NV services

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The Switch makes use of a customized NVIDIA driver that is exposed through multiple services. Communication with these services goes through IPC, as usual.

nvdrv:a

CMD Name Format Notes
??? NvOsDrvOpen
??? NvOsDrvClose
??? NvOsDrvIoctl See below
??? NvOsDrvMapSharedMem
??? NvOsDrvQueryEvent

IOCtl commands

Just like any standard build of the NVIDIA graphics' drivers, the nvdrv:a service operates mainly by processing requests and sending them to the kernel (not verified) through IOCtl commands. Note that these commands are generated with the following primitive (see Linux kernel):

#define _IOC(inout, group, num, len) (inout | ((len & IOCPARM_MASK) << 16) | ((group) << 8) | (num))


The following table contains valid commands for group 0x00. This group consists in commands for the "/dev/nvhost-ctrl" interface and a few global commands for every nvhost channel (e.g.: "/dev/nvhost-gpu").

Value Description Notes
0xC0??0001 NVHOST32_IOCTL_CHANNEL_SUBMIT ?? == size is unknown
0xC0080002 NVHOST_IOCTL_CHANNEL_GET_SYNCPOINT
0xC0080003 NVHOST_IOCTL_CHANNEL_GET_WAITBASE
0xC0080004 NVHOST_IOCTL_CHANNEL_SET_TIMEOUT_EX
0xC01C0009 NVHOST_IOCTL_CHANNEL_SUBMIT(?)
0xC01C000A NVHOST_IOCTL_CHANNEL_MODULE_REGRDWR(?)
0xC0080014 NVHOST_IOCTL_CTRL_SYNCPT_READ
0x40040015 NVHOST_IOCTL_CTRL_SYNCPT_INCR
0xC00C0016 NVHOST_IOCTL_CTRL_SYNCPT_WAIT
0x40080017 NVHOST_IOCTL_CTRL_MODULE_MUTEX
0xC0180018 NVHOST32_IOCTL_CTRL_MODULE_REGRDWR
0xC0100019 NVHOST_IOCTL_CTRL_SYNCPT_WAITEX
0xC008001A NVHOST_IOCTL_CTRL_SYNCPT_READ_MAX
0xC004001C NVHOST_IOCTL_CTRL_GET_VERSION(?)
0xC010001D Unknown NvRmSyncWaitEvent (wait on event?
0xC010001E Unknown NvRmSyncWaitEvent (wait on event?)
0xC004001F Unknown NvRmSyncWaitEvent (signal event?)
0xC0040020 Unknown NvRmSyncWaitEvent (signal event?)
0x40080021 Unknown Returns busy?


The following table contains valid commands for group 0x01. This group consists in commands for the "/dev/nvmap" interface.

Value Description Notes
0xC0080101 NVMAP_IOC_CREATE
0xC0080103 NVMAP_IOC_FROM_ID
0xC0200104 NVMAP_IOC_ALLOC
0xC0180105 NVMAP_IOC_FREE
0xC00C0109 NVMAP_IOC_PARAM
0xC008010E NVMAP_IOC_GET_ID


The following table contains valid commands for group 0x41 ('A'). This group consists in commands for the "/dev/nvhost-as-gpu" interface.

Value Description Notes
0x40044101 NVGPU_AS_IOCTL_BIND_CHANNEL
0xC0184102 NVGPU32_AS_IOCTL_ALLOC_SPACE
0xC0104103 NVGPU_AS_IOCTL_FREE_SPACE
0xC0184104 NVGPU_AS_IOCTL_MAP_BUFFER
0xC0084105 NVGPU_AS_IOCTL_UNMAP_BUFFER
0xC0284106 NVGPU_AS_IOCTL_ALLOC_SPACE
0x40104107 Unknown
0xC0404108 Unknown
0x40284109 Unknown
0xC0144114 Unknown


The following table contains valid commands for group 0x44 ('D'). This group consists in commands for the "/dev/nvhost-dbg-gpu" interface.

Value Description Notes
0xC0??4402 NVGPU_DBG_GPU_IOCTL_REG_OPS ?? == size is unknown


The following table contains valid commands for group 0x47 ('G'). This group consists in commands for the "/dev/nvhost-ctrl-gpu" interface.

Value Description Notes
0x80044701 NVGPU_GPU_IOCTL_ZCULL_GET_CTX_SIZE
0x80284702 NVGPU_GPU_IOCTL_ZCULL_GET_INFO
0x402C4703 NVGPU_GPU_IOCTL_ZBC_SET_TABLE
0xC0344704 NVGPU_GPU_IOCTL_ZBC_QUERY_TABLE
0xC0B04705 NVGPU_GPU_IOCTL_GET_CHARACTERISTICS
0xC0184706 NVGPU_AS_IOCTL_ALLOC_SPACE
0x40084707 Unknown
0x4008470E Unknown
0x4010470F Unknown
0xC0084710 Unknown
0x80084711 Unknown
0x80084714 Unknown
0xC008471B Unknown
0xC010471C Unknown


The following table contains valid commands for group 0x48 ('H'). This group consists in commands common to all nvhost channels (depending if they implement them or not), but they are only listed here in relation to the interface "/dev/nvhost-gpu" for convenience.

Value Description Notes
0x40044801 NVGPU_IOCTL_CHANNEL_SET_NVMAP_FD
0x40044803 NVGPU_IOCTL_CHANNEL_SET_TIMEOUT(?)
0x40084805 NVGPU_IOCTL_CHANNEL_SET_TIMEOUT_EX(?)
0xC0044807 NVGPU_IOCTL_CHANNEL_CYCLE_STATS
0xC0184808 NVGPU_IOCTL_CHANNEL_SUBMIT_GPFIFO
0xC0104809 NVGPU_IOCTL_CHANNEL_ALLOC_OBJ_CTX
0x4008480A NVGPU_IOCTL_CHANNEL_FREE_OBJ_CTX
0xC010480B NVGPU_IOCTL_CHANNEL_ZCULL_BIND
0xC018480C NVGPU_IOCTL_CHANNEL_SET_ERROR_NOTIFIER
0x4004480D NVGPU_IOCTL_CHANNEL_OPEN
0x0000480E NVGPU_IOCTL_CHANNEL_ENABLE
0x0000480F NVGPU_IOCTL_CHANNEL_DISABLE
0x00004810 NVGPU_IOCTL_CHANNEL_PREEMPT
0x00004811 NVGPU_IOCTL_CHANNEL_FORCE_RESET
0x40084812 NVGPU_IOCTL_CHANNEL_EVENTS_CTRL
0xC0104813 NVGPU_IOCTL_CHANNEL_CYCLE_STATS_SNAPSHOT
0x80804816 Unknown
0xC0104817 Unknown
0x40204818 Unknown
0xC0184819 Unknown
0xC020481A Unknown