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2 | DRM Internals |
3 | ============= | |
4 | ||
5 | This chapter documents DRM internals relevant to driver authors and | |
6 | developers working to add support for the latest features to existing | |
7 | drivers. | |
8 | ||
9 | First, we go over some typical driver initialization requirements, like | |
10 | setting up command buffers, creating an initial output configuration, | |
11 | and initializing core services. Subsequent sections cover core internals | |
12 | in more detail, providing implementation notes and examples. | |
13 | ||
14 | The DRM layer provides several services to graphics drivers, many of | |
15 | them driven by the application interfaces it provides through libdrm, | |
16 | the library that wraps most of the DRM ioctls. These include vblank | |
17 | event handling, memory management, output management, framebuffer | |
18 | management, command submission & fencing, suspend/resume support, and | |
19 | DMA services. | |
20 | ||
21 | Driver Initialization | |
22554020 | 22 | ===================== |
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23 | |
24 | At the core of every DRM driver is a :c:type:`struct drm_driver | |
25 | <drm_driver>` structure. Drivers typically statically initialize | |
26 | a drm_driver structure, and then pass it to | |
6acc942c | 27 | drm_dev_alloc() to allocate a device instance. After the |
ca00c2b9 | 28 | device instance is fully initialized it can be registered (which makes |
6acc942c | 29 | it accessible from userspace) using drm_dev_register(). |
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30 | |
31 | The :c:type:`struct drm_driver <drm_driver>` structure | |
32 | contains static information that describes the driver and features it | |
33 | supports, and pointers to methods that the DRM core will call to | |
34 | implement the DRM API. We will first go through the :c:type:`struct | |
35 | drm_driver <drm_driver>` static information fields, and will | |
36 | then describe individual operations in details as they get used in later | |
37 | sections. | |
38 | ||
39 | Driver Information | |
22554020 | 40 | ------------------ |
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ca00c2b9 | 42 | Major, Minor and Patchlevel |
2fa91d15 | 43 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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44 | |
45 | int major; int minor; int patchlevel; | |
46 | The DRM core identifies driver versions by a major, minor and patch | |
47 | level triplet. The information is printed to the kernel log at | |
48 | initialization time and passed to userspace through the | |
49 | DRM_IOCTL_VERSION ioctl. | |
50 | ||
51 | The major and minor numbers are also used to verify the requested driver | |
52 | API version passed to DRM_IOCTL_SET_VERSION. When the driver API | |
53 | changes between minor versions, applications can call | |
54 | DRM_IOCTL_SET_VERSION to select a specific version of the API. If the | |
55 | requested major isn't equal to the driver major, or the requested minor | |
56 | is larger than the driver minor, the DRM_IOCTL_SET_VERSION call will | |
57 | return an error. Otherwise the driver's set_version() method will be | |
58 | called with the requested version. | |
59 | ||
60 | Name, Description and Date | |
2fa91d15 | 61 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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62 | |
63 | char \*name; char \*desc; char \*date; | |
64 | The driver name is printed to the kernel log at initialization time, | |
65 | used for IRQ registration and passed to userspace through | |
66 | DRM_IOCTL_VERSION. | |
67 | ||
68 | The driver description is a purely informative string passed to | |
69 | userspace through the DRM_IOCTL_VERSION ioctl and otherwise unused by | |
70 | the kernel. | |
71 | ||
72 | The driver date, formatted as YYYYMMDD, is meant to identify the date of | |
73 | the latest modification to the driver. However, as most drivers fail to | |
74 | update it, its value is mostly useless. The DRM core prints it to the | |
75 | kernel log at initialization time and passes it to userspace through the | |
76 | DRM_IOCTL_VERSION ioctl. | |
77 | ||
78 | Device Instance and Driver Handling | |
22554020 | 79 | ----------------------------------- |
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80 | |
81 | .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c | |
82 | :doc: driver instance overview | |
83 | ||
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84 | .. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_device.h |
85 | :internal: | |
86 | ||
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87 | .. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_drv.h |
88 | :internal: | |
89 | ||
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90 | .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c |
91 | :export: | |
92 | ||
ca00c2b9 | 93 | Driver Load |
22554020 | 94 | ----------- |
ca00c2b9 | 95 | |
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96 | Component Helper Usage |
97 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
98 | ||
99 | .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c | |
100 | :doc: component helper usage recommendations | |
ca00c2b9 | 101 | |
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102 | IRQ Helper Library |
103 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
104 | ||
105 | .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c | |
106 | :doc: irq helpers | |
107 | ||
108 | .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c | |
109 | :export: | |
110 | ||
ca00c2b9 | 111 | Memory Manager Initialization |
2fa91d15 | 112 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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113 | |
114 | Every DRM driver requires a memory manager which must be initialized at | |
