drm: Begin an API for in-kernel clients
This the beginning of an API for in-kernel clients.
First out is a way to get a framebuffer backed by a dumb buffer.
Only GEM drivers are supported.
The original idea of using an exported dma-buf was dropped because it
also creates an anonomous file descriptor which doesn't work when the
buffer is created from a kernel thread. The easy way out is to use
drm_driver.gem_prime_vmap to get the virtual address, which requires a
GEM object. This excludes the vmwgfx driver which is the only non-GEM
driver apart from the legacy ones. A solution for vmwgfx will have to be
worked out later if it wants to support the client API which it probably
will when we have a bootsplash client.
Suggested-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Noralf Trønnes <noralf@tronnes.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20180703160354.59955-2-noralf@tronnes.org
diff --git a/include/drm/drm_device.h b/include/drm/drm_device.h
index 858ba19..f9c6e0e 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_device.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_device.h
@@ -74,6 +74,27 @@ struct drm_device {
struct mutex filelist_mutex;
struct list_head filelist;
+ /**
+ * @filelist_internal:
+ *
+ * List of open DRM files for in-kernel clients. Protected by @filelist_mutex.
+ */
+ struct list_head filelist_internal;
+
+ /**
+ * @clientlist_mutex:
+ *
+ * Protects @clientlist access.
+ */
+ struct mutex clientlist_mutex;
+
+ /**
+ * @clientlist:
+ *
+ * List of in-kernel clients. Protected by @clientlist_mutex.
+ */
+ struct list_head clientlist;
+
/** \name Memory management */
/*@{ */
struct list_head maplist; /**< Linked list of regions */