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Message-ID: <20250117130629.03648fa9.alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:06:29 -0500
From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
To: <ankita@...dia.com>
Cc: <jgg@...dia.com>, <yishaih@...dia.com>,
 <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@...wei.com>, <kevin.tian@...el.com>,
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 <kwankhede@...dia.com>, <targupta@...dia.com>, <vsethi@...dia.com>,
 <acurrid@...dia.com>, <apopple@...dia.com>, <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
 <danw@...dia.com>, <anuaggarwal@...dia.com>, <mochs@...dia.com>,
 <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] vfio/nvgrace-gpu: Expose the blackwell device PF
 BAR1 to the VM

On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:23:33 +0000
<ankita@...dia.com> wrote:

> From: Ankit Agrawal <ankita@...dia.com>
> 
> There is a HW defect on Grace Hopper (GH) to support the
> Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) feature [1] that necessiated the presence
> of a 1G region carved out from the device memory and mapped as
> uncached. The 1G region is shown as a fake BAR (comprising region 2 and 3)
> to workaround the issue.
> 
> The Grace Blackwell systems (GB) differ from GH systems in the following
> aspects:
> 1. The aforementioned HW defect is fixed on GB systems.
> 2. There is a usable BAR1 (region 2 and 3) on GB systems for the
> GPUdirect RDMA feature [2].
> 
> This patch accommodate those GB changes by showing the 64b physical
> device BAR1 (region2 and 3) to the VM instead of the fake one. This
> takes care of both the differences.
> 
> Moreover, the entire device memory is exposed on GB as cacheable to
> the VM as there is no carveout required.
> 
> Link: https://www.nvidia.com/en-in/technologies/multi-instance-gpu/ [1]
> Link: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/gpudirect-rdma/ [2]
> 
> Suggested-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ankit Agrawal <ankita@...dia.com>
> ---
>  drivers/vfio/pci/nvgrace-gpu/main.c | 65 ++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/nvgrace-gpu/main.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/nvgrace-gpu/main.c
> index 85eacafaffdf..89d38e3c0261 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/pci/nvgrace-gpu/main.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/nvgrace-gpu/main.c
> @@ -17,9 +17,6 @@
>  #define RESMEM_REGION_INDEX VFIO_PCI_BAR2_REGION_INDEX
>  #define USEMEM_REGION_INDEX VFIO_PCI_BAR4_REGION_INDEX
>  
> -/* Memory size expected as non cached and reserved by the VM driver */
> -#define RESMEM_SIZE SZ_1G
> -
>  /* A hardwired and constant ABI value between the GPU FW and VFIO driver. */
>  #define MEMBLK_SIZE SZ_512M
>  
> @@ -72,7 +69,7 @@ nvgrace_gpu_memregion(int index,
>  	if (index == USEMEM_REGION_INDEX)
>  		return &nvdev->usemem;
>  
> -	if (index == RESMEM_REGION_INDEX)
> +	if (nvdev->resmem.memlength && index == RESMEM_REGION_INDEX)
>  		return &nvdev->resmem;
>  
>  	return NULL;
> @@ -757,21 +754,31 @@ nvgrace_gpu_init_nvdev_struct(struct pci_dev *pdev,
>  			      u64 memphys, u64 memlength)
>  {
>  	int ret = 0;
> +	u64 resmem_size = 0;
>  
>  	/*
> -	 * The VM GPU device driver needs a non-cacheable region to support
> -	 * the MIG feature. Since the device memory is mapped as NORMAL cached,
> -	 * carve out a region from the end with a different NORMAL_NC
> -	 * property (called as reserved memory and represented as resmem). This
> -	 * region then is exposed as a 64b BAR (region 2 and 3) to the VM, while
> -	 * exposing the rest (termed as usable memory and represented using usemem)
