On 11/9/25 04:29, Yiwei Zhang wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 4:06 AM Yiwei Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2025 at 2:02 AM Pelloux-Prayer, Pierre-Eric
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> [Public]
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The whole series is Acked-by: Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer 
>>> <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot Dmitry!
>>>
>>> Pierre-Eric
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Dmitry Osipenko <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2025 1:39 AM
>>> To: Akihiko Odaki <[email protected]>; Huang, Ray 
>>> <[email protected]>; Marc-André Lureau <[email protected]>; 
>>> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <[email protected]>; Gerd Hoffmann 
>>> <[email protected]>; Alex Bennée <[email protected]>; Pelloux-Prayer, 
>>> Pierre-Eric <[email protected]>; Michael S . Tsirkin 
>>> <[email protected]>; Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: Gert Wollny <[email protected]>; [email protected] 
>>> <[email protected]>; Gurchetan Singh <[email protected]>; 
>>> Alyssa Ross <[email protected]>; Roger Pau Monné <[email protected]>; 
>>> Deucher, Alexander <[email protected]>; Stabellini, Stefano 
>>> <[email protected]>; Koenig, Christian <[email protected]>; 
>>> Ragiadakou, Xenia <[email protected]>; Huang, Honglei1 
>>> <[email protected]>; Zhang, Julia <[email protected]>; Chen, Jiqian 
>>> <[email protected]>; Rob Clark <[email protected]>; Yiwei Zhang 
>>> <[email protected]>; Sergio Lopez Pascual <[email protected]>
>>> Subject: [PATCH v14 00/10] Support virtio-gpu DRM native context
>>>
>>> This patchset adds DRM native context support to VirtIO-GPU on QEMU.
>>>
>>> Contarary to Virgl and Venus contexts that mediates high level GFX APIs,
>>> DRM native context [1] mediates lower level kernel driver UAPI, which
>>> reflects in a less CPU overhead and less/simpler code needed to support it.
>>> DRM context consists of a host and guest parts that have to be implemented
>>> for each GPU driver. On a guest side, DRM context presents a virtual GPU as
>>> a real/native host GPU device for GL/VK applications.
>>>
>>> [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sFP_yddLLQ
>>>
>>> Today there are four DRM native context drivers existing in a wild:
>>>
>>>   - Freedreno (Qualcomm SoC GPUs), completely upstreamed
>>>   - AMDGPU, completely upstreamed
>>>   - Intel (i915), merge requests are opened
>>>   - Asahi (Apple SoC GPUs), partially merged upstream
>>>
>>> # How to try out DRM context:
>>>
>>> 1. DRM context uses host blobs and on host requires v6.13 or newer version
>>> of Linux kernel that contains necessary KVM fixes.
>>>
>>> 2. Use latest available Mesa (both guest and host) and libvirglrenderer
>>> versions. On guest, build Mesa with enabled virtio native context support.
>>>
>>> 3. On guest, use latest Linux kernel v6.14 or newer.
>>>
>>> Example QEMU cmdline that enables DRM context:
>>>
>>>   qemu-system-x86_64 -device 
>>> virtio-vga-gl,hostmem=4G,blob=on,drm_native_context=on \
>>>       -machine q35,accel=kvm -m 8G
>>>
>>> # Notes about known problems:
>>>
>>> 1. DRM contexts are mapping host blobs extensively and these mapping
>>> operations work slowly in QEMU. We will need to optimize hostmem
>>> unmapping that currently happens in a deffered RCU work, blocking
>>> GPU for a substantial time. WIP fixes available at [2][3].
>>>
>>> [2] 
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/[email protected]/
>>> [3] 
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/[email protected]/
>>>
>>> 2. Linux kernel virtio-gpu driver doesn't limit display refresh rate,
>>> causing poor performance. Fix availalble in drm-misc-next tree [4]
>>> and should land upstream with v6.19+ kernel.
>>>
>>> [4] 
>>> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/misc/kernel/-/commit/a036f5fceedb9fbd715565fef7b824a121503de7
>>>
>>> 3. Xorg on guest creates initial dumb buffer that is a vrend buffer, which
>>>    can't be re-used by native contexts. This may cause drawing artifacts.
>>>    Boot kernel with disabled fbdev using drm_client_lib.active="" kernel
>>>    cmdline parameter to work around the issue.
>>>
>>>    Wayland on guest isn't affected by this issue.
>>>
>>> Changelog:
>>>
>>> v14:- Rebased on top of recent QEMU staging tree.
