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+/*
+ *
+ * (C) COPYRIGHT 2011-2013 ARM Limited. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This program is free software and is provided to you under the terms of the
+ * GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software
+ * Foundation, and any use by you of this program is subject to the terms
+ * of such GNU licence.
+ *
+ * A copy of the licence is included with the program, and can also be obtained
+ * from Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
+ * Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+ *
+ */
+
+
+
+/**
+ * @file mali_kbase_js_policy.h
+ * Job Scheduler Policy APIs.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _KBASE_JS_POLICY_H_
+#define _KBASE_JS_POLICY_H_
+
+/**
+ * @page page_kbase_js_policy Job Scheduling Policies
+ * The Job Scheduling system is described in the following:
+ * - @subpage page_kbase_js_policy_overview
+ * - @subpage page_kbase_js_policy_operation
+ *
+ * The API details are as follows:
+ * - @ref kbase_jm
+ * - @ref kbase_js
+ * - @ref kbase_js_policy
+ */
+
+/**
+ * @page page_kbase_js_policy_overview Overview of the Policy System
+ *
+ * The Job Scheduler Policy manages:
+ * - The assigning of KBase Contexts to GPU Address Spaces (\em ASs)
+ * - The choosing of Job Chains (\em Jobs) from a KBase context, to run on the
+ * GPU's Job Slots (\em JSs).
+ * - The amount of \em time a context is assigned to (<em>scheduled on</em>) an
+ * Address Space
+ * - The amount of \em time a Job spends running on the GPU
+ *
+ * The Policy implements this management via 2 components:
+ * - A Policy Queue, which manages a set of contexts that are ready to run,
+ * but not currently running.
+ * - A Policy Run Pool, which manages the currently running contexts (one per Address
+ * Space) and the jobs to run on the Job Slots.
+ *
+ * Each Graphics Process in the system has at least one KBase Context. Therefore,
+ * the Policy Queue can be seen as a queue of Processes waiting to run Jobs on
+ * the GPU.
+ *
+ * <!-- The following needs to be all on one line, due to doxygen's parser -->
+ * @dotfile policy_overview.dot "Diagram showing a very simplified overview of the Policy System. IRQ handling, soft/hard-stopping, contexts re-entering the system and Policy details are omitted"
+ *
+ * The main operations on the queue are:
+ * - Enqueuing a Context to it
+ * - Dequeuing a Context from it, to run it.
+ * - Note: requeuing a context is much the same as enqueuing a context, but
+ * occurs when a context is scheduled out of the system to allow other contexts
+ * to run.
+ *
+ * These operations have much the same meaning for the Run Pool - Jobs are
+ * dequeued to run on a Jobslot, and requeued when they are scheduled out of
+ * the GPU.
+ *
+ * @note This is an over-simplification of the Policy APIs - there are more
+ * operations than 'Enqueue'/'Dequeue', and a Dequeue from the Policy Queue
+ * takes at least two function calls: one to Dequeue from the Queue, one to add
+ * to the Run Pool.
+ *
+ * As indicated on the diagram, Jobs permanently leave the scheduling system
+ * when they are completed, otherwise they get dequeued/requeued until this
+ * happens. Similarly, Contexts leave the scheduling system when their jobs
+ * have all completed. However, Contexts may later return to the scheduling
+ * system (not shown on the diagram) if more Bags of Jobs are submitted to
+ * them.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * @page page_kbase_js_policy_operation Policy Operation
+ *
+ * We describe the actions that the Job Scheduler Core takes on the Policy in
+ * the following cases:
+ * - The IRQ Path
+ * - The Job Submission Path
+ * - The High Priority Job Submission Path
+ *
+ * This shows how the Policy APIs will be used by the Job Scheduler core.
+ *
+ * The following diagram shows an example Policy that contains a Low Priority
+ * queue, and a Real-time (High Priority) Queue. The RT queue is examined
+ * before the LowP one on dequeuing from the head. The Low Priority Queue is
+ * ordered by time, and the RT queue is ordered by RT-priority, and then by
+ * time. In addition, it shows that the Job Scheduler Core will start a
+ * Soft-Stop Timer (SS-Timer) when it dequeue's and submits a job. The
+ * Soft-Stop time is set by a global configuration value, and must be a value
+ * appropriate for the policy. For example, this could include "don't run a
+ * soft-stop timer" for a First-Come-First-Served (FCFS) policy.
+ *
+ * <!-- The following needs to be all on one line, due to doxygen's parser -->
+ * @dotfile policy_operation_diagram.dot "Diagram showing the objects managed by an Example Policy, and the operations made upon these objects by the Job Scheduler Core."
