freedreno header uses not installed xf86atomic.h

[Emil Velikov]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 15:06, Rob Clark via dri-devel
<dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 8:42 AM Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Friday, 2019-02-15 13:36:39 +0000, Eric Engestrom wrote:
> > > On Friday, 2019-02-15 07:11:55 -0500, Rob Clark wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 3:55 AM Daniel Drake <drake at endlessm.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > Using libdrm-2.4.97, mesa fails to build on ARM with:
> > > > >
> > > > > [  456s] In file included from
> > > > > ../../../../../src/gallium/drivers/freedreno/freedreno_util.h:33,
> > > > > [  456s]                  from
> > > > > ../../../../../src/gallium/drivers/freedreno/freedreno_batch.h:34,
> > > > > [  456s]                  from
> > > > > ../../../../../src/gallium/drivers/freedreno/freedreno_context.h:39,
> > > > > [  456s]                  from
> > > > > ../../../../../src/gallium/drivers/freedreno/freedreno_program.c:33:
> > > > > [  456s] /usr/include/freedreno/freedreno_ringbuffer.h:32:10: fatal
> > > > > error: xf86atomic.h: No such file or directory
> > > > >
> > > > > The freedreno headers were recently modified to use xf86atomic.h:
> > > > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm/commit/b541d21a0a908bf98d44375720f4430297720743
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > oh, that union/ifdef hack was specifically to avoid this issue..
> > > > probably the patch removing it should be reverted.
> > >
> > > Right, I messed up with that commit, I didn't realise freedreno_ringbuffer.h
> > > was installed. We need to remove that include.
> > >
> > > That said, I'm confused as to how freedreno_ringbuffer.h users in Mesa
> > > knows whether it's safe to use refcnt from that union?
> > > It doesn't check for HAS_ATOMIC_OPS, so it can't know whether it
> > > contains garbage padding or a refcount, can it?
> >
> > No, that wouldn't even compile?
> >
> > (with the code before my messed up commit:)
> > Mesa includes freedreno_ringbuffer.h but doesn't define HAS_ATOMIC_OPS,
> > so fd_ringbuffer::refcnt doesn't get compiled in (but the padding is
> > still there), so code in mesa can't use ->refcnt because the compiler
> > wouldn't know what that is.
> >
> > I must be missing something, how did this ever compile?
>
> So, these days, mesa has it's own copy of the libdrm code,
> libdrm_freedreno really only exists so that you can still build old
> mesa with new libdrm.  And for a handful of small standalone utilities
> (fdperf, and some test code I use to poke the hw standalone)..
>
> But the way it works is that mesa never needs to access the refcnt, it
> mostly only needs to access cur/end (and it wants to do that in a way
> that can be inlined, not fxn call into a different dso, since that is
> a hot path).  The only code that accesses the refcnt is in the libdrm
> code itself.  Hence this ugly union hack, just to make the struct the
> same size both for mesa and for libdrm.
>
Ouch, I did not see the header was installed either.

Just skimmed through Mesa prior to the libdrm_freedreno merge - there
are no references of fd_ringbuffer::refcnt.
So a simple revert will do the job. To avoid repeating this mistake,
we want to add an inline comment.

-Emil