[PATCH v4 00/10] gpu: nova-core: gsp: prepare the command queue for r000 dual-message types
From: Alexandre Courbot
Date: Fri Oct 09 2026 - 09:02:30 EST
The upcoming r000 firmware support [1] introduces a new type of command
named GMC alongside the existing and already supported RPC command type.
Since RPC was the only command type supported so far, it was embedded
into the lowest command queue level: the message header actually
includes the RPC header and the code considers them as one.
This makes the r000/GMC support difficult to land without a refactor,
with the result of transport layer code being duplicated between the two
message types, and no clear separation between the RPC and GMC code
which are mixed together in the command queue. Merging the code that way
would introduce quite some technical debt.
Thus, this series prepares a proper landing ground for a new message
type by extracting all the RPC layer code and moving it into its own
sub-modules, making the `cmdq` module completely agnostic of the type of
message it transports. By the end of the series, the only mention of RPC
in `cmdq.rs` is for the `rpc` sub-module.
With the transport and message layers properly separated, support for
GMC can be added into sibling modules of `rpc`, and the transport layer
can be converted once when doing the switch to r000.
This moves quite a bit of code around, but most of it is moved verbatim.
No significant functional change is intended.
For the r000 series, this essentially means the following:
- Its patch 7 making `allocate_command` generic can be dropped as the
transport layer makes no assumption about the message type.
- Patches adding GMC support will do it in dedicated `gmc` sub-modules,
following the model set by RPC. These `gmc` sub-modules will start as
`dead_code` as they are being built.
- The "switch to r000" patch will essentially operate on the transport
layer level, i.e. `cmdq.rs`.
- There should be no need for extra post-switch RPC fixing, as the
transport layer code will already be shared with GMC.
Overall, this should make the r000 series much easier to review and
eventually land, while not creating new technical debt.
This series is based on `drm-rust-next`.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260918010719.1176945-1-jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Changes in v4:
- Rebase on top of latest drm-rust-next, including the interrupt series.
- Move RPC parsing code to `RpcMessage`. (Eliot)
- Do not mention the command queue slots in the public documentation. (Eliot)
- Use different names for the length methods of the message and RPC
headers. (Eliot)
- Fix bug where the RPC header length was used instead of the message
one to compute the number of pages to advance by. (Eliot)
- Add a patch moving the message logging code to `RpcMessage`.
- Make the `rpc` module only visible from `gsp`. (Eliot)
- Link to v3: https://patch.msgid.link/20260930-cmdq-rpc-v3-0-91613f06520b@xxxxxxxxxx
Changes in v3:
- Use dedicated `RpcMessage` type to distinguish parsed RPC message from
the transport-level `GspMessage`.
- Introduce traits for sending and receiving elements on the command
queue (thanks Eliot!).
- Split unsafe blocks, drop unused impls, and other fixes on patch 2.
(thanks Eliot!)
- Squash the two move commits into a single one.
- Link to v2: https://patch.msgid.link/20260927-cmdq-rpc-v2-0-c3f66ae73be4@xxxxxxxxxx
Changes in v2:
- Fix checksum on receive incorrectly using the whole slots allocated
to the message instead of its actual length. (Sashiko)
- Drop patch 1 to avoid having to validate the `elemCount` header
member against edge cases. (Sashiko)
- Fix incorrect layer separation in receive path, where the CPU read
pointer was advanced in the message layer.
- Move `log_event` into a method of `RpcMessage`.
- Make the `rpc` module only visible to `gsp` and its submodules.
- Fix doclinks pointing to old function names. (Sashiko)
- Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20260927-cmdq-rpc-v1-0-822db5af910e@xxxxxxxxxx
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Alexandre Courbot (10):
gpu: nova-core: gsp: cmdq: validate checksum earlier on receive
gpu: nova-core: gsp: introduce and use proper RpcMessageHeader type
gpu: nova-core: gsp: cmdq: group the RPC-specific part of send_single_command
gpu: nova-core: gsp: cmdq: split the transport part of the send path
gpu: nova-core: gsp: cmdq: split RPC parsing part of the receive path
gpu: nova-core: gsp: cmdq: move RPC message logging to RpcMessage
gpu: nova-core: gsp: cmdq: split the transport part of the receive path
gpu: nova-core: gsp: cmdq: move the RPC code into a sub-module
gpu: nova-core: gsp: move the RPC commands into a sub-module
gpu: nova-core: gsp: add `rpc` to RPC message send/receive methods
drivers/gpu/nova-core/api.rs | 2 +-
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gpu.rs | 2 +-
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp.rs | 4 +-
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/boot.rs | 12 +-
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/cmdq.rs | 429 +++-----------------
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/cmdq/rpc.rs | 443 +++++++++++++++++++++
.../nova-core/gsp/cmdq/{ => rpc}/continuation.rs | 0
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/commands.rs | 329 +--------------
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/commands/rpc.rs | 333 ++++++++++++++++
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/fw.rs | 123 +++---
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/sequencer.rs | 4 +-
11 files changed, 913 insertions(+), 768 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 3e3404c52370595e37eb5b942df169884f38a124
change-id: 20260927-cmdq-rpc-ed5f850b207e
Best regards,
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Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx>