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Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h | 45 |
1 files changed, 40 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h b/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h index 914ebd9290e5..05c3642aaece 100644 --- a/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h +++ b/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h @@ -1118,10 +1118,16 @@ struct drm_i915_gem_exec_object2 { /** * When the EXEC_OBJECT_PINNED flag is specified this is populated by * the user with the GTT offset at which this object will be pinned. + * * When the I915_EXEC_NO_RELOC flag is specified this must contain the * presumed_offset of the object. + * * During execbuffer2 the kernel populates it with the value of the * current GTT offset of the object, for future presumed_offset writes. + * + * See struct drm_i915_gem_create_ext for the rules when dealing with + * alignment restrictions with I915_MEMORY_CLASS_DEVICE, on devices with + * minimum page sizes, like DG2. */ __u64 offset; @@ -3144,11 +3150,40 @@ struct drm_i915_gem_create_ext { * * The (page-aligned) allocated size for the object will be returned. * - * Note that for some devices we have might have further minimum - * page-size restrictions(larger than 4K), like for device local-memory. - * However in general the final size here should always reflect any - * rounding up, if for example using the I915_GEM_CREATE_EXT_MEMORY_REGIONS - * extension to place the object in device local-memory. + * + * DG2 64K min page size implications: + * + * On discrete platforms, starting from DG2, we have to contend with GTT + * page size restrictions when dealing with I915_MEMORY_CLASS_DEVICE + * objects. Specifically the hardware only supports 64K or larger GTT + * page sizes for such memory. The kernel will already ensure that all + * I915_MEMORY_CLASS_DEVICE memory is allocated using 64K or larger page + * sizes underneath. + * + * Note that the returned size here will always reflect any required + * rounding up done by the kernel, i.e 4K will now become 64K on devices + * such as DG2. + * + * Special DG2 GTT address alignment requirement: + * + * The GTT alignment will also need to be at least 2M for such objects. + * + * Note that due to how the hardware implements 64K GTT page support, we + * have some further complications: + * + * 1) The entire PDE (which covers a 2MB virtual address range), must + * contain only 64K PTEs, i.e mixing 4K and 64K PTEs in the same + * PDE is forbidden by the hardware. + * + * 2) We still need to support 4K PTEs for I915_MEMORY_CLASS_SYSTEM + * objects. + * + * To keep things simple for userland, we mandate that any GTT mappings + * must be aligned to and rounded up to 2MB. The kernel will internally + * pad them out to the next 2MB boundary. As this only wastes virtual + * address space and avoids userland having to copy any needlessly + * complicated PDE sharing scheme (coloring) and only affects DG2, this + * is deemed to be a good compromise. */ __u64 size; /** |