Date:   Fri, 6 Sep 2019 12:02:10 +0530
From:   Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@...eaurora.org>
To:     "list@....net:IOMMU DRIVERS <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>, Joerg
        Roedel <joro@...tes.org>," <joro@...tes.org>,
        Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        "list@....net:IOMMU DRIVERS <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>, Joerg
        Roedel <joro@...tes.org>," <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] iommu: arm-smmu-impl: Add sdm845 implementation hook

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 12:03 PM Vivek Gautam
<vivek.gautam@...eaurora.org> wrote:
>
> Add reset hook for sdm845 based platforms to turn off
> the wait-for-safe sequence.
>
> Understanding how wait-for-safe logic affects USB and UFS performance
> on MTP845 and DB845 boards:
>
> Qcom's implementation of arm,mmu-500 adds a WAIT-FOR-SAFE logic
> to address under-performance issues in real-time clients, such as
> Display, and Camera.
> On receiving an invalidation requests, the SMMU forwards SAFE request
> to these clients and waits for SAFE ack signal from real-time clients.
> The SAFE signal from such clients is used to qualify the start of
> invalidation.
> This logic is controlled by chicken bits, one for each - MDP (display),
> IFE0, and IFE1 (camera), that can be accessed only from secure software
> on sdm845.
>
> This configuration, however, degrades the performance of non-real time
> clients, such as USB, and UFS etc. This happens because, with wait-for-safe
> logic enabled the hardware tries to throttle non-real time clients while
> waiting for SAFE ack signals from real-time clients.
>
> On mtp845 and db845 devices, with wait-for-safe logic enabled by the
> bootloaders we see degraded performance of USB and UFS when kernel
> enables the smmu stage-1 translations for these clients.
> Turn off this wait-for-safe logic from the kernel gets us back the perf
> of USB and UFS devices until we re-visit this when we start seeing perf
> issues on display/camera on upstream supported SDM845 platforms.
> The bootloaders on these boards implement secure monitor callbacks to
> handle a specific command - QCOM_SCM_SVC_SMMU_PROGRAM with which the
> logic can be toggled.
>
> There are other boards such as cheza whose bootloaders don't enable this
> logic. Such boards don't implement callbacks to handle the specific SCM
> call so disabling this logic for such boards will be a no-op.
>
> This change is inspired by the downstream change from Patrick Daly
> to address performance issues with display and camera by handling
> this wait-for-safe within separte io-pagetable ops to do TLB
> maintenance. So a big thanks to him for the change and for all the
> offline discussions.
>
> Without this change the UFS reads are pretty slow:
> $ time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/zero bs=1048576 count=10 conv=sync
> 10+0 records in
> 10+0 records out
> 10485760 bytes (10.0MB) copied, 22.394903 seconds, 457.2KB/s
> real    0m 22.39s
> user    0m 0.00s
> sys     0m 0.01s
>
> With this change they are back to rock!
> $ time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/zero bs=1048576 count=300 conv=sync
> 300+0 records in
> 300+0 records out
> 314572800 bytes (300.0MB) copied, 1.030541 seconds, 291.1MB/s
> real    0m 1.03s
> user    0m 0.00s
> sys     0m 0.54s
>
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@...eaurora.org>
> ---
>  drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-impl.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-impl.c b/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-impl.c
> index 3f88cd078dd5..0aef87c41f9c 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-impl.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-impl.c
> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
>
>  #include <linux/bitfield.h>
>  #include <linux/of.h>
> +#include <linux/qcom_scm.h>
>
>  #include "arm-smmu.h"
>
> @@ -102,7 +103,6 @@ static struct arm_smmu_device *cavium_smmu_impl_init(struct arm_smmu_device *smm
>         return &cs->smmu;
>  }
>
> -
>  #define ARM_MMU500_ACTLR_CPRE          (1 << 1)
>
>  #define ARM_MMU500_ACR_CACHE_LOCK      (1 << 26)
> @@ -147,6 +147,28 @@ static const struct arm_smmu_impl arm_mmu500_impl = {
>         .reset = arm_mmu500_reset,
>  };
>
> +static int qcom_sdm845_smmu500_reset(struct arm_smmu_device *smmu)
> +{
> +       int ret;
> +
> +       arm_mmu500_reset(smmu);
> +
> +       /*
> +        * To address performance degradation in non-real time clients,
> +        * such as USB and UFS, turn off wait-for-safe on sdm845 based boards,
> +        * such as MTP and db845, whose firmwares implement secure monitor
> +        * call handlers to turn on/off the wait-for-safe logic.
> +        */
> +       ret = qcom_scm_qsmmu500_wait_safe_toggle(0);
> +       if (ret)
> +               dev_warn(smmu->dev, "Failed to turn off SAFE logic\n");
> +
> +       return 0;
> +}
> +
> +const struct arm_smmu_impl qcom_sdm845_smmu500_impl = {
> +       .reset = qcom_sdm845_smmu500_reset,
> +};
>
>  struct arm_smmu_device *arm_smmu_impl_init(struct arm_smmu_device *smmu)
>  {
> @@ -170,5 +192,8 @@ struct arm_smmu_device *arm_smmu_impl_init(struct arm_smmu_device *smmu)
>                                   "calxeda,smmu-secure-config-access"))
>                 smmu->impl = &calxeda_impl;
>
> +       if (of_device_is_compatible(smmu->dev->of_node, "qcom,sdm845-smmu-500"))
> +               smmu->impl = &qcom_sdm845_smmu500_impl;
> +
>         return smmu;
>  }

Hi Robin,

How does this change look now? Let me know if there are any concerns.
I will be happy to incorporate them.

Thanks & Regards
Vivek
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