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2 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Jérôme Glisse
f180bf12ac drm/nouveau/svm: new ioctl to migrate process memory to GPU memory
This add an ioctl to migrate a range of process address space to the
device memory. On platform without cache coherent bus (x86, ARM, ...)
this means that CPU can not access that range directly, instead CPU
will fault which will migrate the memory back to system memory.

This is behind a staging flag so that we can evolve the API.

Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
2019-02-20 09:00:03 +10:00
Ben Skeggs
eeaf06ac1a drm/nouveau/svm: initial support for shared virtual memory
This uses HMM to mirror a process' CPU page tables into a channel's page
tables, and keep them synchronised so that both the CPU and GPU are able
to access the same memory at the same virtual address.

While this code also supports Volta/Turing, it's only enabled for Pascal
GPUs currently due to channel recovery being unreliable right now on the
later GPUs.

Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2019-02-20 09:00:02 +10:00