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Message-Id: <D896TLG23DKY.1SRUB54QZ8THK@nvidia.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2025 21:38:22 +0900
From: "Alexandre Courbot" <acourbot@...dia.com>
To: "Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@...nel.org>, <airlied@...il.com>,
 <simona@...ll.ch>, <corbet@....net>, <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
 <mripard@...nel.org>, <tzimmermann@...e.de>, <ajanulgu@...hat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/5] gpu: nova-core: add initial driver stub

Hi Danilo,

On Wed Mar 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM JST, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> Add the initial nova-core driver stub.
>
> nova-core is intended to serve as a common base for nova-drm (the
> corresponding DRM driver) and the vGPU manager VFIO driver, serving as a
> hard- and firmware abstraction layer for GSP-based NVIDIA GPUs.
>
> The Nova project, including nova-core and nova-drm, in the long term,
> is intended to serve as the successor of Nouveau for all GSP-based GPUs.
>
> The motivation for both, starting a successor project for Nouveau and
> doing so using the Rust programming language, is documented in detail
> through a previous post on the mailing list [1], an LWN article [2] and a
> talk from LPC '24.
>
> In order to avoid the chicken and egg problem to require a user to
> upstream Rust abstractions, but at the same time require the Rust
> abstractions to implement the driver, nova-core kicks off as a driver
> stub and is subsequently developed upstream.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/Zfsj0_tb-0-tNrJy@cassiopeiae/T/#u [1]
> Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/990736/ [2]
> Link: https://youtu.be/3Igmx28B3BQ?si=sBdSEer4tAPKGpOs [3]
> Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>

A couple of nits inline below, but feel free to add my

Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>

> ---
>  MAINTAINERS                        |  10 ++
>  drivers/gpu/Makefile               |   1 +
>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/Kconfig      |  14 ++
>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/Makefile     |   3 +
>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/driver.rs    |  47 +++++++
>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware.rs  |  45 +++++++
>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/gpu.rs       | 199 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/nova_core.rs |  20 +++
>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/regs.rs      |  55 ++++++++
>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/util.rs      |  21 +++
>  drivers/video/Kconfig              |   1 +
>  11 files changed, 416 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/nova-core/Kconfig
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/nova-core/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/nova-core/driver.rs
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware.rs
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/nova-core/gpu.rs
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/nova-core/nova_core.rs
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/nova-core/regs.rs
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/nova-core/util.rs
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 8e0736dc2ee0..644817ccaa18 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -7449,6 +7449,16 @@ T:	git https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/nouveau.git
>  F:	drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/
>  F:	include/uapi/drm/nouveau_drm.h
>  
> +CORE DRIVER FOR NVIDIA GPUS [RUST]
> +M:	Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>
> +L:	nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org
> +S:	Supported
> +Q:	https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/project/nouveau/
> +B:	https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/nova/-/issues
> +C:	irc://irc.oftc.net/nouveau
> +T:	git https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/nova.git nova-next
> +F:	drivers/gpu/nova-core/
> +
>  DRM DRIVER FOR OLIMEX LCD-OLINUXINO PANELS
>  M:	Stefan Mavrodiev <stefan@...mex.com>
>  S:	Maintained
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/Makefile b/drivers/gpu/Makefile
> index 8997f0096545..36a54d456630 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/Makefile
> @@ -5,3 +5,4 @@
>  obj-y			+= host1x/ drm/ vga/
>  obj-$(CONFIG_IMX_IPUV3_CORE)	+= ipu-v3/
>  obj-$(CONFIG_TRACE_GPU_MEM)		+= trace/
> +obj-$(CONFIG_NOVA_CORE)		+= nova-core/
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/Kconfig
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..ad0c06756516
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/Kconfig
> @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
> +config NOVA_CORE
> +	tristate "Nova Core GPU driver"
> +	depends on PCI
> +	depends on RUST
> +	depends on RUST_FW_LOADER_ABSTRACTIONS
> +	default n
> +	help
> +	  Choose this if you want to build the Nova Core driver for Nvidia
> +	  GPUs based on the GPU System Processor (GSP). This is true for Turing
> +	  and later GPUs.
> +
> +	  This driver is work in progress and may not be functional.
> +
> +	  If M is selected, the module will be called nova_core.
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/Makefile b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/Makefile
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..2d78c50126e1
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/Makefile
> @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +obj-$(CONFIG_NOVA_CORE) += nova_core.o
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/driver.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/driver.rs
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..63c19f140fbd
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/driver.rs
> @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +use kernel::{bindings, c_str, pci, prelude::*};
> +
> +use crate::gpu::Gpu;
> +
> +#[pin_data]
> +pub(crate) struct NovaCore {
> +    #[pin]
> +    pub(crate) gpu: Gpu,
> +}
> +
> +const BAR0_SIZE: usize = 8;
> +pub(crate) type Bar0 = pci::Bar<BAR0_SIZE>;
> +
> +kernel::pci_device_table!(
> +    PCI_TABLE,
> +    MODULE_PCI_TABLE,
> +    <NovaCore as pci::Driver>::IdInfo,
> +    [(
> +        pci::DeviceId::from_id(bindings::PCI_VENDOR_ID_NVIDIA, bindings::PCI_ANY_ID as _),
> +        ()
> +    )]
> +);
> +
> +impl pci::Driver for NovaCore {
> +    type IdInfo = ();
> +    const ID_TABLE: pci::IdTable<Self::IdInfo> = &PCI_TABLE;
> +
> +    fn probe(pdev: &mut pci::Device, _info: &Self::IdInfo) -> Result<Pin<KBox<Self>>> {
> +        dev_dbg!(pdev.as_ref(), "Probe Nova Core GPU driver.\n");
> +
> +        pdev.enable_device_mem()?;
> +        pdev.set_master();
> +
> +        let bar = pdev.iomap_region_sized::<BAR0_SIZE>(0, c_str!("nova-core/bar0"))?;
> +
> +        let this = KBox::pin_init(
> +            try_pin_init!(Self {
> +                gpu <- Gpu::new(pdev, bar)?,
> +            }),
> +            GFP_KERNEL,
> +        )?;
> +
> +        Ok(this)
> +    }
> +}
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware.rs
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..9de1399a2a69
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware.rs
> @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +use crate::gpu;
> +use kernel::firmware;
> +
> +pub(crate) struct ModInfoBuilder<const N: usize>(firmware::ModInfoBuilder<N>);
> +
> +impl<const N: usize> ModInfoBuilder<N> {
> +    const fn make_entry_file(self, chipset: &str, fw: &str) -> Self {
> +        let version = "535.113.01";

