[RESEND PATCH] drm/doc: Clarify what ioctls can be used on render nodes
Daniel Vetter
daniel at ffwll.ch
Thu Mar 17 09:36:55 UTC 2022
On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 08:32:36AM -0700, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:
> The documentation for render nodes indicates that only "PRIME-related"
> ioctls are valid on render nodes, but the documentation does not clarify
> what that means. If the reader is not familiar with PRIME, they may
> beleive this to be only the ioctls with "PRIME" in the name and not other
> ioctls such as set of syncobj ioctls. Clarify the situation for the
> reader by referencing where the reader will find a current list of valid
> ioctls.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Hugo <quic_jhugo at quicinc.com>
> Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen at collabora.com>
Applied to drm-misc-next, thanks for the patch.
-Daniel
> ---
>
> I was confused by this when reading the documentation. Now that I have
> figured out what the documentation means, I would like to add a clarification
> for the next reader which would have helped me.
>
> Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst
> index 199afb5..ce47b42 100644
> --- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst
> @@ -148,7 +148,9 @@ clients together with the legacy drmAuth authentication procedure.
> If a driver advertises render node support, DRM core will create a
> separate render node called renderD<num>. There will be one render node
> per device. No ioctls except PRIME-related ioctls will be allowed on
> -this node. Especially GEM_OPEN will be explicitly prohibited. Render
> +this node. Especially GEM_OPEN will be explicitly prohibited. For a
> +complete list of driver-independent ioctls that can be used on render
> +nodes, see the ioctls marked DRM_RENDER_ALLOW in drm_ioctl.c Render
> nodes are designed to avoid the buffer-leaks, which occur if clients
> guess the flink names or mmap offsets on the legacy interface.
> Additionally to this basic interface, drivers must mark their
> --
> 2.7.4
>
--
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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