[PATCH 3/3] drm/etnaviv: implement softpin

Philipp Zabel p.zabel at pengutronix.de
Mon Aug 5 08:58:57 UTC 2019


On Fri, 2019-08-02 at 19:29 +0200, Lucas Stach wrote:
> With softpin we allow the userspace to take control over the GPU virtual
> address space. The new capability is relected by a bump of the minor DRM
> version. There are a few restrictions for userspace to take into
> account:
> 
> 1. The kernel reserves a bit of the address space to implement zero page
> faulting and mapping of the kernel internal ring buffer. Userspace can
> query the kernel for the first usable GPU VM address via
> ETNAVIV_PARAM_SOFTPIN_START_ADDR.
> 
> 2. We only allow softpin on GPUs, which implement proper process
> separation via PPAS. If softpin is not available the softpin start
> address will be set to ~0.
> 
> 3. Softpin is all or nothing. A submit using softpin must not use any
> address fixups via relocs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach at pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_drv.c        |  2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_drv.h        |  2 ++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gem.c        |  4 ++--
>  drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gem.h        |  1 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gem_submit.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gpu.c        |  9 +++++++
>  include/uapi/drm/etnaviv_drm.h               |  5 +++-
>  7 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
[...]
> diff --git a/include/uapi/drm/etnaviv_drm.h b/include/uapi/drm/etnaviv_drm.h
> index 0d5c49dc478c..c5710485650c 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/drm/etnaviv_drm.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/drm/etnaviv_drm.h
> @@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ struct drm_etnaviv_timespec {
>  #define ETNAVIV_PARAM_GPU_INSTRUCTION_COUNT         0x18
>  #define ETNAVIV_PARAM_GPU_NUM_CONSTANTS             0x19
>  #define ETNAVIV_PARAM_GPU_NUM_VARYINGS              0x1a
> +#define ETNAVIV_PARAM_SOFTPIN_START_ADDR            0x1b
>  
>  #define ETNA_MAX_PIPES 4
>  
> @@ -177,9 +178,11 @@ struct drm_etnaviv_gem_submit_pmr {
>  #define ETNA_SUBMIT_NO_IMPLICIT         0x0001
>  #define ETNA_SUBMIT_FENCE_FD_IN         0x0002
>  #define ETNA_SUBMIT_FENCE_FD_OUT        0x0004
> +#define ETNA_SUBMIT_SOFTPIN             0x0008
>  #define ETNA_SUBMIT_FLAGS		(ETNA_SUBMIT_NO_IMPLICIT | \
>  					 ETNA_SUBMIT_FENCE_FD_IN | \
> -					 ETNA_SUBMIT_FENCE_FD_OUT)
> +					 ETNA_SUBMIT_FENCE_FD_OUT| \
> +					 ETNA_SUBMIT_SOFTPIN)
>  #define ETNA_PIPE_3D      0x00
>  #define ETNA_PIPE_2D      0x01
>  #define ETNA_PIPE_VG      0x02

The presumed field of drm_etnaviv_gem_submit_bo has an elaborate comment
on its supposed pre-softpin use in etnaviv_drm.h, maybe that should be
updated.

Otherwise,

Reviewed-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel at pengutronix.de>

regards
Philipp


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