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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst index 496d8fcd4da0..7dce175f6d75 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +.. Copyright 2020 DisplayLink (UK) Ltd. + =================== Userland interfaces =================== @@ -162,6 +164,116 @@ other hand, a driver requires shared state between clients which is visible to user-space and accessible beyond open-file boundaries, they cannot support render nodes. +Device Hot-Unplug +================= + +.. note:: + The following is the plan. Implementation is not there yet + (2020 May). + +Graphics devices (display and/or render) may be connected via USB (e.g. +display adapters or docking stations) or Thunderbolt (e.g. eGPU). An end +user is able to hot-unplug this kind of devices while they are being +used, and expects that the very least the machine does not crash. Any +damage from hot-unplugging a DRM device needs to be limited as much as +possible and userspace must be given the chance to handle it if it wants +to. Ideally, unplugging a DRM device still lets a desktop continue to +run, but that is going to need explicit support throughout the whole +graphics stack: from kernel and userspace drivers, through display +servers, via window system protocols, and in applications and libraries. + +Other scenarios that should lead to the same are: unrecoverable GPU +crash, PCI device disappearing off the bus, or forced unbind of a driver +from the physical device. + +In other words, from userspace perspective everything needs to keep on +working more or less, until userspace stops using the disappeared DRM +device and closes it completely. Userspace will learn of the device +disappearance from the device removed uevent, ioctls returning ENODEV +(or driver-specific ioctls returning driver-specific things), or open() +returning ENXIO. + +Only after userspace has closed all relevant DRM device and dmabuf file +descriptors and removed all mmaps, the DRM driver can tear down its +instance for the device that no longer exists. If the same physical +device somehow comes back in the mean time, it shall be a new DRM +device. + +Similar to PIDs, chardev minor numbers are not recycled immediately. A +new DRM device always picks the next free minor number compared to the +previous one allocated, and wraps around when minor numbers are +exhausted. + +The goal raises at least the following requirements for the kernel and +drivers. + +Requirements for KMS UAPI +------------------------- + +- KMS connectors must change their status to disconnected. + +- Legacy modesets and pageflips, and atomic commits, both real and + TEST_ONLY, and any other ioctls either fail with ENODEV or fake + success. + +- Pending non-blocking KMS operations deliver the DRM events userspace + is expecting. This applies also to ioctls that faked success. + +- open() on a device node whose underlying device has disappeared will + fail with ENXIO. + +- Attempting to create a DRM lease on a disappeared DRM device will + fail with ENODEV. Existing DRM leases remain and work as listed + above. + +Requirements for Render and Cross-Device UAPI +--------------------------------------------- + +- All GPU jobs that can no longer run must have their fences + force-signalled to avoid inflicting hangs on userspace. + The associated error code is ENODEV. + +- Some userspace APIs already define what should happen when the device + disappears (OpenGL, GL ES: `GL_KHR_robustness`_; `Vulkan`_: + VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST; etc.). DRM drivers are free to implement this + behaviour the way they see best, e.g. returning failures in + driver-specific ioctls and handling those in userspace drivers, or + rely on uevents, and so on. + +- dmabuf which point to memory that has disappeared will either fail to + import with ENODEV or continue to be successfully imported if it would + have succeeded before the disappearance. See also about memory maps + below for already imported dmabufs. + +- Attempting to import a dmabuf to a disappeared device will either fail + with ENODEV or succeed if it would have succeeded without the + disappearance. + +- open() on a device node whose underlying device has disappeared will + fail with ENXIO. + +.. _GL_KHR_robustness: https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL/extensions/KHR/KHR_robustness.txt +.. _Vulkan: https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/ + +Requirements for Memory Maps +---------------------------- + +Memory maps have further requirements that apply to both existing maps +and maps created after the device has disappeared. If the underlying +memory disappears, the map is created or modified such that reads and +writes will still complete successfully but the result is undefined. +This applies to both userspace mmap()'d memory and memory pointed to by +dmabuf which might be mapped to other devices (cross-device dmabuf +imports). + +Raising SIGBUS is not an option, because userspace cannot realistically +handle it. Signal handlers are global, which makes them extremely +difficult to use correctly from libraries like those that Mesa produces. +Signal handlers are not composable, you can't have different handlers +for GPU1 and GPU2 from different vendors, and a third handler for +mmapped regular files. Threads cause additional pain with signal +handling as well. + .. _drm_driver_ioctl: IOCTL Support on Device Nodes @@ -199,7 +311,7 @@ EPERM/EACCES: difference between EACCES and EPERM. ENODEV: - The device is not (yet) present or fully initialized. + The device is not present anymore or is not yet fully initialized. EOPNOTSUPP: Feature (like PRIME, modesetting, GEM) is not supported by the driver. |