[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm: Update todo.rst

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Wed Sep 5 18:15:09 UTC 2018 

- drmP.h is now fully split up.
- vkms is happening (and will gain its own todo and docs under a new
  vkms.rst file real soon)
- legacy cruft is completely hidden now, drm_vblank.c is split out
  from drm_irq.c now. I've decided to drop the task to split out
  drm_legacy.ko, partially because Dave already rejected a patch to
  hide the old dri1 drivers better. Current state feels good enough to
  me.
- best_encoder atomic cleanup is done (it's now the default, not even
  exported anymore)
- bunch of smaller things

v2:
- Explain why the drm_legacy.ko task is dropped (Emil).
- typos (Sam).

v3: Fix typo (Ilia)

Cc: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam at ravnborg.org>
Cc: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo at padovan.org>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul at chromium.org>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied at linux.ie>
---
 Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 68 ++++++--------------------------------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
index a7c150d6b63f..4c7c3ab60089 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
@@ -127,7 +127,8 @@ interfaces to fix these issues:
   the acquire context explicitly on stack and then also pass it down into
   drivers explicitly so that the legacy-on-atomic functions can use them.
 
-  Except for some driver code this is done.
+  Except for some driver code this is done. This task should be finished by
+  adding WARN_ON(!drm_drv_uses_atomic_modeset) in drm_modeset_lock_all().
 
 * A bunch of the vtable hooks are now in the wrong place: DRM has a split
   between core vfunc tables (named ``drm_foo_funcs``), which are used to
@@ -137,13 +138,6 @@ interfaces to fix these issues:
   ``_helper_funcs`` since they are not part of the core ABI. There's a
   ``FIXME`` comment in the kerneldoc for each such case in ``drm_crtc.h``.
 
-* There's a new helper ``drm_atomic_helper_best_encoder()`` which could be
-  used by all atomic drivers which don't select the encoder for a given
-  connector at runtime. That's almost all of them, and would allow us to get
-  rid of a lot of ``best_encoder`` boilerplate in drivers.
-
-  This was almost done, but new drivers added a few more cases again.
-
 Contact: Daniel Vetter
 
 Get rid of dev->struct_mutex from GEM drivers
@@ -164,9 +158,8 @@ private lock. The tricky part is the BO free functions, since those can't
 reliably take that lock any more. Instead state needs to be protected with
 suitable subordinate locks or some cleanup work pushed to a worker thread. For
 performance-critical drivers it might also be better to go with a more
-fine-grained per-buffer object and per-context lockings scheme. Currently the
-following drivers still use ``struct_mutex``: ``msm``, ``omapdrm`` and
-``udl``.
+fine-grained per-buffer object and per-context lockings scheme. Currently only the
+``msm`` driver still use ``struct_mutex``.
 
 Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers
 
@@ -190,7 +183,8 @@ Convert drivers to use simple modeset suspend/resume
 
 Most drivers (except i915 and nouveau) that use
 drm_atomic_helper_suspend/resume() can probably be converted to use
-drm_mode_config_helper_suspend/resume().
+drm_mode_config_helper_suspend/resume(). Also there's still open-coded version
+of the atomic suspend/resume code in older atomic modeset drivers.
 
 Contact: Maintainer of the driver you plan to convert
 
@@ -246,20 +240,10 @@ Core refactorings
 Clean up the DRM header mess
 ----------------------------
 
-Currently the DRM subsystem has only one global header, ``drmP.h``. This is
-used both for functions exported to helper libraries and drivers and functions
-only used internally in the ``drm.ko`` module. The goal would be to move all
-header declarations not needed outside of ``drm.ko`` into
-``drivers/gpu/drm/drm_*_internal.h`` header files. ``EXPORT_SYMBOL`` also
-needs to be dropped for these functions.
-
-This would nicely tie in with the below task to create kerneldoc after the API
-is cleaned up. Or with the "hide legacy cruft better" task.
-
-Note that this is well in progress, but ``drmP.h`` is still huge. The updated
-plan is to switch to per-file driver API headers, which will also structure
-the kerneldoc better. This should also allow more fine-grained ``#include``
-directives.
+The DRM subsystem originally had only one huge global header, ``drmP.h``. This
+is now split up, but many source files still include it. The remaining part of
+the cleanup work here is to replace any ``#include <drm/drmP.h>`` by only the
+headers needed (and fixing up any missing pre-declarations in the headers).
 
 In the end no .c file should need to include ``drmP.h`` anymore.
 
@@ -278,26 +262,6 @@ See https://dri.freedesktop.org/docs/drm/ for what's there already.
 
 Contact: Daniel Vetter
 
-Hide legacy cruft better
-------------------------
-
-Way back DRM supported only drivers which shadow-attached to PCI devices with
-userspace or fbdev drivers setting up outputs. Modern DRM drivers take charge
-of the entire device, you can spot them with the DRIVER_MODESET flag.
-
-Unfortunately there's still large piles of legacy code around which needs to
-be hidden so that driver writers don't accidentally end up using it. And to
-prevent security issues in those legacy IOCTLs from being exploited on modern
-drivers. This has multiple possible subtasks:
-
-* Extract support code for legacy features into a ``drm-legacy.ko`` kernel
-  module and compile it only when one of the legacy drivers is enabled.
-
-This is mostly done, the only thing left is to split up ``drm_irq.c`` into
-legacy cruft and the parts needed by modern KMS drivers.
-
-Contact: Daniel Vetter
-
 Make panic handling work
 ------------------------
 
@@ -398,18 +362,6 @@ the non-i915 specific modeset tests.
 
 Contact: Daniel Vetter
 
-Create a virtual KMS driver for testing (vkms)
-----------------------------------------------
-
-With all the latest helpers it should be fairly simple to create a virtual KMS
-driver useful for testing, or for running X or similar on headless machines
-(to be able to still use the GPU). This would be similar to vgem, but aimed at
-the modeset side.
-
-Once the basics are there there's tons of possibilities to extend it.
-
-Contact: Daniel Vetter
-
 Driver Specific
 ===============
 
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