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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 11:51:22 +0100
From: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] SMMUv3 PMCG IMP DEF event support
On 2019-10-16 9:47 am, John Garry wrote:
> On 15/10/2019 19:00, Robin Murphy wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>
>> On 30/09/2019 15:33, John Garry wrote:
>>> This patchset adds IMP DEF event support for the SMMUv3 PMCG.
>>>
>>> It is marked as an RFC as the method to identify the PMCG implementation
>>> may be a quite disliked. And, in general, the series is somewhat
>>> incomplete.
>>>
>>> So the background is that the PMCG supports IMP DEF events, yet we
>>> have no
>>> method to identify the PMCG to know the IMP DEF events.
>>>
>>> A method for identifying the PMCG implementation could be using
>>> PMDEVARCH, but we cannot rely on this being set properly, as whether
>>> this
>>> is implemented is not defined in SMMUv3 spec.
>>>
>>> Another method would be perf event aliasing, but this method of event
>>> matching is based on CPU id, which would not guarantee same
>>> uniqueness as PMCG implementation.
>>>
>>> Yet another method could be to continue using ACPI OEM ID in the IORT
>>> code, but this does not scale. And it is not suitable if we ever add DT
>>> support to the PMCG driver.
>>>
>>> The method used in this series is based on matching on the parent SMMUv3
>>> IIDR. We store this IIDR contents in the arm smmu structure as the first
>>> element, which means that we don't have to expose SMMU APIs - this is
>>> the part which may be disliked.
>>>
>>> The final two patches switch the pre-existing PMCG model identification
>>> from ACPI OEM ID to the same parent SMMUv3 IIDR matching.
>>>
>>> For now, we only consider SMMUv3' nodes being the associated node for
>>> PMCG.
>>
>
> Hi Robin,
>
>> Two significant concerns right off the bat:
>>
>> - It seems more common than not for silicon designers to fail to
>> implement IIDR correctly, so it's only a matter of time before
>> inevitably needing to bring back some firmware-level identifier
>> abstraction (if not already - does Hi161x have PMCGs?)
>
> Maybe there's a way that we can switch to this method, and leave the
> door open for an easy way to support firmware-level identifier again, if
> ever needed. I'm not too pushed - this was secondary to just allowing
> the PMCG driver know the associated SMMU model.
But that's the part I'm not buying - there's no clear advantage to
pushing that complexity down into the PMCG driver, vs. leaving the IORT
code responsible for translating an SMMU model into a PMCG model, yet
the aforementioned disadvantages jump out right away.
> And, no, hi161x does not have any PMCGs.
Hooray, I guess :)
>>
>> - This seems like a step in entirely the wrong direction for supporting
>> .
>
> So to support PMCGs that reference a Named Component or Root Complex, I
> thought that the IORT parsing code would have to do some secondary
> lookup to the associated SMMU, through the Named Component or Root
> Complex node.
>
> What was your idea here?
The associated SMMU has no relevance in that context - the reason for
the Node Reference to point to a non-SMMU node is for devices that
implement their own embedded TLB (e.g. AMBA DTI masters) and expose a
standard PMCG interface to monitor it. It isn't reasonable to expect any
old PCIe controller or on-chip-accelerator driver to expose a fake SMMU
IIDR just to keep some other driver happy.
> Note: I do acknowledge that an overall issue is that we assume all PMCG
> IMP DEF events are same for a given SMMU model.
That assumption does technically fail already - I know MMU-600 has
different IMP-DEF events for its TCU and TBUs, however as long as we can
get as far as "this is some part of an MMU-600" the driver should be
able to figure out the rest (annoyingly it looks like both PMCG types
expose the same PMCG_ID_REGS information, but they should be
distinguishable by PMCG_CEIDn).
>> Interpreting the Node Reference is definitely a welcome improvement over
>> matching table headers, but absent a truly compelling argument to the
>> contrary, I'd rather retain the "PMCG model" abstraction in between that
>> and the driver itself (especially since those can trivially be hung off
>> compatibles once it comes to DT support).
>
> For DT, I would assume that we just use compatible strings would allow
> us to identify the PMCG model.
Right, that was largely my point - DT probing can start with a PMCG
model, so it's a lot more logical for ACPI probing to do the same, with
the actual PMCG model determination hidden away in the ACPI code. That's
the basis of the current design.
I have been nagging the architects that PMCGs not having their own IIDR
is an unwelcome hole in the spec, so hopefully this might get a bit
easier some day.
> On a related matter, is there still a need to deal with scenarios of the
> PMCG being located within the SMMU register map? As you may remember, we
> did have this issue but relocated the PMCG to outside the SMMU register
> map in a later chip rev.
MMU-600 has its TCU PMCG page 0 in the middle of its SMMU page 0 space,
but given that it's an Arm IP, I expect that when the heat gets turned
up for making it work, it's most likely to be under me ;)
Robin.
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