[PATCH v1 3/4] drm/xe: Force user context allocations in user VRAM

Piórkowski, Piotr piotr.piorkowski at intel.com
Fri Jul 18 08:17:51 UTC 2025


From: Piotr Piórkowski <piotr.piorkowski at intel.com>

In general, kernel structures should be allocated in the kernel-dedicated
VRAM region. However, userspace context data - while used by the kernel -
does not need to reside there.
Let's force the allocation of such data in the general-purpose VRAM region
accessible to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Piotr Piórkowski <piotr.piorkowski at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec_queue.c | 7 +++++--
 drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_lrc.c        | 3 +++
 drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_lrc.h        | 5 +++--
 drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_pt.c         | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec_queue.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec_queue.c
index 8991b4aed440..abd29191186e 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec_queue.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec_queue.c
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static struct xe_exec_queue *__xe_exec_queue_alloc(struct xe_device *xe,
 	return q;
 }
 
-static int __xe_exec_queue_init(struct xe_exec_queue *q)
+static int __xe_exec_queue_init(struct xe_exec_queue *q, u32 exec_queue_flags)
 {
 	int i, err;
 	u32 flags = 0;
@@ -131,6 +131,9 @@ static int __xe_exec_queue_init(struct xe_exec_queue *q)
 			flags |= XE_LRC_CREATE_RUNALONE;
 	}
 
+	if (!(exec_queue_flags & EXEC_QUEUE_FLAG_KERNEL))
+		flags |= XE_LRC_CREATE_USER_CTX;
+
 	for (i = 0; i < q->width; ++i) {
 		q->lrc[i] = xe_lrc_create(q->hwe, q->vm, SZ_16K, q->msix_vec, flags);
 		if (IS_ERR(q->lrc[i])) {
@@ -167,7 +170,7 @@ struct xe_exec_queue *xe_exec_queue_create(struct xe_device *xe, struct xe_vm *v
 	if (IS_ERR(q))
 		return q;
 
-	err = __xe_exec_queue_init(q);
+	err = __xe_exec_queue_init(q, flags);
 	if (err)
 		goto err_post_alloc;
 
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_lrc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_lrc.c
index 6d38411bdeba..ed53f8e2448b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_lrc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_lrc.c
@@ -1203,6 +1203,9 @@ static int xe_lrc_init(struct xe_lrc *lrc, struct xe_hw_engine *hwe,
 	if (vm && vm->xef) /* userspace */
 		bo_flags |= XE_BO_FLAG_PINNED_LATE_RESTORE;
 
+	if (init_flags & XE_LRC_CREATE_USER_CTX)
+		bo_flags |= XE_BO_FLAG_FORCE_USER_VRAM;
+
 	lrc->bo = xe_bo_create_pin_map(xe, tile, NULL, bo_size,
 				       ttm_bo_type_kernel,
 				       bo_flags);
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_lrc.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_lrc.h
index b6c8053c581b..57f661aa9b1c 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_lrc.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_lrc.h
@@ -42,8 +42,9 @@ struct xe_lrc_snapshot {
 #define LRC_PPHWSP_FLUSH_INVAL_SCRATCH_ADDR (0x34 * 4)
 #define LRC_PPHWSP_PXP_INVAL_SCRATCH_ADDR (0x40 * 4)
 
-#define XE_LRC_CREATE_RUNALONE 0x1
-#define XE_LRC_CREATE_PXP 0x2
+#define XE_LRC_CREATE_RUNALONE		BIT(0)
+#define XE_LRC_CREATE_PXP		BIT(1)
+#define XE_LRC_CREATE_USER_CTX		BIT(2)
 struct xe_lrc *xe_lrc_create(struct xe_hw_engine *hwe, struct xe_vm *vm,
 			     u32 ring_size, u16 msix_vec, u32 flags);
 void xe_lrc_destroy(struct kref *ref);
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_pt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_pt.c
index c8e63bd23300..a6c5f810c815 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_pt.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_pt.c
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ struct xe_pt *xe_pt_create(struct xe_vm *vm, struct xe_tile *tile,
 		   XE_BO_FLAG_IGNORE_MIN_PAGE_SIZE |
 		   XE_BO_FLAG_NO_RESV_EVICT | XE_BO_FLAG_PAGETABLE;
 	if (vm->xef) /* userspace */
-		bo_flags |= XE_BO_FLAG_PINNED_LATE_RESTORE;
+		bo_flags |= XE_BO_FLAG_PINNED_LATE_RESTORE | XE_BO_FLAG_FORCE_USER_VRAM;
 
 	pt->level = level;
 	bo = xe_bo_create_pin_map(vm->xe, tile, vm, SZ_4K,
-- 
2.34.1



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