[Nouveau] [RFC PATCH 00/13] SVM (share virtual memory) with HMM in nouveau

[Jerome Glisse]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 06:29:40AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 11:14:47PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
> > Yes, on NVIDIA GPUs, the Host/FIFO unit is limited to 40-bit addresses, so
> > things such as the following need to be below (1 << 40), and also accessible 
> > to both CPU (user space) and GPU hardware. 
> >     -- command buffers (CPU user space driver fills them, GPU consumes them), 
> >     -- semaphores (here, a GPU-centric term, rather than OS-type: these are
> >        memory locations that, for example, the GPU hardware might write to, in
> >        order to indicate work completion; there are other uses as well), 
> >     -- a few other things most likely (this is not a complete list).
> 
> Is that a 40-bit virtual address limit or physical address limit?  I'm
> no longer sure who is addressing what memory through what mechanism ;-)
> 

Virtual address limit, those object get mapped into GPU page table but
the register/structure fields where you program those object's address
only are 32bits (the virtual address is shifted by 8bits for alignment).

Cheers,
Jérôme