -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc_helper.c overview - - - Output Probing Helper Functions Reference -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_probe_helper.c output probing helper overview -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_probe_helper.c - - - fbdev Helper Functions Reference -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c fbdev helpers -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c -!Iinclude/drm/drm_fb_helper.h - - - Framebuffer CMA Helper Functions Reference -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_cma_helper.c framebuffer cma helper functions -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_cma_helper.c - - - Display Port Helper Functions Reference -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_helper.c dp helpers -!Iinclude/drm/drm_dp_helper.h -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_helper.c - - - Display Port Dual Mode Adaptor Helper Functions Reference -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_dual_mode_helper.c dp dual mode helpers -!Iinclude/drm/drm_dp_dual_mode_helper.h -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_dual_mode_helper.c - - - Display Port MST Helper Functions Reference -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c dp mst helper -!Iinclude/drm/drm_dp_mst_helper.h -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c - - - MIPI DSI Helper Functions Reference -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c dsi helpers -!Iinclude/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.h -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c - - - EDID Helper Functions Reference -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c - - - Rectangle Utilities Reference -!Pinclude/drm/drm_rect.h rect utils -!Iinclude/drm/drm_rect.h -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_rect.c - - - Flip-work Helper Reference -!Pinclude/drm/drm_flip_work.h flip utils -!Iinclude/drm/drm_flip_work.h -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_flip_work.c - - - HDMI Infoframes Helper Reference - - Strictly speaking this is not a DRM helper library but generally useable - by any driver interfacing with HDMI outputs like v4l or alsa drivers. - But it nicely fits into the overall topic of mode setting helper - libraries and hence is also included here. - -!Iinclude/linux/hdmi.h -!Edrivers/video/hdmi.c - - - Plane Helper Reference -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane_helper.c -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane_helper.c overview - - - Tile group -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c Tile group - - - Bridges - - Overview -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c overview - - - Default bridge callback sequence -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c bridge callbacks - -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c - - - Panel Helper Reference -!Iinclude/drm/drm_panel.h -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c drm panel - - - Simple KMS Helper Reference -!Iinclude/drm/drm_simple_kms_helper.h -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_simple_kms_helper.c -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_simple_kms_helper.c overview - - - - - - - KMS Properties - - Drivers may need to expose additional parameters to applications than - those described in the previous sections. KMS supports attaching - properties to CRTCs, connectors and planes and offers a userspace API to - list, get and set the property values. - - - Properties are identified by a name that uniquely defines the property - purpose, and store an associated value. For all property types except blob - properties the value is a 64-bit unsigned integer. - - - KMS differentiates between properties and property instances. Drivers - first create properties and then create and associate individual instances - of those properties to objects. A property can be instantiated multiple - times and associated with different objects. Values are stored in property - instances, and all other property information are stored in the property - and shared between all instances of the property. - - - Every property is created with a type that influences how the KMS core - handles the property. Supported property types are - - - DRM_MODE_PROP_RANGE - Range properties report their minimum and maximum - admissible values. The KMS core verifies that values set by - application fit in that range. - - - DRM_MODE_PROP_ENUM - Enumerated properties take a numerical value that - ranges from 0 to the number of enumerated values defined by the - property minus one, and associate a free-formed string name to each - value. Applications can retrieve the list of defined value-name pairs - and use the numerical value to get and set property instance values. - - - - DRM_MODE_PROP_BITMASK - Bitmask properties are enumeration properties that - additionally restrict all enumerated values to the 0..63 range. - Bitmask property instance values combine one or more of the - enumerated bits defined by the property. - - - DRM_MODE_PROP_BLOB - Blob properties store a binary blob without any format - restriction. The binary blobs are created as KMS standalone objects, - and blob property instance values store the ID of their associated - blob object. - Blob properties are only used for the connector EDID property - and cannot be created by drivers. - - - - - To create a property drivers call one of the following functions