+ *
+ * @section sec_kbase_js_policy_operation_prio Dealing with Priority
+ *
+ * Priority applies both to a context as a whole, and to the jobs within a
+ * context. The jobs specify a priority in the base_jd_atom::prio member, which
+ * is relative to that of the context. A positive setting indicates a reduction
+ * in priority, whereas a negative setting indicates a boost in priority. Of
+ * course, the boost in priority should only be honoured when the originating
+ * process has sufficient priviledges, and should be ignored for unpriviledged
+ * processes. The meaning of the combined priority value is up to the policy
+ * itself, and could be a logarithmic scale instead of a linear scale (e.g. the
+ * policy could implement an increase/decrease in priority by 1 results in an
+ * increase/decrease in \em proportion of time spent scheduled in by 25%, an
+ * effective change in timeslice by 11%).
+ *
+ * It is up to the policy whether a boost in priority boosts the priority of
+ * the entire context (e.g. to such an extent where it may pre-empt other
+ * running contexts). If it chooses to do this, the Policy must make sure that
+ * only the high-priority jobs are run, and that the context is scheduled out
+ * once only low priority jobs remain. This ensures that the low priority jobs
+ * within the context do not gain from the priority boost, yet they still get
+ * scheduled correctly with respect to other low priority contexts.
+ *
+ *
+ * @section sec_kbase_js_policy_operation_irq IRQ Path
+ *
+ * The following happens on the IRQ path from the Job Scheduler Core:
+ * - Note the slot that completed (for later)
+ * - Log the time spent by the job (and implicitly, the time spent by the
+ * context)
+ * - call kbasep_js_policy_log_job_result() <em>in the context of the irq
+ * handler.</em>
+ * - This must happen regardless of whether the job completed successfully or
+ * not (otherwise the context gets away with DoS'ing the system with faulty jobs)
+ * - What was the result of the job?
+ * - If Completed: job is just removed from the system
+ * - If Hard-stop or failure: job is removed from the system
+ * - If Soft-stop: queue the book-keeping work onto a work-queue: have a
+ * work-queue call kbasep_js_policy_enqueue_job()
+ * - Check the timeslice used by the owning context
+ * - call kbasep_js_policy_should_remove_ctx() <em>in the context of the irq
+ * handler.</em>
+ * - If this returns true, clear the "allowed" flag.
+ * - Check the ctx's flags for "allowed", "has jobs to run" and "is running
+ * jobs"
+ * - And so, should the context stay scheduled in?
+ * - If No, push onto a work-queue the work of scheduling out the old context,
+ * and getting a new one. That is:
+ * - kbasep_js_policy_runpool_remove_ctx() on old_ctx
+ * - kbasep_js_policy_enqueue_ctx() on old_ctx
+ * - kbasep_js_policy_dequeue_head_ctx() to get new_ctx
+ * - kbasep_js_policy_runpool_add_ctx() on new_ctx
+ * - (all of this work is deferred on a work-queue to keep the IRQ handler quick)
+ * - If there is space in the completed job slots' HEAD/NEXT registers, run the next job:
+ * - kbasep_js_policy_dequeue_job() <em>in the context of the irq
+ * handler</em> with core_req set to that of the completing slot
+ * - if this returned MALI_TRUE, submit the job to the completed slot.
+ * - This is repeated until kbasep_js_policy_dequeue_job() returns
+ * MALI_FALSE, or the job slot has a job queued on both the HEAD and NEXT registers.
+ * - If kbasep_js_policy_dequeue_job() returned false, submit some work to
+ * the work-queue to retry from outside of IRQ context (calling
+ * kbasep_js_policy_dequeue_job() from a work-queue).
+ *
+ * Since the IRQ handler submits new jobs \em and re-checks the IRQ_RAWSTAT,
+ * this sequence could loop a large number of times: this could happen if
+ * the jobs submitted completed on the GPU very quickly (in a few cycles), such
+ * as GPU NULL jobs. Then, the HEAD/NEXT registers will always be free to take
+ * more jobs, causing us to loop until we run out of jobs.
+ *
+ * To mitigate this, we must limit the number of jobs submitted per slot during
+ * the IRQ handler - for example, no more than 2 jobs per slot per IRQ should
+ * be sufficient (to fill up the HEAD + NEXT registers in normal cases). For
+ * Mali-T600 with 3 job slots, this means that up to 6 jobs could be submitted per
+ * slot. Note that IRQ Throttling can make this situation commonplace: 6 jobs
+ * could complete but the IRQ for each of them is delayed by the throttling. By
+ * the time you get the IRQ, all 6 jobs could've completed, meaning you can
+ * submit jobs to fill all 6 HEAD+NEXT registers again.
