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Message-ID: <02b0bcb8-f69f-93cf-1f56-ec883cb33965@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 16:34:57 +0100
From: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...hat.com>
To: Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
daniel@...ll.ch, airlied@...hat.com, bskeggs@...hat.com,
jason@...kstrand.net, tzimmermann@...e.de, mripard@...nel.org,
corbet@....net
Cc: dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org,
linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH drm-next 00/14] [RFC] DRM GPUVA Manager & Nouveau VM_BIND
UAPI
Hi Christian,
On 1/18/23 09:53, Christian König wrote:
> Am 18.01.23 um 07:12 schrieb Danilo Krummrich:
>> This patch series provides a new UAPI for the Nouveau driver in order to
>> support Vulkan features, such as sparse bindings and sparse residency.
>>
>> Furthermore, with the DRM GPUVA manager it provides a new DRM core
>> feature to
>> keep track of GPU virtual address (VA) mappings in a more generic way.
>>
>> The DRM GPUVA manager is indented to help drivers implement
>> userspace-manageable
>> GPU VA spaces in reference to the Vulkan API. In order to achieve this
>> goal it
>> serves the following purposes in this context.
>>
>> 1) Provide a dedicated range allocator to track GPU VA
>> allocations and
>> mappings, making use of the drm_mm range allocator.
>
> This means that the ranges are allocated by the kernel? If yes that's a
> really really bad idea.
No, it's just for keeping track of the ranges userspace has allocated.
- Danilo
>
> Regards,
> Christian.
>
>>
>> 2) Generically connect GPU VA mappings to their backing buffers, in
>> particular DRM GEM objects.
>>
>> 3) Provide a common implementation to perform more complex mapping
>> operations on the GPU VA space. In particular splitting and
>> merging
>> of GPU VA mappings, e.g. for intersecting mapping requests or
>> partial
>> unmap requests.
>>
>> The new VM_BIND Nouveau UAPI build on top of the DRM GPUVA manager,
>> itself
>> providing the following new interfaces.
>>
>> 1) Initialize a GPU VA space via the new
>> DRM_IOCTL_NOUVEAU_VM_INIT ioctl
>> for UMDs to specify the portion of VA space managed by the
>> kernel and
>> userspace, respectively.
>>
>> 2) Allocate and free a VA space region as well as bind and unbind
>> memory
>> to the GPUs VA space via the new DRM_IOCTL_NOUVEAU_VM_BIND ioctl.
>>
>> 3) Execute push buffers with the new DRM_IOCTL_NOUVEAU_EXEC ioctl.
>>
>> Both, DRM_IOCTL_NOUVEAU_VM_BIND and DRM_IOCTL_NOUVEAU_EXEC, make use
>> of the DRM
>> scheduler to queue jobs and support asynchronous processing with DRM
>> syncobjs
>> as synchronization mechanism.
>>
>> By default DRM_IOCTL_NOUVEAU_VM_BIND does synchronous processing,
>> DRM_IOCTL_NOUVEAU_EXEC supports asynchronous processing only.
>>
>> The new VM_BIND UAPI for Nouveau makes also use of drm_exec (execution
>> context
>> for GEM buffers) by Christian König. Since the patch implementing
>> drm_exec was
>> not yet merged into drm-next it is part of this series, as well as a
>> small fix
>> for this patch, which was found while testing this series.
>>
>> This patch series is also available at [1].
>>
>> There is a Mesa NVK merge request by Dave Airlie [2] implementing the
>> corresponding userspace parts for this series.
>>
>> The Vulkan CTS test suite passes the sparse binding and sparse
>> residency test
>> cases for the new UAPI together with Dave's Mesa work.
>>
>> There are also some test cases in the igt-gpu-tools project [3] for
>> the new UAPI
>> and hence the DRM GPU VA manager. However, most of them are testing
>> the DRM GPU
>> VA manager's logic through Nouveau's new UAPI and should be considered
>> just as
>> helper for implementation.