depending - on the property type. All property creation functions take property flags - and name, as well as type-specific arguments. - - - struct drm_property *drm_property_create_range(struct drm_device *dev, int flags, - const char *name, - uint64_t min, uint64_t max); - Create a range property with the given minimum and maximum - values. - - - struct drm_property *drm_property_create_enum(struct drm_device *dev, int flags, - const char *name, - const struct drm_prop_enum_list *props, - int num_values); - Create an enumerated property. The props - argument points to an array of num_values - value-name pairs. - - - struct drm_property *drm_property_create_bitmask(struct drm_device *dev, - int flags, const char *name, - const struct drm_prop_enum_list *props, - int num_values); - Create a bitmask property. The props - argument points to an array of num_values - value-name pairs. - - - - - Properties can additionally be created as immutable, in which case they - will be read-only for applications but can be modified by the driver. To - create an immutable property drivers must set the DRM_MODE_PROP_IMMUTABLE - flag at property creation time. - - - When no array of value-name pairs is readily available at property - creation time for enumerated or range properties, drivers can create - the property using the drm_property_create function - and manually add enumeration value-name pairs by calling the - drm_property_add_enum function. Care must be taken to - properly specify the property type through the flags - argument. - - - After creating properties drivers can attach property instances to CRTC, - connector and plane objects by calling the - drm_object_attach_property. The function takes a - pointer to the target object, a pointer to the previously created property - and an initial instance value. - - - Existing KMS Properties - - The following table gives description of drm properties exposed by various - modules/drivers. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Owner Module/DriversGroupProperty NameTypeProperty ValuesObject attachedDescription/Restrictions
DRMGeneric“rotation”BITMASK{ 0, "rotate-0" }, - { 1, "rotate-90" }, - { 2, "rotate-180" }, - { 3, "rotate-270" }, - { 4, "reflect-x" }, - { 5, "reflect-y" }CRTC, Planerotate-(degrees) rotates the image by the specified amount in degrees - in counter clockwise direction. reflect-x and reflect-y reflects the - image along the specified axis prior to rotation
“scaling mode”ENUM{ "None", "Full", "Center", "Full aspect" }ConnectorSupported by: amdgpu, gma500, i915, nouveau and radeon.
Connector“EDID”BLOB | IMMUTABLE0ConnectorContains id of edid blob ptr object.
“DPMS”ENUM{ “On”, “Standby”, “Suspend”, “Off” }ConnectorContains DPMS operation mode value.
“PATH”BLOB | IMMUTABLE0ConnectorContains topology path to a connector.
“TILE”BLOB | IMMUTABLE0ConnectorContains tiling information for a connector.
“CRTC_ID”OBJECTDRM_MODE_OBJECT_CRTCConnectorCRTC that connector is attached to (atomic)
Plane“type”ENUM | IMMUTABLE{ "Overlay", "Primary", "Cursor" }PlanePlane type
“SRC_X”RANGEMin=0, Max=UINT_MAXPlaneScanout source x coordinate in 16.16 fixed point (atomic)
“SRC_Y”RANGEMin=0, Max=UINT_MAXPlaneScanout source y coordinate in 16.16 fixed point (atomic)
“SRC_W”RANGEMin=0, Max=UINT_MAXPlaneScanout source width in 16.16 fixed point (atomic)
“SRC_H”RANGEMin=0, Max=UINT_MAXPlaneScanout source height in 16.16 fixed point (atomic)
“CRTC_X”SIGNED_RANGEMin=INT_MIN, Max=INT_MAXPlaneScanout CRTC (destination) x coordinate (atomic)
“CRTC_Y”SIGNED_RANGEMin=INT_MIN, Max=INT_MAXPlaneScanout CRTC (destination) y coordinate (atomic)
“CRTC_W”RANGEMin=0, Max=UINT_MAXPlaneScanout CRTC (destination) width (atomic)
“CRTC_H”RANGEMin=0, Max=UINT_MAXPlaneScanout CRTC (destination) height (atomic)
“FB_ID”OBJECTDRM_MODE_OBJECT_FBPlaneScanout framebuffer (atomic)
“CRTC_ID”OBJECTDRM_MODE_OBJECT_CRTCPlaneCRTC that plane is attached to (atomic)
DVI-I“subconnector”ENUM{ “Unknown”, “DVI-D”, “DVI-A” }ConnectorTBD
“select subconnector”ENUM{ “Automatic”, “DVI-D”, “DVI-A” }ConnectorTBD
TV“subconnector”ENUM{ "Unknown", "Composite", "SVIDEO", "Component", "SCART" }ConnectorTBD
“select subconnector”ENUM{ "Automatic", "Composite", "SVIDEO", "Component", "SCART" }ConnectorTBD
“mode”ENUM{ "NTSC_M", "NTSC_J", "NTSC_443", "PAL_B" } etc.ConnectorTBD
“left margin”RANGEMin=0, Max=100ConnectorTBD
“right margin”RANGEMin=0, Max=100ConnectorTBD
“top margin”RANGEMin=0, Max=100ConnectorTBD
“bottom margin”RANGEMin=0, Max=100ConnectorTBD
“brightness”RANGEMin=0, Max=100ConnectorTBD
“contrast”RANGEMin=0, Max=100ConnectorTBD
“flicker reduction”RANGEMin=0, Max=100ConnectorTBD
“overscan”RANGEMin=0, Max=100ConnectorTBD
“saturation”RANGEMin=0, Max=100ConnectorTBD
“hue”RANGEMin=0, Max=100ConnectorTBD
Virtual GPU“suggested X”RANGEMin=0, Max=0xffffffffConnectorproperty to suggest an X offset for a connector
“suggested Y”RANGEMin=0, Max=0xffffffffConnectorproperty to suggest an Y offset for a connector
Optional"aspect ratio"ENUM{ "None", "4:3", "16:9" }ConnectorTDB
“dirty”ENUM | IMMUTABLE{ "Off", "On", "Annotate" }ConnectorTBD
“DEGAMMA_LUT”BLOB0CRTCDRM property to set the degamma lookup table - (LUT) mapping pixel data from the framebuffer before it is - given to the transformation matrix. The data is an interpreted - as an array of struct drm_color_lut elements. Hardware might - choose not to use the full precision of the LUT elements nor - use all the elements of the LUT (for example the hardware - might choose to interpolate between LUT[0] and LUT[4]).
“DEGAMMA_LUT_SIZE”RANGE | IMMUTABLEMin=0, Max=UINT_MAXCRTCDRM property to gives the size of the lookup - table to be set on the DEGAMMA_LUT property (the size depends - on the underlying hardware).
“CTM”BLOB0CRTCDRM property to set the current - transformation matrix (CTM) apply to pixel data after the - lookup through the degamma LUT and before the lookup through - the gamma LUT. The data is an interpreted as a struct - drm_color_ctm.
“GAMMA_LUT”BLOB0CRTCDRM property to set the gamma lookup table - (LUT) mapping pixel data after to the transformation matrix to - data sent to the connector. The data is an interpreted as an - array of struct drm_color_lut elements. Hardware might choose - not to use the full precision of the LUT elements nor use all - the elements of the LUT (for example the hardware might choose - to interpolate between LUT[0] and LUT[4]).
“GAMMA_LUT_SIZE”RANGE | IMMUTABLEMin=0, Max=UINT_MAXCRTCDRM property to gives the size of the lookup - table to be set on the GAMMA_LUT property (the size depends on - the underlying hardware).
i915Generic"Broadcast RGB"ENUM{ "Automatic", "Full", "Limited 16:235" }ConnectorWhen this property is set to Limited 16:235 - and CTM is set, the hardware will be programmed with the - result of the multiplication of CTM by the limited range - matrix to ensure the pixels normaly in the range 0..1.0 are - remapped to the range 16/255..235/255.
“audio”ENUM{ "force-dvi", "off", "auto", "on" }ConnectorTBD
SDVO-TV“mode”ENUM{ "NTSC_M", "NTSC_J", "NTSC_443", "PAL_B" } etc.ConnectorTBD
"left_margin"RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
"right_margin"RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
"top_margin"RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
"bottom_margin"RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
“hpos”RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
“vpos”RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
“contrast”RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
“saturation”RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
“hue”RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
“sharpness”RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
“flicker_filter”RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
“flicker_filter_adaptive”RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
“flicker_filter_2d”RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
“tv_chroma_filter”RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
“tv_luma_filter”RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
“dot_crawl”RANGEMin=0, Max=1ConnectorTBD
SDVO-TV/LVDS“brightness”RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
CDV gma-500Generic"Broadcast RGB"ENUM{ “Full”, “Limited 16:235” }ConnectorTBD
"Broadcast RGB"ENUM{ “off”, “auto”, “on” }ConnectorTBD
PoulsboGeneric“backlight”RANGEMin=0, Max=100ConnectorTBD
SDVO-TV“mode”ENUM{ "NTSC_M", "NTSC_J", "NTSC_443", "PAL_B" } etc.ConnectorTBD
"left_margin"RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
"right_margin"RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
"top_margin"RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
"bottom_margin"RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
“hpos”RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
“vpos”RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
“contrast”RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
“saturation”RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
“hue”RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
“sharpness”RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
“flicker_filter”RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
“flicker_filter_adaptive”RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
“flicker_filter_2d”RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
“tv_chroma_filter”RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
“tv_luma_filter”RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
“dot_crawl”RANGEMin=0, Max=1ConnectorTBD
SDVO-TV/LVDS“brightness”RANGEMin=0, Max= SDVO dependentConnectorTBD
armadaCRTC"CSC_YUV"ENUM{ "Auto" , "CCIR601", "CCIR709" }CRTCTBD
"CSC_RGB"ENUM{ "Auto", "Computer system", "Studio" }CRTCTBD
Overlay"colorkey"RANGEMin=0, Max=0xffffffPlaneTBD
"colorkey_min"RANGEMin=0, Max=0xffffffPlaneTBD
"colorkey_max"RANGEMin=0, Max=0xffffffPlaneTBD
"colorkey_val"RANGEMin=0, Max=0xffffffPlaneTBD
"colorkey_alpha"RANGEMin=0, Max=0xffffffPlaneTBD
"colorkey_mode"ENUM{ "disabled", "Y component", "U component" - , "V component", "RGB", “R component", "G component", "B component" }PlaneTBD
"brightness"RANGEMin=0, Max=256 + 255PlaneTBD
"contrast"RANGEMin=0, Max=0x7fffPlaneTBD
"saturation"RANGEMin=0, Max=0x7fffPlaneTBD
exynosCRTC“mode”ENUM{ "normal", "blank" }CRTCTBD
Overlay“zpos”RANGEMin=0, Max=MAX_PLANE-1PlaneTBD
i2c/ch7006_drvGeneric“scale”RANGEMin=0, Max=2ConnectorTBD
TV“mode”ENUM{ "PAL", "PAL-M","PAL-N"}, ”PAL-Nc" - , "PAL-60", "NTSC-M", "NTSC-J" }ConnectorTBD
nouveauNV10 Overlay"colorkey"RANGEMin=0, Max=0x01ffffffPlaneTBD
“contrast”RANGEMin=0, Max=8192-1PlaneTBD
“brightness”RANGEMin=0, Max=1024PlaneTBD
“hue”RANGEMin=0, Max=359PlaneTBD
“saturation”RANGEMin=0, Max=8192-1PlaneTBD
“iturbt_709”RANGEMin=0, Max=1PlaneTBD
Nv04 Overlay“colorkey”RANGEMin=0, Max=0x01ffffffPlaneTBD
“brightness”RANGEMin=0, Max=1024PlaneTBD
Display“dithering mode”ENUM{ "auto", "off", "on" }ConnectorTBD
“dithering depth”ENUM{ "auto", "off", "on", "static 2x2", "dynamic 2x2", "temporal" }ConnectorTBD
“underscan”ENUM{ "auto", "6 bpc", "8 bpc" }ConnectorTBD
“underscan hborder”RANGEMin=0, Max=128ConnectorTBD
“underscan vborder”RANGEMin=0, Max=128ConnectorTBD
“vibrant hue”RANGEMin=0, Max=180ConnectorTBD
“color vibrance”RANGEMin=0, Max=200ConnectorTBD
omapGeneric“zorder”RANGEMin=0, Max=3CRTC, PlaneTBD
qxlGeneric“hotplug_mode_update"RANGEMin=0, Max=1ConnectorTBD
radeonDVI-I“coherent”RANGEMin=0, Max=1ConnectorTBD
DAC enable load detect“load detection”RANGEMin=0, Max=1ConnectorTBD
TV Standard"tv standard"ENUM{ "ntsc", "pal", "pal-m", "pal-60", "ntsc-j" - , "scart-pal", "pal-cn", "secam" }ConnectorTBD
legacy TMDS PLL detect"tmds_pll"ENUM{ "driver", "bios" }-TBD
Underscan"underscan"ENUM{ "off", "on", "auto" }ConnectorTBD
"underscan hborder"RANGEMin=0, Max=128ConnectorTBD
"underscan vborder"RANGEMin=0, Max=128ConnectorTBD
Audio“audio”ENUM{ "off", "on", "auto" }ConnectorTBD
FMT Dithering“dither”ENUM{ "off", "on" }ConnectorTBD
rcar-duGeneric"alpha"RANGEMin=0, Max=255PlaneTBD
"colorkey"RANGEMin=0, Max=0x01ffffffPlaneTBD
"zpos"RANGEMin=1, Max=7PlaneTBD
- - - - - - - Vertical Blanking - - Vertical blanking plays a major role in graphics rendering. To achieve - tear-free display, users must synchronize page flips and/or rendering to - vertical blanking. The DRM API offers ioctls to perform page flips - synchronized to vertical blanking and wait for vertical blanking. - - - The DRM core handles most of the vertical blanking management logic, which - involves filtering out spurious interrupts, keeping race-free blanking - counters, coping with counter wrap-around and resets and keeping use - counts. It relies on the driver to generate vertical blanking interrupts - and optionally provide a hardware vertical blanking counter. Drivers must - implement the following operations. - - - - int (*enable_vblank) (struct drm_device *dev, int crtc); -void (*disable_vblank) (struct drm_device *dev, int crtc); - - Enable or disable vertical blanking interrupts for the given CRTC. - - - - u32 (*get_vblank_counter) (struct drm_device *dev, int crtc); - - Retrieve the value of the vertical blanking counter for the given - CRTC. If the hardware maintains a vertical blanking counter its value - should be returned. Otherwise drivers can use the - drm_vblank_count helper function to handle this - operation. - - - - - Drivers must initialize the vertical blanking handling core with a call to - drm_vblank_init in their - load operation. - - - Vertical blanking interrupts can be enabled by the DRM core or by drivers - themselves (for instance to handle page flipping operations). The DRM core - maintains a vertical blanking use count to ensure that the interrupts are - not disabled while a user still needs them. To increment the use count, - drivers call drm_vblank_get. Upon return vertical - blanking interrupts are guaranteed to be enabled. - - - To decrement the use count drivers call - drm_vblank_put. Only when the use count drops to zero - will the DRM core disable the vertical blanking interrupts after a delay - by scheduling a timer. The delay is accessible through the vblankoffdelay - module parameter or the drm_vblank_offdelay global - variable and expressed in milliseconds. Its default value is 5000 ms. - Zero means never disable, and a negative value means disable immediately. - Drivers may override the behaviour by setting the - drm_device - vblank_disable_immediate flag, which when set - causes vblank interrupts to be disabled immediately regardless of the - drm_vblank_offdelay value. The flag should only be set if there's a - properly working hardware vblank counter present. - - - When a vertical blanking interrupt occurs drivers only need to call the - drm_handle_vblank function to account for the - interrupt. - - - Resources allocated by drm_vblank_init must be freed - with a call to drm_vblank_cleanup in the driver - unload operation handler. - - - Vertical Blanking and Interrupt Handling Functions Reference -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c -!Finclude/drm/drmP.h drm_crtc_vblank_waitqueue - - - - - - - Open/Close, File Operations and IOCTLs - - Open and Close - int (*firstopen) (struct drm_device *); -void (*lastclose) (struct drm_device *); -int (*open) (struct drm_device *, struct drm_file *); -void (*preclose) (struct drm_device *, struct drm_file *); -void (*postclose) (struct drm_device *, struct drm_file *); - Open and close handlers. None of those methods are mandatory. - - - The firstopen method is