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Message-ID: <3602500f-05f5-10b8-5ec6-0a6246e2bb6b@amd.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 16:37:02 +0100
From: Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>
To: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...hat.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
Am 18.01.23 um 16:34 schrieb Danilo Krummrich:
> 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.
Ok, that makes more sense.
So basically you have an IOCTL which asks kernel for a free range? Or
what exactly is the drm_mm used for here?
Regards,
Christian.
>
> - 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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