Re: [PATCH v2 00/25] AMDKFD kernel driver

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On 20/07/14 20:46, Jerome Glisse wrote:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 04:57:25PM +0300, Oded Gabbay wrote:
Forgot to cc mailing list on cover letter. Sorry.

As a continuation to the existing discussion, here is a v2 patch series
restructured with a cleaner history and no totally-different-early-versions
of the code.

Instead of 83 patches, there are now a total of 25 patches, where 5 of them
are modifications to radeon driver and 18 of them include only amdkfd code.
There is no code going away or even modified between patches, only added.

The driver was renamed from radeon_kfd to amdkfd and moved to reside under
drm/radeon/amdkfd. This move was done to emphasize the fact that this driver
is an AMD-only driver at this point. Having said that, we do foresee a
generic hsa framework being implemented in the future and in that case, we
will adjust amdkfd to work within that framework.

As the amdkfd driver should support multiple AMD gfx drivers, we want to
keep it as a seperate driver from radeon. Therefore, the amdkfd code is
contained in its own folder. The amdkfd folder was put under the radeon
folder because the only AMD gfx driver in the Linux kernel at this point
is the radeon driver. Having said that, we will probably need to move it
(maybe to be directly under drm) after we integrate with additional AMD gfx
drivers.

For people who like to review using git, the v2 patch set is located at:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~gabbayo/linux/log/?h=kfd-next-3.17-v2

Written by Oded Gabbayh <oded.gabbay@xxxxxxx>

So quick comments before i finish going over all patches. There is many
things that need more documentation espacialy as of right now there is
no userspace i can go look at.
So quick comments on some of your questions but first of all, thanks for the time you dedicated to review the code.

There few show stopper, biggest one is gpu memory pinning this is a big
no, that would need serious arguments for any hope of convincing me on
that side.
We only do gpu memory pinning for kernel objects. There are no userspace objects that are pinned on the gpu memory in our driver. If that is the case, is it still a show stopper ?

The kernel objects are:
- pipelines (4 per device)
- mqd per hiq (only 1 per device)
- mqd per userspace queue. On KV, we support up to 1K queues per process, for a total of 512K queues. Each mqd is 151 bytes, but the allocation is done in 256 alignment. So total *possible* memory is 128MB
- kernel queue (only 1 per device)
- fence address for kernel queue
- runlists for the CP (1 or 2 per device)


It might be better to add a drivers/gpu/drm/amd directory and add common
stuff there.

Given that this is not intended to be final HSA api AFAICT then i would
say this far better to avoid the whole kfd module and add ioctl to radeon.
This would avoid crazy communication btw radeon and kfd.

The whole aperture business needs some serious explanation. Especialy as
you want to use userspace address there is nothing to prevent userspace
program from allocating things at address you reserve for lds, scratch,
... only sane way would be to move those lds, scratch inside the virtual
address reserved for kernel (see kernel memory map).

The whole business of locking performance counter for exclusive per process
access is a big NO. Which leads me to the questionable usefullness of user
space command ring.
That's like saying: "Which leads me to the questionable usefulness of HSA". I find it analogous to a situation where a network maintainer nacking a driver for a network card, which is slower than a different network card. Doesn't seem reasonable this situation is would happen. He would still put both the drivers in the kernel because people want to use the H/W and its features. So, I don't think this is a valid reason to NACK the driver.

I only see issues with that. First and foremost i would
need to see solid figures that kernel ioctl or syscall has a higher an
overhead that is measurable in any meaning full way against a simple
function call. I know the userspace command ring is a big marketing features
that please ignorant userspace programmer. But really this only brings issues
and for absolutely not upside afaict.
Really ? You think that doing a context switch to kernel space, with all its overhead, is _not_ more expansive than just calling a function in userspace which only puts a buffer on a ring and writes a doorbell ?

So i would rather see a very simple ioctl that write the doorbell and might
do more than that in case of ring/queue overcommit where it would first have
to wait for a free ring/queue to schedule stuff. This would also allow sane
implementation of things like performance counter that could be acquire by
kernel for duration of a job submitted by userspace. While still not optimal
this would be better that userspace locking.


I might have more thoughts once i am done with all the patches.