This should probably be a constant.

> +
> +        ModInfoBuilder(
> +            self.0
> +                .prepare()
> +                .push("nvidia/")
> +                .push(chipset)
> +                .push("/gsp/")
> +                .push(fw)
> +                .push("-")
> +                .push(version)
> +                .push(".bin"),
> +        )
> +    }
> +
> +    const fn make_entry_chipset(self, chipset: &str) -> Self {
> +        self.make_entry_file(chipset, "booter_load")
> +            .make_entry_file(chipset, "booter_unload")
> +            .make_entry_file(chipset, "bootloader")
> +            .make_entry_file(chipset, "gsp")
> +    }
> +
> +    pub(crate) const fn create(
> +        module_name: &'static kernel::str::CStr,
> +    ) -> firmware::ModInfoBuilder<N> {
> +        let mut this = Self(firmware::ModInfoBuilder::new(module_name));
> +        let mut i = 0;
> +
> +        while i < gpu::Chipset::NAMES.len() {
> +            this = this.make_entry_chipset(gpu::Chipset::NAMES[i]);
> +            i += 1;
> +        }
> +
> +        this.0
> +    }
> +}
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/gpu.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/gpu.rs
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..f57b7efa10f3
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/gpu.rs
> @@ -0,0 +1,199 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +use kernel::{
> +    device, devres::Devres, error::code::*, firmware, fmt, pci, prelude::*, str::CString,
> +};
> +
> +use crate::driver::Bar0;
> +use crate::regs;
> +use crate::util;
> +use core::fmt;
> +
> +macro_rules! define_chipset {
> +    ({ $($variant:ident = $value:expr),* $(,)* }) =>
> +    {
> +        /// Enum representation of the GPU chipset.
> +        #[derive(fmt::Debug)]
> +        pub(crate) enum Chipset {
> +            $($variant = $value),*,
> +        }
> +
> +        impl Chipset {
> +            pub(crate) const ALL: &'static [Chipset] = &[
> +                $( Chipset::$variant, )*
> +            ];
> +
> +            pub(crate) const NAMES: [&str; Self::ALL.len()] = [
> +                $( util::const_bytes_to_str(
> +                        util::to_lowercase_bytes::<{ stringify!($variant).len() }>(
> +                            stringify!($variant)
> +                        ).as_slice()
> +                ), )*
> +            ];
> +        }
> +
> +        // TODO replace with something like derive(FromPrimitive)
> +        impl TryFrom<u32> for Chipset {
> +            type Error = kernel::error::Error;
> +
> +            fn try_from(value: u32) -> Result<Self, Self::Error> {
> +                match value {
> +                    $( $value => Ok(Chipset::$variant), )*
> +                    _ => Err(ENODEV),
> +                }
> +            }
> +        }
> +    }
> +}
> +
> +define_chipset!({
> +    // Turing
> +    TU102 = 0x162,
> +    TU104 = 0x164,
> +    TU106 = 0x166,
> +    TU117 = 0x167,
> +    TU116 = 0x168,
> +    // Ampere
> +    GA102 = 0x172,
> +    GA103 = 0x173,
> +    GA104 = 0x174,
> +    GA106 = 0x176,
> +    GA107 = 0x177,
> +    // Ada
> +    AD102 = 0x192,
> +    AD103 = 0x193,
> +    AD104 = 0x194,
> +    AD106 = 0x196,
> +    AD107 = 0x197,
> +});
> +
> +impl Chipset {
> +    pub(crate) fn arch(&self) -> Architecture {
> +        match self {
> +            Self::TU102 | Self::TU104 | Self::TU106 | Self::TU117 | Self::TU116 => {
> +                Architecture::Turing
> +            }
> +            Self::GA102 | Self::GA103 | Self::GA104 | Self::GA106 | Self::GA107 => {
