[Nouveau] [PATCH 1/6] make RAM device optional

Emil Velikov emil.l.velikov at gmail.com
Fri Jan 23 19:00:34 PST 2015


On 23 January 2015 at 08:53, Alexandre Courbot <acourbot at nvidia.com> wrote:
> Having a RAM device does not make sense for chips like GK20A which have
> no dedicated video memory. The dummy RAM device that we used so far
> works as a temporary band-aid, but in the long-term it is desirable for
> the driver to be able to work without any kind of VRAM.
>
> This patch adds a few conditionals in places where a RAM device was
> assumed to be present and allows some more objects to be allocated from
> the TT domain, allowing Nouveau to handle GPUs for which
> pfb->ram == NULL.
>
Hi guys,

Rather silly question so be gentle :-)
А couple an extra flags have crept in.

> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot at nvidia.com>
> ---
>  drm/nouveau/nouveau_display.c         |  9 ++++++++-
>  drm/nouveau/nouveau_ttm.c             |  3 +++
>  drm/nouveau/nv84_fence.c              |  7 +++++--
>  drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/device/base.c |  9 ++++++---
>  drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/clk/base.c    |  2 +-
>  drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/fb/base.c     | 26 ++++++++++++++++++--------
>  drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/ltc/gf100.c   | 14 ++++++++++----
>  7 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drm/nouveau/nouveau_display.c b/drm/nouveau/nouveau_display.c
> index 860b0e2..b4f8ece 100644
> --- a/drm/nouveau/nouveau_display.c
> +++ b/drm/nouveau/nouveau_display.c
> @@ -869,13 +869,20 @@ nouveau_display_dumb_create(struct drm_file *file_priv, struct drm_device *dev,
>                             struct drm_mode_create_dumb *args)
>  {
>         struct nouveau_bo *bo;
> +       uint32_t domain;
>         int ret;
>
>         args->pitch = roundup(args->width * (args->bpp / 8), 256);
>         args->size = args->pitch * args->height;
>         args->size = roundup(args->size, PAGE_SIZE);
>
> -       ret = nouveau_gem_new(dev, args->size, 0, NOUVEAU_GEM_DOMAIN_VRAM, 0, 0, &bo);
> +       if (nvxx_fb(&nouveau_drm(dev)->device)->ram)
> +               domain = NOUVEAU_GEM_DOMAIN_VRAM;
> +       else
> +               domain = NOUVEAU_GEM_DOMAIN_GART;
> +
> +       ret = nouveau_gem_new(dev, args->size, 0,
> +                             domain | NOUVEAU_GEM_DOMAIN_MAPPABLE, 0, 0, &bo);
Taking about the extra NOUVEAU_GEM_DOMAIN_MAPPABLE.

> diff --git a/drm/nouveau/nouveau_ttm.c b/drm/nouveau/nouveau_ttm.c
> index 273e501..a3c2e9b 100644
> --- a/drm/nouveau/nouveau_ttm.c
> +++ b/drm/nouveau/nouveau_ttm.c
> @@ -85,6 +85,9 @@ nouveau_vram_manager_new(struct ttm_mem_type_manager *man,
>         if (nvbo->tile_flags & NOUVEAU_GEM_TILE_NONCONTIG)
>                 size_nc = 1 << nvbo->page_shift;
>
> +       if (!pfb->ram)
> +               return -ENOMEM;
> +
>         ret = pfb->ram->get(pfb, mem->num_pages << PAGE_SHIFT,
>                            mem->page_alignment << PAGE_SHIFT, size_nc,
>                            (nvbo->tile_flags >> 8) & 0x3ff, &node);
> diff --git a/drm/nouveau/nv84_fence.c b/drm/nouveau/nv84_fence.c
> index bf429ca..952bc48 100644
> --- a/drm/nouveau/nv84_fence.c
> +++ b/drm/nouveau/nv84_fence.c
> @@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ nv84_fence_create(struct nouveau_drm *drm)
>  {
>         struct nvkm_fifo *pfifo = nvxx_fifo(&drm->device);
>         struct nv84_fence_priv *priv;
> +       u32 domain;
>         int ret;
>
>         priv = drm->fence = kzalloc(sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL);
> @@ -231,10 +232,12 @@ nv84_fence_create(struct nouveau_drm *drm)
>         priv->base.context_base = fence_context_alloc(priv->base.contexts);
>         priv->base.uevent = true;
>
> +       domain = nvxx_fb(&drm->device)->ram ? TTM_PL_FLAG_VRAM : TTM_PL_FLAG_TT;
>         ret = nouveau_bo_new(drm->dev, 16 * priv->base.contexts, 0,
> -                            TTM_PL_FLAG_VRAM, 0, 0, NULL, NULL, &priv->bo);
> +                            domain | TTM_PL_FLAG_UNCACHED,
And the TTM_PL_FLAG_UNCACHED here.

Are those intentional, I don't see any hints about them in the commit summary ?

Thanks
Emil


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