[RFC PATCH 00/18] drm/panthor: Add Mali v15 AM virtualization support
From: Karunika Choo
Date: Thu May 28 2026 - 11:13:56 EST
This series adds initial support for Mali v15 AM GPUs and the
HW-assisted virtualization blocks around them.
The first patches make the core panthor code less dependent on fixed
register layouts by caching decoded GPU_ID fields and moving register
base offsets into the HW description. Mali v15 support is then added on
top, including 64-bit GPU_ID decoding and optional devfreq handling for
systems where frequency control is owned by AM_GOVERNOR.
The rest of the series introduces the AM_SYSTEM, AM_PARTITION_CONTROL,
AM_RESOURCE_GROUP, arbitration scheduler and access-window pieces needed
to coordinate GPU ownership between the arbiter and VM-side panthor
instances. Finally, HW component PM is routed through access windows and
waits are taught to tolerate loss of the access window.
This series has a soft dependency on firmware scheduling support that
will be added later to handle YIELD_NOW interrupts.
The resulting support is intentionally minimal, but provides the
driver-side plumbing needed for Mali v15 AM systems.
Kind regards,
Karunika Choo
Karunika Choo (18):
drm/panthor: Ignore -EOPNOTSUPP for shader-present nvmem lookup
drm/panthor: Move register access helpers out of panthor_device.h
drm/panthor: Parse and store GPU_ID fields
drm/panthor: Add 64-bit GPU_ID decoding for v15 GPUs
drm/panthor: Move register base offsets to the HW description
drm/panthor: Derive MMU AS register addresses from base and stride
drm/panthor: Add Mali v15 hardware support
drm/panthor: Skip devfreq when no OPP table is present
drm/panthor: Add basic AM_SYSTEM support
drm/panthor: Add AM_PARTITION_CONTROL support
drm/panthor: Add AM message helpers
drm/panthor: Add AM_RESOURCE_GROUP support
drm/panthor: Add arbitration scheduler
drm/panthor: Route arbitration events
drm/panthor: Add access-window support
drm/panthor: Synchronize HW component PM transitions
drm/panthor: Route HW component PM through access windows
drm/panthor: Tolerate access-window loss during HW waits
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/Kconfig | 14 +
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/Makefile | 3 +
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/arbitration/Makefile | 17 +
.../panthor/arbitration/panthor_arbitration.h | 45 ++
.../arbitration/panthor_arbitration_drv.c | 199 +++++
.../arbitration/panthor_arbitration_sched.c | 692 ++++++++++++++++++
.../arbitration/panthor_arbitration_sched.h | 25 +
.../arbitration/panthor_partition_control.c | 390 ++++++++++
.../arbitration/panthor_partition_control.h | 27 +
.../arbitration/panthor_resource_group.c | 288 ++++++++
.../arbitration/panthor_resource_group.h | 20 +
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_am_msg.h | 157 ++++
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_aw.c | 576 +++++++++++++++
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_aw.h | 46 ++
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_devfreq.c | 13 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device.c | 69 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device.h | 134 ++--
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device_io.h | 81 ++
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_drv.c | 1 +
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_fw.c | 8 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_fw_regs.h | 2 -
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gpu.c | 14 +-
.../drm/panthor/panthor_gpu_discover_regs.h | 42 ++
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gpu_regs.h | 2 -
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_heap.c | 3 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_hw.c | 163 ++++-
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_hw.h | 45 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c | 36 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu_regs.h | 23 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_pwr.c | 32 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_pwr_regs.h | 3 -
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_sched.c | 9 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/system/Makefile | 12 +
.../gpu/drm/panthor/system/panthor_system.c | 298 ++++++++
include/uapi/drm/panthor_drm.h | 20 +-
35 files changed, 3338 insertions(+), 171 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/arbitration/Makefile
create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/arbitration/panthor_arbitration.h
create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/arbitration/panthor_arbitration_drv.c
create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/arbitration/panthor_arbitration_sched.c
create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/arbitration/panthor_arbitration_sched.h
create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/arbitration/panthor_partition_control.c
create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/arbitration/panthor_partition_control.h
create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/arbitration/panthor_resource_group.c
create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/arbitration/panthor_resource_group.h
create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_am_msg.h
create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_aw.c
create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_aw.h
create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device_io.h
create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gpu_discover_regs.h
create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/system/Makefile
create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/system/panthor_system.c
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