Re: [PATCH 6/9] drm/xen-front: Introduce DRM/KMS virtual display driver

From: Boris Ostrovsky
Date: Fri Feb 23 2018 - 10:12:03 EST


On 02/21/2018 03:03 AM, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:

> +
> +struct drm_driver xen_drm_driver = {
> + .driver_features = DRIVER_GEM | DRIVER_MODESET |
> + DRIVER_PRIME | DRIVER_ATOMIC,
> + .lastclose = lastclose,
> + .gem_free_object_unlocked = free_object,
> + .gem_vm_ops = &xen_drm_vm_ops,
> + .prime_handle_to_fd = drm_gem_prime_handle_to_fd,
> + .prime_fd_to_handle = drm_gem_prime_fd_to_handle,
> + .gem_prime_import = drm_gem_prime_import,
> + .gem_prime_export = drm_gem_prime_export,
> + .gem_prime_get_sg_table = prime_get_sg_table,
> + .gem_prime_import_sg_table = prime_import_sg_table,
> + .gem_prime_vmap = prime_vmap,
> + .gem_prime_vunmap = prime_vunmap,
> + .gem_prime_mmap = prime_mmap,
> + .dumb_create = dumb_create,
> + .fops = &xendrm_fops,
> + .name = "xendrm-du",
> + .desc = "Xen PV DRM Display Unit",
> + .date = "20161109",

You must have been working on this for a while ;-)

I assume this needs to be updated.

> +bool xen_drm_front_drv_is_used(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +{
> + struct xen_drm_front_drm_info *drm_info = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> + struct drm_device *dev;
> +
> + if (!drm_info)
> + return false;
> +
> + dev = drm_info->drm_dev;
> + if (!dev)
> + return false;
> +
> + /*
> + * FIXME: the code below must be protected by drm_global_mutex,
> + * but it is not accessible to us. Anyways there is a race condition,
> + * but we will re-try.
> + */
> + return dev->open_count != 0;

Would it be a problem, given the race, if you report that the frontend
is not in use, while it actually is?

-boris