[Intel-xe] [PATCH v2 30/30] drm/xe: Add kerneldoc description of multi-tile devices

[Matt Roper]

Signed-off-by: Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper at intel.com>
---
 Documentation/gpu/xe/index.rst   |  1 +
 Documentation/gpu/xe/xe_tile.rst | 14 ++++++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_tile.c     | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 72 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/gpu/xe/xe_tile.rst

diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/xe/index.rst b/Documentation/gpu/xe/index.rst
index 2fddf9ed251e..5c4d6bb370f3 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/xe/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/xe/index.rst
@@ -21,3 +21,4 @@ DG2, etc is provided to prototype the driver.
    xe_wa
    xe_rtp
    xe_firmware
+   xe_tile
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/xe/xe_tile.rst b/Documentation/gpu/xe/xe_tile.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c33f68dd95b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/xe/xe_tile.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0+ OR MIT)
+
+==================
+Multi-tile Devices
+==================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_tile.c
+   :doc: Multi-tile Design
+
+Internal API
+============
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_tile.c
+   :internal:
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_tile.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_tile.c
index 908eec5c17d9..d2654b78cfb4 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_tile.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_tile.c
@@ -12,6 +12,63 @@
 #include "xe_tile.h"
 #include "xe_ttm_vram_mgr.h"
 
+/**
+ * DOC: Multi-tile Design
+ *
+ * Different vendors use the term "tile" a bit differently, but in the Intel
+ * world, a 'tile' is pretty close to what most people would think of as being
+ * a complete GPU.  When multiple GPUs are placed behind a single PCI device,
+ * that's what is referred to as a "multi-tile device."  In such cases, pretty
+ * much all hardware is replicated per-tile, although certain responsibilities
+ * like PCI communication, reporting of interrupts to the OS, etc. are handled
+ * solely by the "root tile."  A multi-tile platform takes care of tying the
+ * tiles together in a way such that interrupt notifications from remote tiles
+ * are forwarded to the root tile, the per-tile vram is combined into a single
+ * address space, etc.
+ *
+ * In contrast, a "GT" (which officially stands for "Graphics Technology") is
+ * the subset of a GPU/tile that is responsible for implementing graphics
+ * and/or media operations.  The GT is where a lot of the driver implementation
+ * happens since it's where the hardware engines, the execution units, and the
+ * GuC all reside.
+ *
+ * Historically most Intel devices were single-tile devices that contained a
+ * single GT.  PVC is an example of an Intel platform built on a multi-tile
+ * design (i.e., multiple GPUs behind a single PCI device); each PVC tile only
+ * has a single GT.  In contrast, platforms like MTL that have separate chips
+ * for render and media IP are still only a single logical GPU, but the
+ * graphics and media IP blocks are exposed each exposed as a separate GT
+ * within that single GPU.  This is important from a software perspective
+ * because multi-GT platforms like MTL only replicate a subset of the GPU
+ * hardware and behave differently than multi-tile platforms like PVC where
+ * nearly everything is replicated.
+ *
+ * Per-tile functionality (shared by all GTs within the tile):
+ *  - Complete 4MB MMIO space (containing SGunit/SoC registers, GT
+ *    registers, display registers, etc.)
+ *  - Global GTT
+ *  - VRAM (if discrete)
+ *  - Interrupt flows
+ *  - Migration context
+ *  - kernel batchbuffer pool
+ *  - Primary GT
+ *  - Media GT (if media version >= 13)
+ *
+ * Per-GT functionality:
+ *  - GuC
+ *  - Hardware engines
+ *  - Programmable hardware units (subslices, EUs)
+ *  - GSI subset of registers (multiple copies of these registers reside
+ *    within the complete MMIO space provided by the tile, but at different
+ *    offsets --- 0 for render, 0x380000 for media)
+ *  - Multicast register steering
+ *  - TLBs to cache page table translations
+ *  - Reset capability
+ *  - Low-level power management (e.g., C6)
+ *  - Clock frequency
+ *  - MOCS and PAT programming
+ */
+
 /**
  * xe_tile_alloc - Perform per-tile memory allocation
  * @tile: Tile to perform allocations for
-- 
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