[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v3 09/11] drm/i915/dsb: Documentation for DSB.

Sharma, Shashank shashank.sharma at intel.com
Wed Aug 28 17:23:36 UTC 2019


So here is the documentation, this resolves atleast one review comment 
from me :)

- Shashank

On 8/28/2019 12:40 AM, Animesh Manna wrote:
> Added docbook info regarding Display State Buffer(DSB) which
> is added from gen12 onwards to batch submit display HW programming.
>
> v1: Initial version as RFC.
>
> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
> Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Animesh Manna <animesh.manna at intel.com>
> ---
>   Documentation/gpu/i915.rst               |  9 ++++
>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dsb.c | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   2 files changed, 77 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/i915.rst b/Documentation/gpu/i915.rst
> index 3415255ad3dc..38e31223a24c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/gpu/i915.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/gpu/i915.rst
> @@ -246,6 +246,15 @@ Display PLLs
>   .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dpll_mgr.h
>      :internal:
>   
> +Display State Buffer
> +--------------------
> +
> +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dsb.c
> +   :doc: DSB
> +
> +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dsb.c
> +   :internal:
> +
>   Memory Management and Command Submission
>   ========================================
>   
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dsb.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dsb.c
> index bc1734072f34..501ff7f5db8c 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dsb.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dsb.c
> @@ -9,6 +9,23 @@
>   
>   #define DSB_BUF_SIZE    (2 * PAGE_SIZE)
>   
> +/**
> + * DOC: DSB
> + *
> + * A DSB (Display State Buffer) is a queue of MMIO instructions in the memory
> + * which can be offloaded to DSB HW in Display Controller. DSB HW is a DMA
> + * engine that can be programmed to download the DSB from memory.
> + * It allows driver to batch submit display HW programming. This helps to
> + * reduce loading time and CPU activity, thereby making the context switch
> + * faster. DSB Support added from Gen12 Intel graphics based platform.
> + *
> + * DSB's can access only the pipe, plane, and transcoder Data Island Packet
> + * registers.
> + *
> + * DSB HW can support only register writes (both indexed and direct MMIO
> + * writes). There are no registers reads possible with DSB HW engine.
> + */
> +
>   /* DSB opcodes. */
>   #define DSB_OPCODE_SHIFT		24
>   #define DSB_OPCODE_NOOP			0x0
> @@ -73,6 +90,17 @@ static bool intel_dsb_disable_engine(struct intel_dsb *dsb)
>   	return true;
>   }
>   
> +/**
> + * intel_dsb_get() - Allocate dsb context and return a dsb instance.
> + * @crtc: intel_crtc structure to get pipe info.
> + *
> + * This function will give handle of the DSB instance which
> + * user want to operate on.
> + *
> + * Return : address of Intel_dsb instance requested for.
> + * In failure case, the dsb instance will not have any command buffer.
> + */
> +
>   struct intel_dsb *
>   intel_dsb_get(struct intel_crtc *crtc)
>   {
> @@ -124,6 +152,14 @@ intel_dsb_get(struct intel_crtc *crtc)
>   	return dsb;
>   }
>   
> +/**
> + * intel_dsb_put() - To destroy DSB context.
> + * @dsb: intel_dsb structure.
> + *
> + * This function is used to destroy the dsb-context by doing unpin
> + * and release the vma object.
> + */
> +
>   void intel_dsb_put(struct intel_dsb *dsb)
>   {
>   	struct intel_crtc *crtc;
> @@ -146,6 +182,19 @@ void intel_dsb_put(struct intel_dsb *dsb)
>   	}
>   }
>   
> +/**
> + * intel_dsb_indexed_reg_write() -Write to the dsb context for auto
> + * increment register.
> + * @dsb: intel_dsb structure.
> + * @reg: register address.
> + * @val: value.
> + *
> + * This function is used for auto-increment register and intel_dsb_reg_write()
> + * is used for normal register. During command buffer overflow, a warning
> + * is thrown and rest all erroneous condition register programming is done
> + * through mmio write.
> + */
> +
>   void intel_dsb_indexed_reg_write(struct intel_dsb *dsb, i915_reg_t reg,
>   				 u32 val)
>   {
> @@ -193,6 +242,18 @@ void intel_dsb_indexed_reg_write(struct intel_dsb *dsb, i915_reg_t reg,
>   		buf[dsb->free_pos] = 0;
>   }
>   
> +/**
> + * intel_dsb_reg_write() -Write to the dsb context for normal
> + * register.
> + * @dsb: intel_dsb structure.
> + * @reg: register address.
> + * @val: value.
> + *
> + * This function is used for writing register-value pair in command
> + * buffer of DSB. During command buffer overflow, a warning
> + * is thrown and rest all erroneous condition register programming is done
> + * through mmio write.
> + */
>   void intel_dsb_reg_write(struct intel_dsb *dsb, i915_reg_t reg, u32 val)
>   {
>   	struct intel_crtc *crtc = dsb->crtc;
> @@ -215,6 +276,13 @@ void intel_dsb_reg_write(struct intel_dsb *dsb, i915_reg_t reg, u32 val)
>   				i915_mmio_reg_offset(reg);
>   }
>   
> +/**
> + * intel_dsb_commit() - Trigger workload execution of DSB.
> + * @dsb: intel_dsb structure.
> + *
> + * This function is used to do actual write to hardware using DSB.
> + * On errors, fall back to MMIO. Also this function help to reset the context.
> + */
>   void intel_dsb_commit(struct intel_dsb *dsb)
>   {
>   	struct intel_crtc *crtc = dsb->crtc;


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