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* docs: retire the 2026-09-21 STATE.md snapshotArthur Hanson Rasmusson12 days
| | | | | | | - remove the superseded flat state page; current state lives in STATE-CURRENT.md and the docs tree - update the historical-material note in docs/README and the STATE-CURRENT header/see-also references
* docs: add the full-system picture and interaction/scheduling diagramsArthur Hanson Rasmusson13 days
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | - new 03-architecture/09-full-system-picture.md: end-state map, GSP boot, guest init, RPC lifecycle, memory model, work path (bridge and end state), scheduling, isolation levels, KVM/mdev/VFIO, BAR/engine/channel/GMMU, portability, performance model, implementation/test status - new 03-architecture/10-interaction-and-scheduling.md: interaction inventory, control-plane call path, msgq element lifecycle, channel pump, concurrency, timing budgets, multi-tenant scheduling, teardown ordering, versioning - README: mermaid system diagram replaces the ASCII block; reading list extended and renumbered - component docs: GSP boot sequence, mdev/VFIO lifecycle, end-state interaction sequence; STATE-CURRENT links
* docs: record physical-GPU integration mechanism and refresh project statusArthur Hanson Rasmusson13 days
| | | | | | | | | | | - add docs/03-architecture/08-physical-gpu-integration.md: interfaces that exist, mechanism options A-E, chosen path (module-owned GPU driven through its real GSP firmware), sharing policy, decision record - update 06-host-module-and-hybrid-model, 02-practical-challenges, system overview, known-knowns, docs/README reading order and CUDA-side docs to match - correct stale engine-topology/COPY14 blocker claims across the tree - add STATE-CURRENT.md as the dated public status snapshot
* docs/uvm: describe the push-execution fallbacks and the semaphore-VA flap ↵Arthur Hanson Rasmusson2026-09-26
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* kernel: validate learned semaphore maps and post guest GPU eventsArthur Hanson Rasmusson2026-09-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - admit {GPU VA -> PA} pairs only when the preceding bytes form a valid client memory descriptor header (type 0/1, CPU+GPU mapped bits), prefer validated pairs over headerless candidates under first-wins dedup, and invalidate the translation cache on every rebuild; fixes stale identity entries shadowing live pool pages and lets the guest UVM channel bring-up complete on its own - capture OS event allocations (class 0x79) and post event records (function 0x1003) into the guest status queue when a channel's busy notification is consumed, with a broadcast fallback, serialized with replies via a queue lock - add BAR0 shadow introspection (dump_bar0/scan_bar0) and guest-side diagnostic scripts for the VM cycle
* docs: merge the legacy flat documents, add the CUDA deep-dive and link checksArthur Hanson Rasmusson2026-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Merge and remove the pre-reboot flat documents, preserving their still-useful material in the structured tree: debugging workflows and the EPT-livelock case study (05-operations/02), performance microbenchmarks and A/B methodology (05-operations/01), the version-upgrade runbook (05-operations/02 section 4, with corrected host/guest framing), kernel-code pitfalls (07-developers) and the OpenRM build/load order (03-architecture/06 section 7). The remaining legacy files were verified redundant and removed. * docs/README now records where each migrated topic lives. * Portability: the config YAML files are called out as design targets that no code reads yet, with what adding support actually requires today. * Getting started: the OpenRM step is marked optional (native vGPU-management workflows only; the emulated path uses the distro driver). * tools docs: rmtool/rmtop marked as planned, pointing at the implemented tools/rmq subset. * wiki: new CUDA-Userspace-Driver deep-dive page (public-safe, links the canonical userspace/cuda analysis) and index update. * scripts/check-docs-links.py plus a CI step so relative links cannot rot. * STATE.md references to removed documents repointed.
* docs: refresh status, supersede stale material, link the CUDA analysisArthur Hanson Rasmusson2026-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Status now matches the live state: guest driver probe and nvidia-smi work; cuInit/device queries work; cuCtxCreate returns 999 because the emulated engine list is missing the async copy engine (COPY14). The userspace libcuda segfault is recorded as solved, with its mechanism (an RM allocation reply must echo request parameters; zeroing them corrupted the caller's saved frame pointer). * Correct the emulation claims: only a subset of RM controls are special-cased; the rest return a success reply with zeroed parameters whose consumed fields are still being corrected; allocation replies are coherent but no server-side object model exists. * Add the eight-point emulation checklist and reply-fidelity ladder as explicit gates, documented in userspace/cuda and linked from the architecture, implementation and operations docs. * Fix operational errors: build/test commands, module load order, mdev type names, LFS references, debugfs claims, in-repo firmware claims, CI claims, portability matrix (guest status, config layout, userspace driver facts). * Mark historical material: one superseded banner per legacy document with a pointer to its replacement; STATE.md marked as a 2026-09-21 snapshot. * Wiki: fix the index, add status banners and in-place factual corrections (msgq transport vs legacy mailbox, BAR definitions, error statuses, migration, glossary), and note the archived 2023 imports.
* Untrack legacy trees and purely legacy docs (kept locally)Arthur Hanson Rasmusson2026-09-23
| | | | | | | | | - patches/ -> legacy-patches/ (gitignored) - legacy-driver-guest/ (old guest vGPU driver, gitignored) - docs/old/ (superseded architecture write-up, gitignored) - docs that only reference the legacy components stay tracked; their path references now point at legacy-patches/ - install.sh PATCH_DIR updated
* Open-IOV: initial public releaseOpen-IOV2026-09-23
Open-IOV virtualizes NVIDIA GPUs so that unmodified guest drivers run with real GPU functionality - CUDA first, 3D and video to follow - on unmodified hosts, without a proprietary vGPU license and without patching any driver, firmware or hypervisor. Core principle: emulate the interface, pass through the work. kernel/ open-iov-vfio.ko - host VFIO mdev driver: virtual GPU device (PCI config space, BAR shadows, MSI-X), GSP boot emulation, GSP-RM message-queue/RPC emulation, memory model (GPU-VA to guest-PA discovery) and the semaphore-completion service that advances guest UVM progress. userspace/ libiov.so management API and examples. tools/ guest diagnostics, firmware analysis wrappers, RM probes. scripts/ stack manager, VM harness, build/load/test automation. config/ hardware/version profiles (the portability surface). docs/ documentation tree - start at docs/README.md. wiki/ long-form firmware and protocol deep dives. Status: initialization works end to end for a stock 570.144 Linux guest on Turing (TU104): driver probe, nvidia-smi, the full GSP-RM control battery, object creation and the early CUDA/UVM start-up path. GPU work forwarding - the step that makes CUDA kernels execute on real hardware - is the active work item; see docs/04-implementation/01-known-knowns-and-unknowns.md. License: BSD-3-Clause for the project; GPL-2.0 for kernel modules that link GPL-only kernel interfaces. See LICENSE and docs/09-reference/legal-and-licensing.md.