Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] drm: define new accel major and register it

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 12:46:21AM +0300, Oded Gabbay wrote:
> The accelerator devices will be exposed to the user space with a new,
> dedicated major number - 261.
> 
> The drm core registers the new major number as a char device and create
> corresponding sysfs and debugfs root entries, same as for the drm major.
> 
> In case CONFIG_ACCEL is not selected, this code is not compiled in.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt |  5 +++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c             | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_internal.h        |  3 ++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_sysfs.c           | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/drm/drm_ioctl.h               |  1 +
>  5 files changed, 106 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt
> index 9764d6edb189..06c525e01ea5 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt
> @@ -3080,6 +3080,11 @@
>  		  ...
>  		  255 = /dev/osd255	256th OSD Device
>  
> + 261 char	Compute Acceleration Devices
> +		  0 = /dev/accel/accel0	First acceleration device
> +		  1 = /dev/accel/accel1	Second acceleration device
> +		    ...
> +
>   384-511 char	RESERVED FOR DYNAMIC ASSIGNMENT
>  		Character devices that request a dynamic allocation of major
>  		number will take numbers starting from 511 and downward,
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
> index 8214a0b1ab7f..b58ffb1433d6 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
> @@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ static bool drm_core_init_complete;
>  
>  static struct dentry *drm_debugfs_root;
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ACCEL
> +static struct dentry *accel_debugfs_root;
> +#endif
> +
>  DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU(drm_unplug_srcu);
>  
>  /*
> @@ -1031,9 +1035,19 @@ static const struct file_operations drm_stub_fops = {
>  	.llseek = noop_llseek,
>  };
>  
> +static void accel_core_exit(void)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ACCEL
> +	unregister_chrdev(ACCEL_MAJOR, "accel");
> +	debugfs_remove(accel_debugfs_root);
> +	accel_sysfs_destroy();
> +#endif
> +}

Why is all of this in drm_drv.c?

Why not put it in drm/accel/accel.c or something like that?  Then put
the proper stuff into a .h file and then you have no #ifdef in the .c
files.

Keeping #ifdef out of C files is key, please do not do things like you
have here.  Especially as it ends up with this kind of mess:

> +static int __init accel_core_init(void)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ACCEL
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	ret = accel_sysfs_init();
> +	if (ret < 0) {
> +		DRM_ERROR("Cannot create ACCEL class: %d\n", ret);
> +		goto error;
> +	}
> +
> +	accel_debugfs_root = debugfs_create_dir("accel", NULL);
> +
> +	ret = register_chrdev(ACCEL_MAJOR, "accel", &drm_stub_fops);
> +	if (ret < 0)
> +		goto error;
> +
> +error:
> +	/* Any cleanup will be done in drm_core_exit() that will call
> +	 * to accel_core_exit()
> +	 */
> +	return ret;
> +#else
> +	return 0;
> +#endif
> +}


That's just a mess.

thanks,

greg k-h