A BO for a QAIC device has two states - 1. Allocated 2. Sliced A BO can be allocated at any time, and is initialized in the allocated state. A BO can transition to the sliced state via ATTACH_SLICE_BO. This prepares the BO for use with an active workload. Currently a BO in the sliced state can only be used with a single workload, and will only transition back to the allocated state once the workload is deactivated. Userspace would like the ability to trigger a BO transition from the sliced state to the allocated state. This would support the usecase of a userspace client that has two active workloads, where the output of the first workload becomes the input of the second workload. Currently, the client would need two BOs, once for each workload, and copy from one BO to the other. To support this usecase, we create the detach slice concept which is the inverse operation of ATTACH_SLICE_BO. We extend the uAPI with a new DETACH_SLICE_BO ioctl that allows userspace to perform this operation. Since ATTACH_SLICE_BO and DETACH_SLICE_BO are related operations, they share a decent amount of code. This series starts with restructuring the common code for use in both ioctls before finally adding the DETACH_SLICE_BO. Pranjal Ramajor Asha Kanojiya (7): accel/qaic: Remove ->size field from struct qaic_bo accel/qaic: Update BO metadata in a central location accel/qaic: Declare BO 'sliced' after all the operations are complete accel/qaic: Undo slicing setup done in qaic_attach_slicing_bo() accel/qaic: Clean up BO during flushing of transfer list accel/qaic: Create a function to initialize BO accel/qaic: Add QAIC_DETACH_SLICE_BO IOCTL Documentation/accel/qaic/qaic.rst | 10 ++ drivers/accel/qaic/qaic.h | 6 +- drivers/accel/qaic/qaic_data.c | 187 +++++++++++++++++++++++------- drivers/accel/qaic/qaic_drv.c | 1 + include/uapi/drm/qaic_accel.h | 24 +++- 5 files changed, 175 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-) -- 2.40.1