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Message-ID: <806a4c22-e89f-435e-bdaa-e78c58fb8243@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:23:14 -0600
From: "Mario Limonciello (AMD) (kernel.org)" <superm1@...nel.org>
To: "Yo-Jung Leo Lin (AMD)" <Leo.Lin@....com>,
 Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
 Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
 David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>,
 Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
 Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
 "Tsao, Anson" <anson.tsao@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] Documentation/amdgpu: Add UMA carveout details



On 11/14/2025 2:42 AM, Yo-Jung Leo Lin (AMD) wrote:
> Add documentation for the uma_carveout_options and uma_carveout
> attributes in sysfs
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yo-Jung Leo Lin (AMD) <Leo.Lin@....com>
Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD) <superm1@...nel.org>> ---
>   Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/driver-misc.rst | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_acpi.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   2 files changed, 55 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/driver-misc.rst b/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/driver-misc.rst
> index 25b0c857816e..afefab4fa0ac 100644
> --- a/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/driver-misc.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/driver-misc.rst
> @@ -128,3 +128,29 @@ smartshift_bias
>   
>   .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/amd/pm/amdgpu_pm.c
>      :doc: smartshift_bias
> +
> +UMA Carveout
> +============
> +
> +Some versions of Atom ROM expose available options for the VRAM carveout sizes,
> +and allow changes to the carveout size via the ATCS function code 0xA on supported
> +BIOS implementations.
> +
> +For those platforms, users can use the following file to set the carveout size,
> +in a way similar to what Windows users can do in the "Tuning" tab in AMD
> +Adrenalin.
> +
> +Note that for BIOS implementations that don't support this, these files will not
> +be created at all.
> +
> +uma_carveout_options
> +--------------------
> +
> +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_acpi.c
> +   :doc: uma_carveout_options
> +
> +uma_carveout
> +--------------------
> +
> +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_acpi.c
> +   :doc: uma_carveout
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_acpi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_acpi.c
> index b9378f34eb79..10cc6bf28a0f 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_acpi.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_acpi.c
> @@ -1248,6 +1248,24 @@ int amdgpu_acpi_get_mem_info(struct amdgpu_device *adev, int xcc_id,
>   	return -ENOENT;
>   }
>   
> +/**
> + * DOC: uma_carveout_options
> + *
> + * This is a read-only file that lists all available UMA allocation
> + * options and their corresponding indices. Example output::
> + *
> + *     $ cat uma_carveout_options
> + *     0: Minimum (0 GB)
> + *     1:  (1 GB)
> + *     2:  (2 GB)
> + *     3:  (4 GB)
> + *     4:  (6 GB)
> + *     5:  (8 GB)
> + *     6:  (12 GB)
> + *     7: Medium (16 GB)
> + *     8:  (24 GB)
> + *     9: High (32 GB)
> + */
>   static ssize_t uma_carveout_options_show(struct device *dev,
>   					 struct device_attribute *attr,
>   					 char *buf)
> @@ -1269,6 +1287,17 @@ static ssize_t uma_carveout_options_show(struct device *dev,
>   }
>   static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(uma_carveout_options);
>   
> +/**
> + * DOC: uma_carveout
> + *
> + * This file is both readable and writable. When read, it shows the
> + * index of the current setting. Writing a valid index to this file
> + * allows users to change the UMA carveout size to the selected option
> + * on the next boot.
> + *
> + * The available options and their corresponding indices can be read
> + * from the uma_carveout_options file.
> + */
>   static ssize_t uma_carveout_show(struct device *dev,
>   				 struct device_attribute *attr,
>   				 char *buf)
>