Commit 57f01986 authored by Alex Deucher's avatar Alex Deucher
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drm/amdgpu: add GART, GPUVM, and GTT to glossary



Add definitions to clarify GPU virtual memory.

v2: clarify the terms a bit more

Reviewed-by: default avatarChristian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarLuben Tuikov <luben.tuikov@amd.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarPeter Maucher <bellosilicio@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221201214153.8453-1-alexander.deucher@amd.com
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    EOP
      End Of Pipe/Pipeline

    GART
      Graphics Address Remapping Table.  This is the name we use for the GPUVM
      page table used by the GPU kernel driver.  It remaps system resources
      (memory or MMIO space) into the GPU's address space so the GPU can access
      them.  The name GART harkens back to the days of AGP when the platform
      provided an MMU that the GPU could use to get a contiguous view of
      scattered pages for DMA.  The MMU has since moved on to the GPU, but the
      name stuck.

    GC
      Graphics and Compute

    GMC
      Graphic Memory Controller

    GPUVM
      GPU Virtual Memory.  This is the GPU's MMU.  The GPU supports multiple
      virtual address spaces that can be in flight at any given time.  These
      allow the GPU to remap VRAM and system resources into GPU virtual address
      spaces for use by the GPU kernel driver and applications using the GPU.
      These provide memory protection for different applications using the GPU.

    GTT
      Graphics Translation Tables.  This is a memory pool managed through TTM
      which provides access to system resources (memory or MMIO space) for
      use by the GPU. These addresses can be mapped into the "GART" GPUVM page
      table for use by the kernel driver or into per process GPUVM page tables
      for application usage.

    IH
      Interrupt Handler