called by the DRM core - for legacy UMS (User Mode Setting) drivers only when an application - opens a device that has no other opened file handle. UMS drivers can - implement it to acquire device resources. KMS drivers can't use the - method and must acquire resources in the load - method instead. - - - Similarly the lastclose method is called when - the last application holding a file handle opened on the device closes - it, for both UMS and KMS drivers. Additionally, the method is also - called at module unload time or, for hot-pluggable devices, when the - device is unplugged. The firstopen and - lastclose calls can thus be unbalanced. - - - The open method is called every time the device - is opened by an application. Drivers can allocate per-file private data - in this method and store them in the struct - drm_file driver_priv - field. Note that the open method is called - before firstopen. - - - The close operation is split into preclose and - postclose methods. Drivers must stop and - cleanup all per-file operations in the preclose - method. For instance pending vertical blanking and page flip events must - be cancelled. No per-file operation is allowed on the file handle after - returning from the preclose method. - - - Finally the postclose method is called as the - last step of the close operation, right before calling the - lastclose method if no other open file handle - exists for the device. Drivers that have allocated per-file private data - in the open method should free it here. - - - The lastclose method should restore CRTC and - plane properties to default value, so that a subsequent open of the - device will not inherit state from the previous user. It can also be - used to execute delayed power switching state changes, e.g. in - conjunction with the vga_switcheroo infrastructure (see - ). Beyond that KMS drivers should not - do any further cleanup. Only legacy UMS drivers might need to clean up - device state so that the vga console or an independent fbdev driver - could take over. - - - - File Operations -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c file operations -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c - - - IOCTLs - struct drm_ioctl_desc *ioctls; -int num_ioctls; - Driver-specific ioctls descriptors table. - - Driver-specific ioctls numbers start at DRM_COMMAND_BASE. The ioctls - descriptors table is indexed by the ioctl number offset from the base - value. Drivers can use the DRM_IOCTL_DEF_DRV() macro to initialize the - table entries. - - - DRM_IOCTL_DEF_DRV(ioctl, func, flags) - - ioctl is the ioctl name. Drivers must define - the DRM_##ioctl and DRM_IOCTL_##ioctl macros to the ioctl number - offset from DRM_COMMAND_BASE and the ioctl number respectively. The - first macro is private to the device while the second must be exposed - to userspace in a public header. - - - func is a pointer to the ioctl handler function - compatible with the drm_ioctl_t type. - typedef int drm_ioctl_t(struct drm_device *dev, void *data, - struct drm_file *file_priv); - - - flags is a bitmask combination of the following - values. It restricts how the ioctl is allowed to be called. - - - DRM_AUTH - Only authenticated callers allowed - - - DRM_MASTER - The ioctl can only be called on the master file - handle - - - DRM_ROOT_ONLY - Only callers with the SYSADMIN capability allowed - - - DRM_CONTROL_ALLOW - The ioctl can only be called on a control - device - - - DRM_UNLOCKED - The ioctl handler will be called without locking - the DRM global mutex. This is the enforced default for kms drivers - (i.e. using the DRIVER_MODESET flag) and hence shouldn't be used - any more for new drivers. - - - - -!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c - - - - Legacy Support Code - - The section very briefly covers some of the old legacy support code which - is only used by old DRM drivers which have done a so-called shadow-attach - to the underlying device instead of registering as a real driver. This - also includes some of the old generic buffer management and command - submission code. Do not use any of this in new and modern drivers. - - - - Legacy Suspend/Resume - - The DRM core provides some suspend/resume code, but drivers wanting full - suspend/resume support should provide save() and restore() functions. - These are called at suspend, hibernate, or resume time, and should perform - any state save or restore required by your device across suspend or - hibernate states. - - int (*suspend) (struct drm_device *, pm_message_t state); - int (*resume) (struct drm_device *); - - Those are legacy suspend and resume methods which - only work with the legacy shadow-attach driver - registration functions. New driver should use the power management - interface provided by their bus type (usually through - the struct device_driver dev_pm_ops) and set - these methods to NULL. - - - - - Legacy DMA Services - - This should cover how DMA mapping etc. is supported by the core. - These