Re: [PATCH v7 1/5] staging/android: add num_fences field to struct sync_file_info

From: Greg Hackmann
Date: Tue Mar 08 2016 - 21:36:45 EST


On 03/03/2016 11:40 AM, Gustavo Padovan wrote:
From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Inform userspace how many fences are in the sync_fence_info field.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/android/sync.c | 2 ++
drivers/staging/android/uapi/sync.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/sync.c b/drivers/staging/android/sync.c
index 3a8f210..31aa462 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/android/sync.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/android/sync.c
@@ -525,6 +525,8 @@ static long sync_file_ioctl_fence_info(struct sync_file *sync_file,
if (info->status >= 0)
info->status = !info->status;

+ info->num_fences = sync_file->num_fences;
+
len = sizeof(struct sync_file_info);

for (i = 0; i < sync_file->num_fences; ++i) {
diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/uapi/sync.h b/drivers/staging/android/uapi/sync.h
index a0cf357..4ffb7cc 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/android/uapi/sync.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/android/uapi/sync.h
@@ -47,12 +47,14 @@ struct sync_fence_info {
* userspace including pt_info.
* @name: name of fence
* @status: status of fence. 1: signaled 0:active <0:error
+ * @num_fences number of fences in the sync_file
* @sync_fence_info: array of sync_fence_info for every fence in the sync_file
*/
struct sync_file_info {
__u32 len;
char name[32];
__s32 status;
+ __u32 num_fences;

__u8 sync_fence_info[0];
};


Greg, this is ultimately your call. But to echo what I said before, I'm OK with the ABI break here if that's what's needed to get sync moved out of staging.

Pragmatically speaking, this won't break ordinary Android apps, because they don't get direct access to sync fence fds to begin with. Some privileged system processes do, but they go through libsync, which can be changed to deal with the ABI differences.

Anyway, for the whole series:

Acked-by: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@xxxxxxxxxx>