+ *
+ * @note As much work is deferred as possible, which includes the scheduling
+ * out of a context and scheduling in a new context. However, we can still make
+ * starting a single high-priorty context quick despite this:
+ * - On Mali-T600 family, there is one more AS than JSs.
+ * - This means we can very quickly schedule out one AS, no matter what the
+ * situation (because there will always be one AS that's not currently running
+ * on the job slot - it can only have a job in the NEXT register).
+ * - Even with this scheduling out, fair-share can still be guaranteed e.g. by
+ * a timeline-based Completely Fair Scheduler.
+ * - When our high-priority context comes in, we can do this quick-scheduling
+ * out immediately, and then schedule in the high-priority context without having to block.
+ * - This all assumes that the context to schedule out is of lower
+ * priority. Otherwise, we will have to block waiting for some other low
+ * priority context to finish its jobs. Note that it's likely (but not
+ * impossible) that the high-priority context \b is running jobs, by virtue of
+ * it being high priority.
+ * - Therefore, we can give a high liklihood that on Mali-T600 at least one
+ * high-priority context can be started very quickly. For the general case, we
+ * can guarantee starting (no. ASs) - (no. JSs) high priority contexts
+ * quickly. In any case, there is a high likelihood that we're able to start
+ * more than one high priority context quickly.
+ *
+ * In terms of the functions used in the IRQ handler directly, these are the
+ * perfomance considerations:
+ * - kbase_js_policy_log_job_result():
+ * - This is just adding to a 64-bit value (possibly even a 32-bit value if we
+ * only store the time the job's recently spent - see below on 'priority weighting')
+ * - For priority weighting, a divide operation ('div') could happen, but
+ * this can happen in a deferred context (outside of IRQ) when scheduling out
+ * the ctx; as per our Engineering Specification, the contexts of different
+ * priority still stay scheduled in for the same timeslice, but higher priority
+ * ones scheduled back in more often.
+ * - That is, the weighted and unweighted times must be stored separately, and
+ * the weighted time is only updated \em outside of IRQ context.
+ * - Of course, this divide is more likely to be a 'multiply by inverse of the
+ * weight', assuming that the weight (priority) doesn't change.
+ * - kbasep_js_policy_should_remove_ctx():
+ * - This is usually just a comparison of the stored time value against some
+ * maximum value.
+ *
+ * @note all deferred work can be wrapped up into one call - we usually need to
+ * indicate that a job/bag is done outside of IRQ context anyway.
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ * @section sec_kbase_js_policy_operation_submit Submission path
+ *
+ * Start with a Context with no jobs present, and assume equal priority of all
+ * contexts in the system. The following work all happens outside of IRQ
+ * Context :
+ * - As soon as job is made 'ready to 'run', then is must be registerd with the Job
+ * Scheduler Policy:
+ * - 'Ready to run' means they've satisified their dependencies in the
+ * Kernel-side Job Dispatch system.
+ * - Call kbasep_js_policy_enqueue_job()
+ * - This indicates that the job should be scheduled (it is ready to run).
+ * - As soon as a ctx changes from having 0 jobs 'ready to run' to >0 jobs
+ * 'ready to run', we enqueue the context on the policy queue:
+ * - Call kbasep_js_policy_enqueue_ctx()
+ * - This indicates that the \em ctx should be scheduled (it is ready to run)
+ *
+ * Next, we need to handle adding a context to the Run Pool - if it's sensible
+ * to do so. This can happen due to two reasons:
+ * -# A context is enqueued as above, and there are ASs free for it to run on
+ * (e.g. it is the first context to be run, in which case it can be added to
+ * the Run Pool immediately after enqueuing on the Policy Queue)
+ * -# A previous IRQ caused another ctx to be scheduled out, requiring that the
+ * context at the head of the queue be scheduled in. Such steps would happen in
+ * a work queue (work deferred from the IRQ context).
+ *
+ * In both cases, we'd handle it as follows:
+ * - Get the context at the Head of the Policy Queue:
+ * - Call kbasep_js_policy_dequeue_head_ctx()
+ * - Assign the Context an Address Space (Assert that there will be one free,
+ * given the above two reasons)
+ * - Add this context to the Run Pool:
+ * - Call kbasep_js_policy_runpool_add_ctx()
+ * - Now see if a job should be run:
+ * - Mostly, this will be done in the IRQ handler at the completion of a
+ * previous job.
+ * - However, there are two cases where this cannot be done: a) The first job
+ * enqueued to the system (there is no previous IRQ to act upon) b) When jobs
+ * are submitted at a low enough rate to not fill up all Job Slots (or, not to
+ * fill both the 'HEAD' and 'NEXT' registers in the job-slots)
+ * - Hence, on each ctx <b>and job</b> submission we should try to see if we
+ * can run a job:
+ * - For each job slot that has free space (in NEXT or HEAD+NEXT registers):
+ * - Call kbasep_js_policy_dequeue_job() with core_req set to that of the
+ * slot
+ * - if we got one, submit it to the job slot.
+ * - This is repeated until kbasep_js_policy_dequeue_job() returns
+ * MALI_FALSE, or the job slot has a job queued on both the HEAD and NEXT registers.
+ *
+ * The above case shows that we should attempt to run jobs in cases where a) a ctx
+ * has been added to the Run Pool, and b) new jobs have been added to a context
+ * in the Run Pool:
+ * - In the latter case, the context is in the runpool because it's got a job
+ * ready to run, or is already running a job
+ * - We could just wait until the IRQ handler fires, but for certain types of
+ * jobs this can take comparatively a long time to complete, e.g. GLES FS jobs
+ * generally take much longer to run that GLES CS jobs, which are vertex shader
+ * jobs.
+ * - Therefore, when a new job appears in the ctx, we must check the job-slots
+ * to see if they're free, and run the jobs as before.
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ * @section sec_kbase_js_policy_operation_submit_hipri Submission path for High Priority Contexts
+ *
+ * For High Priority Contexts on Mali-T600, we can make sure that at least 1 of
+ * them can be scheduled in immediately to start high prioriy jobs. In general,
+ * (no. ASs) - (no JSs) high priority contexts may be started immediately. The
+ * following describes how this happens:
+ *
+ * Similar to the previous section, consider what happens with a high-priority
+ * context (a context with a priority higher than that of any in the Run Pool)
+ * that starts out with no jobs:
+ * - A job becomes ready to run on the context, and so we enqueue the context
+ * on the Policy's Queue.
+ * - However, we'd like to schedule in this context immediately, instead of
+ * waiting for one of the Run Pool contexts' timeslice to expire
+ * - The policy's Enqueue function must detect this (because it is the policy
+ * that embodies the concept of priority), and take appropriate action
+ * - That is, kbasep_js_policy_enqueue_ctx() should check the Policy's Run
+ * Pool to see if a lower priority context should be scheduled out, and then
+ * schedule in the High Priority context.
+ * - For Mali-T600, we can always pick a context to schedule out immediately
+ * (because there are more ASs than JSs), and so scheduling out a victim context
+ * and scheduling in the high priority context can happen immediately.
+ * - If a policy implements fair-sharing, then this can still ensure the
+ * victim later on gets a fair share of the GPU.
+ * - As a note, consider whether the victim can be of equal/higher priority
+ * than the incoming context:
+ * - Usually, higher priority contexts will be the ones currently running
+ * jobs, and so the context with the lowest priority is usually not running
+ * jobs.
+ * - This makes it likely that the victim context is low priority, but
+ * it's not impossible for it to be a high priority one:
+ * - Suppose 3 high priority contexts are submitting only FS jobs, and one low
+ * priority context submitting CS jobs. Then, the context not running jobs will
+ * be one of the hi priority contexts (because only 2 FS jobs can be
+ * queued/running on the GPU HW for Mali-T600).
+ * - The problem can be mitigated by extra action, but it's questionable
+ * whether we need to: we already have a high likelihood that there's at least
+ * one high priority context - that should be good enough.
+ * - And so, this method makes sure that at least one high priority context
+ * can be started very quickly, but more than one high priority contexts could be
+ * delayed (up to one timeslice).
+ * - To improve this, use a GPU with a higher number of Address Spaces vs Job
+ * Slots.
+ * - At this point, let's assume this high priority context has been scheduled
+ * in immediately. The next step is to ensure it can start some jobs quickly.
+ * - It must do this by Soft-Stopping jobs on any of the Job Slots that it can
+ * submit to.
+ * - The rest of the logic for starting the jobs is taken care of by the IRQ
+ * handler. All the policy needs to do is ensure that
+ * kbasep_js_policy_dequeue_job() will return the jobs from the high priority
+ * context.
+ *
+ * @note in SS state, we currently only use 2 job-slots (even for T608, but
+ * this might change in future). In this case, it's always possible to schedule
+ * out 2 ASs quickly (their jobs won't be in the HEAD registers). At the same
+ * time, this maximizes usage of the job-slots (only 2 are in use), because you
+ * can guarantee starting of the jobs from the High Priority contexts immediately too.