>>>
>>>     - DRM native context in QEMU now requires virglrenderer v1.2.0+
>>>       containing fix for async-fencing not working after guest reboot.
>>>
>>>     - Updated doc patch with new Asahi nctx rquirements info. Asahi
>>>       support landed to virglrenderer v1.2.0.
>>>
>>> v13:- Updated Asahi nctx MR link in the doc patch. Old MR was closed
>>>       and new opened.
>>>
>>>     - Fixed compiler warning about unused variable when using older
>>>       virglrenderer version.
>>>
>>> v12:- Rebased on top of recent QEMU/staging and a fix from Yiwei Zhang:
>>>
>>>         
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/[email protected]/
>>>
>>>     - Async-fence and native context features now require virglrenderer > 
>>> 1.1.1
>>>       that contains fix needed for resetting virtio-gpu-gl properly on QEMU
>>>       reboot:
>>>
>>>         
>>> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/virgl/virglrenderer/-/commit/6f4681ff09cb17aa2d6715dbc6034eb3abe5711d
>>>
>>>     - Added r-b from Akihiko Odaki to the doc patch.
>>>
>>>     - Corrected resetting of async fences list that was done on scanout
>>>       reset in v11 instead of virtio-gpu reset.
>>>
>>> v11:- Added column for libvirglrenderer host requrements versions and
>>>       corrected Asahi kernel link. Suggested by Akihiko Odaki.
>>>
>>> v10:- Added links to Asahi and i915 virglrenderer MRs, link to Asahi host
>>>       kernel. Suggested by Akihiko Odaki.
>>>
>>>     - Renamed gfxstream guest requrements table's colum to match the host
>>>       requirements table. Suggested by Akihiko Odaki.
>>>
>>> v9: - Updated doc patch by addresing review comments from Akihiko Odaki.
>>>       Made kernel requirements section specific to guest kernel and
>>>       removed reference to host requirements. Removed examples of
>>>       external projects' build flags.
>>>
>>>     - Added guest kernel minimum versions to the guest requirements table.
>>>
>>> v8: - Addressed review comments from Akihiko Odaki on the doc patch.
>>>
>>>     - Added r-bs from Akihiko Odaki on the doc patches.
>>>
>>>     - Extended vrend doc with info about hostmem requirement for GL 4.6
>>>
>>> v7: - Added r-b from Alex Bennée to the async fencing patch.
>>>
>>>     - Updated virtio-gpu doc patch with addressed review comments
>>>       from Akihiko Odaki.
>>>
>>> v6: - Fixed compilation warning using older version of virglrenderer,
>>>       which wasn't fixed properly in v5.
>>>
>>>     - Added t-bs from Alex Bennée.
>>>
>>>     - Added patches to improve virgl/venus doc by adding links
>>>       to the Mesa doc as was suggested by Akihiko Odaki.
>>>
>>>     - Updated patch that documents guest/host requirements. Added
>>>       links to Asahi nctx and reworked the doc structure by adding
>>>       requirements to each context-type section instead of having
>>>       one big blob or requirements, which was objected by Akihiko Odaki.
>>>
>>> v5: - Added r-bs from Akihiko Odaki.
>>>
>>>     - Added acks from Michael Tsirkin.
>>>
>>>     - Fixed compilation warning using older version of virglrenderer that
>>>       was reported by Alex Bennée. Noticed that I need to keep old
>>>       virgl_write_fence() code around for the older virglrenderer in
>>>       "Support  asynchronous fencing" patch, so added it back and verified
>>>       that old virglrenderer works properly.
>>>
>>>     - Added new patch from Alex Bennée that adds more virtio-gpu
>>>       documentation with a couple corrections and additions to it from me.
>>>
>>>     - Rebased patches on top of latest staging tree.
>>>
>>> v4: - Improved SDL2/dmabuf patch by reusing existing Meson X11 config
>>>       option, better handling EGL error and extending comment telling
>>>       that it's safe to enable SDL2 EGL preference hint. As was suggested
>>>       by Akihiko Odaki.
>>>
>>>     - Replaced another QSLIST_FOREACH_SAFE with QSLIST_EMPTY+FIRST in
>>>       the async-fencing patch for more consistency of the code. As was
>>>       suggested by Akihiko Odaki.
>>>
>>>     - Added missing braces around if-statement that was spotted by
>>>       Alex Bennée.
>>>
>>>     - Renamed 'drm=on' option of virtio-gpu-gl device to
>>>       'drm_native_context=on' for more clarity as was suggested by
>>>       Alex Bennée. Haven't added added new context-type option that
>>>       was also proposed by Alex, might do it with a separate patch.
