hybrid: the GPU driver now runs in userspace
docs/plan/hybrid.md's first eviction. cmd/vgpud is the virtio-gpu driver as a
process: it finds the device by vendor and device id, asks the kernel for it,
and does the whole virtio 1.0 bring-up from outside -- reset, feature
negotiation, a virtqueue in DMA memory, GET_DISPLAY_INFO, RESOURCE_CREATE_2D,
ATTACH_BACKING, SET_SCANOUT, TRANSFER and FLUSH.
vgpud: virtio-gpu at 00:03.0, currently held by virtio-gpu
virtio-gpu: released to userspace; screen is the VBE framebuffer
vgpud: claimed
vgpud: display is 1280x800
vgpud: scanout is ours, framebuffer at physical 0x3eceb000
vgpud: drew a test pattern from userspace
Verified by screendumping the virtio-gpu head: the pattern is there, with a
checkerboard that would shear if the stride were wrong. The console carries on
in VBE on the other head at the same time, which is the fallback rule from the
plan working rather than being described.
No syscall knows this is a GPU. The kernel handed over a PCI device and the
process decided what it was -- which is the property that makes this a general
mechanism, and the reason the evictions come before anything foreign.
Four things the first real driver needed that the test program had not:
- PCI config space (PCIIOC_CFG). A virtio device says where its registers
are in vendor capabilities, which live in config space, so a driver that
cannot read it cannot find its own registers.
- a way for the incumbent to let go: struct pci_driver gained a release
hook. A driver without one keeps its device, which is always safe and for
anything on the path to a shell is also correct.
- the outgoing driver freeing its DMA. Releasing the device but keeping its
4 MB framebuffer is half a handover -- the incoming driver asks for one and
is told there is no room.
- a 16 MB DMA arena. 4 MB was exactly one framebuffer at this resolution,
and either side of a handover there are two.
And one bug it reproduced on its first working run: vgpud polls the used ring,
so it registered no interrupt handler, and a virtio device interrupts on every
completion. The storm detector said so immediately --
irq 11: 77780 interrupts/second -- a device on this line is not
acknowledging it. handler 'e1000' is attached
-- naming the line, the rate and the neighbour it was drowning. One line fixes
it (VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT before the queue is enabled), and that detector
was worth every minute it cost.
include/virtio.h moved out of the driver directory. Its own comment said it
should when a second reader appeared; one has.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VQ7Qx8E1q1M1bbCq8QLHS2
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// A DMA buffer. The kernel allocates it from the DMA arena, maps it into the
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// caller, and reports the physical address the *device* must be given -- which
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// is the entire reason a driver cannot do this for itself with mmap.
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// A dword of PCI configuration space. A virtio device says where its registers
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// live in vendor capabilities, which are here and nowhere else -- so without
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// this a driver cannot find its own device.
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struct pciuser_cfg {
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unsigned int index; // in
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unsigned int offset; // in: dword-aligned, 0..0xFC
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unsigned int value; // out
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unsigned int pad;
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};
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struct pciuser_dma {
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unsigned long long size; // in: bytes, rounded up to a page
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unsigned long long uaddr; // out: where it landed in this process
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#define PCIIOC_CLAIM 0x9002 // in: int index -- take it from the kernel
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#define PCIIOC_RELEASE 0x9003 // in: int index
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#define PCIIOC_DMA 0x9004 // struct pciuser_dma
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#define PCIIOC_CFG 0x9006 // struct pciuser_cfg -- read config space
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#define PCIIOC_IRQ 0x9005 // in: int index -- deliver this device's
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// interrupts to this process
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