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authorRodrigo Siqueira <[email protected]>2025-05-03 20:38:42 +0000
committerAlex Deucher <[email protected]>2025-05-07 21:41:35 +0000
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parentdrm/amdkfd: change error to warning message for SDMA queues creation (diff)
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drm/amdgpu: Add documentation to some parts of the AMDGPU ring and wb
Add some random documentation associated with the ring buffer manipulations and writeback. Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Siqueira <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu.h')
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1 files changed, 51 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu.h
index 7e5ae8f1f0a9..de57ab032cc7 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu.h
@@ -520,12 +520,62 @@ int amdgpu_file_to_fpriv(struct file *filp, struct amdgpu_fpriv **fpriv);
*/
#define AMDGPU_MAX_WB 1024 /* Reserve at most 1024 WB slots for amdgpu-owned rings. */
+/**
+ * amdgpu_wb - This struct is used for small GPU memory allocation.
+ *
+ * This struct is used to allocate a small amount of GPU memory that can be
+ * used to shadow certain states into the memory. This is especially useful for
+ * providing easy CPU access to some states without requiring register access
+ * (e.g., if some block is power gated, reading register may be problematic).
+ *
+ * Note: the term writeback was initially used because many of the amdgpu
+ * components had some level of writeback memory, and this struct initially
+ * described those components.
+ */
struct amdgpu_wb {
+
+ /**
+ * @wb_obj:
+ *
+ * Buffer Object used for the writeback memory.
+ */
struct amdgpu_bo *wb_obj;
+
+ /**
+ * @wb:
+ *
+ * Pointer to the first writeback slot. In terms of CPU address
+ * this value can be accessed directly by using the offset as an index.
+ * For the GPU address, it is necessary to use gpu_addr and the offset.
+ */
volatile uint32_t *wb;
+
+ /**
+ * @gpu_addr:
+ *
+ * Writeback base address in the GPU.
+ */
uint64_t gpu_addr;
- u32 num_wb; /* Number of wb slots actually reserved for amdgpu. */
+
+ /**
+ * @num_wb:
+ *
+ * Number of writeback slots reserved for amdgpu.
+ */
+ u32 num_wb;
+
+ /**
+ * @used:
+ *
+ * Track the writeback slot already used.
+ */
unsigned long used[DIV_ROUND_UP(AMDGPU_MAX_WB, BITS_PER_LONG)];
+
+ /**
+ * @lock:
+ *
+ * Protects read and write of the used field array.
+ */
spinlock_t lock;
};