display: hot-attach a virtio-gpu native backend over the GOP floor (v2 V4)

The compositor now boots on the GOP framebuffer and upgrades to the virtio-gpu driver
the moment it announces itself — the pluggable-scanout payoff.

The shared surface. The scanout resource is an shm region the driver creates
(shm_physical, a new syscall, hands it the guest-physical for attach_backing) and passes
to the compositor as a capability. The compositor maps it and composites straight into
it: on x86 DMA is cache-coherent, so the cacheable shared pages the CPU paints are exactly
what the device transfers-and-flushes — no copy, no explicit flush.

The handshake. After bring-up the driver looks up .display and sends attach_scanout with
the geometry + the surface capability. The compositor maps the surface, looks up the
driver's .scanout endpoint itself (the driver registered it — no need to pass it), switches
to backend.VirtioGpu, and re-composites the current frame. present() over the native
backend is a present request on .scanout -> transfer-to-host + resource flush. The first
native present is deferred to a one-shot timer: presenting inline from the announce handler
would deadlock, since the driver is still blocked on our reply and not yet serving .scanout.
After it lands, the compositor reads a pixel back from the shared surface to confirm the
frame reached the device's backing.

- shm_physical (syscall 36) + runtime.shm.physical.
- scanout-protocol (the compositor->driver present channel), separate from the
  client-facing display protocol; the display protocol gains attach_scanout.
- backend.VirtioGpu joins backend.Gop in the tagged union; select() still boots GOP.
- the virtio-gpu driver's scanout backing is now shm (was DMA); it announces + serves
  .scanout present requests (transfer-to-host + flush of the shared surface).

Also fixes a latent framebuffer-geometry corruption the display service hit only when it
enumerated the device tree alongside a busy device-manager: Gop.init now captures the
geometry into a small value the instant device_enumerate returns (rather than re-reading
the 328-byte descriptor across the later claim/mmio_map syscalls) and retries on a zero
geometry. The underlying device-table clobber is a separate kernel bug, tracked apart.

Gate: python3 test/qemu_test.py display-native (QEMU -device virtio-gpu-pci) — "display:
scanout upgraded to virtio-gpu" + "display: native present verified" + "display-demo: ok",
passing 3/3. host tests, display-service, display-demo, shm, and virtio-gpu still pass.
This commit is contained in:
Daniel Samson
2026-07-14 12:21:37 +01:00
parent 6e0e0a62c6
commit 58927ed7e5
13 changed files with 379 additions and 58 deletions
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@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ pub const block = @import("block.zig");
pub const display = @import("display.zig");
/// The display wire protocol (shared with the display service and its clients).
pub const display_protocol = @import("display-protocol");
/// The scanout wire protocol: the compositor's present channel to a native scanout driver
/// (virtio-gpu). See system/services/display/scanout-protocol.zig and docs/display-v2.md.
pub const scanout_protocol = @import("scanout-protocol");
/// The danos-native file API (open/read/write/list over the user-space VFS) — the
/// layer danos programs use directly, and where the operations that later become
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@@ -45,3 +45,13 @@ pub fn map(handle: ipc.Handle) ?[*]u8 {
if (failed(r)) return null;
return @ptrFromInt(r);
}
/// The guest-physical base of the shared region named by `handle` (which this process must
/// hold a capability for). The region's frames are contiguous, so this single address plus
/// the region length is all a device needs — e.g. a virtio-gpu driver programming an
/// `attach_backing`. Returns null on failure.
pub fn physical(handle: ipc.Handle) ?usize {
const r = sc.systemCall1(.shm_physical, handle);
if (failed(r)) return null;
return r;
}