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Date:   Wed, 14 Feb 2018 16:03:46 +0530
From:   Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@...eaurora.org>
To:     Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc:     Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com>, Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org>,
        "list@....net:IOMMU DRIVERS <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>, Joerg
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        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
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        jcrouse@...eaurora.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 6/6] drm/msm: iommu: Replace runtime calls with runtime suppliers

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 2:46 PM, Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org> wrote:

Adding Jordan to this thread as well.

> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 6:13 PM, Vivek Gautam
> <vivek.gautam@...eaurora.org> wrote:
>> Hi Tomasz,
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 11:08 AM, Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 1:17 PM, Vivek Gautam
>>> <vivek.gautam@...eaurora.org> wrote:
>>>> Hi Tomasz,
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 8:31 AM, Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org> wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 11:13 AM, Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 8:59 PM, Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 3:03 AM, Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 4:10 AM, Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hi Vivek,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks for the patch. Please see my comments inline.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 7:31 PM, Vivek Gautam
>>>>>>>>> <vivek.gautam@...eaurora.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> While handling the concerned iommu, there should not be a
>>>>>>>>>> need to power control the drm devices from iommu interface.
>>>>>>>>>> If these drm devices need to be powered around this time,
>>>>>>>>>> the respective drivers should take care of this.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Replace the pm_runtime_get/put_sync(<drm_device>) with
>>>>>>>>>> pm_runtime_get/put_suppliers(<drm_device>) calls, to power-up
>>>>>>>>>> the connected iommu through the device link interface.
>>>>>>>>>> In case the device link is not setup these get/put_suppliers()
>>>>>>>>>> calls will be a no-op, and the iommu driver should take care of
>>>>>>>>>> powering on its devices accordingly.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@...eaurora.org>
>>>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_iommu.c | 16 ++++++++--------
>>>>>>>>>>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_iommu.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_iommu.c
>>>>>>>>>> index b23d33622f37..1ab629bbee69 100644
>>>>>>>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_iommu.c
>>>>>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_iommu.c
>>>>>>>>>> @@ -40,9 +40,9 @@ static int msm_iommu_attach(struct msm_mmu *mmu, const char * const *names,
>>>>>>>>>>         struct msm_iommu *iommu = to_msm_iommu(mmu);
>>>>>>>>>>         int ret;
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> -       pm_runtime_get_sync(mmu->dev);
>>>>>>>>>> +       pm_runtime_get_suppliers(mmu->dev);
>>>>>>>>>>         ret = iommu_attach_device(iommu->domain, mmu->dev);
>>>>>>>>>> -       pm_runtime_put_sync(mmu->dev);
>>>>>>>>>> +       pm_runtime_put_suppliers(mmu->dev);
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> For me, it looks like a wrong place to handle runtime PM of IOMMU
>>>>>>>>> here. iommu_attach_device() calls into IOMMU driver's attach_device()
>>>>>>>>> callback and that's where necessary runtime PM gets should happen, if
>>>>>>>>> any. In other words, driver A (MSM DRM driver) shouldn't be dealing
>>>>>>>>> with power state of device controlled by driver B (ARM SMMU).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Note that we end up having to do the same, because of iommu_unmap()
>>>>>>>> while DRM driver is powered off..  it might be cleaner if it was all
>>>>>>>> self contained in the iommu driver, but that would make it so other
>>>>>>>> drivers couldn't call iommu_unmap() from an irq handler, which is
>>>>>>>> apparently something that some of them want to do..
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'd assume that runtime PM status is already guaranteed to be active
>>>>>>> when the IRQ handler is running, by some other means (e.g.
>>>>>>> pm_runtime_get_sync() called earlier, when queuing some work to the
>>>>>>> hardware). Otherwise, I'm not sure how a powered down device could
>>>>>>> trigger an IRQ.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So, if the master device power is already on, suppliers should be
>>>>>>> powered on as well, thanks to device links.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> umm, that is kindof the inverse of the problem..  the problem is
>>>>>> things like gpu driver (and v4l2 drivers that import dma-buf's,
>>>>>> afaict).. they will potentially call iommu->unmap() when device is not
>>>>>> active (due to userspace or things beyond the control of the driver)..
>>>>>> so *they* would want iommu to do pm get/put calls.
>>>>>
>>>>> Which is fine and which is actually already done by one of the patches
>>>>> in this series, not for map/unmap, but probe, add_device,
>>>>> remove_device. Having parts of the API doing it inside the callback
>>>>> and other parts outside sounds at least inconsistent.
>>>>>
>>>>>> But other drivers
>>>>>> trying to unmap from irq ctx would not.  Which is the contradictory
>>>>>> requirement that lead to the idea of iommu user powering up iommu for
>>>>>> unmap.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear. My last message was supposed to show that
>>>>> it's not contradictory at all, because "other drivers trying to unmap
>>>>> from irq ctx" would already have called pm_runtime_get_*() earlier
>>>>> from a non-irq ctx, which would have also done the same on all the
>>>>> linked suppliers, including the IOMMU. The ultimate result would be
>>>>> that the map/unmap() of the IOMMU driver calling pm_runtime_get_sync()
>>>>> would do nothing besides incrementing the reference count.
>>>>
>>>> The entire point was to avoid the slowpath that pm_runtime_get/put_sync()
>>>> would add in map/unmap. It would not be correct to add a slowpath in irq_ctx
>>>> for taking care of non-irq_ctx and for the situations where master is already
>>>> powered-off.
>>>
>>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that with what I'm proposing
>>> there wouldn't be any slow path.
>>
>> Yea, but only when the power domain is irq-safe? And not all platforms
>> enable irq-safe power domains. For instance, msm doesn't enable its
>> gdsc power domains as irq-safe.
>> Is it something i am missing?
>
> irq-safe would matter if there would exist a case when the call is
> done from IRQ context and the power is off. As I explained in a), it
> shouldn't happen.

