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| author | Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com> | 2023-08-29 12:30:03 -0400 |
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| committer | Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com> | 2023-09-07 17:29:22 -0400 |
| commit | 3d06add933cc0ccb41cf4ba531216b144e12609f (patch) | |
| tree | e31c672b36a54977c217ac76465f9a4516ab56eb /Documentation/gpu | |
| parent | eed5d32ea1e2a02ba7f14f493263614121a429a3 (diff) | |
| download | linux-3d06add933cc0ccb41cf4ba531216b144e12609f.tar.gz | |
drm/doc/rfc: Mark DRM_VM_BIND as complete.
The consensus is for individual drivers VM_BIND uapis with
the GPUVA helpers that are already implemented and merged
upstream.
The merged GPUVA documentation also establish some overall
rules for the locking to be followed by the drivers.
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Acked-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230829163005.54067-3-rodrigo.vivi@intel.com
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/gpu')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gpu/rfc/xe.rst | 34 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/rfc/xe.rst b/Documentation/gpu/rfc/xe.rst index bf60c5c82d0ed5..a115526c03e0e9 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/rfc/xe.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/rfc/xe.rst @@ -106,23 +106,6 @@ our tree. Missing Nouveau patches should *not* block Xe and any needed GPUVA related patch should be independent and present on dri-devel or acked by maintainers to go along with the first Xe pull request towards drm-next. -DRM_VM_BIND ------------ -Nouveau, and Xe are all implementing ‘VM_BIND’ and new ‘Exec’ uAPIs in order to -fulfill the needs of the modern uAPI. Xe merge should *not* be blocked on the -development of a common new drm_infrastructure. However, the Xe team needs to -engage with the community to explore the options of a common API. - -As a key measurable result, the DRM_VM_BIND needs to be documented in this file -below, or this entire block deleted if the consensus is for independent drivers -vm_bind ioctls. - -Although having a common DRM level IOCTL for VM_BIND is not a requirement to get -Xe merged, it is mandatory to enforce the overall locking scheme for all major -structs and list (so vm and vma). So, a consensus is needed, and possibly some -common helpers. If helpers are needed, they should be also documented in this -document. - ASYNC VM_BIND ------------- Although having a common DRM level IOCTL for VM_BIND is not a requirement to get @@ -230,3 +213,20 @@ Later, when we are in-tree, the goal is to collaborate with devcoredump infrastructure with overall possible improvements, like multiple file support for better organization of the dumps, snapshot support, dmesg extra print, and whatever may make sense and help the overall infrastructure. + +DRM_VM_BIND +----------- +Nouveau, and Xe are all implementing ‘VM_BIND’ and new ‘Exec’ uAPIs in order to +fulfill the needs of the modern uAPI. Xe merge should *not* be blocked on the +development of a common new drm_infrastructure. However, the Xe team needs to +engage with the community to explore the options of a common API. + +As a key measurable result, the DRM_VM_BIND needs to be documented in this file +below, or this entire block deleted if the consensus is for independent drivers +vm_bind ioctls. + +Although having a common DRM level IOCTL for VM_BIND is not a requirement to get +Xe merged, it is mandatory to enforce the overall locking scheme for all major +structs and list (so vm and vma). So, a consensus is needed, and possibly some +common helpers. If helpers are needed, they should be also documented in this +document. |