[PATCH v3 4/4] rust: drm: Use gem::BaseDriverObject in driver::Driver

Lyude Paul lyude at redhat.com
Tue May 20 18:19:15 UTC 2025


One of the original intents with the gem bindings was that drivers could
specify additional gem implementations, in order to enable for driver
private gem objects. This wasn't really possible however, as up until now
our GEM bindings have always assumed that the only GEM object we would run
into was driver::Driver::Object - meaning that implementing another GEM
object type would result in all of the BaseDriverObject callbacks assuming
the wrong type.

This is a pretty easy fix though, all we need to do is specify a
BaseDriverObject in driver::Driver instead of an AllocImpl, and then add an
associated type for AllocImpl in BaseDriverObject. That way each
BaseDriverObject has its own AllocImpl allowing it to know which type to
provide in BaseDriverObject callbacks, and driver::Driver can simply go
through the BaseDriverObject to its AllocImpl type in order to get access
to ALLOC_OPS.

So, let's do this and update Nova for these changes.

Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/nova/driver.rs |  4 ++--
 drivers/gpu/drm/nova/gem.rs    |  1 +
 rust/kernel/drm/device.rs      | 17 ++++++++++-------
 rust/kernel/drm/driver.rs      |  2 +-
 rust/kernel/drm/gem/mod.rs     | 11 +++++++----
 5 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nova/driver.rs b/drivers/gpu/drm/nova/driver.rs
index b28b2e05cc156..58e534cf3ed39 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nova/driver.rs
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nova/driver.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 
-use kernel::{auxiliary, c_str, device::Core, drm, drm::gem, drm::ioctl, prelude::*, types::ARef};
+use kernel::{auxiliary, c_str, device::Core, drm, drm::ioctl, prelude::*, types::ARef};
 
 use crate::file::File;
 use crate::gem::NovaObject;
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ fn probe(adev: &auxiliary::Device<Core>, _info: &Self::IdInfo) -> Result<Pin<KBo
 impl drm::Driver for NovaDriver {
     type Data = NovaData;
     type File = File;
-    type Object = gem::Object<NovaObject>;
+    type Object = NovaObject;
 
     const INFO: drm::DriverInfo = INFO;
 
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nova/gem.rs b/drivers/gpu/drm/nova/gem.rs
index 68f93c9675611..a3024922f0d90 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nova/gem.rs
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nova/gem.rs
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ pub(crate) struct NovaObject {}
 
 impl gem::BaseDriverObject for NovaObject {
     type Driver = NovaDriver;
+    type Object = gem::Object<Self>;
 
     fn new(_dev: &NovaDevice, _size: usize) -> impl PinInit<Self, Error> {
         try_pin_init!(NovaObject {})
diff --git a/rust/kernel/drm/device.rs b/rust/kernel/drm/device.rs
index 74c9a3dd719e3..6fc6995be637d 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/drm/device.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/drm/device.rs
@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ pub struct Device<T: drm::Driver> {
     data: T::Data,
 }
 