Cheers,
Jérôme


Original Cover Letter:

This patch set implements a Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) driver
for radeon-family GPUs.
HSA allows different processor types (CPUs, DSPs, GPUs, etc..) to share
system resources more effectively via HW features including shared pageable
memory, userspace-accessible work queues, and platform-level atomics. In
addition to the memory protection mechanisms in GPUVM and IOMMUv2, the Sea
Islands family of GPUs also performs HW-level validation of commands passed
in through the queues (aka rings).

The code in this patch set is intended to serve both as a sample driver for
other HSA-compatible hardware devices and as a production driver for
radeon-family processors. The code is architected to support multiple CPUs
each with connected GPUs, although the current implementation focuses on a
single Kaveri/Berlin APU, and works alongside the existing radeon kernel
graphics driver (kgd).
AMD GPUs designed for use with HSA (Sea Islands and up) share some hardware
functionality between HSA compute and regular gfx/compute (memory,
interrupts, registers), while other functionality has been added
specifically for HSA compute  (hw scheduler for virtualized compute rings).
All shared hardware is owned by the radeon graphics driver, and an interface
between kfd and kgd allows the kfd to make use of those shared resources,
while HSA-specific functionality is managed directly by kfd by submitting
packets into an HSA-specific command queue (the "HIQ").

During kfd module initialization a char device node (/dev/kfd) is created
(surviving until module exit), with ioctls for queue creation & management,
and data structures are initialized for managing HSA device topology.
The rest of the initialization is driven by calls from the radeon kgd at the
following points :

- radeon_init (kfd_init)
- radeon_exit (kfd_fini)
- radeon_driver_load_kms (kfd_device_probe, kfd_device_init)
- radeon_driver_unload_kms (kfd_device_fini)

During the probe and init processing per-device data structures are
established which connect to the associated graphics kernel driver. This
information is exposed to userspace via sysfs, along with a version number
allowing userspace to determine if a topology change has occurred while it
was reading from sysfs.
The interface between kfd and kgd also allows the kfd to request buffer
management services from kgd, and allows kgd to route interrupt requests to
kfd code since the interrupt block is shared between regular
graphics/compute and HSA compute subsystems in the GPU.

The kfd code works with an open source usermode library ("libhsakmt") which
is in the final stages of IP review and should be published in a separate
repo over the next few days.
The code operates in one of three modes, selectable via the sched_policy
module parameter :

- sched_policy=0 uses a hardware scheduler running in the MEC block within
CP, and allows oversubscription (more queues than HW slots)
- sched_policy=1 also uses HW scheduling but does not allow
oversubscription, so create_queue requests fail when we run out of HW slots
- sched_policy=2 does not use HW scheduling, so the driver manually assigns
queues to HW slots by programming registers

The "no HW scheduling" option is for debug & new hardware bringup only, so
has less test coverage than the other options. Default in the current code
is "HW scheduling without oversubscription" since that is where we have the
most test coverage but we expect to change the default to "HW scheduling
with oversubscription" after further testing. This effectively removes the
HW limit on the number of work queues available to applications.

Programs running on the GPU are associated with an address space through the
VMID field, which is translated to a unique PASID at access time via a set
of 16 VMID-to-PASID mapping registers. The available VMIDs (currently 16)
are partitioned (under control of the radeon kgd) between current
gfx/compute and HSA compute, with each getting 8 in the current code. The
VMID-to-PASID mapping registers are updated by the HW scheduler when used,
and by driver code if HW scheduling is not being used.
The Sea Islands compute queues use a new "doorbell" mechanism instead of the
earlier kernel-managed write pointer registers. Doorbells use a separate BAR
dedicated for this purpose, and pages within the doorbell aperture are
mapped to userspace (each page mapped to only one user address space).
Writes to the doorbell aperture are intercepted by GPU hardware, allowing
userspace code to safely manage work queues (rings) without requiring a
kernel call for every ring update.
First step for an application process is to open the kfd device. Calls to
open create a kfd "process" structure only for the first thread of the
process. Subsequent open calls are checked to see if they are from processes
using the same mm_struct and, if so, don't do anything. The kfd per-process
data lives as long as the mm_struct exists. Each mm_struct is associated
with a unique PASID, allowing the IOMMUv2 to make userspace process memory
accessible to the GPU.
Next step is for the application to collect topology information via sysfs.
This gives userspace enough information to be able to identify specific
nodes (processors) in subsequent queue management calls. Application
processes can create queues on multiple processors, and processors support
queues from multiple processes.
At this point the application can create work queues in userspace memory and
pass them through the usermode library to kfd to have them mapped onto HW
queue slots so that commands written to the queues can be executed by the
GPU. Queue operations specify a processor node, and so the bulk of this code
is device-specific.
Written by John Bridgman <John.Bridgman@xxxxxxx>


