linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3 7/7] drm/msm/a6xx: Add support for using system cache(LLC)

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Date:   Fri, 03 Jul 2020 22:29:16 +0530
From:   Sai Prakash Ranjan <saiprakash.ranjan@...eaurora.org>
To:     Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com>
Cc:     Sean Paul <sean@...rly.run>,
        freedreno <freedreno@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        "list@....net:IOMMU DRIVERS , Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>," 
        <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jordan Crouse <jcrouse@...eaurora.org>,
        Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>,
        Akhil P Oommen <akhilpo@...eaurora.org>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Kristian H . Kristensen" <hoegsberg@...gle.com>,
        Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Sharat Masetty <smasetty@...eaurora.org>,
        "moderated list:ARM/FREESCALE IMX / MXC ARM ARCHITECTURE" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@...labora.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 7/7] drm/msm/a6xx: Add support for using system
 cache(LLC)

On 2020-07-03 21:34, Rob Clark wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 7:53 AM Sai Prakash Ranjan
> <saiprakash.ranjan@...eaurora.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Will,
>> 
>> On 2020-07-03 19:07, Will Deacon wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 09:22:50PM +0530, Sai Prakash Ranjan wrote:
>> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_iommu.c
>> >> b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_iommu.c
>> >> index f455c597f76d..bd1d58229cc2 100644
>> >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_iommu.c
>> >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_iommu.c
>> >> @@ -218,6 +218,9 @@ static int msm_iommu_map(struct msm_mmu *mmu,
>> >> uint64_t iova,
>> >>              iova |= GENMASK_ULL(63, 49);
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> +    if (mmu->features & MMU_FEATURE_USE_SYSTEM_CACHE)
>> >> +            prot |= IOMMU_SYS_CACHE_ONLY;
>> >
>> > Given that I think this is the only user of IOMMU_SYS_CACHE_ONLY, then
>> > it
>> > looks like it should actually be a property on the domain because we
>> > never
>> > need to configure it on a per-mapping basis within a domain, and
>> > therefore
>> > it shouldn't be exposed by the IOMMU API as a prot flag.
>> >
>> > Do you agree?
>> >
>> 
>> GPU being the only user is for now, but there are other clients which
>> can use this.
>> Plus how do we set the memory attributes if we do not expose this as
>> prot flag?
> 
> It does appear that the downstream kgsl driver sets this for basically
> all mappings.. well there is some conditional stuff around
> DOMAIN_ATTR_USE_LLC_NWA but it seems based on the property of the
> domain.  (Jordan may know more about what that is about.)  But looks
> like there are a lot of different paths into iommu_map in kgsl so I
> might have missed something.
> 
> Assuming there isn't some case where we specifically don't want to use
> the system cache for some mapping, I think it could be a domain
> attribute that sets an io_pgtable_cfg::quirks flag
> 

Ok then we are good to remove unused sys cache prot flag which Will has 
posted.

Thanks,
Sai

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