> +                Architecture::Ampere
> +            }
> +            Self::AD102 | Self::AD103 | Self::AD104 | Self::AD106 | Self::AD107 => {
> +                Architecture::Ada
> +            }
> +        }
> +    }
> +}
> +
> +// TODO
> +//
> +// The resulting strings are used to generate firmware paths, hence the
> +// generated strings have to be stable.
> +//
> +// Hence, replace with something like strum_macros derive(Display).
> +//
> +// For now, redirect to fmt::Debug for convenience.
> +impl fmt::Display for Chipset {
> +    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
> +        write!(f, "{:?}", self)
> +    }
> +}
> +
> +/// Enum representation of the GPU generation.
> +#[derive(fmt::Debug)]
> +pub(crate) enum Architecture {
> +    Turing,
> +    Ampere,
> +    Ada,
> +}
> +
> +pub(crate) struct Revision {
> +    major: u8,
> +    minor: u8,
> +}
> +
> +impl Revision {
> +    fn from_boot0(boot0: regs::Boot0) -> Self {
> +        Self {
> +            major: boot0.major_rev(),
> +            minor: boot0.minor_rev(),
> +        }
> +    }
> +}
> +
> +impl fmt::Display for Revision {
> +    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
> +        write!(f, "{:x}.{:x}", self.major, self.minor)
> +    }
> +}
> +
> +/// Structure holding the metadata of the GPU.
> +pub(crate) struct Spec {
> +    chipset: Chipset,
> +    /// The revision of the chipset.
> +    revision: Revision,
> +}
> +
> +impl Spec {
> +    fn new(bar: &Devres<Bar0>) -> Result<Spec> {
> +        let bar = bar.try_access().ok_or(ENXIO)?;
> +        let boot0 = regs::Boot0::read(&bar);
> +
> +        Ok(Self {
> +            chipset: boot0.chipset().try_into()?,
> +            revision: Revision::from_boot0(boot0),
> +        })
> +    }
> +}
> +
> +/// Structure encapsulating the firmware blobs required for the GPU to operate.
> +#[expect(dead_code)]
> +pub(crate) struct Firmware {
> +    booter_load: firmware::Firmware,
> +    booter_unload: firmware::Firmware,
> +    bootloader: firmware::Firmware,
> +    gsp: firmware::Firmware,
> +}
> +
> +impl Firmware {
> +    fn new(dev: &device::Device, spec: &Spec, ver: &str) -> Result<Firmware> {
> +        let mut chip_name = CString::try_from_fmt(fmt!("{}", spec.chipset))?;
> +        chip_name.make_ascii_lowercase();
> +
> +        let request = |name_| {
> +            CString::try_from_fmt(fmt!("nvidia/{}/gsp/{}-{}.bin", &*chip_name, name_, ver))
> +                .and_then(|path| firmware::Firmware::request(&path, dev))
> +        };
> +
> +        Ok(Firmware {
> +            booter_load: request("booter_load")?,
> +            booter_unload: request("booter_unload")?,
> +            bootloader: request("bootloader")?,
> +            gsp: request("gsp")?,
> +        })
> +    }
> +}
> +
> +/// Structure holding the resources required to operate the GPU.
> +#[pin_data]
> +pub(crate) struct Gpu {
> +    spec: Spec,
> +    /// MMIO mapping of PCI BAR 0
> +    bar: Devres<Bar0>,
> +    fw: Firmware,
> +}
> +
> +impl Gpu {
> +    pub(crate) fn new(pdev: &pci::Device, bar: Devres<Bar0>) -> Result<impl PinInit<Self>> {
> +        let spec = Spec::new(&bar)?;
> +        let fw = Firmware::new(pdev.as_ref(), &spec, "535.113.01")?;
> +
> +        dev_info!(
> +            pdev.as_ref(),
> +            "NVIDIA (Chipset: {}, Architecture: {:?}, Revision: {})\n",
> +            spec.chipset,
> +            spec.chipset.arch(),
> +            spec.revision
> +        );
> +
> +        Ok(pin_init!(Self { spec, bar, fw }))
> +    }
> +}
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/nova_core.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/nova_core.rs
