On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 04:22:00PM +1000, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
Each dma-buf has an associated size and it's reasonable for userspace to want to know what it is.
Since userspace already has an fd, expose the size using the size = lseek(fd, SEEK_END, 0); lseek(fd, SEEK_CUR, 0); idiom.
Signed-off-by: Christopher James Halse Rogers christopher.halse.rogers@canonical.com
Yeah, loosk good to me and rather useful, so (with the dma-buf docs improved as suggested below):
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
I've also written some small prime tests in igt, so also:
Tested-by: Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
I've run into a point in the radeon DRM userspace where I need the size of a dma-buf. I could add a radeon-specific mechanism to get that, but this seems like something that would be more generally useful.
I'm not entirely sure about supporting both SEEK_END and SEEK_CUR; this is somewhat of an abuse of lseek, as seeking obviously doesn't make sense. It's the obivous idiom for getting the size of what's on the other end of a file descriptor, though.
I didn't notice anywhere to document this; Documentation/dma-buf-api didn't seem like the right place. Is there somewhere I've overlooked?
I think adding a section about various other userspace interfaces exposed below the mmap support section would be good. Feel free to squash in the belo diff for v2.
Cheers, Daniel
diff --git a/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt b/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt index 0b23261..b3a8aa2 100644 --- a/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt +++ b/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt @@ -407,6 +407,18 @@ Being able to mmap an export dma-buf buffer object has 2 main use-cases: interesting ways depending upong the exporter (if userspace starts depending upon this implicit synchronization).
+Other Interfaces Exposed to Userspace on the dma-buf FD +------------------------------------------------------ + +- Since kernel 3.12 the dma-buf FD supports the llseek system call, but only + with offset=0 and whence=SEEK_END|SEEK_SET. SEEK_SET is supported to allowe + the usual size discover pattern size = SEEK_END(0); SEEK_SET(0). Every other + llseek operation will report -EINVAL. + + If llseek on dma-buf FDs isn't support the kernel will report -ESPIPE for all + cases. Userspace can use this to detect support for discovering the dma-buf + size using llsee. + Miscellaneous notes -------------------