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    drm/etnaviv: implement per-process address spaces on MMUv2 · 17e4660a
    Lucas Stach authored
    This builds on top of the MMU contexts introduced earlier. Instead of having
    one context per GPU core, each GPU client receives its own context.
    
    On MMUv1 this still means a single shared pagetable set is used by all
    clients, but on MMUv2 there is now a distinct set of pagetables for each
    client. As the command fetch is also translated via the MMU on MMUv2 the
    kernel command ringbuffer is mapped into each of the client pagetables.
    
    As the MMU context switch is a bit of a heavy operation, due to the needed
    cache and TLB flushing, this patch implements a lazy way of switching the
    MMU context. The kernel does not have its own MMU context, but reuses the
    last client context for all of its operations. This has some visible impact,
    as the GPU can now only be started once a client has submitted some work and
    we got the client MMU context assigned. Also the MMU context has a different
    lifetime than the general client context, as the GPU might still execute the
    kernel command buffer in the context of a client even after the client has
    completed all GPU work and has been terminated. Only when the GPU is runtime
    suspended or switches to another clients MMU context is the old context
    freed up.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarPhilipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarGuido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
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