[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 3/4] drm/i915/mtl: Define new PTE encode for MTL

Iddamsetty, Aravind aravind.iddamsetty at intel.com
Wed Dec 14 12:07:38 UTC 2022



On 07-12-2022 23:41, Matt Roper wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 12:56:44PM +0530, Iddamsetty, Aravind wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 07-12-2022 05:09, Matt Roper wrote:
>>> On Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 01:07:28PM +0530, Aravind Iddamsetty wrote:
>>>> Add a separate PTE encode function for MTL. The number of PAT registers
>>>> have increased to 16 on MTL. All 16 PAT registers are available for
>>>> PPGTT mapped pages, but only the lower 4 are available for GGTT mapped
>>>> pages.
>>>>
>>>> BSPEC: 63884
>>>
>>> I think you'll also want to include pages like 45015 (ggtt) and its
>>> various equivalents for ppgtt since that's where the important layout
>>> information is given.  And likely 63019 as well.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi at intel.com>
>>>> Cc: Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper at intel.com>
>>>> Co-developed-by: Fei Yang <fei.yang at intel.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Fei Yang <fei.yang at intel.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Aravind Iddamsetty <aravind.iddamsetty at intel.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/gen8_ppgtt.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/gen8_ppgtt.h |  4 ++++
>>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ggtt.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gtt.h  | 13 +++++++++--
>>>>  4 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>
>> <snip>
>>>> +
>>>> +	switch (level) {
>>>> +	case I915_CACHE_NONE:
>>>> +		pte |= GEN12_PPGTT_PTE_PAT1;
>>>> +		break;
>>>> +	case I915_CACHE_LLC:
>>>> +	case I915_CACHE_L3_LLC:
>>>> +		pte |= GEN12_PPGTT_PTE_PAT0 | GEN12_PPGTT_PTE_PAT1;
>>>> +		break;
>>>> +	case I915_CACHE_WT:
>>>> +		pte |= GEN12_PPGTT_PTE_PAT0;
>>>> +		break;
>>>> +	}
>>>
>>> I forget what the plan was...are we going to move away from 'enum
>>> i915_cache_level' and start working with PAT indices directly soon
>>> (especially since the set_caching/get_caching ioctls are getting axed
>>> and vm_bind is supposed to start taking platform-specific indicies
>>> directly)?  If we're still using cache_level, then it's not clear to me
>>> how the current platform-agnostic enum values (which talk about L3 and
>>> LLC) are supposed to encode the L4 behavior we want on MTL.  It seems
>>> like we'd need to extend the enum to also somehow reflect L4 behavior if
>>> we were going to keep using it?  But given the continuing expansion of
>>> caching functionality and complexity, I thought that was one of the
>>> reasons why we wanted to get away from these platform-agnostic enums;
>>> the userspace that actually cares about this stuff has the same PAT/MOCS
>>> tables we do and knows the exact index it wants to use for an object
>>> mapping, so eliminating the PAT idx -> cache_level -> PAT idx dance
>>> would cut out a bunch of confusion.
>>
>> The current plan is not to expose PAT index setting via VM_BIND but go
>> with the defaults. Hence using the i915_cache_level till we decide on
>> enabling PAT index setting via VM_BIND.
>>
>> Also, IIUC the cache level we have in i915 apply to L4 as well (BSPEC 45101)
>>
>> I915_CACHE_NONE -> UC
>> I915_CACHE_LLC/I915_CACHE_L3_LLC -> WB
>> I915_CACHE_WT-> WT
>>
>> But I do not see a means why which we'll know that L4 cache is present
>> on the platform to select the appropriate cache level.
> 
> I may be misunderstanding since the caching isn't an area I've
> worked with much in the past, from reading the kerneldoc descriptions on
> this enum, it sounds like I915_CACHE_LLC would be be COH_2W?  And
> I915_CACHE_L3_LLC COH_1W?  It looks like you're programming both as PAT
> index 3 (i.e., 1W coherency) right now, which confuses me.

Rereading the descriptions makes me feel what you mentioned is right.
Also for I915_CACHE_L3_LLC i see a note it is considered only uptil
gen7 so i believe this needn't be considered for MTL.

@Matt Auld, could you please confirm on this.

