RE: [PATCH rdma-core v7 4/6] pyverbs: Add dma-buf based MR support

["Xiong, Jianxin" <jianxin.xiong@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2021 10:03 PM
> To: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
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> <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-core v7 4/6] pyverbs: Add dma-buf based MR support
> 

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> > > > > > > > +#include <drm/drm.h>
> > > > > > > > +#include <drm/i915_drm.h> #include <drm/amdgpu_drm.h>
> > > > > > > > +#include <drm/radeon_drm.h>
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I assume these should come from the kernel headers package, right?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This is gross, all kernel headers should be placed in
> > > > > > kernel-headers/* and "update" script needs to be extended to take drm/* files too :(.
> > > > >
> > > > > drm kernel headers are in the libdrm package. You need that
> > > > > anyway for doing the ioctls (if you don't hand-roll the restarting yourself).
> > > > >
> > > > > Also our userspace has gone over to just outright copying the
> > > > > driver headers. Not the generic headers, but for the rendering
> > > > > side of gpus, which is the topic here, there's really not much generic stuff.
> > > > >
> > > > > > Jianxin, are you fixing it?
> > > > >
> > > > > So fix is either to depend upon libdrm for building, or have
> > > > > copies of the headers included in the package for the
> > > > > i915/amdgpu/radeon headers (drm/drm.h probably not so good idea).
> > > >
> > > > We should have a cmake test to not build the drm parts if it can't be built, and pyverbs should skip the tests.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Yes, I will add a test for that. Also, on SLES, the headers could be under /usr/include/libdrm instead of /usr/include/drm. The make test
> should check that and use proper path.
> >
> > Please use pkgconfig for this, libdrm installs a .pc file to make sure
> > you can find the right headers.
> 
> rdma-core uses cmake build system and in our case cmake find_library() is preferable over pkgconfig.

Only the headers are needed, and they could be installed via either the libdrm-devel package or the kernel-headers package. The cmake find_path() command is more suitable here.
 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> > -Daniel
> > --
> > Daniel Vetter
> > Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> > http://blog.ffwll.ch