From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@kernel.org>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
Maciej Kwapulinski <maciej.kwapulinski@linux.intel.com>,
Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Jagan Teki <jagan@amarulasolutions.com>,
John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
stanislaw.gruszka@intel.com,
Jeffrey Hugo <quic_jhugo@quicinc.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Jiho Chu <jiho.chu@samsung.com>,
Jacek Lawrynowicz <jacek.lawrynowicz@linux.intel.com>,
Yuji Ishikawa <yuji2.ishikawa@toshiba.co.jp>,
Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/3] drivers/accel: define kconfig and register a new major
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2022 08:56:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y2kAcCu4z2LUMN7u@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFCwf12yRUG4593ozJMEwaaJBKyWqXTTCjef9O_fzWdQBxVrtw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 10:39:36PM +0200, Oded Gabbay wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 3:31 PM Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 2:31 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 10:34:03PM +0200, Oded Gabbay wrote:
> > > > --- /dev/null
> > > > +++ b/drivers/accel/Kconfig
> > > > @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
> > > > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> > > > +#
> > > > +# Compute Acceleration device configuration
> > > > +#
> > > > +# This framework provides support for compute acceleration devices, such
> > > > +# as, but not limited to, Machine-Learning and Deep-Learning acceleration
> > > > +# devices
> > > > +#
> > > > +menuconfig ACCEL
> > > > + tristate "Compute Acceleration Framework"
> > > > + depends on DRM
> > > > + help
> > > > + Framework for device drivers of compute acceleration devices, such
> > > > + as, but not limited to, Machine-Learning and Deep-Learning
> > > > + acceleration devices.
> > > > + If you say Y here, you need to select the module that's right for
> > > > + your acceleration device from the list below.
> > > > + This framework is integrated with the DRM subsystem as compute
> > > > + accelerators and GPUs share a lot in common and can use almost the
> > > > + same infrastructure code.
> > > > + Having said that, acceleration devices will have a different
> > > > + major number than GPUs, and will be exposed to user-space using
> > > > + different device files, called accel/accel* (in /dev, sysfs
> > > > + and debugfs)
> > >
> > > Module name if "M" is chosen?
> > Will add
> So, unfortunately, the path of doing accel as a kernel module won't
> work cleanly (Thanks stanislaw for pointing this out to me).
> The reason is the circular dependency between drm and accel. drm calls
> accel exported symbols during init and when devices are registering
> (all the minor handling), and accel calls drm exported symbols because
> I don't want to duplicate the entire drm core code.
I really don't think this is the right way to integrate with
DRM. Accel should be a layer over top of DRM, not have these wakky
co-dependencies.
The fact you are running into stuff like this already smells really
bad.
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-07 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-02 20:34 [RFC PATCH v2 0/3] new subsystem for compute accelerator devices Oded Gabbay
2022-11-02 20:34 ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/3] drivers/accel: define kconfig and register a new major Oded Gabbay
2022-11-02 21:04 ` Jeffrey Hugo
2022-11-03 13:28 ` Oded Gabbay
2022-11-02 22:58 ` Randy Dunlap
2022-11-03 13:29 ` Oded Gabbay
2022-11-03 0:32 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-11-03 13:31 ` Oded Gabbay
2022-11-03 20:39 ` Oded Gabbay
2022-11-03 23:01 ` Randy Dunlap
2022-11-04 7:23 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2022-11-07 12:56 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2022-11-07 13:01 ` Oded Gabbay
2022-11-07 13:10 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-11-07 13:25 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2022-11-07 14:02 ` Oded Gabbay
2022-11-07 14:10 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-11-07 15:53 ` Oded Gabbay
2022-11-07 16:30 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-11-07 19:27 ` Oded Gabbay
2022-11-07 20:33 ` Dave Airlie
2022-11-08 12:28 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-11-09 7:22 ` Dave Airlie
2022-11-07 20:18 ` Dave Airlie
2022-11-02 20:34 ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/3] accel: add dedicated minor for accelerator devices Oded Gabbay
2022-11-02 21:17 ` Jeffrey Hugo
2022-11-06 10:51 ` Oded Gabbay
2022-11-03 5:25 ` Jiho Chu
2022-11-06 10:54 ` Oded Gabbay
2022-11-06 14:15 ` Oded Gabbay
2022-11-02 20:34 ` [RFC PATCH v2 3/3] drm: initialize accel framework Oded Gabbay
2022-11-02 21:30 ` Jeffrey Hugo
2022-11-06 10:55 ` Oded Gabbay
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