>>
>> However, I absolutely intend to change those test cases to proper
>> kunit test
>> cases for the DRM GPUVA manager, once and if we agree on it's
>> usefulness and
>> design.
>>
>> [1]
>> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/nouvelles/kernel/-/tree/new-uapi-drm-next /
>> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/nouvelles/kernel/-/merge_requests/1
>> [2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/nouveau/mesa/-/merge_requests/150/
>> [3]
>> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dakr/igt-gpu-tools/-/tree/wip_nouveau_vm_bind
>>
>> I also want to give credit to Dave Airlie, who contributed a lot of
>> ideas to
>> this patch series.
>>
>> Christian König (1):
>> drm: execution context for GEM buffers
>>
>> Danilo Krummrich (13):
>> drm/exec: fix memory leak in drm_exec_prepare_obj()
>> drm: manager to keep track of GPUs VA mappings
>> drm: debugfs: provide infrastructure to dump a DRM GPU VA space
>> drm/nouveau: new VM_BIND uapi interfaces
>> drm/nouveau: get vmm via nouveau_cli_vmm()
>> drm/nouveau: bo: initialize GEM GPU VA interface
>> drm/nouveau: move usercopy helpers to nouveau_drv.h
>> drm/nouveau: fence: fail to emit when fence context is killed
>> drm/nouveau: chan: provide nouveau_channel_kill()
>> drm/nouveau: nvkm/vmm: implement raw ops to manage uvmm
>> drm/nouveau: implement uvmm for user mode bindings
>> drm/nouveau: implement new VM_BIND UAPI
>> drm/nouveau: debugfs: implement DRM GPU VA debugfs
>>
>> Documentation/gpu/driver-uapi.rst | 11 +
>> Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst | 43 +
>> drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig | 6 +
>> drivers/gpu/drm/Makefile | 3 +
>> drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/Kconfig | 1 +
>> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_debugfs.c | 56 +
>> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_exec.c | 294 ++++
>> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c | 3 +
>> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpuva_mgr.c | 1323 +++++++++++++++++
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/Kbuild | 3 +
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/Kconfig | 2 +
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/include/nvif/if000c.h | 23 +-
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/include/nvif/vmm.h | 17 +-
>> .../gpu/drm/nouveau/include/nvkm/subdev/mmu.h | 10 +
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_abi16.c | 23 +
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_abi16.h | 1 +
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bo.c | 152 +-
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bo.h | 2 +-
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_chan.c | 16 +-
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_chan.h | 1 +
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_debugfs.c | 24 +
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c | 25 +-
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drv.h | 92 +-
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_exec.c | 310 ++++
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_exec.h | 55 +
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c | 7 +
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.h | 2 +-
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c | 83 +-
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_mem.h | 5 +
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_prime.c | 2 +-
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.c | 780 ++++++++++
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.h | 98 ++
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_svm.c | 2 +-
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c | 575 +++++++
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.h | 68 +
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_vmm.c | 4 +-
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvif/vmm.c | 73 +-
>> .../gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/mmu/uvmm.c | 168 ++-
>> .../gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/mmu/uvmm.h | 1 +
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/mmu/vmm.c | 32 +-
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/mmu/vmm.h | 3 +
>> include/drm/drm_debugfs.h | 25 +
>> include/drm/drm_drv.h | 6 +
>> include/drm/drm_exec.h | 144 ++
>> include/drm/drm_gem.h | 75 +
>> include/drm/drm_gpuva_mgr.h | 527 +++++++
>> include/uapi/drm/nouveau_drm.h | 216 +++
>> 47 files changed, 5266 insertions(+), 126 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_exec.c
>> create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpuva_mgr.c
>> create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_exec.c
>> create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_exec.h
>> create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.c
>> create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.h
>> create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c
>> create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.h
>> create mode 100644 include/drm/drm_exec.h
>> create mode 100644 include/drm/drm_gpuva_mgr.h
>>
>>
>> base-commit: 0b45ac1170ea6416bc1d36798414c04870cd356d
>
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