TTM takes full control over TTM_PL_SYSTEM placed buffers. This makes
driver internal usage of TTM_PL_SYSTEM prone to errors because it
requires the drivers to manually handle all interactions between TTM
which can swap out those buffers whenever it thinks it's the right
thing to do and driver.
CPU buffers which need to be fenced and shared with accelerators should
be placed in driver specific placements that can explicitly handle
CPU/accelerator buffer fencing.
Currently, apart, from things silently failing nothing is enforcing
that requirement which means that it's easy for drivers and new
developers to get this wrong. To avoid the confusion we can document
this requirement and clarify the solution.
This came up during a discussion on dri-devel:
https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/232f45e9-8748-1243-09bf-56763e6668b3@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Zack Rusin <zackr@vmware.com>
Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20211110145034.487512-1-zackr@vmware.com
Sometimes drivers need to use bounce buffers to evict BOs. While those reside
in some domain they are not necessarily suitable for CS.
Add a flag so that drivers can note that a bounce buffers needs to be
reallocated during validation.
v2: add detailed comments
v3 (chk): merge commits and rework commit message
Suggested-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Lang Yu <Lang.Yu@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Grodzovsky <andrey.grodzovsky@amd.com>
Acked-by: Nirmoy Das <nirmoy.das@amd.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210622162339.761651-1-andrey.grodzovsky@amd.com
Changing the caching on the fly never really worked
flawlessly.
So stop this completely and just let drivers specific the
desired caching in the tt or bus object.
Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael J. Ruhl <michael.j.ruhl@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/394256/
It's not supported to specify more than one of those flags.
So it never made sense to make this a flag in the first place.
Nuke the flags and specify directly which memory type to use.
Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/389826/?series=81551&rev=1
This allows drivers to specify if they need a contiguous allocation or not.
v2: use space instead of tab
Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolai Hähnle <nicolai.haehnle@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Makes more sense to keep that together.
Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Chunming Zhou <david1.zhou@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Either never used or not used in quite a while.
Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Chunming Zhou <david1.zhou@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Instead of keeping a bunch of potentially unused flags, just define
the start for private memory types and remove the rest.
Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Chunming Zhou <david1.zhou@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Clients like i915 need to segregate cache domains within the GTT which
can lead to small amounts of fragmentation. By allocating the uncached
buffers from the bottom and the cacheable buffers from the top, we can
reduce the amount of wasted space and also optimize allocation of the
mappable portion of the GTT to only those buffers that require CPU
access through the GTT.
For other drivers, allocating small bos from one end and large ones
from the other helps improve the quality of fragmentation.
Based on drm_mm work by Chris Wilson.
v3: Changed to use a TTM placement flag
v2: Updated kerneldoc
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
Cc: Christian König <deathsimple@vodafone.de>
Signed-off-by: Lauri Kasanen <cand@gmx.com>
Signed-off-by: David Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
TTM is a GPU memory manager subsystem designed for use with GPU
devices with various memory types (On-card VRAM, AGP,
PCI apertures etc.). It's essentially a helper library that assists
the DRM driver in creating and managing persistent buffer objects.
TTM manages placement of data and CPU map setup and teardown on
data movement. It can also optionally manage synchronization of
data on a per-buffer-object level.
TTM takes care to provide an always valid virtual user-space address
to a buffer object which makes user-space sub-allocation of
big buffer objects feasible.
TTM uses a fine-grained per buffer-object locking scheme, taking
care to release all relevant locks when waiting for the GPU.
Although this implies some locking overhead, it's probably a big
win for devices with multiple command submission mechanisms, since
the lock contention will be minimal.
TTM can be used with whatever user-space interface the driver
chooses, including GEM. It's used by the upcoming Radeon KMS DRM driver
and is also the GPU memory management core of various new experimental
DRM drivers.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
