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Message-ID: <1603433064.2024.6.camel@mbjsdccf07>
Date:   Fri, 23 Oct 2020 14:04:24 +0800
From:   chao hao <Chao.Hao@...iatek.com>
To:     Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
CC:     Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Jun Wen <jun.wen@...iatek.com>, FY Yang <fy.yang@...iatek.com>,
        <wsd_upstream@...iatek.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        <linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Mingyuan Ma <mingyuan.ma@...iatek.com>,
        Chao Hao <chao.hao@...iatek.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] iommu/mediatek: Add iotlb_sync_range() support

On Fri, 2020-10-23 at 13:57 +0800, chao hao wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 17:55 +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> > On 2020-10-19 12:30, Chao Hao wrote:
> > > MTK_IOMMU driver writes one page entry and does tlb flush at a time
> > > currently. More optimal would be to aggregate the writes and flush
> > > BUS buffer in the end.
> > 
> > That's exactly what iommu_iotlb_gather_add_page() is meant to achieve. 
> > Rather than jumping straight into hacking up a new API to go round the 
> > back of the existing API design, it would be far better to ask the 
> > question of why that's not behaving as expected.
> 
> Thanks for you review!
> 
> iommu_iotlb_gather_add_page is put in io_pgtable_tlb_add_page().
> io_pgtable_tlb_add_page() only be called in
> unmapping and mapping flow doesn't have it in linux iommu driver, but
> mtk iommu needs to do tlb sync in mapping
> and unmapping to avoid old data being in the iommu tlb.
> 
> In addtion, we hope to do tlb sync once when all the pages mapping done.
> iommu_iotlb_gather_add_page maybe do
> tlb sync more than once. because one whole buffer consists of different
> page size(1MB/64K/4K).
> 
> Based on the previous considerations,  don't find more appropriate the
> way of tlb sync for mtk iommu, so we add a new API.
> 
> > 
> > > For 50MB buffer mapping, if mtk_iommu driver use iotlb_sync_range()
> > > instead of tlb_add_range() and tlb_flush_walk/leaf(), it can increase
> > > 50% performance or more(depending on size of every page size) in
> > > comparison to flushing after each page entry update. So we prefer to
> > > use iotlb_sync_range() to replace iotlb_sync(), tlb_add_range() and
> > > tlb_flush_walk/leaf() for MTK platforms.
> > 
> > In the case of mapping, it sounds like what you actually want to do is 
> > hook up .iotlb_sync_map and generally make IO_PGTABLE_QUIRK_TLBI_ON_MAP 
> > cleverer, because the current implementation is as dumb as it could 
> > possibly be. 
> 
> iotlb_sync_map only has one parameter(iommu_domain), but mtk
> iommu_domain maybe include the whole iova space, if mtk_iommu to do tlb
> sync based on iommu_domain, it is equivalent to do tlb flush all in
> fact.
> iommu driver will do tlb sync in every mapping page when mtk iommu sets
> IO_PGTABLE_QUIRK_TLBI_ON_MAP(io_pgtable_tlb_flush_walk),
> as is the commit message mentioned, it will drop mapping performance in
> mtk platform.
> 
> 
> > In fact if we simply passed an address range to 
> > .iotlb_sync_map, io-pgtable probably wouldn't need to be involved at all 
> > any more.
Sorry, I forget to reply the question in previous mail.
Do you mean we need to modify iotlb_sync_map() input parameter(ex: add
start/end iova)?

> 
> I know it is not a good idea probably by adding a new api, but I found
> out that tlb sync only to be done after mapping one page, so if
> mtk_iommu hope to do tlb sync once after all the pages map done, could
> you give me some advices? thanks!
> 
> > 
> > Robin.
> > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Chao Hao <chao.hao@...iatek.com>
> > > ---
> > >   drivers/iommu/mtk_iommu.c | 6 ++++++
> > >   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/iommu/mtk_iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/mtk_iommu.c
> > > index 785b228d39a6..d3400c15ff7b 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/iommu/mtk_iommu.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/iommu/mtk_iommu.c
> > > @@ -224,6 +224,11 @@ static void mtk_iommu_tlb_flush_range_sync(unsigned long iova, size_t size,
> > >   	}
> > >   }
> > >   
> > > +static void __mtk_iommu_tlb_flush_range_sync(unsigned long iova, size_t size)
> > > +{
> > > +	mtk_iommu_tlb_flush_range_sync(iova, size, 0, NULL)
> > > +}
> > > +
> > >   static void mtk_iommu_tlb_flush_page_nosync(struct iommu_iotlb_gather *gather,
> > >   					    unsigned long iova, size_t granule,
> > >   					    void *cookie)
> > > @@ -536,6 +541,7 @@ static const struct iommu_ops mtk_iommu_ops = {
> > >   	.map		= mtk_iommu_map,
> > >   	.unmap		= mtk_iommu_unmap,
> > >   	.flush_iotlb_all = mtk_iommu_flush_iotlb_all,
> > > +	.iotlb_sync_range = __mtk_iommu_tlb_flush_range_sync,
> > >   	.iotlb_sync	= mtk_iommu_iotlb_sync,
> > >   	.iova_to_phys	= mtk_iommu_iova_to_phys,
> > >   	.probe_device	= mtk_iommu_probe_device,
> > > 
>