<sect2>
<title>The Translation Table Manager (TTM)</title>
<para>
- TTM design background and information belongs here.
+ TTM design background and information belongs here.
</para>
<sect3>
- <title>TTM initialization</title>
+ <title>TTM initialization</title>
<warning><para>This section is outdated.</para></warning>
<para>
Drivers wishing to support TTM must fill out a drm_bo_driver
pointers for initializing the TTM, allocating and freeing memory,
waiting for command completion and fence synchronization, and memory
migration. See the radeon_ttm.c file for an example of usage.
- </para>
- <para>
- The ttm_global_reference structure is made up of several fields:
- </para>
- <programlisting>
- struct ttm_global_reference {
- enum ttm_global_types global_type;
- size_t size;
- void *object;
- int (*init) (struct ttm_global_reference *);
- void (*release) (struct ttm_global_reference *);
- };
- </programlisting>
- <para>
- There should be one global reference structure for your memory
- manager as a whole, and there will be others for each object
- created by the memory manager at runtime. Your global TTM should
- have a type of TTM_GLOBAL_TTM_MEM. The size field for the global
- object should be sizeof(struct ttm_mem_global), and the init and
- release hooks should point at your driver-specific init and
- release routines, which probably eventually call
- ttm_mem_global_init and ttm_mem_global_release, respectively.
- </para>
- <para>
- Once your global TTM accounting structure is set up and initialized
- by calling ttm_global_item_ref() on it,
- you need to create a buffer object TTM to
- provide a pool for buffer object allocation by clients and the
- kernel itself. The type of this object should be TTM_GLOBAL_TTM_BO,
- and its size should be sizeof(struct ttm_bo_global). Again,
- driver-specific init and release functions may be provided,
- likely eventually calling ttm_bo_global_init() and
- ttm_bo_global_release(), respectively. Also, like the previous
- object, ttm_global_item_ref() is used to create an initial reference
- count for the TTM, which will call your initialization function.
- </para>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The ttm_global_reference structure is made up of several fields:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>
+ struct ttm_global_reference {
+ enum ttm_global_types global_type;
+ size_t size;
+ void *object;
+ int (*init) (struct ttm_global_reference *);
+ void (*release) (struct ttm_global_reference *);
+ };
+ </programlisting>
+ <para>
+ There should be one global reference structure for your memory
+ manager as a whole, and there will be others for each object
+ created by the memory manager at runtime. Your global TTM should
+ have a type of TTM_GLOBAL_TTM_MEM. The size field for the global
+ object should be sizeof(struct ttm_mem_global), and the init and
+ release hooks should point at your driver-specific init and
+ release routines, which probably eventually call
+ ttm_mem_global_init and ttm_mem_global_release, respectively.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Once your global TTM accounting structure is set up and initialized
+ by calling ttm_global_item_ref() on it,
+ you need to create a buffer object TTM to
+ provide a pool for buffer object allocation by clients and the
+ kernel itself. The type of this object should be TTM_GLOBAL_TTM_BO,
+ and its size should be sizeof(struct ttm_bo_global). Again,
+ driver-specific init and release functions may be provided,
+ likely eventually calling ttm_bo_global_init() and
+ ttm_bo_global_release(), respectively. Also, like the previous
+ object, ttm_global_item_ref() is used to create an initial reference
+ count for the TTM, which will call your initialization function.
+ </para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="drm-gem">
using driver-specific ioctls.
</para>
<para>
- On a fundamental level, GEM involves several operations:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>Memory allocation and freeing</listitem>
- <listitem>Command execution</listitem>
- <listitem>Aperture management at command execution time</listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- Buffer object allocation is relatively straightforward and largely
+ On a fundamental level, GEM involves several operations:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>Memory allocation and freeing</listitem>
+ <listitem>Command execution</listitem>
+ <listitem>Aperture management at command execution time</listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ Buffer object allocation is relatively straightforward and largely
provided by Linux's shmem layer, which provides memory to back each
object.
</para>
<para>
Device-specific operations, such as command execution, pinning, buffer
- read & write, mapping, and domain ownership transfers are left to
+ read & write, mapping, and domain ownership transfers are left to
driver-specific ioctls.
