[PATCH v8 4/9] drm/ttm: Add ttm_bo_kmap_try_from_panic()

[Christian König]

On 6/6/25 15:14, Jocelyn Falempe wrote:
> On 06/06/2025 14:28, Christian König wrote:
>> On 6/6/25 13:48, Jocelyn Falempe wrote:
>>> If the ttm bo is backed by pages, then it's possible to safely kmap
>>> one page at a time, using kmap_try_from_panic().
>>
>> I strongly assume that we don't care about locking anything in this case, don't we?
> 
> Yes, normally it's called for the current framebuffer, so I assume it's properly allocated, and isn't growing/shrinking while being displayed.
> 
>>
>>> Unfortunately there is no way to do the same with ioremap, so it
>>> only supports the kmap case.
>>
>> Oh, there actually is on most modern systems.
>>
>> At least on 64bit systems amdgpu maps the whole VRAM BAR into kernel address space on driver load.
>>
>> So as long as you have a large BAR system you can trivially have access to the MMIO memory.
> 
> For amdgpu, I used the indirect MMIO access, so I didn't need to ioremap
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.15/source/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_display.c#L1800

Good point. That is probably quite slow, but works under really all circumstances as long as the device hasn't fallen of the bus.

> For the xe driver, I only tested on integrated GPU, using system RAM, so this first approach is good enough.
> But I'm still interested to find a solution, is there a way to get the current io-mapping if it exists?

You need to ask that the XE guys. There is TTMs bdev->funcs->access_memory() callback which should allow doing that, but I have no idea how that is implemented for XE. 

Regards,
Christian.

> 
> 
>>
>>> This is needed for proper drm_panic support with xe driver.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jocelyn Falempe <jfalempe at redhat.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> v8:
>>>   * Added in v8
>>>
>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_util.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>   include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.h          |  1 +
>>>   2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_util.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_util.c
>>> index 15cab9bda17f..9c3f3b379c2a 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_util.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_util.c
>>> @@ -377,6 +377,33 @@ static int ttm_bo_kmap_ttm(struct ttm_buffer_object *bo,
>>>       return (!map->virtual) ? -ENOMEM : 0;
>>>   }
>>>   +/**
>>> + *
>>> + * ttm_bo_kmap_try_from_panic
>>> + *
>>> + * @bo: The buffer object
>>> + * @page: The page to map
>>> + *
>>> + * Sets up a kernel virtual mapping using kmap_local_page_try_from_panic().
>>> + * This can safely be called from the panic handler, if you make sure the bo
>>
>> "This can *only* be called from the panic handler..."
> 
> Yes, I will fix that, it shouldn't be called for normal operations.
> 
>>
>> Apart from those open questions, looks sane to me.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Christian.
>>
>>> + * is the one being displayed, so is properly allocated, and won't be modified.
>>> + *
>>> + * Returns the vaddr, that you can use to write to the bo, and that you should
>>> + * pass to kunmap_local() when you're done with this page, or NULL if the bo
>>> + * is in iomem.
>>> + */
>>> +void *ttm_bo_kmap_try_from_panic(struct ttm_buffer_object *bo, unsigned long page)
>>> +{
>>> +    if (page + 1 > PFN_UP(bo->resource->size))
>>> +        return NULL;
>>> +
>>> +    if (!bo->resource->bus.is_iomem && bo->ttm->pages && bo->ttm->pages[page])
>>> +        return kmap_local_page_try_from_panic(bo->ttm->pages[page]);
>>> +
>>> +    return NULL;
>>> +}
>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ttm_bo_kmap_try_from_panic);
>>> +
>>>   /**
>>>    * ttm_bo_kmap
>>>    *
>>> diff --git a/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.h b/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.h
>>> index cf027558b6db..8c0ce3fa077f 100644
>>> --- a/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.h
>>> +++ b/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.h
>>> @@ -429,6 +429,7 @@ int ttm_bo_init_validate(struct ttm_device *bdev, struct ttm_buffer_object *bo,
>>>   int ttm_bo_kmap(struct ttm_buffer_object *bo, unsigned long start_page,
>>>           unsigned long num_pages, struct ttm_bo_kmap_obj *map);
>>>   void ttm_bo_kunmap(struct ttm_bo_kmap_obj *map);
>>> +void *ttm_bo_kmap_try_from_panic(struct ttm_buffer_object *bo, unsigned long page);
>>>   int ttm_bo_vmap(struct ttm_buffer_object *bo, struct iosys_map *map);
>>>   void ttm_bo_vunmap(struct ttm_buffer_object *bo, struct iosys_map *map);
>>>   int ttm_bo_mmap_obj(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct ttm_buffer_object *bo);
>>
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