[PATCH v3 1/7] drm/panthor: Add support for atomic page table updates

From: Caterina Shablia
Date: Thu Jul 03 2025 - 16:54:01 EST


From: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Move the lock/flush_mem operations around the gpuvm_sm_map() calls so
we can implement true atomic page updates, where any access in the
locked range done by the GPU has to wait for the page table updates
to land before proceeding.

This is needed for vkQueueBindSparse(), so we can replace the dummy
page mapped over the entire object by actual BO backed pages in an atomic
way.

Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Caterina Shablia <caterina.shablia@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 62 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c
index b39ea6acc6a9..1e58948587a9 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c
@@ -387,6 +387,15 @@ struct panthor_vm {
* flagged as faulty as a result.
*/
bool unhandled_fault;
+
+ /** @locked_region: Information about the currently locked region currently. */
+ struct {
+ /** @locked_region.start: Start of the locked region. */
+ u64 start;
+
+ /** @locked_region.size: Size of the locked region. */
+ u64 size;
+ } locked_region;
};

/**
@@ -775,6 +784,10 @@ int panthor_vm_active(struct panthor_vm *vm)
}

ret = panthor_mmu_as_enable(vm->ptdev, vm->as.id, transtab, transcfg, vm->memattr);
+ if (!ret && vm->locked_region.size) {
+ lock_region(ptdev, vm->as.id, vm->locked_region.start, vm->locked_region.size);
+ ret = wait_ready(ptdev, vm->as.id);
+ }

out_make_active:
if (!ret) {
@@ -902,6 +915,9 @@ static int panthor_vm_unmap_pages(struct panthor_vm *vm, u64 iova, u64 size)
struct io_pgtable_ops *ops = vm->pgtbl_ops;
u64 offset = 0;

+ drm_WARN_ON(&ptdev->base,
+ (iova < vm->locked_region.start) ||
+ (iova + size > vm->locked_region.start + vm->locked_region.size));
drm_dbg(&ptdev->base, "unmap: as=%d, iova=%llx, len=%llx", vm->as.id, iova, size);

while (offset < size) {
@@ -915,13 +931,12 @@ static int panthor_vm_unmap_pages(struct panthor_vm *vm, u64 iova, u64 size)
iova + offset + unmapped_sz,
iova + offset + pgsize * pgcount,
iova, iova + size);
- panthor_vm_flush_range(vm, iova, offset + unmapped_sz);
return -EINVAL;
}
offset += unmapped_sz;
}

- return panthor_vm_flush_range(vm, iova, size);
+ return 0;
}

static int
@@ -938,6 +953,10 @@ panthor_vm_map_pages(struct panthor_vm *vm, u64 iova, int prot,
if (!size)
return 0;

+ drm_WARN_ON(&ptdev->base,
+ (iova < vm->locked_region.start) ||
+ (iova + size > vm->locked_region.start + vm->locked_region.size));
+
for_each_sgtable_dma_sg(sgt, sgl, count) {
dma_addr_t paddr = sg_dma_address(sgl);
size_t len = sg_dma_len(sgl);
@@ -985,7 +1004,7 @@ panthor_vm_map_pages(struct panthor_vm *vm, u64 iova, int prot,
offset = 0;
}

- return panthor_vm_flush_range(vm, start_iova, iova - start_iova);
+ return 0;
}

static int flags_to_prot(u32 flags)
@@ -1654,6 +1673,38 @@ static const char *access_type_name(struct panthor_device *ptdev,
}
}

+static int panthor_vm_lock_region(struct panthor_vm *vm, u64 start, u64 size)
+{
+ struct panthor_device *ptdev = vm->ptdev;
+ int ret;
+
+ mutex_lock(&ptdev->mmu->as.slots_lock);
+ drm_WARN_ON(&ptdev->base, vm->locked_region.start || vm->locked_region.size);
+ vm->locked_region.start = start;
+ vm->locked_region.size = size;
+ if (vm->as.id >= 0) {
+ lock_region(ptdev, vm->as.id, start, size);
+ ret = wait_ready(ptdev, vm->as.id);
+ }
+ mutex_unlock(&ptdev->mmu->as.slots_lock);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
+static void panthor_vm_unlock_region(struct panthor_vm *vm)
+{
+ struct panthor_device *ptdev = vm->ptdev;
+
+ mutex_lock(&ptdev->mmu->as.slots_lock);
+ if (vm->as.id >= 0) {
+ write_cmd(ptdev, vm->as.id, AS_COMMAND_FLUSH_MEM);
+ drm_WARN_ON(&ptdev->base, wait_ready(ptdev, vm->as.id));
+ }
+ vm->locked_region.start = 0;
+ vm->locked_region.size = 0;
+ mutex_unlock(&ptdev->mmu->as.slots_lock);
+}
+
static void panthor_mmu_irq_handler(struct panthor_device *ptdev, u32 status)
{
bool has_unhandled_faults = false;
@@ -2179,6 +2230,11 @@ panthor_vm_exec_op(struct panthor_vm *vm, struct panthor_vm_op_ctx *op,

mutex_lock(&vm->op_lock);
vm->op_ctx = op;
+
+ ret = panthor_vm_lock_region(vm, op->va.addr, op->va.range);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out;
+
switch (op_type) {
case DRM_PANTHOR_VM_BIND_OP_TYPE_MAP:
if (vm->unusable) {
@@ -2199,6 +2255,9 @@ panthor_vm_exec_op(struct panthor_vm *vm, struct panthor_vm_op_ctx *op,
break;
}

+ panthor_vm_unlock_region(vm);
+
+out:
if (ret && flag_vm_unusable_on_failure)
vm->unusable = true;


base-commit: 026a60e3c1c55845bd9fdaa202dad81c3f95ae6b
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2.47.2