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    vfio/nvgrace-gpu: Add vfio pci variant module for grace hopper · 701ab935
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    NVIDIA's upcoming Grace Hopper Superchip provides a PCI-like device
    for the on-chip GPU that is the logical OS representation of the
    internal proprietary chip-to-chip cache coherent interconnect.
    
    The device is peculiar compared to a real PCI device in that whilst
    there is a real 64b PCI BAR1 (comprising region 2 & region 3) on the
    device, it is not used to access device memory once the faster
    chip-to-chip interconnect is initialized (occurs at the time of host
    system boot). The device memory is accessed instead using the chip-to-chip
    interconnect that is exposed as a contiguous physically addressable
    region on the host. This device memory aperture can be obtained from host
    ACPI table using device_property_read_u64(), according to the FW
    specification. Since the device memory is cache coherent with the CPU,
    it can be mmap into the user VMA with a cacheable mapping using
    remap_pfn_range() and used like a regular RAM. The device memory
    is not added to the host kernel, but mapped directly as this reduces
    memory wastage due to struct pages.
    
    There is also a requirement of a minimum reserved 1G uncached region
    (termed as resmem) to support the Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) feature [1].
    This is to work around a HW defect. Based on [2], the requisite properties
    (uncached, unaligned access) can be achieved through a VM mapping (S1)
    of NORMAL_NC and host (S2) mapping with MemAttr[2:0]=0b101. To provide
    a different non-cached property to the reserved 1G region, it needs to
    be carved out from the device memory and mapped as a separate region
    in Qemu VMA with pgprot_writecombine(). pgprot_writecombine() sets the
    Qemu VMA page properties (pgprot) as NORMAL_NC.
    
    Provide a VFIO PCI variant driver that adapts the unique device memory
    representation into a more standard PCI representation facing userspace.
    
    The variant driver exposes these two regions - the non-cached reserved
    (resmem) and the cached rest of the device memory (termed as usemem) as
    separate VFIO 64b BAR regions. This is divergent from the baremetal
    approach, where the device memory is exposed as a device memory region.
    The decision for a different approach was taken in view of the fact that
    it would necessiate additional code in Qemu to discover and insert those
    regions in the VM IPA, along with the additional VM ACPI DSDT changes to
    communicate the device memory region IPA to the VM workloads. Moreover,
    this behavior would have to be added to a variety of emulators (beyond
    top of tree Qemu) out there desiring grace hopper support.
    
    Since the device implements 64-bit BAR0, the VFIO PCI variant driver
    maps the uncached carved out region to the next available PCI BAR (i.e.
    comprising of region 2 and 3). The cached device memory aperture is
    assigned BAR region 4 and 5. Qemu will then naturally generate a PCI
    device in the VM with the uncached aperture reported as BAR2 region,
    the cacheable as BAR4. The variant driver provides emulation for these
    fake BARs' PCI config space offset registers.
    
    The hardware ensures that the system does not crash when the memory
    is accessed with the memory enable turned off. It synthesis ~0 reads
    and dropped writes on such access. So there is no need to support the
    disablement/enablement of BAR through PCI_COMMAND config space register.
    
    The memory layout on the host looks like the following:
                   devmem (memlength)
    |--------------------------------------------------|
    |-------------cached------------------------|--NC--|
    |                                           |
    usemem.memphys                              resmem.memphys
    
    PCI BARs need to be aligned to the power-of-2, but the actual memory on the
    device may not. A read or write access to the physical address from the
    last device PFN up to the next power-of-2 aligned physical address
    results in reading ~0 and dropped writes. Note that the GPU device
    driver [6] is capable of knowing the exact device memory size through
    separate means. The device memory size is primarily kept in the system
    ACPI tables for use by the VFIO PCI variant module.
    
    Note that the usemem memory is added by the VM Nvidia device driver [5]
    to the VM kernel as memblocks. Hence make the usable memory size memblock
    (MEMBLK_SIZE) aligned. This is a hardwired ABI value between the GPU FW and
    VFIO driver. The VM device driver make use of the same value for its
    calculation to determine USEMEM size.
    
    Currently there is no provision in KVM for a S2 mapping with
    MemAttr[2:0]=0b101, but there is an ongoing effort to provide the same [3].
    As previously mentioned, resmem is mapped pgprot_writecombine(), that
    sets the Qemu VMA page properties (pgprot) as NORMAL_NC. Using the
    proposed changes in [3] and [4], KVM marks the region with
    MemAttr[2:0]=0b101 in S2.
    
    If the device memory properties are not present, the driver registers the
    vfio-pci-core function pointers. Since there are no ACPI memory properties
    generated for the VM, the variant driver inside the VM will only use
    the vfio-pci-core ops and hence try to map the BARs as non cached. This
    is not a problem as the CPUs have FWB enabled which blocks the VM
    mapping's ability to override the cacheability set by the host mapping.
    
    This goes along with a qemu series [6] to provides the necessary
    implementation of the Grace Hopper Superchip firmware specification so
    that the guest operating system can see the correct ACPI modeling for
    the coherent GPU device. Verified with the CUDA workload in the VM.
    
    [1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-in/technologies/multi-instance-gpu/
    [2] section D8.5.5 of https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0487/latest/
    [3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240211174705.31992-1-ankita@nvidia.com/
    [4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230907181459.18145-2-ankita@nvidia.com/
    [5] https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules
    [6] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231203060245.31593-1-ankita@nvidia.com/Reviewed-by: default avatarKevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarYishai Hadas <yishaih@nvidia.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarZhi Wang <zhi.wang.linux@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAniket Agashe <aniketa@nvidia.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAnkit Agrawal <ankita@nvidia.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240220115055.23546-4-ankita@nvidia.comSigned-off-by: default avatarAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
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