functions are deprecated and should not be used. - - - - - - - - - - - Userland interfaces - - The DRM core exports several interfaces to applications, - generally intended to be used through corresponding libdrm - wrapper functions. In addition, drivers export device-specific - interfaces for use by userspace drivers & device-aware - applications through ioctls and sysfs files. - - - External interfaces include: memory mapping, context management, - DMA operations, AGP management, vblank control, fence - management, memory management, and output management. - - - Cover generic ioctls and sysfs layout here. We only need high-level - info, since man pages should cover the rest. - - - - - - Render nodes - - DRM core provides multiple character-devices for user-space to use. - Depending on which device is opened, user-space can perform a different - set of operations (mainly ioctls). The primary node is always created - and called card<num>. Additionally, a currently - unused control node, called controlD<num> is also - created. The primary node provides all legacy operations and - historically was the only interface used by userspace. With KMS, the - control node was introduced. However, the planned KMS control interface - has never been written and so the control node stays unused to date. - - - With the increased use of offscreen renderers and GPGPU applications, - clients no longer require running compositors or graphics servers to - make use of a GPU. But the DRM API required unprivileged clients to - authenticate to a DRM-Master prior to getting GPU access. To avoid this - step and to grant clients GPU access without authenticating, render - nodes were introduced. Render nodes solely serve render clients, that - is, no modesetting or privileged ioctls can be issued on render nodes. - Only non-global rendering commands are allowed. If a driver supports - render nodes, it must advertise it via the DRIVER_RENDER - DRM driver capability. If not supported, the primary node must be used - for render clients together with the legacy drmAuth authentication - procedure. - - - If a driver advertises render node support, DRM core will create a - separate render node called renderD<num>. There will - be one render node per device. No ioctls except PRIME-related ioctls - will be allowed on this node. Especially GEM_OPEN will be - explicitly prohibited. Render nodes are designed to avoid the - buffer-leaks, which occur if clients guess the flink names or mmap - offsets on the legacy interface. Additionally to this basic interface, - drivers must mark their driver-dependent render-only ioctls as - DRM_RENDER_ALLOW so render clients can use them. Driver - authors must be careful not to allow any privileged ioctls on render - nodes. - - - With render nodes, user-space can now control access to the render node - via basic file-system access-modes. A running graphics server which - authenticates clients on the privileged primary/legacy node is no longer - required. Instead, a client can open the render node and is immediately - granted GPU access. Communication between clients (or servers) is done - via PRIME. FLINK from render node to legacy node is not supported. New - clients must not use the insecure FLINK interface. - - - Besides dropping all modeset/global ioctls, render nodes also drop the - DRM-Master concept. There is no reason to associate render clients with - a DRM-Master as they are independent of any graphics server. Besides, - they must work without any running master, anyway. - Drivers must be able to run without a master object if they support - render nodes. If, on the other hand, a driver requires shared state - between clients which is visible to user-space and accessible beyond - open-file boundaries, they cannot support render nodes. - - - - - - - VBlank event handling - - The DRM core exposes two vertical blank related ioctls: - - - DRM_IOCTL_WAIT_VBLANK - - - This takes a struct drm_wait_vblank structure as its argument, - and it is used to block or request a signal when a specified - vblank event occurs. - - - - - DRM_IOCTL_MODESET_CTL - - - This was only used for user-mode-settind drivers around - modesetting changes to allow the kernel to update the vblank - interrupt after mode setting, since on many devices the vertical - blank counter is reset to 0 at some point during modeset. Modern - drivers should not call this any more since with kernel mode - setting it is a no-op. - - - - - - - - - - - DRM Drivers - - - - This second part of the GPU Driver Developer's Guide documents driver - code, implementation details and also all the driver-specific userspace - interfaces. Especially since all hardware-acceleration interfaces to - userspace are driver specific for efficiency and other reasons these - interfaces can be rather substantial. Hence every driver has its own - chapter. - - - - - drm/i915 Intel GFX Driver - - The drm/i915 driver supports all (with the exception of some very early - models) integrated GFX chipsets with both Intel display and rendering - blocks. This excludes a set of SoC platforms with an SGX rendering unit, - those have basic support through the gma500 drm driver. - - - Core Driver Infrastructure - - This section covers core driver infrastructure used by both the display - and the GEM parts of the driver. - - - Runtime Power Management -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_runtime_pm.c runtime pm -!