Thanks,
Aravind.
> 
>>
>>>
>>> It's also hard to follow these functions right now because it looks like
>>> you're doing an implicit cache_level -> PAT index conversion, but also
>>> mapping the PAT index bits into their placement in the PTE as part of
>>> the same operation.  The behavior might turn out to be correct, but it's
>>> really hard to follow the process, even with all the bspec docs at hand.
>>> So if we do keep using cache_level for now, I think it would be better
>>> to split out a MTL function to translate cache level into PAT index
>>> (which we can review independently) and then let these pte_encode
>>> functions handle the next step of figuring out where those index bits
>>> should land in the PTE.  If the bits are contiguous, you can also just
>>> define a mask and use REG_FIELD_PREP too.
>>
>> sure i'll translate cache_level to  PAT index and then program the PTE
>> using those.
>>
>>>
>>>> +
>>>> +	return pte;
>>>> +}
>>>> +
>>>>  static void gen8_ppgtt_notify_vgt(struct i915_ppgtt *ppgtt, bool create)
>>>>  {
>>>>  	struct drm_i915_private *i915 = ppgtt->vm.i915;
>>>> @@ -963,7 +991,10 @@ struct i915_ppgtt *gen8_ppgtt_create(struct intel_gt *gt,
>>>>  	 */
>>>>  	ppgtt->vm.alloc_scratch_dma = alloc_pt_dma;
>>>>  
>>>> -	ppgtt->vm.pte_encode = gen8_pte_encode;
>>>> +	if (GRAPHICS_VER_FULL(gt->i915) >= IP_VER(12, 70))
>>>> +		ppgtt->vm.pte_encode = mtl_pte_encode;
>>>> +	else
>>>> +		ppgtt->vm.pte_encode = gen8_pte_encode;
>>>>  
>>>>  	ppgtt->vm.bind_async_flags = I915_VMA_LOCAL_BIND;
>>>>  	ppgtt->vm.insert_entries = gen8_ppgtt_insert;
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/gen8_ppgtt.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/gen8_ppgtt.h
>>>> index f541d19264b4..c48f1fc32909 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/gen8_ppgtt.h
>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/gen8_ppgtt.h
>>>> @@ -19,4 +19,8 @@ u64 gen8_ggtt_pte_encode(dma_addr_t addr,
>>>>  			 enum i915_cache_level level,
>>>>  			 u32 flags);
>>>>  
>>>> +u64 mtl_ggtt_pte_encode(dma_addr_t addr,
>>>> +			enum i915_cache_level level,
>>>> +			u32 flags);
>>>> +
>>>>  #endif
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ggtt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ggtt.c
>>>> index 82203ad85b0e..3b6f1f6f780a 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ggtt.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ggtt.c
>>>> @@ -246,6 +246,33 @@ static void guc_ggtt_invalidate(struct i915_ggtt *ggtt)
>>>>  	}
>>>>  }
>>>>  
>>>> +u64 mtl_ggtt_pte_encode(dma_addr_t addr,
>>>> +			enum i915_cache_level level,
>>>> +			u32 flags)
>>>> +{
>>>> +	gen8_pte_t pte = addr | GEN8_PAGE_PRESENT;
>>>> +
>>>> +	GEM_BUG_ON(addr & ~GEN12_GGTT_PTE_ADDR_MASK);
>>>> +
>>>> +	if (flags & PTE_LM)
>>>> +		pte |= GEN12_GGTT_PTE_LM;
>>>> +
>>>> +	switch (level) {
>>>> +	case I915_CACHE_NONE:
>>>> +		pte |= MTL_GGTT_PTE_PAT1;
>>>> +		break;
>>>> +	case I915_CACHE_LLC:
>>>> +	case I915_CACHE_L3_LLC:
>>>> +		pte |= MTL_GGTT_PTE_PAT0 | MTL_GGTT_PTE_PAT1;
>>>> +		break;
>>>> +	case I915_CACHE_WT:
>>>> +		pte |= MTL_GGTT_PTE_PAT0;
>>>> +		break;
>>>> +	}
>>>> +
>>>> +	return pte;
>>>> +}
>>>> +
>>>>  u64 gen8_ggtt_pte_encode(dma_addr_t addr,
>>>>  			 enum i915_cache_level level,
>>>>  			 u32 flags)
>>>> @@ -993,7 +1020,10 @@ static int gen8_gmch_probe(struct i915_ggtt *ggtt)
>>>>  	ggtt->vm.vma_ops.bind_vma    = intel_ggtt_bind_vma;
>>>>  	ggtt->vm.vma_ops.unbind_vma  = intel_ggtt_unbind_vma;
>>>>  
>>>> -	ggtt->vm.pte_encode = gen8_ggtt_pte_encode;
>>>> +	if (GRAPHICS_VER_FULL(i915) >= IP_VER(12, 70))
>>>> +		ggtt->vm.pte_encode = mtl_ggtt_pte_encode;
>>>> +	else
>>>> +		ggtt->vm.pte_encode = gen8_ggtt_pte_encode;
>>>>  
>>>>  	return ggtt_probe_common(ggtt, size);
>>>>  }
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gtt.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gtt.h
>>>> index 8a3e0a6793dd..4bb7a4005452 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gtt.h
>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gtt.h
>>>> @@ -88,9 +88,18 @@ typedef u64 gen8_pte_t;
>>>>  #define BYT_PTE_SNOOPED_BY_CPU_CACHES	REG_BIT(2)
>>>>  #define BYT_PTE_WRITEABLE		REG_BIT(1)
>>>>  
>>>> +#define GEN12_PPGTT_PTE_PAT3    BIT_ULL(62)
>>>>  #define GEN12_PPGTT_PTE_LM	BIT_ULL(11)
>>>> -
>>>> -#define GEN12_GGTT_PTE_LM	BIT_ULL(1)
>>>> +#define GEN12_PPGTT_PTE_PAT2    BIT_ULL(7)
>>>
>>> This bit is never used anywhere in the patch.
>> correct the default cache level we have will map uptil PAT index 3 hence
>> didn't use it and since platform supports it and in future when we have
>> PAT index setting this will be used.
>>>
>>>> +#define GEN12_PPGTT_PTE_NC      BIT_ULL(5)
>>>
>>> As noted above, 
>>>
>>>> +#define GEN12_PPGTT_PTE_PAT1    BIT_ULL(4)
>>>> +#define GEN12_PPGTT_PTE_PAT0    BIT_ULL(3)
>>>
>>> It sounds like these bits have been around since gen12; why didn't we
>>> ever have to program them in the past?  Is there something that causes
>>> the PAT index to never get used on the pre-MTL platforms?
>> these are mapped to _PAGE_PWT, _PAGE_PCD and being programmed in
>> gen8_pte_encode. On the MTL we have new PAT bits in PTE and since the
>> way these bits are programmed is different redefined for better
>> understanding.
> 
> In that case why does it still have a GEN12_ prefix?  We should use
> "MTL_" instead since this doesn't apply to any of the platforms that
> used to be known as "gen12."
> 
> 
> Matt
> 
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Aravind.
>>
>> <snip>
> 


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