Re: [PATCH v8 16/25] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add page table walker for MMU v2/v3

[Gary Guo]

On 2026-02-24 22:53, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> Add the page table walker implementation that traverses the page table
> hierarchy for both MMU v2 (5-level) and MMU v3 (6-level) to resolve
> virtual addresses to physical addresses or find PTE locations.
> 
> Currently only v2 has been tested (nova-core currently boots pre-hopper)
> with some initial prepatory work done for v3.
> 
> Cc: Nikola Djukic <ndjukic@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/mm/pagetable.rs      |   1 +
>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/mm/pagetable/walk.rs | 218 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 219 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/nova-core/mm/pagetable/walk.rs
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/mm/pagetable.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/mm/pagetable.rs
> index 33acb7053fbe..7ebea4cb8437 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/mm/pagetable.rs
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/mm/pagetable.rs
> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
>  #![expect(dead_code)]
>  pub(crate) mod ver2;
>  pub(crate) mod ver3;
> +pub(crate) mod walk;
>  
>  use kernel::prelude::*;
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/mm/pagetable/walk.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/mm/pagetable/walk.rs
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..023226af8816
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/mm/pagetable/walk.rs
> @@ -0,0 +1,218 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +//! Page table walker implementation for NVIDIA GPUs.
> +//!
> +//! This module provides page table walking functionality for MMU v2 and v3.
> +//! The walker traverses the page table hierarchy to resolve virtual addresses
> +//! to physical addresses or to find PTE locations.
> +//!
> +//! # Page Table Hierarchy
> +//!
> +//! ## MMU v2 (Turing/Ampere/Ada) - 5 levels
> +//!
> +//! ```text
> +//!     +-------+     +-------+     +-------+     +---------+     +-------+
> +//!     | PDB   |---->|  L1   |---->|  L2   |---->| L3 Dual |---->|  L4   |
> +//!     | (L0)  |     |       |     |       |     | PDE     |     | (PTE) |
> +//!     +-------+     +-------+     +-------+     +---------+     +-------+
> +//!       64-bit        64-bit        64-bit        128-bit         64-bit
> +//!        PDE           PDE           PDE        (big+small)        PTE
> +//! ```
> +//!
> +//! ## MMU v3 (Hopper+) - 6 levels

I think this is called "4 levels" and "5 levels" in kernel MM rather than
"5 levels" and "6 levels".

Best,
Gary

> +//!
> +//! ```text
> +//!     +-------+     +-------+     +-------+     +-------+     +---------+     +-------+
> +//!     | PDB   |---->|  L1   |---->|  L2   |---->|  L3   |---->| L4 Dual |---->|  L5   |
> +//!     | (L0)  |     |       |     |       |     |       |     | PDE     |     | (PTE) |
> +//!     +-------+     +-------+     +-------+     +-------+     +---------+     +-------+
> +//!       64-bit        64-bit        64-bit        64-bit        128-bit         64-bit
> +//!        PDE           PDE           PDE           PDE        (big+small)        PTE
> +//! ```
> +//!
> +//! # Result of a page table walk
> +//!
> +//! The walker returns a [`WalkResult`] indicating the outcome.