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_runtime_pm.c -!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_uncore.c - - - Interrupt Handling -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c interrupt handling -!Fdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c intel_irq_init intel_irq_init_hw intel_hpd_init -!Fdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c intel_runtime_pm_disable_interrupts -!Fdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c intel_runtime_pm_enable_interrupts - - - Intel GVT-g Guest Support(vGPU) -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_vgpu.c Intel GVT-g guest support -!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_vgpu.c - - - - Display Hardware Handling - - This section covers everything related to the display hardware including - the mode setting infrastructure, plane, sprite and cursor handling and - display, output probing and related topics. - - - Mode Setting Infrastructure - - The i915 driver is thus far the only DRM driver which doesn't use the - common DRM helper code to implement mode setting sequences. Thus it - has its own tailor-made infrastructure for executing a display - configuration change. - - - - Frontbuffer Tracking -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_frontbuffer.c frontbuffer tracking -!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_frontbuffer.c -!Fdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c i915_gem_track_fb - - - Display FIFO Underrun Reporting -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fifo_underrun.c fifo underrun handling -!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fifo_underrun.c - - - Plane Configuration - - This section covers plane configuration and composition with the - primary plane, sprites, cursors and overlays. This includes the - infrastructure to do atomic vsync'ed updates of all this state and - also tightly coupled topics like watermark setup and computation, - framebuffer compression and panel self refresh. - - - - Atomic Plane Helpers -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_atomic_plane.c atomic plane helpers -!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_atomic_plane.c - - - Output Probing - - This section covers output probing and related infrastructure like the - hotplug interrupt storm detection and mitigation code. Note that the - i915 driver still uses most of the common DRM helper code for output - probing, so those sections fully apply. - - - - Hotplug -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_hotplug.c Hotplug -!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_hotplug.c - - - High Definition Audio -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_audio.c High Definition Audio over HDMI and Display Port -!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_audio.c -!Iinclude/drm/i915_component.h - - - Panel Self Refresh PSR (PSR/SRD) -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_psr.c Panel Self Refresh (PSR/SRD) -!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_psr.c - - - Frame Buffer Compression (FBC) -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbc.c Frame Buffer Compression (FBC) -!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbc.c - - - Display Refresh Rate Switching (DRRS) -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c Display Refresh Rate Switching (DRRS) -!Fdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c intel_dp_set_drrs_state -!Fdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c intel_edp_drrs_enable -!Fdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c intel_edp_drrs_disable -!Fdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c intel_edp_drrs_invalidate -!Fdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c intel_edp_drrs_flush -!Fdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c intel_dp_drrs_init - - - - DPIO -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h DPIO - - - - CSR firmware support for DMC -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_csr.c csr support for dmc -!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_csr.c - - - Video BIOS Table (VBT) -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_bios.c Video BIOS Table (VBT) -!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_bios.c -!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_vbt_defs.h - - - - - Memory Management and Command Submission - - This sections covers all things related to the GEM implementation in the - i915 driver. - - - Batchbuffer Parsing -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c batch buffer command parser -!