>>>       This context-type option will duplicate and depecate existing
>>>       options, but in a longer run likely will be worthwhile adding
>>>       it.
>>>
>>>     - Dropped Linux headers-update patch as headers has been updated
>>>       in the staging tree.
>>>
>>> v3: - Improved EGL presence-check code on X11 systems for the SDL2
>>>       hint that prefers EGL over GLX by using better ifdefs and checking
>>>       Xlib presence at a build time to avoid build failure if lib SDL2
>>>       and system are configured with a disabled X11 support. Also added
>>>       clarifying comment telling that X11 hint doesn't affect Wayland
>>>       systems. Suggested by Akihiko Odaki.
>>>
>>>     - Corrected strerror(err) that used negative error where it should
>>>       be positive and vice versa that was caught by Akihiko Odaki. Added
>>>       clarifying comment for the case where we get positive error code
>>>       from virglrenderer that differs from other virglrenderer API 
>>> functions.
>>>
>>>     - Improved QSLIST usage by dropping mutex protecting the async fence
>>>       list and using atomic variant of QSLIST helpers instead. Switched away
>>>       from using FOREACH helper to improve readability of the code, showing
>>>       that we don't precess list in unoptimal way. Like was suggested by
>>>       Akihiko Odaki.
>>>
>>>     - Updated patchset base to Venus v18.
>>>
>>> v2: - Updated SDL2-dmabuf patch by making use of error_report() and
>>>       checking presense of X11+EGL in the system before making SDL2
>>>       to prefer EGL backend over GLX, suggested by Akihiko Odaki.
>>>
>>>     - Improved SDL2's dmabuf-presence check that wasn't done properly
>>>       in v1, where EGL was set up only after first console was fully
>>>       inited, and thus, SDL's display .has_dmabuf callback didn't work
>>>       for the first console. Now dmabuf support status is pre-checked
>>>       before console is registered.
>>>
>>>     - Updated commit description of the patch that fixes SDL2's context
>>>       switching logic with a more detailed explanation of the problem.
>>>       Suggested by Akihiko Odaki.
>>>
>>>     - Corrected rebase typo in the async-fencing patch and switched
>>>       async-fencing to use a sigle-linked list instead of the double,
>>>       as was suggested by Akihiko Odaki.
>>>
>>>     - Replaced "=true" with "=on" in the DRM native context documentation
>>>       example and made virtio_gpu_virgl_init() to fail with a error message
>>>       if DRM context can't be initialized instead of giving a warning
>>>       message, as was suggested by Akihiko Odaki.
>>>
>>>     - Added patchew's dependecy tag to the cover letter as was suggested by
>>>       Akihiko Odaki.
>>>
>>> Alex Bennée (1):
>>>   docs/system: virtio-gpu: Document host/guest requirements
>>>
>>> Dmitry Osipenko (8):
>>>   ui/sdl2: Restore original context after new context creation
>>>   virtio-gpu: Handle virgl fence creation errors
>>>   virtio-gpu: Support asynchronous fencing
>>>   virtio-gpu: Support DRM native context
>>>   ui/sdl2: Don't disable scanout when display is refreshed
>>>   ui/gtk: Don't disable scanout when display is refreshed
>>>   docs/system: virtio-gpu: Add link to Mesa VirGL doc
>>>   docs/system: virtio-gpu: Update Venus link
>>>
>>> Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer (1):
>>>   ui/sdl2: Implement dpy dmabuf functions
>>>
>>>  docs/system/devices/virtio-gpu.rst | 116 +++++++++++++++++-
>>>  hw/display/virtio-gpu-gl.c         |   7 ++
>>>  hw/display/virtio-gpu-virgl.c      | 185 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>>  hw/display/virtio-gpu.c            |  15 +++
>>>  include/hw/virtio/virtio-gpu.h     |  14 +++
>>>  include/ui/sdl2.h                  |   7 ++
>>>  meson.build                        |   8 +-
>>>  ui/gtk-egl.c                       |   1 -
>>>  ui/gtk-gl-area.c                   |   1 -
>>>  ui/sdl2-gl.c                       |  70 ++++++++++-
>>>  ui/sdl2.c                          |  42 +++++++
>>>  11 files changed, 449 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> --
>>> 2.51.0
>>>
>>
>> The whole series looks good to me, and Tested-by: Yiwei Zhang
>> <[email protected]>
> 
> Just to clarify. My testing is done with venus + virgl to verify async
> fence cb in QEMU is working as intended.

Thanks for the review and testing!

-- 
Best regards,
Dmitry

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