115 | load time. DRM currently contains two memory managers, the Translation | |
116 | Table Manager (TTM) and the Graphics Execution Manager (GEM). This | |
117 | document describes the use of the GEM memory manager only. See ? for | |
118 | details. | |
119 | ||
120 | Miscellaneous Device Configuration | |
2fa91d15 | 121 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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122 | |
123 | Another task that may be necessary for PCI devices during configuration | |
124 | is mapping the video BIOS. On many devices, the VBIOS describes device | |
125 | configuration, LCD panel timings (if any), and contains flags indicating | |
126 | device state. Mapping the BIOS can be done using the pci_map_rom() | |
127 | call, a convenience function that takes care of mapping the actual ROM, | |
128 | whether it has been shadowed into memory (typically at address 0xc0000) | |
129 | or exists on the PCI device in the ROM BAR. Note that after the ROM has | |
130 | been mapped and any necessary information has been extracted, it should | |
131 | be unmapped; on many devices, the ROM address decoder is shared with | |
132 | other BARs, so leaving it mapped could cause undesired behaviour like | |
133 | hangs or memory corruption. | |
134 | ||
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135 | Managed Resources |
136 | ----------------- | |
137 | ||
138 | .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_managed.c | |
139 | :doc: managed resources | |
140 | ||
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141 | .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_managed.c |
142 | :export: | |
143 | ||
144 | .. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_managed.h | |
145 | :internal: | |
146 | ||
ca00c2b9 | 147 | Bus-specific Device Registration and PCI Support |
22554020 | 148 | ------------------------------------------------ |
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149 | |
150 | A number of functions are provided to help with device registration. The | |
151 | functions deal with PCI and platform devices respectively and are only | |
152 | provided for historical reasons. These are all deprecated and shouldn't | |
153 | be used in new drivers. Besides that there's a few helpers for pci | |
154 | drivers. | |
155 | ||
156 | .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_pci.c | |
157 | :export: | |
158 | ||
ca00c2b9 | 159 | Open/Close, File Operations and IOCTLs |
22554020 | 160 | ====================================== |
ca00c2b9 | 161 | |
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162 | .. _drm_driver_fops: |
163 | ||
ca00c2b9 | 164 | File Operations |
22554020 | 165 | --------------- |
ca00c2b9 | 166 | |
9acdac68 | 167 | .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c |
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168 | :doc: file operations |
169 | ||
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170 | .. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_file.h |
171 | :internal: | |
172 | ||
9acdac68 | 173 | .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c |
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174 | :export: |
175 | ||
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176 | Misc Utilities |
177 | ============== | |
178 | ||
179 | Printer | |
180 | ------- | |
181 | ||
182 | .. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_print.h | |
183 | :doc: print | |
184 | ||
185 | .. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_print.h | |
186 | :internal: | |
187 | ||
2d5e836d | 188 | .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_print.c |
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189 | :export: |
190 | ||
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191 | Utilities |
192 | --------- | |
193 | ||
194 | .. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_util.h | |
195 | :doc: drm utils | |
196 | ||
197 | .. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_util.h | |
198 | :internal: | |
199 | ||
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ca00c2b9 | 201 | Legacy Support Code |
22554020 | 202 | =================== |
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203 | |
204 | The section very briefly covers some of the old legacy support code | |
205 | which is only used by old DRM drivers which have done a so-called | |
206 | shadow-attach to the underlying device instead of registering as a real | |
207 | driver. This also includes some of the old generic buffer management and | |
208 | command submission code. Do not use any of this in new and modern | |
209 | drivers. | |
210 | ||
211 | Legacy Suspend/Resume | |
22554020 | 212 | --------------------- |
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213 | |
214 | The DRM core provides some suspend/resume code, but drivers wanting full | |
215 | suspend/resume support should provide save() and restore() functions. | |
216 | These are called at suspend, hibernate, or resume time, and should | |
217 | perform any state save or restore required by your device across suspend | |
218 | or hibernate states. | |
219 | ||
220 | int (\*suspend) (struct drm_device \*, pm_message_t state); int | |
221 | (\*resume) (struct drm_device \*); | |
222 | Those are legacy suspend and resume methods which *only* work with the | |
223 | legacy shadow-attach driver registration functions. New driver should | |
224 | use the power management interface provided by their bus type (usually | |
225 | through the :c:type:`struct device_driver <device_driver>` | |
226 | dev_pm_ops) and set these methods to NULL. | |
227 | ||
228 | Legacy DMA Services | |
22554020 | 229 | ------------------- |
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230 | |
231 | This should cover how DMA mapping etc. is supported by the core. These | |
232 | functions are deprecated and should not be used. |