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author | 2025-02-06 13:47:32 +0100 | |
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committer | 2025-02-06 13:47:32 +0100 | |
commit | 93c7dd1b39444ebd5a6a98e56a363d7a4e646775 (patch) | |
tree | 6e186e041d4253059a0e6471cb444ea35da5db09 /Documentation/gpu | |
parent | drm/rockchip: vop2: Improve display modes handling on RK3588 HDMI0 (diff) | |
parent | Linux 6.14-rc1 (diff) | |
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Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next
Bring rc1 to start the new release dev.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gpu/drm-compute.rst | 54 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gpu/index.rst | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gpu/xe/index.rst | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gpu/xe/xe_devcoredump.rst | 14 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-compute.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-compute.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f90c3e63aa9e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-compute.rst @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +================================== +Long running workloads and compute +================================== + +Long running workloads (compute) are workloads that will not complete in 10 +seconds. (The time let the user wait before he reaches for the power button). +This means that other techniques need to be used to manage those workloads, +that cannot use fences. + +Some hardware may schedule compute jobs, and have no way to pre-empt them, or +have their memory swapped out from them. Or they simply want their workload +not to be preempted or swapped out at all. + +This means that it differs from what is described in driver-api/dma-buf.rst. + +As with normal compute jobs, dma-fence may not be used at all. In this case, +not even to force preemption. The driver with is simply forced to unmap a BO +from the long compute job's address space on unbind immediately, not even +waiting for the workload to complete. Effectively this terminates the workload +when there is no hardware support to recover. + +Since this is undesirable, there need to be mitigations to prevent a workload +from being terminated. There are several possible approach, all with their +advantages and drawbacks. + +The first approach you will likely try is to pin all buffers used by compute. +This guarantees that the job will run uninterrupted, but also allows a very +denial of service attack by pinning as much memory as possible, hogging the +all GPU memory, and possibly a huge chunk of CPU memory. + +A second approach that will work slightly better on its own is adding an option +not to evict when creating a new job (any kind). If all of userspace opts in +to this flag, it would prevent cooperating userspace from forced terminating +older compute jobs to start a new one. + +If job preemption and recoverable pagefaults are not available, those are the +only approaches possible. So even with those, you want a separate way of +controlling resources. The standard kernel way of doing so is cgroups. + +This creates a third option, using cgroups to prevent eviction. Both GPU and +driver-allocated CPU memory would be accounted to the correct cgroup, and +eviction would be made cgroup aware. This allows the GPU to be partitioned +into cgroups, that will allow jobs to run next to each other without +interference. + +The interface to the cgroup would be similar to the current CPU memory +interface, with similar semantics for min/low/high/max, if eviction can +be made cgroup aware. + +What should be noted is that each memory region (tiled memory for example) +should have its own accounting. + +The key is set to the regionid set by the driver, for example "tile0". +For the value of $card, we use drmGetUnique(). diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/index.rst b/Documentation/gpu/index.rst index 37e383ccf73f..7dcb15850afd 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/index.rst @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ GPU Driver Developer's Guide drm-usage-stats driver-uapi drm-client + drm-compute drivers backlight vga-switcheroo diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/xe/index.rst b/Documentation/gpu/xe/index.rst index 3f07aa3b5432..92cfb25e64d3 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/xe/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/xe/index.rst @@ -23,4 +23,5 @@ DG2, etc is provided to prototype the driver. xe_firmware xe_tile xe_debugging + xe_devcoredump xe-drm-usage-stats.rst diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/xe/xe_devcoredump.rst b/Documentation/gpu/xe/xe_devcoredump.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..ae4ec0e34dc0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/gpu/xe/xe_devcoredump.rst @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0+ OR MIT) + +================== +Xe Device Coredump +================== + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.c + :doc: Xe device coredump + +Internal API +============ + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.c + :internal: |