I don't suppose there are any guidelines from ARM about compatibility between 32bit userspace and 64bit kernel on some hypothetical future version of the ARM architecture? Some hints about what to do or not do could perhaps save some ioctl compat glue later on down the line..
BR, -R
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rob Clark rob.clark@linaro.org Date: Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 3:15 PM Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFCv2: omapdrm DRM/KMS driver for TI OMAP platforms To: Thomas Hellstrom thomas@shipmail.org Cc: Inki Dae inki.dae@samsung.com, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, patches@linaro.org
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Thomas Hellstrom thomas@shipmail.org wrote:
On 09/18/2011 09:50 PM, Rob Clark wrote:
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Thomas Hellstromthomas@shipmail.org wrote:
On 09/17/2011 11:32 PM, Rob Clark wrote:
From: Rob Clarkrob@ti.com
[snip]
diff --git a/include/drm/omap_drm.h b/include/drm/omap_drm.h new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ea0ae8e --- /dev/null +++ b/include/drm/omap_drm.h @@ -0,0 +1,111 @@ +/*
- linux/include/drm/omap_drm.h
- Copyright (C) 2011 Texas Instruments
- Author: Rob Clarkrob@ti.com
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+#ifndef __OMAP_DRM_H__ +#define __OMAP_DRM_H__
+#include "drm.h"
+/* Please note that modifications to all structs defined here are
- subject to backwards-compatibility constraints.
- */
+#define OMAP_PARAM_CHIPSET_ID 1 /* ie. 0x3430, 0x4430, etc */
+struct drm_omap_param {
- uint64_t param; /* in */
- uint64_t value; /* in (set_param), out
(get_param) */ +};
+struct drm_omap_get_base {
- char plugin_name[64]; /* in */
- uint32_t ioctl_base; /* out */
+};
What about future ARM 64-bit vs 32-bit structure sizes? On x86 we always take care to make structures appearing in the drm user-space interfaces having sizes that are a multiple of 64-bits, to avoid having to maintain compat code for 32-bit apps running on 64 bit kernels. For the same reasons, structure members with 64 bit alignment requirements on 64-bit systems need to be carefully places.
I don't know whether there is or will be a 64-bit ARM, but it might be worth taking into consideration.
There isn't currently any 64-bit ARM, but it is a safe assumption that there will be some day.. I guess we'll have enough fun w/ various random 32b devices when LPAE arrives w/ the cortex-a15..
I did try to make sure any uint64_t's were aligned to a 64bit offset, but beyond that I confess to not being an expert on how 64 vs 32b ioctl compat stuff is handled or what the issues going from 32->64b are. If there are some additional considerations that should be taken care of, then now is the time. So far I don't have any pointer fields in any of the ioctl structs. Beyond that, I'm not entirely sure what else needs to be done, but would appreciate any pointers to docs about how the compat stuff works.
BR, -R
I've actually avoided writing compat ioctl code myself, by trying to make sure that structures look identical in the 64-bit and 32-bit x86 ABIs, but the compat code is there to translate pointers and to overcome alignment incompatibilities.
A good way to at least try to avoid having to maintain compat code once the 64-bit ABI shows up is to make sure that 64-bit scalars and embedded structures are placed on 64-bit boundaries, padding if necessary, and to make sure (using padding) that struct sizes are always multiples of 64 bits.
So far this is true for 64bit scalars.. I'm using stdint types everywhere so there is no chance for fields having different sizes on 64b vs 32b. And the only structs contained within ioctl structs so far are starting at offset==0.
Is it necessary to ensure that the ioctl structs themselves (as opposed to structs within those structs) have sizes that are multiple of 64b? The ioctl structs are copied (copy_from_user()/copy_to_user()), which I would have assumed would be sufficient?
But since there is no 64-bit ARM yet, it might be better to rely on using compat code in the future than on making guesses about alignment restrictions of the ABI...
hmm, it might be nice to get some guidelines from ARM on this, since I really have no idea what a 64b ARM architecture would look like..
BR, -R
/Thomas
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