[PATCH v2 4/5] accel/thames: Add IOCTL for job submission

[Randy Dunlap]

On 1/14/26 12:46 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> Using the DRM GPU scheduler infrastructure, with a scheduler for each
> core.
> 
> Contexts are created in all cores, and buffers mapped to all of them as
> well, so all cores are ready to execute any job.
> 
> The job submission code was initially based on Panfrost.
> 
> v2:
> - Add thames_accel.h UAPI header (Robert Nelson).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net>
> ---
>  drivers/accel/thames/Makefile       |   1 +
>  drivers/accel/thames/thames_core.c  |   6 +
>  drivers/accel/thames/thames_drv.c   |  19 ++
>  drivers/accel/thames/thames_job.c   | 463 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/accel/thames/thames_job.h   |  51 ++++
>  drivers/accel/thames/thames_rpmsg.c |  52 ++++
>  include/uapi/drm/thames_accel.h     |  54 +++++
>  7 files changed, 646 insertions(+)
> 


> diff --git a/include/uapi/drm/thames_accel.h b/include/uapi/drm/thames_accel.h
> index 0a5a5e5f6637ab474e9effbb6db29c1dd95e56b5..5b35e50826ed95bfcc3709bef33416d2b6d11c70 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/drm/thames_accel.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/drm/thames_accel.h

> @@ -75,6 +78,55 @@ struct drm_thames_bo_mmap_offset {
>  	__u64 offset;
>  };
>  
> +/**
> + * struct drm_thames_job - A job to be run on the NPU
> + *
> + * The kernel will schedule the execution of this job taking into account its
> + * dependencies with other jobs. All tasks in the same job will be executed
> + * sequentially on the same core, to benefit from memory residency in SRAM.
> + */

Please make these comments full-fledged kernel-doc comments.
E.g.:

> +struct drm_thames_job {
> +	/** Input: BO handle for kernel. */

	/** @kernel: input: BO handle for kernel. */

> +	__u32 kernel;
> +
> +	/** Input: Size in bytes of the compiled kernel. */
> +	__u32 kernel_size;
> +
> +	/** Input: BO handle for params BO. */
> +	__u32 params;
> +
> +	/** Input: Size in bytes of the params BO. */
> +	__u32 params_size;
> +
> +	/** Input: Pointer to a u32 array of the BOs that are read by the job. */
> +	__u64 in_bo_handles;
> +
> +	/** Input: Pointer to a u32 array of the BOs that are written to by the job. */
> +	__u64 out_bo_handles;
> +
> +	/** Input: Number of input BO handles passed in (size is that times 4). */
> +	__u32 in_bo_handle_count;
> +
> +	/** Input: Number of output BO handles passed in (size is that times 4). */
> +	__u32 out_bo_handle_count;
> +};
> +
> +/**
> + * struct drm_thames_submit - ioctl argument for submitting commands to the NPU.
> + *
> + * The kernel will schedule the execution of these jobs in dependency order.
> + */

Same here.

> +struct drm_thames_submit {
> +	/** Input: Pointer to an array of struct drm_thames_job. */
> +	__u64 jobs;
> +
> +	/** Input: Number of jobs passed in. */
> +	__u32 job_count;
> +
> +	/** Reserved, must be zero. */
> +	__u32 pad;
> +};
> +


-- 
~Randy