Skip to content
Commit 32d94048 authored by Chris Wilson's avatar Chris Wilson
Browse files

drm/i915/gem: Prepare gen7 cmdparser for async execution



The gen7 cmdparser is primarily a promotion-based system to allow access
to additional registers beyond the HW validation, and allows fallback to
normal execution of the user batch buffer if valid and requires
chaining. In the next patch, we will do the cmdparser validation in the
pipeline asynchronously and so at the point of request construction we
will not know if we want to execute the privileged and validated batch,
or the original user batch. The solution employed here is to execute
both batches, one with raised privileges and one as normal. This is
because the gen7 MI_BATCH_BUFFER_START command cannot change privilege
level within a batch and must strictly use the current privilege level
(or undefined behaviour kills the GPU). So in order to execute the
original batch, we need a second non-priviledged batch buffer chain from
the ring, i.e. we need to emit two batches for each user batch. Inside
the two batches we determine which one should actually execute, we
provide a conditional trampoline to call the original batch.

Implementation-wise, we create a single buffer and write the shadow and
the trampoline inside it at different offsets; and bind the buffer into
both the kernel GGTT for the privileged execution of the shadow and into
the user ppGTT for the non-privileged execution of the trampoline and
original batch. One buffer, two batches and two vma.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJoonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191211230858.599030-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
parent 7d929989
0% or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment