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authorMarc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>2019-05-24 15:09:38 +0200
committerGerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>2019-05-29 06:29:07 +0200
commitbd2e44fee474c43f54aadd35b5b8fd5ba8f4d11f (patch)
tree07c1d44ede00c80816611454fde2e9c8f90da9bb /docs
parentda35f7f1eeff9f249a9597400fc514c83fd3a0f8 (diff)
vhost-user: add vhost_user_gpu_set_socket()
Add a new vhost-user message to give a unix socket to a vhost-user backend for GPU display updates. Back when I started that work, I added a new GPU channel because the vhost-user protocol wasn't bidirectional. Since then, there is a vhost-user-slave channel for the slave to send requests to the master. We could extend it with GPU messages. However, the GPU protocol is quite orthogonal to vhost-user, thus I chose to have a new dedicated channel. See vhost-user-gpu.rst for the protocol details. Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> Message-id: 20190524130946.31736-2-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/docs/interop/index.rst b/docs/interop/index.rst
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@@ -16,3 +16,4 @@ Contents:
live-block-operations
pr-helper
vhost-user
+ vhost-user-gpu
diff --git a/docs/interop/vhost-user-gpu.rst b/docs/interop/vhost-user-gpu.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1,242 @@
+=======================
+Vhost-user-gpu Protocol
+=======================
+
+:Licence: This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL,
+ version 2 or later. See the COPYING file in the top-level
+ directory.
+
+.. contents:: Table of Contents
+
+Introduction
+============
+
+The vhost-user-gpu protocol is aiming at sharing the rendering result
+of a virtio-gpu, done from a vhost-user slave process to a vhost-user
+master process (such as QEMU). It bears a resemblance to a display
+server protocol, if you consider QEMU as the display server and the
+slave as the client, but in a very limited way. Typically, it will
+work by setting a scanout/display configuration, before sending flush
+events for the display updates. It will also update the cursor shape
+and position.
+
+The protocol is sent over a UNIX domain stream socket, since it uses
+socket ancillary data to share opened file descriptors (DMABUF fds or
+shared memory). The socket is usually obtained via
+``VHOST_USER_GPU_SET_SOCKET``.
+
+Requests are sent by the *slave*, and the optional replies by the
+*master*.
+
+Wire format
+===========
+
+Unless specified differently, numbers are in the machine native byte
+order.
+
+A vhost-user-gpu message (request and reply) consists of 3 header
+fields and a payload.
+
++---------+-------+------+---------+
+| request | flags | size | payload |
++---------+-------+------+---------+
+
+Header
+------
+
+:request: ``u32``, type of the request
+
+:flags: ``u32``, 32-bit bit field:
+
+ - Bit 2 is the reply flag - needs to be set on each reply
+
+:size: ``u32``, size of the payload
+
+Payload types
+-------------
+
+Depending on the request type, **payload** can be:
+
+VhostUserGpuCursorPos
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
++------------+---+---+
+| scanout-id | x | y |
++------------+---+---+
+
+:scanout-id: ``u32``, the scanout where the cursor is located
+
+:x/y: ``u32``, the cursor postion
+
+VhostUserGpuCursorUpdate
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
++-----+-------+-------+--------+
+| pos | hot_x | hot_y | cursor |
++-----+-------+-------+--------+
+
+:pos: a ``VhostUserGpuCursorPos``, the cursor location
+
+:hot_x/hot_y: ``u32``, the cursor hot location
+
+:cursor: ``[u32; 64 * 64]``, 64x64 RGBA cursor data (PIXMAN_a8r8g8b8 format)
+
+VhostUserGpuScanout
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
++------------+---+---+
+| scanout-id | w | h |
++------------+---+---+
+
+:scanout-id: ``u32``, the scanout configuration to set
+
+:w/h: ``u32``, the scanout width/height size
+
+VhostUserGpuUpdate
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
++------------+---+---+---+---+------+
+| scanout-id | x | y | w | h | data |
++------------+---+---+---+---+------+
+
+:scanout-id: ``u32``, the scanout content to update
+
+:x/y/w/h: ``u32``, region of the update
+
+:data: RGB data (PIXMAN_x8r8g8b8 format)
+
+VhostUserGpuDMABUFScanout
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
++------------+---+---+---+---+-----+-----+--------+-------+--------+
+| scanout-id | x | y | w | h | fdw | fwh | stride | flags | fourcc |
++------------+---+---+---+---+-----+-----+--------+-------+--------+
+
+:scanout-id: ``u32``, the scanout configuration to set
+
+:x/y: ``u32``, the location of the scanout within the DMABUF
+
+:w/h: ``u32``, the scanout width/height size
+
+:fdw/fdh/stride/flags: ``u32``, the DMABUF width/height/stride/flags
+
+:fourcc: ``i32``, the DMABUF fourcc
+
+
+C structure
+-----------
+
+In QEMU the vhost-user-gpu message is implemented with the following struct:
+
+.. code:: c
+
+ typedef struct VhostUserGpuMsg {
+ uint32_t request; /* VhostUserGpuRequest */
+ uint32_t flags;
+ uint32_t size; /* the following payload size */
+ union {
+ VhostUserGpuCursorPos cursor_pos;
+ VhostUserGpuCursorUpdate cursor_update;
+ VhostUserGpuScanout scanout;
+ VhostUserGpuUpdate update;
+ VhostUserGpuDMABUFScanout dmabuf_scanout;
+ struct virtio_gpu_resp_display_info display_info;
+ uint64_t u64;
+ } payload;
+ } QEMU_PACKED VhostUserGpuMsg;
+
+Protocol features
+-----------------
+
+None yet.
