[Intel-xe] [PATCH i-g-t 01/12] drm-uapi/xe_drm: sync to get pat and coherency bits

Matthew Auld matthew.auld at intel.com
Thu Oct 5 15:31:05 UTC 2023


Grab the PAT & coherency uapi additions.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld at intel.com>
Cc: José Roberto de Souza <jose.souza at intel.com>
Cc: Pallavi Mishra <pallavi.mishra at intel.com>
---
 include/drm-uapi/xe_drm.h | 93 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 90 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/drm-uapi/xe_drm.h b/include/drm-uapi/xe_drm.h
index 804c02270..0a665f67f 100644
--- a/include/drm-uapi/xe_drm.h
+++ b/include/drm-uapi/xe_drm.h
@@ -456,8 +456,54 @@ struct drm_xe_gem_create {
 	 */
 	__u32 handle;
 
-	/** @pad: MBZ */
-	__u32 pad;
+	/**
+	 * @coh_mode: The coherency mode for this object. This will limit the
+	 * possible @cpu_caching values.
+	 *
+	 * Supported values:
+	 *
+	 * DRM_XE_GEM_COH_NONE: GPU access is assumed to be not coherent with
+	 * CPU. CPU caches are not snooped.
+	 *
+	 * DRM_XE_GEM_COH_AT_LEAST_1WAY:
+	 *
+	 * CPU-GPU coherency must be at least 1WAY.
+	 *
+	 * If 1WAY then GPU access is coherent with CPU (CPU caches are snooped)
+	 * until GPU acquires. The acquire by the GPU is not tracked by CPU
+	 * caches.
+	 *
+	 * If 2WAY then should be fully coherent between GPU and CPU.  Fully
+	 * tracked by CPU caches. Both CPU and GPU caches are snooped.
+	 *
+	 * Note: On dgpu the GPU device never caches system memory. The device
+	 * should be thought of as always 1WAY coherent, with the addition that
+	 * the GPU never caches system memory. At least on current dgpu HW there
+	 * is no way to turn off snooping so likely the different coherency
+	 * modes of the pat_index make no difference for system memory.
+	 */
+#define DRM_XE_GEM_COH_NONE		1
+#define DRM_XE_GEM_COH_AT_LEAST_1WAY	2
+	__u16 coh_mode;
+
+	/**
+	 * @cpu_caching: The CPU caching mode to select for this object. If
+	 * mmaping the object the mode selected here will also be used.
+	 *
+	 * Supported values:
+	 *
+	 * DRM_XE_GEM_CPU_CACHING_WB: Allocate the pages with write-back caching.
+	 * On iGPU this can't be used for scanout surfaces. The @coh_mode must
+	 * be DRM_XE_GEM_COH_AT_LEAST_1WAY. Currently not allowed for objects placed
+	 * in VRAM.
+	 *
+	 * DRM_XE_GEM_CPU_CACHING_WC: Allocate the pages as write-combined. This is
+	 * uncached. Any @coh_mode is permitted. Scanout surfaces should likely
+	 * use this. All objects that can be placed in VRAM must use this.
+	 */
+#define DRM_XE_GEM_CPU_CACHING_WB                      1
+#define DRM_XE_GEM_CPU_CACHING_WC                      2
+	__u16 cpu_caching;
 
 	/** @reserved: Reserved */
 	__u64 reserved[2];
@@ -552,8 +598,49 @@ struct drm_xe_vm_bind_op {
 	 */
 	__u32 obj;
 
+	/**
+	 * @pat_index: The platform defined @pat_index to use for this mapping.
+	 * The index basically maps to some predefined memory attributes,
+	 * including things like caching, coherency, compression etc.  The exact
+	 * meaning of the pat_index is platform specific and defined in the
+	 * Bspec and PRMs.  When the KMD sets up the binding the index here is
+	 * encoded into the ppGTT PTE.
+	 *
+	 * For coherency the @pat_index needs to be least as coherent as
+	 * drm_xe_gem_create.coh_mode. i.e coh_mode(pat_index) >=
+	 * drm_xe_gem_create.coh_mode. The KMD will extract the coherency mode
+	 * from the @pat_index and reject if there is a mismatch (see note below
+	 * for pre-MTL platforms).
+	 *
+	 * Note: On pre-MTL platforms there is only a caching mode and no
+	 * explicit coherency mode, but on such hardware there is always a
+	 * shared-LLC (or is dgpu) so all GT memory accesses are coherent with
+	 * CPU caches even with the caching mode set as uncached.  It's only the
+	 * display engine that is incoherent (on dgpu it must be in VRAM which
+	 * is always mapped as WC on the CPU). However to keep the uapi somewhat
+	 * consistent with newer platforms the KMD groups the different cache
+	 * levels into the following coherency buckets on all pre-MTL platforms:
+	 *
+	 *	ppGTT UC -> DRM_XE_GEM_COH_NONE
+	 *	ppGTT WC -> DRM_XE_GEM_COH_NONE
+	 *	ppGTT WT -> DRM_XE_GEM_COH_NONE
+	 *	ppGTT WB -> DRM_XE_GEM_COH_AT_LEAST_1WAY
+	 *
+	 * In practice UC/WC/WT should only ever used for scanout surfaces on
+	 * such platforms (or perhaps in general for dma-buf if shared with
+	 * another device) since it is only the display engine that is actually
+	 * incoherent.  Everything else should typically use WB given that we
+	 * have a shared-LLC.  On MTL+ this completely changes and the HW
+	 * defines the coherency mode as part of the @pat_index, where
+	 * incoherent GT access is possible.
+	 *
+	 * Note: For userptr and externally imported dma-buf the kernel expects
+	 * either 1WAY or 2WAY for the @pat_index.
+	 */
+	__u16 pat_index;
+
 	/** @pad: MBZ */
-	__u32 pad;
+	__u16 pad;
 
 	union {
 		/**
-- 
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