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  1. 11 May, 2023 2 commits
    • Fei Yang's avatar
      drm/i915: use pat_index instead of cache_level · 9275277d
      Fei Yang authored 
      Currently the KMD is using enum i915_cache_level to set caching policy for
buffer objects. This is flaky because the PAT index which really controls
the caching behavior in PTE has far more levels than what's defined in the
enum. In addition, the PAT index is platform dependent, having to translate
between i915_cache_level and PAT index is not reliable, and makes the code
more complicated.

From UMD's perspective there is also a necessity to set caching policy for
performance fine tuning. It's much easier for the UMD to directly use PAT
index because the behavior of each PAT index is clearly defined in Bspec.
Having the abstracted i915_cache_level sitting in between would only cause
more ambiguity. PAT is expected to work much like MOCS already works today,
and by design userspace is expected to select the index that exactly
matches the desired behavior described in the hardware specification.

For these reasons this patch replaces i915_cache_level with PAT index. Also
note, the cache_level is not completely removed yet, because the KMD still
has the need of creating buffer objects with simple cache settings such as
cached, uncached, or writethrough. For kernel objects, cache_level is used
for simplicity and backward compatibility. For Pre-gen12 platforms PAT can
have 1:1 mapping to i915_cache_level, so these two are interchangeable. see
the use of LEGACY_CACHELEVEL.

One consequence of this change is that gen8_pte_encode is no longer working
for gen12 platforms due to the fact that gen12 platforms has different PAT
definitions. In the meantime the mtl_pte_encode introduced specfically for
MTL becomes generic for all gen12 platforms. This patch renames the MTL
PTE encode function into gen12_pte_encode and apply it to all gen12. Even
though this change looks unrelated, but separating them would temporarily
break gen12 PTE encoding, thus squash them in one patch.

Special note: this patch changes the way caching behavior is controlled in
the sense that some objects are left to be managed by userspace. For such
objects we need to be careful not to change the userspace settings.There
are kerneldoc and comments added around obj->cache_coherent, cache_dirty,
and how to bypass the checkings by i915_gem_object_has_cache_level. For
full understanding, these changes need to be looked at together with the
two follow-up patches, one disables the {set|get}_caching ioctl's and the
other adds set_pat extension to the GEM_CREATE uAPI.

Bspec: 63019

Cc: Chris Wilson <chris.p.wilson@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFei Yang <fei.yang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndi Shyti <andi.shyti@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMatt Roper <matthew.d.roper@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Shyti <andi.shyti@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230509165200.1740-3-fei.yang@intel.com
      9275277d
    • Fei Yang's avatar
      drm/i915: preparation for using PAT index · 5e352e32
      Fei Yang authored 
      This patch is a preparation for replacing enum i915_cache_level with PAT
index. Caching policy for buffer objects is set through the PAT index in
PTE, the old i915_cache_level is not sufficient to represent all caching
modes supported by the hardware.

Preparing the transition by adding some platform dependent data structures
and helper functions to translate the cache_level to pat_index.

cachelevel_to_pat: a platform dependent array mapping cache_level to
                   pat_index.

max_pat_index: the maximum PAT index recommended in hardware specification
               Needed for validating the PAT index passed in from user
               space.

i915_gem_get_pat_index: function to convert cache_level to PAT index.

obj_to_i915(obj): macro moved to header file for wider usage.

I915_MAX_CACHE_LEVEL: upper bound of i915_cache_level for the
                      convenience of coding.

Cc: Chris Wilson <chris.p.wilson@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFei Yang <fei.yang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndi Shyti <andi.shyti@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrzej Hajda <andrzej.hajda@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Shyti <andi.shyti@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230509165200.1740-2-fei.yang@intel.com
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