Re: [PATCH v3 00/17] 48-bit PPGTT

[Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 04:27:16PM +0100, Michel Thierry wrote:
> These are the rebased patches, after Mika's final ppgtt clean-up series landed
> (it relies in the macros added). New functions also follow these changes.
> 
> In order expand the GPU address space, a 4th level translation is added, the
> Page Map Level 4 (PML4). This PML4 has 256 PML4 Entries (PML4E), PML4[0-255],
> each pointing to a PDP. All the existing "dynamic alloc ppgtt" functions are
> used, only adding the 4th level changes. I also updated some remaining
> variables that were 32b only.
> 
> There are 2 hardware workarounds needed to allow correct operation with 48b
> addresses (Wa32bitGeneralStateOffset & Wa32bitInstructionBaseOffset). This
> new patchset version includes the comments and suggestions from Chris Wilson.
> A flag (EXEC_OBJECT_SUPPORTS_48B_ADDRESS) will indicate if a given object can be
> allocated outside the first 4 PDPs; if not, the end range is forced to 4GB. Also,
> more objects now use the DRM_MM_CREATE_TOP flag. To maintain compatibility, in
> libdrm I added a new drm_intel_bo_emit_reloc_48bit function that will flag
> these objects, while the existing drm_intel_bo_emit_reloc clears it.
> 
> Finally, this feature is only available in BDW and Gen9, requires LRC submission
> mode (execlists) and it can be detected by i915.enable_ppgtt=3.
> 
> Also note that this expanded address space is only available for full PPGTT,
> aliasing PPGTT and Global GTT remain 32-bit.
> 
> Michel Thierry (17):
>   drm/i915: Remove unnecessary gen8_clamp_pd
>   drm/i915/gen8: Make pdp allocation more dynamic
>   drm/i915/gen8: Abstract PDP usage
>   drm/i915/gen8: Add dynamic page trace events
>   drm/i915/gen8: implement alloc/free for 4lvl
>   drm/i915/gen8: Add 4 level switching infrastructure and lrc support
>   drm/i915/gen8: Generalize PTE writing for GEN8 PPGTT
>   drm/i915/gen8: Pass sg_iter through pte inserts
>   drm/i915/gen8: Add 4 level support in insert_entries and clear_range
>   drm/i915/gen8: Initialize PDPs
>   drm/i915: Expand error state's address width to 64b
>   drm/i915/gen8: Add ppgtt info and debug_dump
>   drm/i915: object size needs to be u64
>   drm/i915: batch_obj vm offset must be u64
>   drm/i915/userptr: Kill user_size limit check
>   drm/i915: Wa32bitGeneralStateOffset & Wa32bitInstructionBaseOffset
>   drm/i915/gen8: Flip the 48b switch

Please start a new thread when resending the entire patch series. Only
in-reply-to parts of a series. It's harder to piece the series together
this way and hence doesn't really improve things compared to just
in-reply-to all the patches individually. The point of a full resend is to
make restart/consolidate the review discussions.

But don't resend this one here now since that will make a discussion split
guaranteed.
-Daniel

> 
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c        |  18 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h            |  17 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c            |  22 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c |  10 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c        | 649 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.h        |  66 ++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c    |   4 -
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.c      |  17 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.c         |   2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h            |   1 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_trace.h          |  16 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c           |  65 ++-
>  include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h                |   3 +-
>  13 files changed, 725 insertions(+), 165 deletions(-)
> 
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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