</para>
<sect3>
respectively. The conversion is handled by the DRM core without any
driver-specific support.
</para>
- <para>
- GEM also supports buffer sharing with dma-buf file descriptors through
- PRIME. GEM-based drivers must use the provided helpers functions to
- implement the exporting and importing correctly. See <xref linkend="drm-prime-support" />.
- Since sharing file descriptors is inherently more secure than the
- easily guessable and global GEM names it is the preferred buffer
- sharing mechanism. Sharing buffers through GEM names is only supported
- for legacy userspace. Furthermore PRIME also allows cross-device
- buffer sharing since it is based on dma-bufs.
- </para>
+ <para>
+ GEM also supports buffer sharing with dma-buf file descriptors through
+ PRIME. GEM-based drivers must use the provided helpers functions to
+ implement the exporting and importing correctly. See <xref linkend="drm-prime-support" />.
+ Since sharing file descriptors is inherently more secure than the
+ easily guessable and global GEM names it is the preferred buffer
+ sharing mechanism. Sharing buffers through GEM names is only supported
+ for legacy userspace. Furthermore PRIME also allows cross-device
+ buffer sharing since it is based on dma-bufs.
+ </para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="drm-gem-objects-mapping">
<title>GEM Objects Mapping</title>
<sect3>
<title>Command Execution</title>
<para>
- Perhaps the most important GEM function for GPU devices is providing a
+ Perhaps the most important GEM function for GPU devices is providing a
command execution interface to clients. Client programs construct
command buffers containing references to previously allocated memory
objects, and then submit them to GEM. At that point, GEM takes care to
<title>GEM Function Reference</title>
!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c
</sect3>
- </sect2>
- <sect2>
- <title>VMA Offset Manager</title>
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2>
+ <title>VMA Offset Manager</title>
!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_vma_manager.c vma offset manager
!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_vma_manager.c
!Iinclude/drm/drm_vma_manager.h
- </sect2>
- <sect2 id="drm-prime-support">
- <title>PRIME Buffer Sharing</title>
- <para>
- PRIME is the cross device buffer sharing framework in drm, originally
- created for the OPTIMUS range of multi-gpu platforms. To userspace
- PRIME buffers are dma-buf based file descriptors.
- </para>
- <sect3>
- <title>Overview and Driver Interface</title>
- <para>
- Similar to GEM global names, PRIME file descriptors are
- also used to share buffer objects across processes. They offer
- additional security: as file descriptors must be explicitly sent over
- UNIX domain sockets to be shared between applications, they can't be
- guessed like the globally unique GEM names.
- </para>
- <para>
- Drivers that support the PRIME
- API must set the DRIVER_PRIME bit in the struct
- <structname>drm_driver</structname>
- <structfield>driver_features</structfield> field, and implement the
- <methodname>prime_handle_to_fd</methodname> and
- <methodname>prime_fd_to_handle</methodname> operations.
- </para>
- <para>
- <synopsis>int (*prime_handle_to_fd)(struct drm_device *dev,
- struct drm_file *file_priv, uint32_t handle,
- uint32_t flags, int *prime_fd);
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2 id="drm-prime-support">
+ <title>PRIME Buffer Sharing</title>
+ <para>
+ PRIME is the cross device buffer sharing framework in drm, originally
+ created for the OPTIMUS range of multi-gpu platforms. To userspace
+ PRIME buffers are dma-buf based file descriptors.
