[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 10/10] i965: Require softpin support for Cannonlake and later.

[Daniel Vetter]

On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 01:28:02AM -0700, Kenneth Graunke wrote:
> On Friday, May 4, 2018 1:16:29 AM PDT Kenneth Graunke wrote:
> > On Friday, May 4, 2018 12:39:12 AM PDT Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > Quoting Kenneth Graunke (2018-05-04 08:34:07)
> > > > On Thursday, May 3, 2018 11:53:24 PM PDT Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > > > Quoting Kenneth Graunke (2018-05-04 02:12:40)
> > > > > > This isn't strictly necessary, but anyone running Cannonlake will
> > > > > > already have Kernel 4.5 or later, so there's no reason to support
> > > > > > the relocation model on Gen10+.
> > > > > 
> > > > > /o\ gvt. Need I say more?
> > > > > -Chris
> > > > 
> > > > Yes.  What's the deal with GVT?
> > > 
> > > Their current restrictions involve forcing the use of a 32b
> > > aliasing-ppgtt. Not that they support cnl+ yet, so they might remember
> > > to lift that restriction in time.
> > > -Chris
> > 
> > Wow, that's really miserable.  So, we can't actually depend on real
> > PPGTT existing?  Do you know if/when they might fix this?
> > 
> > This seriously wrecks a lot of my plans if we can't assume PPGTT
> > and have to deal with relocations for all of eternity.  Jason and I
> > have been planning on doing PPGTT-only drivers for months.  We figured
> > that full PPGTT had been working since Gen8 and surely would be viable
> > on anything modern.  If it weren't for enterprise kernels, I would have
> > required this all the way back to Gen8 in a heartbeat.
> > 
> > --Ken
> 
> Okay, whew, it looks like we were wrong.  There's a bit of confusing
> code in the kernel:
> 
>         if (intel_vgpu_active(dev_priv)) {
>                 /* GVT-g has no support for 32bit ppgtt */
>                 has_full_ppgtt = false;
>                 has_full_48bit_ppgtt = intel_vgpu_has_full_48bit_ppgtt(dev_priv);
>         }
> 
> But Joonas explained that this means GVT-g does support full PPGTT
> with 48-bit addresses, it just never did the 32-bit only thing.
> 
> So, I think we're fine here after all.

Oh indeed. But only fixed in 4.14 by:

commit 6b3816d69628becb7ff35978aa0751798b4a940a
Author: Tina Zhang <tina.zhang at intel.com>
Date:   Mon Aug 14 15:24:14 2017 +0800

    drm/i915/gvt: Fix guest i915 full ppgtt blocking issue

Maybe note that somewhere in your huge table of "stuff the kernel
supports" ...
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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