Each callable ray-tracing shader shader stage has to perform a return
operation at the end. In the case of raygen shaders, it retires the
bindless thread because the raygen shader is always the root of the call
tree. In the case of any-hit shaders, the default action is accep the
hit. For callable, miss, and closest-hit shaders, it does a return
operation. The assumption is that the calling shader has placed a
BINDLESS_SHADER_RECORD address for the return in the first QWord of the
callee's scratch space. The return operation simply loads this value
and calls a btd_spawn intrinsic to jump to it.
Reviewed-by: Caio Marcelo de Oliveira Filho <caio.oliveira@intel.com>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/7356>
In ray-tracing shader stages, we have a real call stack and so we can't
use the normal scratch mechanism. Instead, the invocation's stack lives
in a memory region of the RT scratch buffer that sits after the HW ray
stacks. We handle this by asking nir_lower_io to lower local variables
to 64-bit global memory access. Unlike nir_lower_io for 32-bit offset
scratch, when 64-bit global access is requested, nir_lower_io generates
an address calculation which starts from a load_scratch_base_ptr. We
then lower this intrinsic to the appropriate address calculation in
brw_nir_lower_rt_intrinsics.
When a COMPUTE_WALKER command is sent to the hardware with the BTD Mode
bit set to true, the hardware generates a set of stack IDs, one for each
invocation. These then get passed along from one shader invocation to
the next as we trace the ray. We can use those stack IDs to figure out
which stack our invocation needs to access. Because we may not be the
first shader in the stack, there's a per-stack offset that gets stored
in the "hotzone".
Reviewed-by: Caio Marcelo de Oliveira Filho <caio.oliveira@intel.com>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/7356>
These will eventually contain per-stage lowering for various ray-tracing
things. This is separate from brw_nir_lower_rt_intrinsics because, for
reasons that will become apparent later, brw_nir_lower_rt_intrinsics has
to be run very late in the compile process, right before brw_compile_bs.
Reviewed-by: Caio Marcelo de Oliveira Filho <caio.oliveira@intel.com>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/7356>