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ * @section sec_kbase_js_policy_operation_notes Notes
+ *
+ * - In this design, a separate 'init' is needed from dequeue/requeue, so that
+ * information can be retained between the dequeue/requeue calls. For example,
+ * the total time spent for a context/job could be logged between
+ * dequeue/requeuing, to implement Fair Sharing. In this case, 'init' just
+ * initializes that information to some known state.
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ */
+
+/**
+ * @addtogroup base_api
+ * @{
+ */
+
+/**
+ * @addtogroup base_kbase_api
+ * @{
+ */
+
+/**
+ * @addtogroup kbase_js_policy Job Scheduler Policy APIs
+ * @{
+ *
+ * <b>Refer to @ref page_kbase_js_policy for an overview and detailed operation of
+ * the Job Scheduler Policy and its use from the Job Scheduler Core.</b>
+ */
+
+/**
+ * @brief Job Scheduler Policy structure
+ */
+union kbasep_js_policy;
+
+/**
+ * @brief Initialize the Job Scheduler Policy
+ */
+mali_error kbasep_js_policy_init(kbase_device *kbdev);
+
+/**
+ * @brief Terminate the Job Scheduler Policy
+ */
+void kbasep_js_policy_term(kbasep_js_policy *js_policy);
+
+/**
+ * @addtogroup kbase_js_policy_ctx Job Scheduler Policy, Context Management API
+ * @{
+ *
+ * <b>Refer to @ref page_kbase_js_policy for an overview and detailed operation of
+ * the Job Scheduler Policy and its use from the Job Scheduler Core.</b>
+ */
+
+/**
+ * @brief Job Scheduler Policy Ctx Info structure
+ *
+ * This structure is embedded in the kbase_context structure. It is used to:
+ * - track information needed for the policy to schedule the context (e.g. time
+ * used, OS priority etc.)
+ * - link together kbase_contexts into a queue, so that a kbase_context can be
+ * obtained as the container of the policy ctx info. This allows the API to
+ * return what "the next context" should be.
+ * - obtain other information already stored in the kbase_context for
+ * scheduling purposes (e.g process ID to get the priority of the originating
+ * process)
+ */
+union kbasep_js_policy_ctx_info;
+
+/**
+ * @brief Initialize a ctx for use with the Job Scheduler Policy
+ *
+ * This effectively initializes the kbasep_js_policy_ctx_info structure within
+ * the kbase_context (itself located within the kctx->jctx.sched_info structure).
+ */
+mali_error kbasep_js_policy_init_ctx(kbase_device *kbdev, kbase_context *kctx);
+
+/**
+ * @brief Terminate resources associated with using a ctx in the Job Scheduler
+ * Policy.
+ */
+void kbasep_js_policy_term_ctx(kbasep_js_policy *js_policy, kbase_context *kctx);
+
+/**
+ * @brief Enqueue a context onto the Job Scheduler Policy Queue
+ *
+ * If the context enqueued has a priority higher than any in the Run Pool, then
+ * it is the Policy's responsibility to decide whether to schedule out a low
+ * priority context from the Run Pool to allow the high priority context to be
+ * scheduled in.
+ *
+ * If the context has the privileged flag set, it will always be kept at the
+ * head of the queue.
+ *
+ * The caller will be holding kbasep_js_kctx_info::ctx::jsctx_mutex.
+ * The caller will be holding kbasep_js_device_data::queue_mutex.
+ */
+void kbasep_js_policy_enqueue_ctx(kbasep_js_policy *js_policy, kbase_context *kctx);
+
+/**
+ * @brief Dequeue a context from the Head of the Job Scheduler Policy Queue
+ *
+ * The caller will be holding kbasep_js_device_data::queue_mutex.
+ *
+ * @return MALI_TRUE if a context was available, and *kctx_ptr points to
+ * the kctx dequeued.
+ * @return MALI_FALSE if no contexts were available.
+ */
+mali_bool kbasep_js_policy_dequeue_head_ctx(kbasep_js_policy *js_policy, kbase_context ** const kctx_ptr);
+
+/**
+ * @brief Evict a context from the Job Scheduler Policy Queue
+ *
+ * This is only called as part of destroying a kbase_context.
+ *
+ * There are many reasons why this might fail during the lifetime of a
+ * context. For example, the context is in the process of being scheduled. In
+ * that case a thread doing the scheduling might have a pointer to it, but the
+ * context is neither in the Policy Queue, nor is it in the Run
+ * Pool. Crucially, neither the Policy Queue, Run Pool, or the Context itself
+ * are locked.
