Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] virtio-gpu api: add blob userptr resource

From: Huang, Honglei1
Date: Thu Feb 06 2025 - 05:41:48 EST


On 2025/2/3 16:25, Akihiko Odaki wrote:
On 2024/12/20 19:04, Honglei Huang wrote:
From: Honglei Huang <Honglei1.Huang@xxxxxxx>

Add a new resource for blob resource, called userptr, used for let
host access guest user space memory, to acquire a simple SVM features
in virtio GPU.

- The capset VIRTIO_GPU_CAPSET_HSAKMT used for context init,
in this series patches only HSAKMT context can use the userptr
feature. HSAKMT is a GPU compute library in HSA stack, like
the role libdrm in mesa stack.
- New flag VIRTIO_GPU_BLOB_FLAG_USE_USERPTR used in blob create
to indicate the blob create ioctl is used for create a userptr
blob resource.

Signed-off-by: Honglei Huang <Honglei1.Huang@xxxxxxx>
---
  include/uapi/linux/virtio_gpu.h | 2 ++
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_gpu.h b/include/uapi/linux/ virtio_gpu.h
index b9a9783f0b14..0a6b56acbc13 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_gpu.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_gpu.h
@@ -323,6 +323,7 @@ struct virtio_gpu_cmd_submit {
  #define VIRTIO_GPU_CAPSET_VIRGL 1
  #define VIRTIO_GPU_CAPSET_VIRGL2 2
+#define VIRTIO_GPU_CAPSET_HSAKMT 7

The changes to add VIRTIO_GPU_CAPSET_VENUS and VIRTIO_GPU_CAPSET_DRM are already merged so this should be rebased for clean apply.

Number 7 is also occupied since 2023:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/crosvm/crosvm/+/ e4c1878733937042111fca58899a3a94002bfef0%5E%21/rutabaga_gfx/src/ rutabaga_utils.rs

VCL, a proposed VirtIO-GPU OpenCL driver, is also going to use that number:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/31634/diffs? commit_id=55a1a8a32057e83819b046f2de03aca333b052b4

I think you should talk with Antonio Caggiano, who picked the number for VCL, to allocate a number without a conflict with VCL.

Gurchetan (the author of Rutabaga change allocating the number), I think you should notify the number usage by sending a patch for Linux or virtio-spec.

Regards,
Akihiko Odaki

  /* VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_GET_CAPSET_INFO */
  struct virtio_gpu_get_capset_info {
@@ -415,6 +416,7 @@ struct virtio_gpu_resource_create_blob {
  #define VIRTIO_GPU_BLOB_FLAG_USE_MAPPABLE     0x0001
  #define VIRTIO_GPU_BLOB_FLAG_USE_SHAREABLE    0x0002
  #define VIRTIO_GPU_BLOB_FLAG_USE_CROSS_DEVICE 0x0004
+#define VIRTIO_GPU_BLOB_FLAG_USE_USERPTR      0x0008
      /* zero is invalid blob mem */
      __le32 blob_mem;
      __le32 blob_flags;

Hi Akihiko,

Really thanks for the information, I think maybe using an unused number is a better way. I will send a patch to virtio-spec to occupy a unused one.

Regards,
Honglei