Commit dad19630 authored by Thomas Hellström's avatar Thomas Hellström

Documentation/gpu: VM_BIND locking document

Add the first version of the VM_BIND locking document which is
intended to be part of the xe driver upstreaming agreement.

The document describes and discuss the locking used during exec-
functions, evicton and for userptr gpu-vmas. Intention is to be using the
same nomenclature as the drm-vm-bind-async.rst.

v2:
- s/gvm/gpu_vm/g (Rodrigo Vivi)
- Clarify the userptr seqlock with a pointer to mm/mmu_notifier.c
  (Rodrigo Vivi)
- Adjust commit message accordingly.
- Add SPDX license header.

v3:
- Large update to align with the drm_gpuvm manager locking
- Add "Efficient userptr gpu_vma exec function iteration" section
- Add "Locking at bind- and unbind time" section.

v4:
- Fix tabs vs space errors by untabifying (Rodrigo Vivi)
- Minor style fixes and typos (Rodrigo Vivi)
- Clarify situations where stale GPU mappings are occurring and how
  access through these mappings are blocked. (Rodrigo Vivi)
- Insert into the toctree in implementation_guidelines.rst

v5:
- Add a section about recoverable page-faults.
- Use local references to other documentation where possible
  (Bagas Sanjaya)
- General documentation fixes and typos (Danilo Krummrich and
  Boris Brezillon)
- Improve the documentation around locks that need to be grabbed from the
  dm-fence critical section (Boris Brezillon)
- Add more references to the DRM GPUVM helpers (Danilo Krummrich and
  Boriz Brezillon)
- Update the rfc/xe.rst document.

v6:
- Rework wording to improve readability (Boris Brezillon, Rodrigo Vivi,
  Bagas Sanjaya)
- Various minor fixes across the document (Boris Brezillon)

Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBoris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDanilo Krummrich <dakr@redhat.com>
Acked-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> # Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst changes
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20231129090637.2629-1-thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com
parent 8813e86f
......@@ -153,6 +153,8 @@ NOTE: Some pages, such as DAX pages, cannot be pinned with longterm pins. That's
because DAX pages do not have a separate page cache, and so "pinning" implies
locking down file system blocks, which is not (yet) supported in that way.
.. _mmu-notifier-registration-case:
CASE 3: MMU notifier registration, with or without page faulting hardware
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Device drivers can pin pages via get_user_pages*(), and register for mmu
......
......@@ -466,6 +466,8 @@ DRM MM Range Allocator Function References
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mm.c
:export:
.. _drm_gpuvm:
DRM GPUVM
=========
......@@ -481,6 +483,8 @@ Split and Merge
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpuvm.c
:doc: Split and Merge
.. _drm_gpuvm_locking:
Locking
-------
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......@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ Misc DRM driver uAPI- and feature implementation guidelines
.. toctree::
drm-vm-bind-async
drm-vm-bind-locking
......@@ -123,10 +123,15 @@ Documentation should include:
* O(1) complexity under VM_BIND.
The document is now included in the drm documentation :doc:`here </gpu/drm-vm-bind-async>`.
Some parts of userptr like mmu_notifiers should become GPUVA or DRM helpers when
the second driver supporting VM_BIND+userptr appears. Details to be defined when
the time comes.
The DRM GPUVM helpers do not yet include the userptr parts, but discussions
about implementing them are ongoing.
Long running compute: minimal data structure/scaffolding
--------------------------------------------------------
The generic scheduler code needs to include the handling of endless compute
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