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..a91cd924054b
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/nova_core.rs
> @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +//! Nova Core GPU Driver
> +
> +mod driver;
> +mod firmware;
> +mod gpu;
> +mod regs;
> +mod util;
> +
> +kernel::module_pci_driver! {
> +    type: driver::NovaCore,
> +    name: "NovaCore",
> +    author: "Danilo Krummrich",
> +    description: "Nova Core GPU driver",
> +    license: "GPL v2",
> +    firmware: [],
> +}
> +
> +kernel::module_firmware!(firmware::ModInfoBuilder);
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/regs.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/regs.rs
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..50aefb150b0b
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/regs.rs
> @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +use crate::driver::Bar0;
> +
> +// TODO
> +//
> +// Create register definitions via generic macros. See task "Generic register
> +// abstraction" in Documentation/gpu/nova/core/todo.rst.
> +
> +const BOOT0_OFFSET: usize = 0x00000000;
> +
> +// 3:0 - chipset minor revision
> +const BOOT0_MINOR_REV_SHIFT: u8 = 0;
> +const BOOT0_MINOR_REV_MASK: u32 = 0x0000000f;
> +
> +// 7:4 - chipset major revision
> +const BOOT0_MAJOR_REV_SHIFT: u8 = 4;
> +const BOOT0_MAJOR_REV_MASK: u32 = 0x000000f0;
> +
> +// 23:20 - chipset implementation Identifier (depends on architecture)
> +const BOOT0_IMPL_SHIFT: u8 = 20;
> +const BOOT0_IMPL_MASK: u32 = 0x00f00000;
> +
> +// 28:24 - chipset architecture identifier
> +const BOOT0_ARCH_MASK: u32 = 0x1f000000;
> +
> +// 28:20 - chipset identifier (virtual register field combining BOOT0_IMPL and
> +//         BOOT0_ARCH)
> +const BOOT0_CHIPSET_SHIFT: u8 = BOOT0_IMPL_SHIFT;
> +const BOOT0_CHIPSET_MASK: u32 = BOOT0_IMPL_MASK | BOOT0_ARCH_MASK;
> +
> +#[derive(Copy, Clone)]
> +pub(crate) struct Boot0(u32);
> +
> +impl Boot0 {
> +    #[inline]
> +    pub(crate) fn read(bar: &Bar0) -> Self {
> +        Self(bar.readl(BOOT0_OFFSET))
> +    }
> +
> +    #[inline]
> +    pub(crate) fn chipset(&self) -> u32 {
> +        (self.0 & BOOT0_CHIPSET_MASK) >> BOOT0_CHIPSET_SHIFT
> +    }
> +
> +    #[inline]
> +    pub(crate) fn minor_rev(&self) -> u8 {
> +        ((self.0 & BOOT0_MINOR_REV_MASK) >> BOOT0_MINOR_REV_SHIFT) as u8
> +    }
> +
> +    #[inline]
> +    pub(crate) fn major_rev(&self) -> u8 {
> +        ((self.0 & BOOT0_MAJOR_REV_MASK) >> BOOT0_MAJOR_REV_SHIFT) as u8
> +    }
> +}
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/util.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/util.rs
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..332a64cfc6a9
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/util.rs
> @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +pub(crate) const fn to_lowercase_bytes<const N: usize>(s: &str) -> [u8; N] {
> +    let src = s.as_bytes();
> +    let mut dst = [0; N];
> +    let mut i = 0;
> +
> +    while i < src.len() && i < N {
> +        dst[i] = (src[i] as char).to_ascii_lowercase() as u8;
> +        i += 1;
> +    }
> +
> +    dst
> +}
> +
> +pub(crate) const fn const_bytes_to_str(bytes: &[u8]) -> &str {
> +    match core::str::from_utf8(bytes) {
> +        Ok(string) => string,
> +        Err(_) => kernel::build_error!("Bytes are not valid UTF-8."),
> +    }
> +}

I guess these functions could be useful to other drivers and can maybe
be moved to a string utility module, but this can be done later too.

Thanks!
Alex.


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