Hi Robin, Will

Does adding pm_runtime_get() in map/unmap sounds good to you?

Quoting Tomasz once again here:
>>> a) For IRQ context, the master is already powered on and so the SMMU
>>> is also powered on, through respective device link.
>>> pm_runtime_get_sync() would ultimately just increment the runtime PM
>>> usage count.
>>>
>>> b) For a case when the master is already powered off (which wouldn't
>>> be IRQ context, for the reason stated in a)), powering on the SMMU is
>>> unavoidable, if the SMMU hardware really needs to be accessed (i.e.
>>> some TLBs need to be invalidated, if their state is preserved despite
>>> master being powered down).

>>> There was also a point raised that __pm_runtime_resume() called from
>>> pm_runtime_get_sync() would grab dev->power_lock spinlock, which is
>>> true, except that if the device is already active, it would do it only
>>> for the time of checking device state, so I doubt it would really be a
>>> significant point of contention.

Regards
Vivek

>
> Best regards,
> Tomasz
>
>>
>>>
>>> a) For IRQ context, the master is already powered on and so the SMMU
>>> is also powered on, through respective device link.
>>> pm_runtime_get_sync() would ultimately just increment the runtime PM
>>> usage count.
>>>
>>> b) For a case when the master is already powered off (which wouldn't
>>> be IRQ context, for the reason stated in a)), powering on the SMMU is
>>> unavoidable, if the SMMU hardware really needs to be accessed (i.e.
>>> some TLBs need to be invalidated, if their state is preserved despite
>>> master being powered down).
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There has already been some discussion about this on various earlier
>>>>>> permutations of this patchset.  I think we have exhausted all other
>>>>>> options.
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess I should have read those. Let me do that now.
>>>> Yea, i point to the thread in cover letter and [PATCH 1/6].
>>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> I read through all the links in the cover letter and I could see other
>>> attempts not working out indeed, but they were different from what I'm
>>> proposing.
>>>
>>> There was also a point raised that __pm_runtime_resume() called from
>>> pm_runtime_get_sync() would grab dev->power_lock spinlock, which is
>>> true, except that if the device is already active, it would do it only
>>> for the time of checking device state, so I doubt it would really be a
>>> significant point of contention.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Tomasz
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