drm/i915/uapi: add NEEDS_CPU_ACCESS hint

If set, force the allocation to be placed in the mappable portion of
I915_MEMORY_CLASS_DEVICE. One big restriction here is that system memory
(i.e I915_MEMORY_CLASS_SYSTEM) must be given as a potential placement for the
object, that way we can always spill the object into system memory if we
can't make space.

Testcase: igt@gem-create@create-ext-cpu-access-sanity-check
Testcase: igt@gem-create@create-ext-cpu-access-big
Signed-off-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin@intel.com>
Cc: Jon Bloomfield <jon.bloomfield@intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
Cc: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth@whitecape.org>
Cc: Akeem G Abodunrin <akeem.g.abodunrin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Nirmoy Das <nirmoy.das@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220629174350.384910-6-matthew.auld@intel.com

1 files changed, 53 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h b/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h
index e4847436bab8..3e78a00220ea 100644
--- a/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h
+++ b/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h
@@ -3366,11 +3366,11 @@ struct drm_i915_query_memory_regions {
  * struct drm_i915_gem_create_ext - Existing gem_create behaviour, with added
  * extension support using struct i915_user_extension.
  *
- * Note that in the future we want to have our buffer flags here, at least for
- * the stuff that is immutable. Previously we would have two ioctls, one to
- * create the object with gem_create, and another to apply various parameters,
- * however this creates some ambiguity for the params which are considered
- * immutable. Also in general we're phasing out the various SET/GET ioctls.
+ * Note that new buffer flags should be added here, at least for the stuff that
+ * is immutable. Previously we would have two ioctls, one to create the object
+ * with gem_create, and another to apply various parameters, however this
+ * creates some ambiguity for the params which are considered immutable. Also in
+ * general we're phasing out the various SET/GET ioctls.
  */
 struct drm_i915_gem_create_ext {
 	/**
@@ -3378,7 +3378,6 @@ struct drm_i915_gem_create_ext {
 	 *
 	 * The (page-aligned) allocated size for the object will be returned.
 	 *
-	 *
 	 * DG2 64K min page size implications:
 	 *
 	 * On discrete platforms, starting from DG2, we have to contend with GTT
@@ -3390,7 +3389,9 @@ struct drm_i915_gem_create_ext {
 	 *
 	 * Note that the returned size here will always reflect any required
 	 * rounding up done by the kernel, i.e 4K will now become 64K on devices
-	 * such as DG2.
+	 * such as DG2. The kernel will always select the largest minimum
+	 * page-size for the set of possible placements as the value to use when
+	 * rounding up the @size.
 	 *
 	 * Special DG2 GTT address alignment requirement:
 	 *
@@ -3414,14 +3415,58 @@ struct drm_i915_gem_create_ext {
 	 * is deemed to be a good compromise.
 	 */
 	__u64 size;
+
 	/**
 	 * @handle: Returned handle for the object.
 	 *
 	 * Object handles are nonzero.
 	 */
 	__u32 handle;
-	/** @flags: MBZ */
+
+	/**
+	 * @flags: Optional flags.
+	 *
+	 * Supported values:
+	 *
+	 * I915_GEM_CREATE_EXT_FLAG_NEEDS_CPU_ACCESS - Signal to the kernel that
+	 * the object will need to be accessed via the CPU.
+	 *
+	 * Only valid when placing objects in I915_MEMORY_CLASS_DEVICE, and only
+	 * strictly required on configurations where some subset of the device
+	 * memory is directly visible/mappable through the CPU (which we also
+	 * call small BAR), like on some DG2+ systems. Note that this is quite
+	 * undesirable, but due to various factors like the client CPU, BIOS etc
+	 * it's something we can expect to see in the wild. See
+	 * &drm_i915_memory_region_info.probed_cpu_visible_size for how to
+	 * determine if this system applies.
+	 *
+	 * Note that one of the placements MUST be I915_MEMORY_CLASS_SYSTEM, to
+	 * ensure the kernel can always spill the allocation to system memory,
+	 * if the object can't be allocated in the mappable part of
+	 * I915_MEMORY_CLASS_DEVICE.
+	 *
+	 * Also note that since the kernel only supports flat-CCS on objects
+	 * that can *only* be placed in I915_MEMORY_CLASS_DEVICE, we therefore
+	 * don't support I915_GEM_CREATE_EXT_FLAG_NEEDS_CPU_ACCESS together with
+	 * flat-CCS.
+	 *
+	 * Without this hint, the kernel will assume that non-mappable
+	 * I915_MEMORY_CLASS_DEVICE is preferred for this object. Note that the
+	 * kernel can still migrate the object to the mappable part, as a last
+	 * resort, if userspace ever CPU faults this object, but this might be
+	 * expensive, and so ideally should be avoided.
+	 *
+	 * On older kernels which lack the relevant small-bar uAPI support (see
+	 * also &drm_i915_memory_region_info.probed_cpu_visible_size),
+	 * usage of the flag will result in an error, but it should NEVER be
+	 * possible to end up with a small BAR configuration, assuming we can
+	 * also successfully load the i915 kernel module. In such cases the
+	 * entire I915_MEMORY_CLASS_DEVICE region will be CPU accessible, and as
+	 * such there are zero restrictions on where the object can be placed.
+	 */
+#define I915_GEM_CREATE_EXT_FLAG_NEEDS_CPU_ACCESS (1 << 0)
 	__u32 flags;
+
 	/**
 	 * @extensions: The chain of extensions to apply to this object.
 	 *