Re: [QUESTION] gfvhub_v2_1 updates CNTL regs before initialize related page table address

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 1:34 AM Zibin Liu <ghostfly23333@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at the initialization sequences in gfxhub_v2_1.c. I'm confused on whether the GCVM_CONTEXT1_CNTL CNTL reg can be written before the corresponding GCVM_CONTEXT1_PAGE_TABLE_START_ADDR and GCVM_CONTEXT1_PAGE_TABLE_END_ADDR reg is written.
>
> Here is the background:
>  * gfxhub_v2_1_setup_vmid_config() enables GPU clients to use GPUVM VMIDs to access memory.
>
> The code related to this questions is below:
>
>  324               WREG32_SOC15_OFFSET(GC, 0, mmGCVM_CONTEXT1_CNTL,
>  325                                   i * hub->ctx_distance, tmp);
>
>  326               WREG32_SOC15_OFFSET(GC, 0, mmGCVM_CONTEXT1_PAGE_TABLE_START_ADDR_LO32,
>  327                                   i * hub->ctx_addr_distance, 0);
>  328               WREG32_SOC15_OFFSET(GC, 0, mmGCVM_CONTEXT1_PAGE_TABLE_START_ADDR_HI32,
>  329                                   i * hub->ctx_addr_distance, 0);
>  330               WREG32_SOC15_OFFSET(GC, 0, mmGCVM_CONTEXT1_PAGE_TABLE_END_ADDR_LO32,
>  331                                   i * hub->ctx_addr_distance,
>  332                                   lower_32_bits(adev->vm_manager.max_pfn - 1));
>  333               WREG32_SOC15_OFFSET(GC, 0, mmGCVM_CONTEXT1_PAGE_TABLE_END_ADDR_HI32,
>  334                                   i * hub->ctx_addr_distance,
>  335                                   upper_32_bits(adev->vm_manager.max_pfn - 1));
>
> Just wondering, is the behavior expected or is it a bug?

As long as the memory hub is idle, I don't think there are any
ordering requirements for programming it.  I suppose if you wanted to
be really safe, you could set VM_CONTEXT1_CNTL.ENABLE_CONTEXT=0 before
programming everything and then set it to 1 at the end.

Alex

>
> Thanks,
> Zibin Liu
>
>




[Index of Archives]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]

  Powered by Linux