Commit caa574ff authored by Matthew Auld's avatar Matthew Auld Committed by Lucas De Marchi

drm/i915/uapi: document behaviour for DG2 64K support

On discrete platforms like DG2, we need to support a minimum page size
of 64K when dealing with device local-memory. This is quite tricky for
various reasons, so try to document the new implicit uapi for this.

v4: Kdoc modification.
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Signed-off-by: default avatarMatthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRamalingam C <ramalingam.c@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRobert Beckett <bob.beckett@collabora.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRamalingam C <ramalingam.c@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
cc: Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>
cc: Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen@gmail.com>
Cc: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
Cc: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth@whitecape.org>
Cc: mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: Tony Ye <tony.ye@intel.com>
Cc: Slawomir Milczarek <slawomir.milczarek@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220218184752.7524-13-ramalingam.c@intel.com
parent 00e27ad8
......@@ -1118,10 +1118,16 @@ struct drm_i915_gem_exec_object2 {
/**
* When the EXEC_OBJECT_PINNED flag is specified this is populated by
* the user with the GTT offset at which this object will be pinned.
*
* When the I915_EXEC_NO_RELOC flag is specified this must contain the
* presumed_offset of the object.
*
* During execbuffer2 the kernel populates it with the value of the
* current GTT offset of the object, for future presumed_offset writes.
*
* See struct drm_i915_gem_create_ext for the rules when dealing with
* alignment restrictions with I915_MEMORY_CLASS_DEVICE, on devices with
* minimum page sizes, like DG2.
*/
__u64 offset;
......@@ -3144,11 +3150,40 @@ struct drm_i915_gem_create_ext {
*
* The (page-aligned) allocated size for the object will be returned.
*
* Note that for some devices we have might have further minimum
* page-size restrictions(larger than 4K), like for device local-memory.
* However in general the final size here should always reflect any
* rounding up, if for example using the I915_GEM_CREATE_EXT_MEMORY_REGIONS
* extension to place the object in device local-memory.
*
* DG2 64K min page size implications:
*
* On discrete platforms, starting from DG2, we have to contend with GTT
* page size restrictions when dealing with I915_MEMORY_CLASS_DEVICE
* objects. Specifically the hardware only supports 64K or larger GTT
* page sizes for such memory. The kernel will already ensure that all
* I915_MEMORY_CLASS_DEVICE memory is allocated using 64K or larger page
* sizes underneath.
*
* Note that the returned size here will always reflect any required
* rounding up done by the kernel, i.e 4K will now become 64K on devices
* such as DG2.
*
* Special DG2 GTT address alignment requirement:
*
* The GTT alignment will also need to be at least 2M for such objects.
*
* Note that due to how the hardware implements 64K GTT page support, we
* have some further complications:
*
* 1) The entire PDE (which covers a 2MB virtual address range), must
* contain only 64K PTEs, i.e mixing 4K and 64K PTEs in the same
* PDE is forbidden by the hardware.
*
* 2) We still need to support 4K PTEs for I915_MEMORY_CLASS_SYSTEM
* objects.
*
* To keep things simple for userland, we mandate that any GTT mappings
* must be aligned to and rounded up to 2MB. The kernel will internally
* pad them out to the next 2MB boundary. As this only wastes virtual
* address space and avoids userland having to copy any needlessly
* complicated PDE sharing scheme (coloring) and only affects DG2, this
* is deemed to be a good compromise.
*/
__u64 size;
/**
......
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