+ *
+ * Hence to find out where in the system the context is, it is important to do
+ * more than just check the kbasep_js_kctx_info::ctx::is_scheduled member.
+ *
+ * The caller will be holding kbasep_js_device_data::queue_mutex.
+ *
+ * @return MALI_TRUE if the context was evicted from the Policy Queue
+ * @return MALI_FALSE if the context was not found in the Policy Queue
+ */
+mali_bool kbasep_js_policy_try_evict_ctx(kbasep_js_policy *js_policy, kbase_context *kctx);
+
+/**
+ * @brief Call a function on all jobs belonging to a non-queued, non-running
+ * context, optionally detaching the jobs from the context as it goes.
+ *
+ * At the time of the call, the context is guarenteed to be not-currently
+ * scheduled on the Run Pool (is_scheduled == MALI_FALSE), and not present in
+ * the Policy Queue. This is because one of the following functions was used
+ * recently on the context:
+ * - kbasep_js_policy_evict_ctx()
+ * - kbasep_js_policy_runpool_remove_ctx()
+ *
+ * In both cases, no subsequent call was made on the context to any of:
+ * - kbasep_js_policy_runpool_add_ctx()
+ * - kbasep_js_policy_enqueue_ctx()
+ *
+ * Due to the locks that might be held at the time of the call, the callback
+ * may need to defer work on a workqueue to complete its actions (e.g. when
+ * cancelling jobs)
+ *
+ * \a detach_jobs must only be set when cancelling jobs (which occurs as part
+ * of context destruction).
+ *
+ * The locking conditions on the caller are as follows:
+ * - it will be holding kbasep_js_kctx_info::ctx::jsctx_mutex.
+ */
+void kbasep_js_policy_foreach_ctx_job(kbasep_js_policy *js_policy, kbase_context *kctx,
+ kbasep_js_policy_ctx_job_cb callback, mali_bool detach_jobs);
+
+/**
+ * @brief Add a context to the Job Scheduler Policy's Run Pool
+ *
+ * If the context enqueued has a priority higher than any in the Run Pool, then
+ * it is the Policy's responsibility to decide whether to schedule out low
+ * priority jobs that are currently running on the GPU.
+ *
+ * The number of contexts present in the Run Pool will never be more than the
+ * number of Address Spaces.
+ *
+ * The following guarentees are made about the state of the system when this
+ * is called:
+ * - kctx->as_nr member is valid
+ * - the context has its submit_allowed flag set
+ * - kbasep_js_device_data::runpool_irq::per_as_data[kctx->as_nr] is valid
+ * - The refcount of the context is guarenteed to be zero.
+ * - kbasep_js_kctx_info::ctx::is_scheduled will be MALI_TRUE.
+ *
+ * The locking conditions on the caller are as follows:
+ * - it will be holding kbasep_js_kctx_info::ctx::jsctx_mutex.
+ * - it will be holding kbasep_js_device_data::runpool_mutex.
+ * - it will be holding kbasep_js_device_data::runpool_irq::lock (a spinlock)
+ *
+ * Due to a spinlock being held, this function must not call any APIs that sleep.
+ */
+void kbasep_js_policy_runpool_add_ctx(kbasep_js_policy *js_policy, kbase_context *kctx);
+
+/**
+ * @brief Remove a context from the Job Scheduler Policy's Run Pool
+ *
+ * The kctx->as_nr member is valid and the context has its submit_allowed flag
+ * set when this is called. The state of
+ * kbasep_js_device_data::runpool_irq::per_as_data[kctx->as_nr] is also
+ * valid. The refcount of the context is guarenteed to be zero.
+ *
+ * The locking conditions on the caller are as follows:
+ * - it will be holding kbasep_js_kctx_info::ctx::jsctx_mutex.
+ * - it will be holding kbasep_js_device_data::runpool_mutex.
+ * - it will be holding kbasep_js_device_data::runpool_irq::lock (a spinlock)
+ *
+ * Due to a spinlock being held, this function must not call any APIs that sleep.
+ */
+void kbasep_js_policy_runpool_remove_ctx(kbasep_js_policy *js_policy, kbase_context *kctx);
+
+/**
+ * @brief Indicate whether a context should be removed from the Run Pool
+ * (should be scheduled out).
+ *
+ * The kbasep_js_device_data::runpool_irq::lock will be held by the caller.
+ *
+ * @note This API is called from IRQ context.
