Re: [PATCH 00/14] drm/i915/dg2: Enabling 64k page size and flat ccs

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On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 09:41:41PM +0530, Ramalingam C wrote:
> This series introduces the enabling patches for new flat ccs feature and
> 64k page support for i915 local memory, along with documentation on the
> uAPI impact.
> 
> 64k page support
> ================
> 
> 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. The GTT alignment will also need be at least 64K 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 2M 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 handle the above the kernel implements a memory coloring scheme to
> prevent userspace from mixing I915_MEMORY_CLASS_DEVICE and
> I915_MEMORY_CLASS_SYSTEM objects in the same PDE. If the kernel is ever
> unable to evict the required pages for the given PDE(different color)
> when inserting the object into the GTT then it will simply fail the
> request.
> 
> Since userspace needs to manage the GTT address space themselves,
> special care is needed to ensure this doesn’t happen. The simplest
> scheme is to simply align and round up all I915_MEMORY_CLASS_DEVICE
> objects to 2M, which avoids any issues here. At the very least this is
> likely needed for objects that can be placed in both
> I915_MEMORY_CLASS_DEVICE and I915_MEMORY_CLASS_SYSTEM, to avoid
> potential issues when the kernel needs to migrate the object behind the
> scenes, since that might also involve evicting other objects.
> 
> To summarise the GTT rules, on platforms like DG2:
> 
> 1.) All objects that can be placed in I915_MEMORY_CLASS_DEVICE must have
> 64K alignment. The kernel will reject this otherwise.
> 
> 2.) All I915_MEMORY_CLASS_DEVICE objects must never be placed in the
> same PDE with other I915_MEMORY_CLASS_SYSTEM objects. The kernel will
> reject this otherwise.
> 
> 3.) Objects that can be placed in both I915_MEMORY_CLASS_DEVICE and
> I915_MEMORY_CLASS_SYSTEM should probably be aligned and padded out to
> 2M.
> 
> Flat CCS:
> =========
> Gen 12+ devices support 3D surfaces compression and compression formats.
> This is accomplished by an additional compression control state (CCS)
> stored for each surface.
> 
> Gen 12 devices(TGL and DG1) stores compression state in a separate
> region of memory. It is managed by userspace and has an associated set
> of userspace managed page tables used by hardware for address
> translation.
> 
> In Gen 12.5 devices(XEXPSDV and DG2) Flat CCS is introduced to replace
> the userspace managed AUX pagetable with the flat indexed region of
> device memory for storing the compression state
> 
> GOP Driver steals a chunk of memory for the CCS surface corresponding to
> the entire range of local memory. The memory required for the CCS of the
> entire local memory is 1/256 of the main local memory. The Gop driver
> will also program a secure register (XEHPSDV_FLAT_CCS_BASE_ADDR 0x4910)
> with this address value.
> 
> TODO: add patches for the flatccs modifiers and kdoc for them.

Ah it's here too :-)

Since this is uapi we also need link to igts (or at least where the tests
are), and to mesa MR (if that hasn't all landed yet).
-Daniel

> 
> *** BLURB HERE ***
> 
> Abdiel Janulgue (1):
>   drm/i915/lmem: Enable lmem for platforms with Flat CCS
> 
> Ayaz A Siddiqui (1):
>   drm/i915/gt: Clear compress metadata for Gen12.5 >= platforms
> 
> Bommu Krishnaiah (1):
>   drm/i915: Add vm min alignment support
> 
> CQ Tang (1):
>   drm/i915/xehpsdv: Add has_flat_ccs to device info
> 
> Matthew Auld (8):
>   drm/i915/xehpsdv: set min page-size to 64K
>   drm/i915/xehpsdv: enforce min GTT alignment
>   drm/i915: enforce min page size for scratch
>   drm/i915/gtt/xehpsdv: move scratch page to system memory
>   drm/i915/xehpsdv: support 64K GTT pages
>   drm/i915/selftests: account for min_alignment in GTT selftests
>   drm/i915/xehpsdv: implement memory coloring
>   drm/i915/uapi: document behaviour for DG2 64K support
> 
> Ramalingam C (1):
>   Doc/gpu/rfc/i915: i915 DG2 uAPI
> 
> Stuart Summers (1):
>   drm/i915: Add has_64k_pages flag
> 
>  Documentation/gpu/rfc/i915_dg2.rst            |  47 ++++++
>  Documentation/gpu/rfc/index.rst               |   3 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_stolen.c    |   6 +-
>  .../gpu/drm/i915/gem/selftests/huge_pages.c   |  61 ++++++++
>  .../i915/gem/selftests/i915_gem_client_blt.c  |  23 ++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/gen6_ppgtt.c          |   1 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/gen8_ppgtt.c          | 145 +++++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ggtt.c          |   2 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gpu_commands.h  |  14 ++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gt.c            |  19 +++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gt.h            |   1 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gtt.c           |  23 ++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gtt.h           |  20 +++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_migrate.c       | 120 ++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ppgtt.c         |   1 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_region_lmem.c   |  27 +++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h               |   4 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_evict.c         |  17 ++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c               |   3 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h               |   3 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_vma.c               |  55 +++++--
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_device_info.h      |   2 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/i915_gem_gtt.c |  96 ++++++++----
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/mock_gtt.c     |   2 +
>  include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h                   |  61 +++++++-
>  25 files changed, 681 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/gpu/rfc/i915_dg2.rst
> 
> -- 
> 2.20.1
> 

-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch



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