> -	 * as cacheable 64b BAR (region 4 and 5).
> +	 * On Grace Hopper systems, the VM GPU device driver needs a non-cacheable
> +	 * region to support the MIG feature owing to a hardware bug. Since the
> +	 * device memory is mapped as NORMAL cached, carve out a region from the end
> +	 * with a different NORMAL_NC property (called as reserved memory and
> +	 * represented as resmem). This region then is exposed as a 64b BAR
> +	 * (region 2 and 3) to the VM, while exposing the rest (termed as usable
> +	 * memory and represented using usemem) as cacheable 64b BAR (region 4 and 5).
>  	 *
>  	 *               devmem (memlength)
>  	 * |-------------------------------------------------|
>  	 * |                                           |
>  	 * usemem.memphys                              resmem.memphys
> +	 *
> +	 * This hardware bug is fixed on the Grace Blackwell platforms and the
> +	 * presence of fix can be determined through nvdev->has_mig_hw_bug_fix.
> +	 * Thus on systems with the hardware fix, there is no need to partition
> +	 * the GPU device memory and the entire memory is usable and mapped as
> +	 * NORMAL cached.
>  	 */
> +	if (!nvdev->has_mig_hw_bug_fix)
> +		resmem_size = SZ_1G;
> +
>  	nvdev->usemem.memphys = memphys;
>  
>  	/*
> @@ -780,23 +787,30 @@ nvgrace_gpu_init_nvdev_struct(struct pci_dev *pdev,
>  	 * memory (usemem) is added to the kernel for usage by the VM
>  	 * workloads. Make the usable memory size memblock aligned.
>  	 */
> -	if (check_sub_overflow(memlength, RESMEM_SIZE,
> +	if (check_sub_overflow(memlength, resmem_size,
>  			       &nvdev->usemem.memlength)) {
>  		ret = -EOVERFLOW;
>  		goto done;
>  	}
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * The USEMEM part of the device memory has to be MEMBLK_SIZE
> -	 * aligned. This is a hardwired ABI value between the GPU FW and
> -	 * VFIO driver. The VM device driver is also aware of it and make
> -	 * use of the value for its calculation to determine USEMEM size.
> -	 */
> -	nvdev->usemem.memlength = round_down(nvdev->usemem.memlength,
> -					     MEMBLK_SIZE);
> -	if (nvdev->usemem.memlength == 0) {
> -		ret = -EINVAL;
> -		goto done;
> +	if (!nvdev->has_mig_hw_bug_fix) {
> +		/*
> +		 * If the device memory is split to workaround the MIG bug,
> +		 * the USEMEM part of the device memory has to be MEMBLK_SIZE
> +		 * aligned. This is a hardwired ABI value between the GPU FW and
> +		 * VFIO driver. The VM device driver is also aware of it and make
> +		 * use of the value for its calculation to determine USEMEM size.
> +		 *
> +		 * If the hardware has the fix for MIG, there is no requirement
> +		 * for splitting the device memory to create RESMEM. The entire
> +		 * device memory is usable and will be USEMEM.
> +		 */
> +		nvdev->usemem.memlength = round_down(nvdev->usemem.memlength,
> +						     MEMBLK_SIZE);
> +		if (nvdev->usemem.memlength == 0) {
> +			ret = -EINVAL;
> +			goto done;
> +		}

Why does this operation need to be predicated on the buggy device?
Does GB have memory that's not a multiple of 512MB?  I was expecting
this would be a no-op on GB and therefore wouldn't need to be
conditional.  Thanks,

Alex

>  	}
>  
>  	if ((check_add_overflow(nvdev->usemem.memphys,
> @@ -813,7 +827,10 @@ nvgrace_gpu_init_nvdev_struct(struct pci_dev *pdev,
>  	 * the BAR size for them.
>  	 */
>  	nvdev->usemem.bar_size = roundup_pow_of_two(nvdev->usemem.memlength);
> -	nvdev->resmem.bar_size = roundup_pow_of_two(nvdev->resmem.memlength);
> +
> +	if (nvdev->resmem.memlength)
> +		nvdev->resmem.bar_size =
> +			roundup_pow_of_two(nvdev->resmem.memlength);
>  done:
>  	return ret;
>  }


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