linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] drm/msm: add DRM_MSM_GEM_SYNC_CACHE for non-coherent cache maintenance

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Date:   Tue, 13 Oct 2020 09:11:26 -0700
From:   Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com>
To:     Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Jonathan Marek <jonathan@...ek.ca>,
        freedreno <freedreno@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Sean Paul <sean@...rly.run>, David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        "open list:DRM DRIVER FOR MSM ADRENO GPU" 
        <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:DRM DRIVER FOR MSM ADRENO GPU" 
        <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "list@....net:IOMMU DRIVERS <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>, Joerg
        Roedel <joro@...tes.org>," <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] drm/msm: add DRM_MSM_GEM_SYNC_CACHE for non-coherent
 cache maintenance

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 6:42 AM Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com> wrote:
>
> On 2020-10-07 07:25, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 09:19:32AM -0400, Jonathan Marek wrote:
> >> One example why drm/msm can't use DMA API is multiple page table support
> >> (that is landing in 5.10), which is something that definitely couldn't work
> >> with DMA API.
> >>
> >> Another one is being able to choose the address for mappings, which AFAIK
> >> DMA API can't do (somewhat related to this: qcom hardware often has ranges
> >> of allowed addresses, which the dma_mask mechanism fails to represent, what
> >> I see is drivers using dma_mask as a "maximum address", and since addresses
> >> are allocated from the top it generally works)
> >
> > That sounds like a good enough rason to use the IOMMU API.  I just
> > wanted to make sure this really makes sense.
>
> I still think this situation would be best handled with a variant of
> dma_ops_bypass that also guarantees to bypass SWIOTLB, and can be set
> automatically when attaching to an unmanaged IOMMU domain. That way the
> device driver can make DMA API calls in the appropriate places that do
> the right thing either way, and only needs logic to decide whether to
> use the returned DMA addresses directly or ignore them if it knows
> they're overridden by its own IOMMU mapping.
>

That would be pretty ideal from my PoV

BR,
-R