+ */
+mali_bool kbasep_js_policy_should_remove_ctx(kbasep_js_policy *js_policy, kbase_context *kctx);
+
+/**
+ * @brief Synchronize with any timers acting upon the runpool
+ *
+ * The policy should check whether any timers it owns should be running. If
+ * they should not, the policy must cancel such timers and ensure they are not
+ * re-run by the time this function finishes.
+ *
+ * In particular, the timers must not be running when there are no more contexts
+ * on the runpool, because the GPU could be powered off soon after this call.
+ *
+ * The locking conditions on the caller are as follows:
+ * - it will be holding kbasep_js_kctx_info::ctx::jsctx_mutex.
+ * - it will be holding kbasep_js_device_data::runpool_mutex.
+ */
+void kbasep_js_policy_runpool_timers_sync(kbasep_js_policy *js_policy);
+
+
+/**
+ * @brief Indicate whether a new context has an higher priority than the current context.
+ *
+ *
+ * The caller has the following conditions on locking:
+ * - kbasep_js_kctx_info::ctx::jsctx_mutex will be held for \a new_ctx
+ *
+ * This function must not sleep, because an IRQ spinlock might be held whilst
+ * this is called.
+ *
+ * @note There is nothing to stop the priority of \a current_ctx changing
+ * during or immediately after this function is called (because its jsctx_mutex
+ * cannot be held). Therefore, this function should only be seen as a heuristic
+ * guide as to whether \a new_ctx is higher priority than \a current_ctx
+ */
+mali_bool kbasep_js_policy_ctx_has_priority(kbasep_js_policy *js_policy, kbase_context *current_ctx, kbase_context *new_ctx);
+
+ /** @} *//* end group kbase_js_policy_ctx */
+
+/**
+ * @addtogroup kbase_js_policy_job Job Scheduler Policy, Job Chain Management API
+ * @{
+ *
+ * <b>Refer to @ref page_kbase_js_policy for an overview and detailed operation of
+ * the Job Scheduler Policy and its use from the Job Scheduler Core.</b>
+ */
+
+/**
+ * @brief Job Scheduler Policy Job Info structure
+ *
+ * This structure is embedded in the kbase_jd_atom structure. It is used to:
+ * - track information needed for the policy to schedule the job (e.g. time
+ * used, OS priority etc.)
+ * - link together jobs into a queue/buffer, so that a kbase_jd_atom can be
+ * obtained as the container of the policy job info. This allows the API to
+ * return what "the next job" should be.
+ * - obtain other information already stored in the kbase_context for
+ * scheduling purposes (e.g user-side relative priority)
+ */
+union kbasep_js_policy_job_info;
+
+/**
+ * @brief Initialize a job for use with the Job Scheduler Policy
+ *
+ * This function initializes the kbasep_js_policy_job_info structure within the
+ * kbase_jd_atom. It will only initialize/allocate resources that are specific
+ * to the job.
+ *
+ * That is, this function makes \b no attempt to:
+ * - initialize any context/policy-wide information
+ * - enqueue the job on the policy.
+ *
+ * At some later point, the following functions must be called on the job, in this order:
+ * - kbasep_js_policy_register_job() to register the job and initialize policy/context wide data.
+ * - kbasep_js_policy_enqueue_job() to enqueue the job
+ *
+ * A job must only ever be initialized on the Policy once, and must be
+ * terminated on the Policy before the job is freed.
+ *
+ * The caller will not be holding any locks, and so this function will not
+ * modify any information in \a kctx or \a js_policy.
+ *
+ * @return MALI_ERROR_NONE if initialization was correct.
+ */
+mali_error kbasep_js_policy_init_job(const kbasep_js_policy *js_policy, const kbase_context *kctx, kbase_jd_atom *katom);
+
+/**
+ * @brief Register context/policy-wide information for a job on the Job Scheduler Policy.
+ *
+ * Registers the job with the policy. This is used to track the job before it
+ * has been enqueued/requeued by kbasep_js_policy_enqueue_job(). Specifically,
+ * it is used to update information under a lock that could not be updated at
+ * kbasep_js_policy_init_job() time (such as context/policy-wide data).
+ *
+ * @note This function will not fail, and hence does not allocate any
+ * resources. Any failures that could occur on registration will be caught
+ * during kbasep_js_policy_init_job() instead.
+ *
+ * A job must only ever be registerd on the Policy once, and must be
+ * deregistered on the Policy on completion (whether or not that completion was
+ * success/failure).
+ *
+ * The caller has the following conditions on locking:
+ * - kbasep_js_kctx_info::ctx::jsctx_mutex will be held.
