On Fri, 2025-09-05 at 14:04 -0300, Daniel Almeida wrote:
> I think what we are seeing here is the same issue with the dma code.
>
> If we are going to offer slices (which we definitely should!), then IMHO one
> of those should apply:
>
> a) The functions are unsafe or,
> b) There can only be one VMap object.
>
> IIUC, it’s trivial to get two VMaps in the current code and then call
> as_mut_slice() on each of them, which technically grants mutable access to the
> same memory region.
Agreed - admittedly I totally forgot about this bit of code since I think it's
one of the last untouched excerpts from Asahi. I'll go for b and see what I
can do
>
> > +
> > + /// Returns mutable a byte slice view of the mapping.
> > + pub fn as_mut_slice(&mut self) -> &mut [u8] {
> > + // SAFETY: The vmap maps valid memory up to the owner size
> > + unsafe { slice::from_raw_parts_mut(self.as_mut_ptr().cast(),
> > self.owner.size()) }
> > + }
> > +
> > + /// Borrows a reference to the object that owns this virtual mapping.
> > + pub fn owner(&self) -> &Object<T> {
> > + &self.owner
> > + }
> > +}
> > +
> > +impl<T: DriverObject> Drop for VMap<T> {
> > + fn drop(&mut self) {
> > + // SAFETY:
> > + // - This function is safe to call with the DMA reservation lock
> > held
> > + // - Our `ARef` is proof that the underlying gem object here is
> > initialized and thus safe to
> > + // dereference.
> > + unsafe {
> > + let resv = self.owner.raw_dma_resv();
> > +
> > + // TODO: see top of file
>
> Note: Onur is working on ww_mutexes, and IMHO his latest patches [0] seem to
> be
> converging towards the API we want . We should perhaps check whether his work
> is a good fit here?
Thanks for the reminder! And yes - definitely :), will do so before sending
out the next version of this.
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Cheers,
Lyude Paul (she/her)
Software Engineer at Red Hat
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