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c - - - Batchbuffer Pools -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_batch_pool.c batch pool -!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_batch_pool.c - - - Logical Rings, Logical Ring Contexts and Execlists -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c Logical Rings, Logical Ring Contexts and Execlists -!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c - - - Global GTT views -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c Global GTT views -!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c - - - GTT Fences and Swizzling -!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_fence.c - - Global GTT Fence Handling -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_fence.c fence register handling - - - Hardware Tiling and Swizzling Details -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_fence.c tiling swizzling details - - - - Object Tiling IOCTLs -!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_tiling.c -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_tiling.c buffer object tiling - - - Buffer Object Eviction - - This section documents the interface functions for evicting buffer - objects to make space available in the virtual gpu address spaces. - Note that this is mostly orthogonal to shrinking buffer objects - caches, which has the goal to make main memory (shared with the gpu - through the unified memory architecture) available. - -!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_evict.c - - - Buffer Object Memory Shrinking - - This section documents the interface function for shrinking memory - usage of buffer object caches. Shrinking is used to make main memory - available. Note that this is mostly orthogonal to evicting buffer - objects, which has the goal to make space in gpu virtual address - spaces. - -!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c - - - - GuC - - GuC-specific firmware loader -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_guc_loader.c GuC-specific firmware loader -!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_guc_loader.c - - - GuC-based command submission -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_guc_submission.c GuC-based command submission -!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_guc_submission.c - - - GuC Firmware Layout -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_guc_fwif.h GuC Firmware Layout - - - - - Tracing - - This sections covers all things related to the tracepoints implemented in - the i915 driver. - - - i915_ppgtt_create and i915_ppgtt_release -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_trace.h i915_ppgtt_create and i915_ppgtt_release tracepoints - - - i915_context_create and i915_context_free -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_trace.h i915_context_create and i915_context_free tracepoints - - - switch_mm -!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_trace.h switch_mm tracepoint - - - - -!Cdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c - - - - vga_switcheroo - -!Pdrivers/gpu/vga/vga_switcheroo.c Overview - - - - Modes of Use - - Manual switching and manual power control -!Pdrivers/gpu/vga/vga_switcheroo.c Manual switching and manual power control - - - Driver power control -!Pdrivers/gpu/vga/vga_switcheroo.c Driver power control - - - - - API - - Public functions -!Edrivers/gpu/vga/vga_switcheroo.c - - - Public structures -!Finclude/linux/vga_switcheroo.h vga_switcheroo_handler -!Finclude/linux/vga_switcheroo.h vga_switcheroo_client_ops - - - Public constants -!Finclude/linux/vga_switcheroo.h vga_switcheroo_handler_flags_t -!Finclude/linux/vga_switcheroo.h vga_switcheroo_client_id -!Finclude/linux/vga_switcheroo.h vga_switcheroo_state - - - Private structures -!Fdrivers/gpu/vga/vga_switcheroo.c vgasr_priv -!Fdrivers/gpu/vga/vga_switcheroo.c vga_switcheroo_client - - - - - Handlers - - apple-gmux Handler -!Pdrivers/platform/x86/apple-gmux.c Overview -!Pdrivers/platform/x86/apple-gmux.c Interrupt - - Graphics mux -!Pdrivers/platform/x86/apple-gmux.c Graphics mux - - - Power control -!Pdrivers/platform/x86/apple-gmux.c Power control - - - Backlight control -!Pdrivers/platform/x86/apple-gmux.c Backlight control - - - Public functions -!Iinclude/linux/apple-gmux.h - - - - -!Cdrivers/gpu/vga/vga_switcheroo.c -!Cinclude/linux/vga_switcheroo.h -!Cdrivers/platform/x86/apple-gmux.c - - - diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index ce9c23dd02c6..dddf1944999a 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -3858,7 +3858,6 @@ F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/ F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpu/ F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/video/ F: Documentation/gpu/ -F: Documentation/DocBook/gpu.* F: include/drm/ F: include/uapi/drm/