drm: provide device-refcount

Lets not trick ourselves into thinking "drm_device" objects are not
ref-counted. That's just utterly stupid. We manage "drm_minor" objects on
each drm-device and each minor can have an unlimited number of open
handles. Each of these handles has the drm_minor (and thus the drm_device)
as private-data in the file-handle. Therefore, we may not destroy
"drm_device" until all these handles are closed.

It is *not* possible to reset all these pointers atomically and restrict
access to them, and this is *not* how this is done! Instead, we use
ref-counts to make sure the object is valid and not freed.

Note that we currently use "dev->open_count" for that, which is *exactly*
the same as a reference-count, just open coded. So this patch doesn't
change any semantics on DRM devices (well, this patch just introduces the
ref-count, anyway. Follow-up patches will replace open_count by it).

Also note that generic VFS revoke support could allow us to drop this
ref-count again. We could then just synchronously disable any fops->xy()
calls. However, this is not the case, yet, and no such patches are
in sight (and I seriously question the idea of dropping the ref-cnt
again).

Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/drm/drmP.h b/include/drm/drmP.h
index 2c322564ca7d..4e53f1607355 100644
--- a/include/drm/drmP.h
+++ b/include/drm/drmP.h
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 #include <asm/current.h>
 #endif				/* __alpha__ */
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/kref.h>
 #include <linux/miscdevice.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
@@ -1102,6 +1103,7 @@ struct drm_device {
 
 	/** \name Lifetime Management */
 	/*@{ */
+	struct kref ref;		/**< Object ref-count */
 	struct device *dev;		/**< Device structure of bus-device */
 	struct drm_driver *driver;	/**< DRM driver managing the device */
 	void *dev_private;		/**< DRM driver private data */
@@ -1666,7 +1668,8 @@ static __inline__ void drm_core_dropmap(struct drm_local_map *map)
 
 struct drm_device *drm_dev_alloc(struct drm_driver *driver,
 				 struct device *parent);
-void drm_dev_free(struct drm_device *dev);
+void drm_dev_ref(struct drm_device *dev);
+void drm_dev_unref(struct drm_device *dev);
 int drm_dev_register(struct drm_device *dev, unsigned long flags);
 void drm_dev_unregister(struct drm_device *dev);
 /*@}*/