+
+As the protocol may need to evolve, new messages and communication
+changes are negotiated thanks to preliminary
+``VHOST_USER_GPU_GET_PROTOCOL_FEATURES`` and
+``VHOST_USER_GPU_SET_PROTOCOL_FEATURES`` requests.
+
+Communication
+=============
+
+Message types
+-------------
+
+``VHOST_USER_GPU_GET_PROTOCOL_FEATURES``
+ :id: 1
+ :request payload: N/A
+ :reply payload: ``u64``
+
+ Get the supported protocol features bitmask.
+
+``VHOST_USER_GPU_SET_PROTOCOL_FEATURES``
+ :id: 2
+ :request payload: ``u64``
+ :reply payload: N/A
+
+ Enable protocol features using a bitmask.
+
+``VHOST_USER_GPU_GET_DISPLAY_INFO``
+ :id: 3
+ :request payload: N/A
+ :reply payload: ``struct virtio_gpu_resp_display_info`` (from virtio specification)
+
+ Get the preferred display configuration.
+
+``VHOST_USER_GPU_CURSOR_POS``
+ :id: 4
+ :request payload: ``VhostUserGpuCursorPos``
+ :reply payload: N/A
+
+ Set/show the cursor position.
+
+``VHOST_USER_GPU_CURSOR_POS_HIDE``
+ :id: 5
+ :request payload: ``VhostUserGpuCursorPos``
+ :reply payload: N/A
+
+ Set/hide the cursor.
+
+``VHOST_USER_GPU_CURSOR_UPDATE``
+ :id: 6
+ :request payload: ``VhostUserGpuCursorUpdate``
+ :reply payload: N/A
+
+ Update the cursor shape and location.
+
+``VHOST_USER_GPU_SCANOUT``
+ :id: 7
+ :request payload: ``VhostUserGpuScanout``
+ :reply payload: N/A
+
+ Set the scanout resolution. To disable a scanout, the dimensions
+ width/height are set to 0.
+
+``VHOST_USER_GPU_UPDATE``
+ :id: 8
+ :request payload: ``VhostUserGpuUpdate``
+ :reply payload: N/A
+
+ Update the scanout content. The data payload contains the graphical bits.
+ The display should be flushed and presented.
+
+``VHOST_USER_GPU_DMABUF_SCANOUT``
+ :id: 9
+ :request payload: ``VhostUserGpuDMABUFScanout``
+ :reply payload: N/A
+
+ Set the scanout resolution/configuration, and share a DMABUF file
+ descriptor for the scanout content, which is passed as ancillary
+ data. To disable a scanout, the dimensions width/height are set
+ to 0, there is no file descriptor passed.
+
+``VHOST_USER_GPU_DMABUF_UPDATE``
+ :id: 10
+ :request payload: ``VhostUserGpuUpdate``
+ :reply payload: empty payload
+
+ The display should be flushed and presented according to updated
+ region from ``VhostUserGpuUpdate``.
+
+ Note: there is no data payload, since the scanout is shared thanks
+ to DMABUF, that must have been set previously with
+ ``VHOST_USER_GPU_DMABUF_SCANOUT``.
diff --git a/docs/interop/vhost-user.rst b/docs/interop/vhost-user.rst
index 7f3232c798..dc0ff9211f 100644
--- a/docs/interop/vhost-user.rst
+++ b/docs/interop/vhost-user.rst
@@ -1163,6 +1163,15 @@ Master message types
send the shared inflight buffer back to slave so that slave could
get inflight I/O after a crash or restart.
+``VHOST_USER_GPU_SET_SOCKET``
+ :id: 33
+ :equivalent ioctl: N/A
+ :master payload: N/A
+
+ Sets the GPU protocol socket file descriptor, which is passed as
+ ancillary data. The GPU protocol is used to inform the master of
+ rendering state and updates. See vhost-user-gpu.rst for details.
+
Slave message types
-------------------