Alexey Skidanov (1):
   amdkfd: Implement the Get Process Aperture IOCTL

Andrew Lewycky (3):
   amdkfd: Add basic modules to amdkfd
   amdkfd: Add interrupt handling module
   amdkfd: Implement the Set Memory Policy IOCTL

Ben Goz (8):
   amdkfd: Add queue module
   amdkfd: Add mqd_manager module
   amdkfd: Add kernel queue module
   amdkfd: Add module parameter of scheduling policy
   amdkfd: Add packet manager module
   amdkfd: Add process queue manager module
   amdkfd: Add device queue manager module
   amdkfd: Implement the create/destroy/update queue IOCTLs

Evgeny Pinchuk (3):
   amdkfd: Add topology module to amdkfd
   amdkfd: Implement the Get Clock Counters IOCTL
   amdkfd: Implement the PMC Acquire/Release IOCTLs

Oded Gabbay (10):
   mm: Add kfd_process pointer to mm_struct
   drm/radeon: reduce number of free VMIDs and pipes in KV
   drm/radeon/cik: Don't touch int of pipes 1-7
   drm/radeon: Report doorbell configuration to amdkfd
   drm/radeon: adding synchronization for GRBM GFX
   drm/radeon: Add radeon <--> amdkfd interface
   Update MAINTAINERS and CREDITS files with amdkfd info
   amdkfd: Add IOCTL set definitions of amdkfd
   amdkfd: Add amdkfd skeleton driver
   amdkfd: Add binding/unbinding calls to amd_iommu driver

  CREDITS                                            |    7 +
  MAINTAINERS                                        |   10 +
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/Kconfig                     |    2 +
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/Makefile                    |    3 +
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/Kconfig              |   10 +
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/Makefile             |   14 +
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/cik_mqds.h           |  185 +++
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/cik_regs.h           |  220 ++++
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_aperture.c       |  123 ++
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_chardev.c        |  518 +++++++++
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_crat.h           |  294 +++++
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_device.c         |  254 ++++
  .../drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_device_queue_manager.c   |  985 ++++++++++++++++
  .../drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_device_queue_manager.h   |  101 ++
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_doorbell.c       |  264 +++++
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_interrupt.c      |  161 +++
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_kernel_queue.c   |  305 +++++
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_kernel_queue.h   |   66 ++
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_module.c         |  131 +++
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_mqd_manager.c    |  291 +++++
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_mqd_manager.h    |   54 +
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_packet_manager.c |  488 ++++++++
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_pasid.c          |   97 ++
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_pm4_headers.h    |  682 +++++++++++
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_pm4_opcodes.h    |  107 ++
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_priv.h           |  466 ++++++++
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_process.c        |  405 +++++++
  .../drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_process_queue_manager.c  |  343 ++++++
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_queue.c          |  109 ++
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_topology.c       | 1207 ++++++++++++++++++++
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_topology.h       |  168 +++
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_vidmem.c         |   96 ++
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/cik.c                       |  154 +--
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/cik_reg.h                   |   65 ++
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/cikd.h                      |   51 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.h                    |    9 +
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c             |   32 +
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_drv.c                |    5 +
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_kfd.c                |  566 +++++++++
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_kfd.h                |  119 ++
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_kms.c                |    7 +
  include/linux/mm_types.h                           |   14 +
  include/uapi/linux/kfd_ioctl.h                     |  133 +++
  43 files changed, 9226 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-)
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/Kconfig
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/Makefile
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/cik_mqds.h
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/cik_regs.h
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_aperture.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_chardev.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_crat.h
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_device.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_device_queue_manager.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_device_queue_manager.h
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_doorbell.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_interrupt.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_kernel_queue.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_kernel_queue.h
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_module.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_mqd_manager.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_mqd_manager.h
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_packet_manager.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_pasid.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_pm4_headers.h
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_pm4_opcodes.h
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_priv.h
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_process.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_process_queue_manager.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_queue.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_topology.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_topology.h
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/amdkfd/kfd_vidmem.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_kfd.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_kfd.h
  create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/kfd_ioctl.h

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