+ </para>
+ <sect3>
+ <title>Overview and Driver Interface</title>
+ <para>
+ Similar to GEM global names, PRIME file descriptors are
+ also used to share buffer objects across processes. They offer
+ additional security: as file descriptors must be explicitly sent over
+ UNIX domain sockets to be shared between applications, they can't be
+ guessed like the globally unique GEM names.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Drivers that support the PRIME
+ API must set the DRIVER_PRIME bit in the struct
+ <structname>drm_driver</structname>
+ <structfield>driver_features</structfield> field, and implement the
+ <methodname>prime_handle_to_fd</methodname> and
+ <methodname>prime_fd_to_handle</methodname> operations.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <synopsis>int (*prime_handle_to_fd)(struct drm_device *dev,
+ struct drm_file *file_priv, uint32_t handle,
+ uint32_t flags, int *prime_fd);
int (*prime_fd_to_handle)(struct drm_device *dev,
- struct drm_file *file_priv, int prime_fd,
- uint32_t *handle);</synopsis>
- Those two operations convert a handle to a PRIME file descriptor and
- vice versa. Drivers must use the kernel dma-buf buffer sharing framework
- to manage the PRIME file descriptors. Similar to the mode setting
- API PRIME is agnostic to the underlying buffer object manager, as
- long as handles are 32bit unsigned integers.
- </para>
- <para>
- While non-GEM drivers must implement the operations themselves, GEM
- drivers must use the <function>drm_gem_prime_handle_to_fd</function>
- and <function>drm_gem_prime_fd_to_handle</function> helper functions.
- Those helpers rely on the driver
- <methodname>gem_prime_export</methodname> and
- <methodname>gem_prime_import</methodname> operations to create a dma-buf
- instance from a GEM object (dma-buf exporter role) and to create a GEM
- object from a dma-buf instance (dma-buf importer role).
- </para>
- <para>
- <synopsis>struct dma_buf * (*gem_prime_export)(struct drm_device *dev,
- struct drm_gem_object *obj,
- int flags);
+ struct drm_file *file_priv, int prime_fd,
+ uint32_t *handle);</synopsis>
+ Those two operations convert a handle to a PRIME file descriptor and
+ vice versa. Drivers must use the kernel dma-buf buffer sharing framework
+ to manage the PRIME file descriptors. Similar to the mode setting
+ API PRIME is agnostic to the underlying buffer object manager, as
+ long as handles are 32bit unsigned integers.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ While non-GEM drivers must implement the operations themselves, GEM
+ drivers must use the <function>drm_gem_prime_handle_to_fd</function>
+ and <function>drm_gem_prime_fd_to_handle</function> helper functions.
+ Those helpers rely on the driver
+ <methodname>gem_prime_export</methodname> and
+ <methodname>gem_prime_import</methodname> operations to create a dma-buf
+ instance from a GEM object (dma-buf exporter role) and to create a GEM
+ object from a dma-buf instance (dma-buf importer role).
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <synopsis>struct dma_buf * (*gem_prime_export)(struct drm_device *dev,
+ struct drm_gem_object *obj,
+ int flags);
struct drm_gem_object * (*gem_prime_import)(struct drm_device *dev,
- struct dma_buf *dma_buf);</synopsis>
- These two operations are mandatory for GEM drivers that support
- PRIME.
- </para>
- </sect3>
- <sect3>
- <title>PRIME Helper Functions</title>
-!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c PRIME Helpers
+ struct dma_buf *dma_buf);</synopsis>
+ These two operations are mandatory for GEM drivers that support
+ PRIME.
+ </para>
</sect3>
- </sect2>
- <sect2>
- <title>PRIME Function References</title>
+ <sect3>
+ <title>PRIME Helper Functions</title>
+!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c PRIME Helpers
+ </sect3>
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2>
+ <title>PRIME Function References</title>
!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c
- </sect2>
- <sect2>
- <title>DRM MM Range Allocator</title>
- <sect3>
- <title>Overview</title>
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2>
+ <title>DRM MM Range Allocator</title>
+ <sect3>
+ <title>Overview</title>
!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_mm.c Overview
- </sect3>
- <sect3>
- <title>LRU Scan/Eviction Support</title>
+ </sect3>
+ <sect3>
+ <title>LRU Scan/Eviction Support</title>
!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_mm.c lru scan roaster
- </sect3>
+ </sect3>
</sect2>
- <sect2>
- <title>DRM MM Range Allocator Function References</title>
+ <sect2>
+ <title>DRM MM Range Allocator Function References</title>
!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_mm.c
!Iinclude/drm/drm_mm.h
- </sect2>
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2>
+ <title>CMA Helper Functions Reference</title>
+!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_cma_helper.c cma helpers
+!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_cma_helper.c
+!Iinclude/drm/drm_gem_cma_helper.h
+ </sect2>
</sect1>
<!-- Internals: mode setting -->
!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_modes.c
</sect2>
<sect2>
+ <title>Atomic Mode Setting Function Reference</title>
+!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2>
<title>Frame Buffer Creation</title>
<synopsis>struct drm_framebuffer *(*fb_create)(struct drm_device *dev,
struct drm_file *file_priv,
!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c
</sect2>
<sect2>
+ <title>KMS Data Structures</title>
+!Iinclude/drm/drm_crtc.h
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2>
<title>KMS Locking</title>
!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_modeset_lock.c kms locking
!Iinclude/drm/drm_modeset_lock.h
and then retrieves a list of modes by calling the connector
<methodname>get_modes</methodname> helper operation.