+ */
+void kbasep_js_policy_register_job(kbasep_js_policy *js_policy, kbase_context *kctx, kbase_jd_atom *katom);
+
+/**
+ * @brief De-register context/policy-wide information for a on the Job Scheduler Policy.
+ *
+ * This must be used before terminating the resources associated with using a
+ * job in the Job Scheduler Policy. This function does not itself terminate any
+ * resources, at most it just updates information in the policy and context.
+ *
+ * The caller has the following conditions on locking:
+ * - kbasep_js_kctx_info::ctx::jsctx_mutex will be held.
+ */
+void kbasep_js_policy_deregister_job(kbasep_js_policy *js_policy, kbase_context *kctx, kbase_jd_atom *katom);
+
+/**
+ * @brief Dequeue a Job for a job slot from the Job Scheduler Policy Run Pool
+ *
+ * The job returned by the policy will match at least one of the bits in the
+ * job slot's core requirements (but it may match more than one, or all @ref
+ * base_jd_core_req bits supported by the job slot).
+ *
+ * In addition, the requirements of the job returned will be a subset of those
+ * requested - the job returned will not have requirements that \a job_slot_idx
+ * cannot satisfy.
+ *
+ * The caller will submit the job to the GPU as soon as the GPU's NEXT register
+ * for the corresponding slot is empty. Of course, the GPU will then only run
+ * this new job when the currently executing job (in the jobslot's HEAD
+ * register) has completed.
+ *
+ * @return MALI_TRUE if a job was available, and *kctx_ptr points to
+ * the kctx dequeued.
+ * @return MALI_FALSE if no jobs were available among all ctxs in the Run Pool.
+ *
+ * @note base_jd_core_req is currently a u8 - beware of type conversion.
+ *
+ * The caller has the following conditions on locking:
+ * - kbasep_js_device_data::runpool_lock::irq will be held.
+ * - kbasep_js_device_data::runpool_mutex will be held.
+ * - kbasep_js_kctx_info::ctx::jsctx_mutex. will be held
+ */
+mali_bool kbasep_js_policy_dequeue_job(kbase_device *kbdev, int job_slot_idx, kbase_jd_atom ** const katom_ptr);
+
+/**
+ * @brief Requeue a Job back into the the Job Scheduler Policy Run Pool
+ *
+ * This will be used to enqueue a job after its creation and also to requeue
+ * a job into the Run Pool that was previously dequeued (running). It notifies
+ * the policy that the job should be run again at some point later.
+ *
+ * The caller has the following conditions on locking:
+ * - kbasep_js_device_data::runpool_irq::lock (a spinlock) will be held.
+ * - kbasep_js_device_data::runpool_mutex will be held.
+ * - kbasep_js_kctx_info::ctx::jsctx_mutex will be held.
+ */
+void kbasep_js_policy_enqueue_job(kbasep_js_policy *js_policy, kbase_jd_atom *katom);
+
+/**
+ * @brief Log the result of a job: the time spent on a job/context, and whether
+ * the job failed or not.
+ *
+ * Since a kbase_jd_atom contains a pointer to the kbase_context owning it,
+ * then this can also be used to log time on either/both the job and the
+ * containing context.
+ *
+ * The completion state of the job can be found by examining \a katom->event.event_code
+ *
+ * If the Job failed and the policy is implementing fair-sharing, then the
+ * policy must penalize the failing job/context:
+ * - At the very least, it should penalize the time taken by the amount of
+ * time spent processing the IRQ in SW. This because a job in the NEXT slot
+ * waiting to run will be delayed until the failing job has had the IRQ
+ * cleared.
+ * - \b Optionally, the policy could apply other penalties. For example, based
+ * on a threshold of a number of failing jobs, after which a large penalty is
+ * applied.
+ *
+ * The kbasep_js_device_data::runpool_mutex will be held by the caller.
+ *
+ * @note This API is called from IRQ context.
+ *
+ * The caller has the following conditions on locking:
+ * - kbasep_js_device_data::runpool_irq::lock will be held.
+ *
+ * @param js_policy job scheduler policy
+ * @param katom job dispatch atom
+ * @param time_spent_us the time spent by the job, in microseconds (10^-6 seconds).
+ */
+void kbasep_js_policy_log_job_result(kbasep_js_policy *js_policy, kbase_jd_atom *katom, u64 time_spent_us);
+
+ /** @} *//* end group kbase_js_policy_job */
+
+ /** @} *//* end group kbase_js_policy */
+ /** @} *//* end group base_kbase_api */
+ /** @} *//* end group base_api */
+
+#endif /* _KBASE_JS_POLICY_H_ */