+/// A type alias for referring to the [`AllocImpl`] implementation for a DRM driver.
+type DriverAllocImpl<T> = <<T as drm::Driver>::Object as drm::gem::BaseDriverObject>::Object;
+
 impl<T: drm::Driver> Device<T> {
     const VTABLE: bindings::drm_driver = drm_legacy_fields! {
         load: None,
@@ -70,13 +73,13 @@ impl<T: drm::Driver> Device<T> {
         master_set: None,
         master_drop: None,
         debugfs_init: None,
-        gem_create_object: T::Object::ALLOC_OPS.gem_create_object,
-        prime_handle_to_fd: T::Object::ALLOC_OPS.prime_handle_to_fd,
-        prime_fd_to_handle: T::Object::ALLOC_OPS.prime_fd_to_handle,
-        gem_prime_import: T::Object::ALLOC_OPS.gem_prime_import,
-        gem_prime_import_sg_table: T::Object::ALLOC_OPS.gem_prime_import_sg_table,
-        dumb_create: T::Object::ALLOC_OPS.dumb_create,
-        dumb_map_offset: T::Object::ALLOC_OPS.dumb_map_offset,
+        gem_create_object: DriverAllocImpl::<T>::ALLOC_OPS.gem_create_object,
+        prime_handle_to_fd: DriverAllocImpl::<T>::ALLOC_OPS.prime_handle_to_fd,
+        prime_fd_to_handle: DriverAllocImpl::<T>::ALLOC_OPS.prime_fd_to_handle,
+        gem_prime_import: DriverAllocImpl::<T>::ALLOC_OPS.gem_prime_import,
+        gem_prime_import_sg_table: DriverAllocImpl::<T>::ALLOC_OPS.gem_prime_import_sg_table,
+        dumb_create: DriverAllocImpl::<T>::ALLOC_OPS.dumb_create,
+        dumb_map_offset: DriverAllocImpl::<T>::ALLOC_OPS.dumb_map_offset,
         show_fdinfo: None,
         fbdev_probe: None,
 
diff --git a/rust/kernel/drm/driver.rs b/rust/kernel/drm/driver.rs
index 2be2a2d318e03..a77747edac80e 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/drm/driver.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/drm/driver.rs
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ pub trait Driver {
     type Data: Sync + Send;
 
     /// The type used to manage memory for this driver.
-    type Object: AllocImpl;
+    type Object: drm::gem::BaseDriverObject;
 
     /// The type used to represent a DRM File (client)
     type File: drm::file::DriverFile;
diff --git a/rust/kernel/drm/gem/mod.rs b/rust/kernel/drm/gem/mod.rs
index 8944fc7a815a2..3c45883011d49 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/drm/gem/mod.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/drm/gem/mod.rs
@@ -26,16 +26,19 @@ pub trait BaseDriverObject: Sync + Send + Sized {
     /// Parent `Driver` for this object.
     type Driver: drm::Driver;
 
+    /// The GEM object type that will be passed to various callbacks.
+    type Object: AllocImpl;
+
     /// Create a new driver data object for a GEM object of a given size.
     fn new(dev: &drm::Device<Self::Driver>, size: usize) -> impl PinInit<Self, Error>;
 
     /// Open a new handle to an existing object, associated with a File.
-    fn open(_obj: &<Self::Driver as drm::Driver>::Object, _file: &DriverFile<Self>) -> Result {
+    fn open(_obj: &Self::Object, _file: &DriverFile<Self>) -> Result {
         Ok(())
     }
 
     /// Close a handle to an existing object, associated with a File.
-    fn close(_obj: &<Self::Driver as drm::Driver>::Object, _file: &DriverFile<Self>) {}
+    fn close(_obj: &Self::Object, _file: &DriverFile<Self>) {}
 }
 
 /// Trait that represents a GEM object subtype
@@ -83,7 +86,7 @@ extern "C" fn open_callback<T: BaseDriverObject>(
 
     // SAFETY: `open_callback` is specified in the AllocOps structure for `DriverObject<T>`,
     // ensuring that `raw_obj` is contained within a `DriverObject<T>`
-    let obj = unsafe { <<T::Driver as drm::Driver>::Object as IntoGEMObject>::as_ref(raw_obj) };
+    let obj = unsafe { T::Object::as_ref(raw_obj) };
 
     match T::open(obj, file) {
         Err(e) => e.to_errno(),
@@ -100,7 +103,7 @@ extern "C" fn close_callback<T: BaseDriverObject>(
 
     // SAFETY: `close_callback` is specified in the AllocOps structure for `Object<T>`, ensuring
     // that `raw_obj` is indeed contained within a `Object<T>`.
-    let obj = unsafe { <<T::Driver as drm::Driver>::Object as IntoGEMObject>::as_ref(raw_obj) };
+    let obj = unsafe { T::Object::as_ref(raw_obj) };
 
     T::close(obj, file);
 }
-- 
2.49.0



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