Thread (38 messages) 38 messages, 3 authors, 2026-03-02

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

From: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Date: 2026-02-25 05:39:05
Also in: amd-gfx, dri-devel, intel-gfx, intel-xe, linux-doc, lkml, nouveau, rust-for-linux

On 2026-02-24 22:53, Joel Fernandes wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
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 <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
---
 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.
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