[PATCH v4 00/14] drm: Add a driver for CSF-based Mali GPUs

Boris Brezillon boris.brezillon at collabora.com
Mon Jan 29 07:58:01 UTC 2024


On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:30:31 +0100
Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at collabora.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> This is the 4th version of the kernel driver for Mali CSF-based GPUs.
> 
> A branch based on drm-misc-next and containing all the dependencies
> that are not yet available in drm-misc-next here[1], and another [2]
> containing extra patches to have things working on rk3588. The CSF
> firmware binary can be found here[3], and should be placed under
> /lib/firmware/arm/mali/arch10.8/mali_csffw.bin.
> 
> The mesa MR adding v10 support on top of panthor is available here [4].
> 
> Steve, I intentionally dropped your R-b on "drm/panthor: Add the heap
> logical block" and "drm/panthor: Add the scheduler logical block"
> because the tiler-OOM handling changed enough to require a new review
> IMHO.
> 
> Regarding the GPL2+MIT relicensing, I collected Clément's R-b for the
> devfreq code, but am still lacking Alexey Sheplyakov for some bits in
> panthor_gpu.c. The rest of the code is either new, or covered by the
> Linaro, Arm and Collabora acks.
> 
> And here is a non-exhaustive changelog, check each commit for a detailed
> changelog.
> 
> v4:
> - Fix various bugs in the VM logic
> - Address comments from Steven, Liviu, Ketil and Chris
> - Move tiler OOM handling out of the scheduler interrupt handling path
>   so we can properly recover when the system runs out of memory, and
>   panthor is blocked trying to allocate heap chunks
> - Rework the heap locking to support concurrent chunk allocation. Not
>   sure if this is supposed to happen, but we need to be robust against
>   userspace passing the same heap context to two scheduling groups.
>   Wasn't needed before the tiler_oom rework, because heap allocation
>   base serialized by the scheduler lock.
> - Make kernel BO destruction robust to NULL/ERR pointers
> 
> v3;
> - Quite a few changes at the MMU/sched level to make the fix some
>   race conditions and deadlocks
> - Addition of the a sync-only VM_BIND operation (to support
>   vkQueueSparseBind with zero commands).
> - Addition of a VM_GET_STATE ioctl
> - Various cosmetic changes (see the commit changelogs for more details)
> - Various fixes (see the commit changelogs for more details)
> 
> v2:
> - Rename the driver (pancsf -> panthor)
> - Split the commit adding the driver to ease review
> - Use drm_sched for dependency tracking/job submission
> - Add a VM_BIND ioctl
> - Add the concept of exclusive VM for BOs that are only ever mapped to a
>   single VM
> - Document the code and uAPI
> - Add a DT binding doc
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Boris
> 
> [1]https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/panfrost/linux/-/tree/panthor-v4
> [2]https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/panfrost/linux/-/tree/panthor-v4+rk3588
> [3]https://gitlab.com/firefly-linux/external/libmali/-/raw/firefly/firmware/g610/mali_csffw.bin

Here's a link to a more recent/maintained libmali tree:

[3]https://github.com/JeffyCN/mirrors/raw/libmali/firmware/g610/mali_csffw.bin


> [4]https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/26358
> 
> Boris Brezillon (13):
>   drm/panthor: Add uAPI
>   drm/panthor: Add GPU register definitions
>   drm/panthor: Add the device logical block
>   drm/panthor: Add the GPU logical block
>   drm/panthor: Add GEM logical block
>   drm/panthor: Add the devfreq logical block
>   drm/panthor: Add the MMU/VM logical block
>   drm/panthor: Add the FW logical block
>   drm/panthor: Add the heap logical block
>   drm/panthor: Add the scheduler logical block
>   drm/panthor: Add the driver frontend block
>   drm/panthor: Allow driver compilation
>   drm/panthor: Add an entry to MAINTAINERS
> 
> Liviu Dudau (1):
>   dt-bindings: gpu: mali-valhall-csf: Add support for Arm Mali CSF GPUs
> 
>  .../bindings/gpu/arm,mali-valhall-csf.yaml    |  147 +
>  Documentation/gpu/driver-uapi.rst             |    5 +
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |   11 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig                       |    2 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/Makefile                      |    1 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/Kconfig               |   23 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/Makefile              |   15 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_devfreq.c     |  283 ++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_devfreq.h     |   25 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device.c      |  544 +++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device.h      |  393 ++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_drv.c         | 1470 +++++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_fw.c          | 1334 +++++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_fw.h          |  504 +++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gem.c         |  228 ++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gem.h         |  144 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gpu.c         |  482 +++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gpu.h         |   52 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_heap.c        |  596 +++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_heap.h        |   39 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c         | 2760 +++++++++++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.h         |  102 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_regs.h        |  239 ++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_sched.c       | 3500 +++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_sched.h       |   48 +
>  include/uapi/drm/panthor_drm.h                |  945 +++++
>  26 files changed, 13892 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpu/arm,mali-valhall-csf.yaml
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/Kconfig
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_devfreq.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_devfreq.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_drv.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_fw.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_fw.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gem.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gem.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gpu.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gpu.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_heap.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_heap.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_regs.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_sched.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_sched.h
>  create mode 100644 include/uapi/drm/panthor_drm.h
> 



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