This series adds a new device /dev/syncobj that can be used to create and manipulate DRM syncobjs. Previously, these operations required the use of a DRM device and the device needed to support the DRIVER_SYNCOBJ and DRIVER_SYNCOBJ_TIMELINE features.
There are several issues with the existing API: - Syncobjs are the only explicit sync mechanism available on wayland. Most compositors do not use GPU waits. Instead, they use the DRM_IOCTL_SYNCOBJ_EVENTFD ioctl to perform a CPU wait. Being tied to DRM devices means that compositors cannot consistently offer this feature even though no device-specific logic is involved. - llvmpipe currently cannot offer syncobj interop because it does not have access to a DRM device. This means that applications using llvmpipe cannot present images before they have finished rendering, despite llvmpipe using threaded rendering. - Clients that do not use the Vulkan WSI need to manually probe /dev/dri for devices that support the syncobj ioctls in order to use the wayland syncobj protocol. - Similarly, clients that want to use screen capture have no equivalent to the WSI and are therefore forced into that path. - Having to keep a DRM device open has potentially negative interactions with GPU hotplug. - Having to translate between syncobj FDs and handles is troublesome in the compositor usecase since syncobjs come and go frequently and need to be cleaned up when clients disconnect. /dev/syncobj solves these issues by providing all syncobj ioctls under a consistent path that is not tied to any DRM device. It also operates directly on file descriptors instead of syncobj handles. The series starts with a number of small refactorings in drm_syncobj.c to make its functionality available outside of the file and without the need for drm_file/handle pairs. The last commit adds the /dev/syncobj module. I've added it as a misc device but maybe this should instead live somewhere under gpu/drm. An application using the new interface can be found at [1]. [1]: https://github.com/mahkoh/jay/pull/947 --- Julian Orth (12): drm/syncobj: add drm_syncobj_from_fd drm/syncobj: add drm_syncobj_fence_lookup drm/syncobj: make drm_syncobj_array_wait_timeout public drm/syncobj: add drm_syncobj_register_eventfd drm/syncobj: have transfer functions accept drm_syncobj directly drm/syncobj: add drm_syncobj_transfer drm/syncobj: add drm_syncobj_timeline_signal drm/syncobj: add drm_syncobj_query drm/syncobj: fix resource leak in drm_syncobj_import_sync_file_fence drm/syncobj: add drm_syncobj_import_sync_file drm/syncobj: add drm_syncobj_export_sync_file misc/syncobj: add new device Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/drm_syncobj.c | 374 ++++++++++++++----- drivers/misc/Kconfig | 10 + drivers/misc/Makefile | 1 + drivers/misc/syncobj.c | 404 +++++++++++++++++++++ include/drm/drm_syncobj.h | 21 ++ include/uapi/linux/syncobj.h | 75 ++++ 7 files changed, 795 insertions(+), 91 deletions(-) --- base-commit: 6916d5703ddf9a38f1f6c2cc793381a24ee914c6 change-id: 20260516-jorth-syncobj-d4d374c8c61b Best regards, -- Julian Orth <[email protected]>
