[igt-dev] [PATCH i-g-t v2 1/6] lib/i915_drm_local: Add I915_GEM_CREATE_EXT_FLAG_NEEDS_CPU_ACCESS

[Matthew Auld]

For now dump into i915_drm_local.h. Once the uapi on the kernel side is
merged, and is part of drm-next, we can sync the kernel headers and
remove this.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld at intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom at linux.intel.com>
---
 lib/i915/i915_drm_local.h | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/i915/i915_drm_local.h b/lib/i915/i915_drm_local.h
index 9e82c968..7b5285f3 100644
--- a/lib/i915/i915_drm_local.h
+++ b/lib/i915/i915_drm_local.h
@@ -21,6 +21,33 @@ extern "C" {
  */
 #define I915_ENGINE_CLASS_COMPUTE 4
 
+/*
+ * Signal to the kernel that the object will need to be accessed via
+ * the CPU.
+ *
+ * Only valid when placing objects in I915_MEMORY_CLASS_DEVICE, and only
+ * strictly required on platforms where only some of the device memory
+ * is directly visible or mappable through the CPU, like on DG2+.
+ *
+ * One of the placements MUST also be I915_MEMORY_CLASS_SYSTEM, to
+ * ensure we can always spill the allocation to system memory, if we
+ * can't place the object in the mappable part of
+ * I915_MEMORY_CLASS_DEVICE.
+ *
+ * Note that buffers that need to be captured with EXEC_OBJECT_CAPTURE,
+ * will need to enable this hint, if the object can also be placed in
+ * I915_MEMORY_CLASS_DEVICE, starting from DG2+. The execbuf call will
+ * throw an error otherwise. This also means that such objects will need
+ * I915_MEMORY_CLASS_SYSTEM set as a possible placement.
+ *
+ * Without this hint, the kernel will assume that non-mappable
+ * I915_MEMORY_CLASS_DEVICE is preferred for this object. Note that the
+ * kernel can still migrate the object to the mappable part, as a last
+ * resort, if userspace ever CPU faults this object, but this might be
+ * expensive, and so ideally should be avoided.
+ */
+#define I915_GEM_CREATE_EXT_FLAG_NEEDS_CPU_ACCESS (1 << 0)
+
 #if defined(__cplusplus)
 }
 #endif
-- 
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