[PATCH v2] drm/uapi: document kernel capabilities
Simon Ser
contact at emersion.fr
Mon Mar 8 12:34:21 UTC 2021
Document all of the DRM_CAP_* defines.
v2 (Pekka):
- Describe what the bit depth is
- Expand on preferred dumb buffer memory access patterns
- Explain what a PRIME buffer is
- Mention DRM_IOCTL_PRIME_FD_TO_HANDLE and DRM_IOCTL_PRIME_HANDLE_TO_FD
- Explicitly reference CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC
- Make it clear DRM_CAP_CRTC_IN_VBLANK_EVENT applies to both DRM_EVENT_VBLANK
and DRM_EVENT_FLIP_COMPLETE
Signed-off-by: Simon Ser <contact at emersion.fr>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>
Cc: Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com>
---
include/uapi/drm/drm.h | 112 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 108 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/uapi/drm/drm.h b/include/uapi/drm/drm.h
index 0827037c5484..79e9c9d5e7a9 100644
--- a/include/uapi/drm/drm.h
+++ b/include/uapi/drm/drm.h
@@ -625,30 +625,134 @@ struct drm_gem_open {
__u64 size;
};
+/**
+ * DRM_CAP_DUMB_BUFFER
+ *
+ * If set to 1, the driver supports creating dumb buffers via the
+ * &DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CREATE_DUMB ioctl.
+ */
#define DRM_CAP_DUMB_BUFFER 0x1
+/**
+ * DRM_CAP_VBLANK_HIGH_CRTC
+ *
+ * If set to 1, the kernel supports specifying a CRTC index in the high bits of
+ * &drm_wait_vblank_request.type.
+ */
#define DRM_CAP_VBLANK_HIGH_CRTC 0x2
+/**
+ * DRM_CAP_DUMB_PREFERRED_DEPTH
+ *
+ * The preferred bit depth for dumb buffers.
+ *
+ * The bit depth is the number of bits used to indicate the color of a single
+ * pixel excluding any padding. This is different from the number of bits per
+ * pixel. For instance, XRGB8888 has a bit depth of 24 but has 32 bits per
+ * pixel.
+ */
#define DRM_CAP_DUMB_PREFERRED_DEPTH 0x3
+/**
+ * DRM_CAP_DUMB_PREFER_SHADOW
+ *
+ * If set to 1, the driver prefers userspace to render to a shadow buffer
+ * instead of directly rendering to a dumb buffer. For best speed, userspace
+ * should do streaming ordered memory copies into the dumb buffer and never
+ * read from it.
+ */
#define DRM_CAP_DUMB_PREFER_SHADOW 0x4
+/**
+ * DRM_CAP_PRIME
+ *
+ * Bitfield of supported PRIME sharing capabilities. See &DRM_PRIME_CAP_IMPORT
+ * and &DRM_PRIME_CAP_EXPORT.
+ *
+ * PRIME buffers are exposed as dma-buf file descriptors. See
+ * Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst, section "PRIME Buffer Sharing".
+ */
#define DRM_CAP_PRIME 0x5
+/**
+ * DRM_PRIME_CAP_IMPORT
+ *
+ * If this bit is set in &DRM_CAP_PRIME, the driver supports importing PRIME
+ * buffers via the &DRM_IOCTL_PRIME_FD_TO_HANDLE ioctl.
+ */
#define DRM_PRIME_CAP_IMPORT 0x1
+/**
+ * DRM_PRIME_CAP_EXPORT
+ *
+ * If this bit is set in &DRM_CAP_PRIME, the driver supports exporting PRIME
+ * buffers via the &DRM_IOCTL_PRIME_HANDLE_TO_FD ioctl.
+ */
#define DRM_PRIME_CAP_EXPORT 0x2
+/**
+ * DRM_CAP_TIMESTAMP_MONOTONIC
+ *
+ * If set to 0, the kernel will report timestamps with ``CLOCK_REALTIME`` in
+ * struct drm_event_vblank. If set to 1, the kernel will report timestamps with
+ * ``CLOCK_MONOTONIC``. See ``clock_gettime(2)`` for the definition of these
+ * clocks.
+ */
#define DRM_CAP_TIMESTAMP_MONOTONIC 0x6
+/**
+ * DRM_CAP_ASYNC_PAGE_FLIP
+ *
+ * If set to 1, the driver supports &DRM_MODE_PAGE_FLIP_ASYNC.
+ */
#define DRM_CAP_ASYNC_PAGE_FLIP 0x7
-/*
- * The CURSOR_WIDTH and CURSOR_HEIGHT capabilities return a valid widthxheight
- * combination for the hardware cursor. The intention is that a hardware
- * agnostic userspace can query a cursor plane size to use.
+/**
+ * DRM_CAP_CURSOR_WIDTH
+ *
+ * The ``CURSOR_WIDTH`` and ``CURSOR_HEIGHT`` capabilities return a valid
+ * width x height combination for the hardware cursor. The intention is that a
+ * hardware agnostic userspace can query a cursor plane size to use.
*
* Note that the cross-driver contract is to merely return a valid size;
* drivers are free to attach another meaning on top, eg. i915 returns the
* maximum plane size.
*/
#define DRM_CAP_CURSOR_WIDTH 0x8
+/**
+ * DRM_CAP_CURSOR_HEIGHT
+ *
+ * See &DRM_CAP_CURSOR_WIDTH.
+ */
#define DRM_CAP_CURSOR_HEIGHT 0x9
+/**
+ * DRM_CAP_ADDFB2_MODIFIERS
+ *
+ * If set to 1, the driver supports supplying modifiers in the
+ * &DRM_IOCTL_MODE_ADDFB2 ioctl.
+ */
#define DRM_CAP_ADDFB2_MODIFIERS 0x10
+/**
+ * DRM_CAP_PAGE_FLIP_TARGET
+ *
+ * If set to 1, the driver supports the &DRM_MODE_PAGE_FLIP_TARGET_ABSOLUTE and
+ * &DRM_MODE_PAGE_FLIP_TARGET_RELATIVE flags in
+ * &drm_mode_crtc_page_flip_target.flags for the &DRM_IOCTL_MODE_PAGE_FLIP
+ * ioctl.
+ */
#define DRM_CAP_PAGE_FLIP_TARGET 0x11
+/**
+ * DRM_CAP_CRTC_IN_VBLANK_EVENT
+ *
+ * If set to 1, the kernel supports reporting the CRTC ID in
+ * &drm_event_vblank.crtc_id for the &DRM_EVENT_VBLANK and
+ * &DRM_EVENT_FLIP_COMPLETE events.
+ */
#define DRM_CAP_CRTC_IN_VBLANK_EVENT 0x12
+/**
+ * DRM_CAP_SYNCOBJ
+ *
+ * If set to 1, the driver supports sync objects. See
+ * Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst, section "DRM Sync Objects".
+ */
#define DRM_CAP_SYNCOBJ 0x13
+/**
+ * DRM_CAP_SYNCOBJ_TIMELINE
+ *
+ * If set to 1, the driver supports timeline operations on sync objects. See
+ * Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst, section "DRM Sync Objects".
+ */
#define DRM_CAP_SYNCOBJ_TIMELINE 0x14
/* DRM_IOCTL_GET_CAP ioctl argument type */
--
2.30.1
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