</para>
+ <para>
+ If the helper operation returns no mode, and if the connector status
+ is connector_status_connected, standard VESA DMT modes up to
+ 1024x768 are automatically added to the modes list by a call to
+ <function>drm_add_modes_noedid</function>.
+ </para>
<para>
- The function filters out modes larger than
+ The function then filters out modes larger than
<parameter>max_width</parameter> and <parameter>max_height</parameter>
- if specified. It then calls the optional connector
+ if specified. It finally calls the optional connector
<methodname>mode_valid</methodname> helper operation for each mode in
the probed list to check whether the mode is valid for the connector.
</para>
<synopsis>int (*get_modes)(struct drm_connector *connector);</synopsis>
<para>
Fill the connector's <structfield>probed_modes</structfield> list
- by parsing EDID data with <function>drm_add_edid_modes</function> or
- calling <function>drm_mode_probed_add</function> directly for every
+ by parsing EDID data with <function>drm_add_edid_modes</function>,
+ adding standard VESA DMT modes with <function>drm_add_modes_noedid</function>,
+ or calling <function>drm_mode_probed_add</function> directly for every
supported mode and return the number of modes it has detected. This
operation is mandatory.
</para>
<para>
+ Note that the caller function will automatically add standard VESA
+ DMT modes up to 1024x768 if the <methodname>get_modes</methodname>
+ helper operation returns no mode and if the connector status is
+ connector_status_connected. There is no need to call
+ <function>drm_add_edid_modes</function> manually in that case.
+ </para>
+ <para>
When adding modes manually the driver creates each mode with a call to
<function>drm_mode_create</function> and must fill the following fields.
<itemizedlist>
<function>drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes</function>.
</para>
<para>
- When parsing EDID data, <function>drm_add_edid_modes</function> fill the
+ When parsing EDID data, <function>drm_add_edid_modes</function> fills the
connector <structfield>display_info</structfield>
<structfield>width_mm</structfield> and
<structfield>height_mm</structfield> fields. When creating modes
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2>
+ <title>Atomic Modeset Helper Functions Reference</title>
+ <sect3>
+ <title>Overview</title>
+!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c overview
+ </sect3>
+ <sect3>
+ <title>Implementing Asynchronous Atomic Commit</title>
+!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c implementing async commit
+ </sect3>
+ <sect3>
+ <title>Atomic State Reset and Initialization</title>
+!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c atomic state reset and initialization
+ </sect3>
+!Iinclude/drm/drm_atomic_helper.h
+!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2>
<title>Modeset Helper Functions Reference</title>
!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc_helper.c
+!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc_helper.c overview
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Output Probing Helper Functions Reference</title>
!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c
</sect2>
<sect2>
+ <title>MIPI DSI Helper Functions Reference</title>
+!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c dsi helpers
+!Iinclude/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.h
+!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2>
<title>EDID Helper Functions Reference</title>
!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
</sect2>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title id="drm-kms-planehelpers">Plane Helper Reference</title>
-!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane_helper.c Plane Helpers
+!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane_helper.c
+!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane_helper.c overview
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Tile group</title>
+!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c Tile group
</sect2>
</sect1>
<td valign="top" >Description/Restrictions</td>
</tr>
<tr>
- <td rowspan="21" valign="top" >DRM</td>
- <td rowspan="2" valign="top" >Generic</td>
+ <td rowspan="25" valign="top" >DRM</td>
+ <td rowspan="4" valign="top" >Generic</td>
<td valign="top" >“EDID”</td>
<td valign="top" >BLOB | IMMUTABLE</td>
<td valign="top" >0</td>
<td valign="top" >Contains DPMS operation mode value.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
+ <td valign="top" >“PATH”</td>
+ <td valign="top" >BLOB | IMMUTABLE</td>
+ <td valign="top" >0</td>
+ <td valign="top" >Connector</td>
+ <td valign="top" >Contains topology path to a connector.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" >“TILE”</td>
