[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 09/15] i965: Build the driver into a shared mesa_dri_drivers.so .

Eric Anholt eric at anholt.net
Wed Oct 23 20:31:00 CEST 2013


Chad Versace <chad.versace at linux.intel.com> writes:

> On 10/11/2013 06:03 PM, Eric Anholt wrote:
>> Previously, we've split things such that mesa core is in libdricore,
>> exposing the whole Mesa core interface in the global namespace, and the
>> i965_dri.so code all links against that.  Along with polluting application
>> namespace terribly, it requires extra PLT indirections and prevents LTO.
>>
>> Instead, we can build all of the driver contents into the same .so with
>> just a few symbols exposed to be referenced from the actual driver .so
>> file, allowing LTO and reducing our exposed symbol count massively.
>>
>> FPS improvement on GLB2.7 with INTEL_NO_HW=1: 2.61061% +/- 1.16957% (n=50)
>> (without LTO, just the PLT reductions from this commit)
>>
>> v2: Set a global driverAPI variable so loaders don't have to update to
>>      createNewScreen2() (though they may want to for thread safety).
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> (v1)
>> ---
>>   configure.ac                                  | 29 +++++++++++---
>>   src/mesa/drivers/dri/Makefile.am              | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>   src/mesa/drivers/dri/common/Makefile.am       |  3 ++
>>   src/mesa/drivers/dri/common/dri_util.c        | 19 +++++++++-
>>   src/mesa/drivers/dri/common/dri_util.h        |  2 +-
>>   src/mesa/drivers/dri/common/megadriver_stub.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>   src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/Makefile.am         | 27 +++-----------
>>   src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/intel_screen.c      | 18 +++++++--
>>   src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/intel_screen.h      |  2 +
>>   9 files changed, 162 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
>>   create mode 100644 src/mesa/drivers/dri/common/megadriver_stub.c
>>
>
>
>
>> +# Add a link to allow setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH/LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH to /lib of the build tree.
>> +all-local: mesa_dri_drivers.la
>> +	$(MKDIR_P) $(top_builddir)/$(LIB_DIR);
>> +	$(AM_V_GEN)ln -f .libs/mesa_dri_drivers.so \
>> +			 $(top_builddir)/$(LIB_DIR)/mesa_dri_drivers.so;
>> +	$(AM_V_GEN)for i in $(MEGADRIVERS); do \
>> +		ln -f $(top_builddir)/$(LIB_DIR)/mesa_dri_drivers.so \
>> +		      $(top_builddir)/$(LIB_DIR)/$$i; \
>> +	done;
>> +
>> +# hardlink each megadriver instance, but don't actually have
>> +# mesa_dri_drivers.so in the set of final installed files.
>> +install-data-hook:
>> +	for i in $(MEGADRIVERS); do \
>> +		ln -f $(dridir)/mesa_dri_drivers.so \
>> +		      $(dridir)/$$i; \
>> +	done;
>> +	$(RM) -f $(dridir)/mesa_dri_drivers.so
>> +	$(RM) -f $(dridir)/mesa_dri_drivers.la
>> +
>> +endif
>
>
> This hunk breaks `make install` for me. I'm doing an out-of-tree build and
> installing to --prefix=/usr. Here's the error:
>
> make[7]: Entering directory `/home/chad/exp/makepkg/abs/mesa/src/src/mesa/drivers/dri'
> for i in  i965_dri.so    ; do \
>          ln -f /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/mesa_dri_drivers.so \
>                /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/$i; \
> done;
> ln: failed to access '/usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/mesa_dri_drivers.so': No such file or directory
>
> It seems that the Makefile never install mesa_dri_drivers.so to $(dridir), but
> then tries to ln it. I don't speak autotools, so I don't see how to fix this.

I can't tell what might have happened from this trimmed log.  I did an
out of tree build, and mesa_dri_drivers.so gets successfully installed
From the install-data-am target that leads to the install-data-hook
being done afterwards.  I've tried with big and small -j.
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