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Date:   Thu, 6 Aug 2020 16:32:13 +0800
From:   Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn>
To:     Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>,
        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhc@...ote.com>
Cc:     linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Introduce cmdline argument writecombine=

On 08/06/2020 03:39 PM, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
>
>
> 在 2020/8/6 下午3:09, Tiezhu Yang 写道:
>> Loongson processors have a writecombine issue that maybe failed to
>> write back framebuffer used with ATI Radeon or AMD GPU at times,
>> after commit 8a08e50cee66 ("drm: Permit video-buffers writecombine
>> mapping for MIPS"), there exists some errors such as blurred screen
>> and lockup, and so on.
>>
>> With this patch, disable writecombine by default for Loongson64 to
>> work well with ATI Radeon or AMD GPU, and it has no influence on the
>> other platforms due to writecombine is enabled by default.
>>
>> Additionally, if it is necessary, writecombine=on can be set manually
>> in the cmdline to enhance the performance for Loongson LS7A integrated
>> graphics in the future.
>>
>> [   60.958721] radeon 0000:03:00.0: ring 0 stalled for more than 
>> 10079msec
>> [   60.965315] radeon 0000:03:00.0: GPU lockup (current fence id 
>> 0x0000000000000112 last fence id 0x000000000000011d on ring 0)
>> [   60.976525] radeon 0000:03:00.0: ring 3 stalled for more than 
>> 10086msec
>> [   60.983156] radeon 0000:03:00.0: GPU lockup (current fence id 
>> 0x0000000000000374 last fence id 0x00000000000003a8 on ring 3)
> Hi Tiezhu,
>
> Thanks for your patch.
> Personally I didn't have any issue with writecombine on my test 
> systems, but there
> are some complains about unstable graphic card from users. So 
> generally a cmdline
> writecombine switch is necessary.
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn>
>> ---
>>   arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h |  4 ++++
>>   arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c    | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>>   2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h 
>> b/arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h
>> index dd7a0f5..34869f7 100644
>> --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h
>> +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h
>> @@ -473,6 +473,10 @@ static inline pgprot_t pgprot_noncached(pgprot_t 
>> _prot)
>>   static inline pgprot_t pgprot_writecombine(pgprot_t _prot)
>>   {
>>       unsigned long prot = pgprot_val(_prot);
>> +    extern bool mips_writecombine;
>> +
>> +    if (!mips_writecombine)
>> +        return pgprot_noncached(_prot);
>
> You can simply override c->writecombine to _CACHE_UNCACHED in 
> cpu-probe.c with
> out this kind of hijack.
>
>>         /* cpu_data[0].writecombine is already shifted by 
>> _CACHE_SHIFT */
>>       prot = (prot & ~_CACHE_MASK) | cpu_data[0].writecombine;
>> diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c b/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c
>> index e2955f1..98777ca 100644
>> --- a/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c
>> +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c
>> @@ -459,6 +459,25 @@ static int __init ftlb_disable(char *s)
>>     __setup("noftlb", ftlb_disable);
>>   +#ifdef CONFIG_MACH_LOONGSON64
>> +bool mips_writecombine; /* initialise to false by default */
>> +#else
>> +bool mips_writecombine = true;
>> +#endif
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(mips_writecombine);
> There is no need to export this symbol, see comment before.
>> +
>> +static int __init writecombine_setup(char *str)
>> +{
>> +    if (strcmp(str, "on") == 0)
>> +        mips_writecombine = true;
>> +    else if (strcmp(str, "off") == 0)
>> +        mips_writecombine = false;
>> +
>> +    return 1;
>> +}
>> +
>> +__setup("writecombine=", writecombine_setup);
>
> Use early_param here seems more reasonable, it will be probed earlier.

Hi Jiaxun,

Thanks for your suggestion, it looks better.

I will modify and test it, then I will send v2 with another
document patch to explain this cmdline argument.

Thanks,
Tiezhu

>
>> +
>>   /*
>>    * Check if the CPU has per tc perf counters
>>    */
> Thanks
>
> - Jiaxun