+ <td valign="top" >BLOB | IMMUTABLE</td>
+ <td valign="top" >0</td>
+ <td valign="top" >Connector</td>
+ <td valign="top" >Contains tiling information for a connector.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
<td rowspan="1" valign="top" >Plane</td>
<td valign="top" >“type”</td>
<td valign="top" >ENUM | IMMUTABLE</td>
<td valign="top" >TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
+ <td rowspan="2" valign="top" >Virtual GPU</td>
+ <td valign="top" >“suggested X”</td>
+ <td valign="top" >RANGE</td>
+ <td valign="top" >Min=0, Max=0xffffffff</td>
+ <td valign="top" >Connector</td>
+ <td valign="top" >property to suggest an X offset for a connector</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" >“suggested Y”</td>
+ <td valign="top" >RANGE</td>
+ <td valign="top" >Min=0, Max=0xffffffff</td>
+ <td valign="top" >Connector</td>
+ <td valign="top" >property to suggest an Y offset for a connector</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
<td rowspan="3" valign="top" >Optional</td>
<td valign="top" >“scaling mode”</td>
<td valign="top" >ENUM</td>
those have basic support through the gma500 drm driver.
</para>
<sect1>
+ <title>Core Driver Infrastructure</title>
+ <para>
+ This section covers core driver infrastructure used by both the display
+ and the GEM parts of the driver.
+ </para>
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Runtime Power Management</title>
+!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_runtime_pm.c runtime pm
+!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_runtime_pm.c
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Interrupt Handling</title>
+!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c interrupt handling
+!Fdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c intel_irq_init intel_irq_init_hw intel_hpd_init
+!Fdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c intel_irq_fini
+!Fdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c intel_runtime_pm_disable_interrupts
+!Fdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c intel_runtime_pm_enable_interrupts
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+ <sect1>
<title>Display Hardware Handling</title>
<para>
This section covers everything related to the display hardware including
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
+ <title>Frontbuffer Tracking</title>
+!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_frontbuffer.c frontbuffer tracking
+!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_frontbuffer.c
+!Fdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_drv.h intel_frontbuffer_flip
+!Fdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c i915_gem_track_fb
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Display FIFO Underrun Reporting</title>
+!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fifo_underrun.c fifo underrun handling
+!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fifo_underrun.c
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2>
<title>Plane Configuration</title>
<para>
This section covers plane configuration and composition with the
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
+ <title>High Definition Audio</title>
+!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_audio.c High Definition Audio over HDMI and Display Port
+!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_audio.c
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Panel Self Refresh PSR (PSR/SRD)</title>
+!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_psr.c Panel Self Refresh (PSR/SRD)
+!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_psr.c
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2>
<title>DPIO</title>
!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h DPIO
<table id="dpiox2">
!Idrivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
</sect2>
</sect1>
+
+ <sect1>
+ <title> Tracing </title>
+ <para>
+ This sections covers all things related to the tracepoints implemented in
+ the i915 driver.
+ </para>
+ <sect2>
+ <title> i915_ppgtt_create and i915_ppgtt_release </title>
+!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_trace.h i915_ppgtt_create and i915_ppgtt_release tracepoints
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2>
+ <title> i915_context_create and i915_context_free </title>
+!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_trace.h i915_context_create and i915_context_free tracepoints
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2>
+ <title> switch_mm </title>
+!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_trace.h switch_mm tracepoint
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
</chapter>
+!Cdrivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c
</part>
</book>