linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] drivers/gpu/drm: don't select DMA

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Message-ID: <b78f2ec2-3c47-f435-6d5e-fb7330ff3907@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 9 Apr 2021 10:09:51 +0200
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Andrew Jeffery <andrew@...id.au>,
        Lucas Stach <l.stach@...gutronix.de>,
        Russell King <linux+etnaviv@...linux.org.uk>,
        Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@...il.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>,
        linux-aspeed <linux-aspeed@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        The etnaviv authors <etnaviv@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] drivers/gpu/drm: don't select DMA_CMA or CMA from
 aspeed or etnaviv

On 08.04.21 22:29, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 6:45 PM David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com> wrote:
>> On 08.04.21 14:49, Linus Walleij wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 2:01 PM David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> This is something you could do using a hidden helper symbol like
>>>>>
>>>>> config DRMA_ASPEED_GFX
>>>>>           bool "Aspeed display driver"
>>>>>           select DRM_WANT_CMA
>>>>>
>>>>> config DRM_WANT_CMA
>>>>>           bool
>>>>>           help
>>>>>              Select this from any driver that benefits from CMA being enabled
>>>>>
>>>>> config DMA_CMA
>>>>>           bool "Use CMA helpers for DRM"
>>>>>           default DRM_WANT_CMA
>>>>>
>>>>>             Arnd
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That's precisely what I had first, with an additional "WANT_CMA" --  but
>>>> looking at the number of such existing options (I was able to spot 1 !)
>>>
>>> If you do this it probably makes sense to fix a few other drivers
>>> Kconfig in the process. It's not just a problem with your driver.
>>> "my" drivers:
>>>
>>
>> :) I actually wanted to convert them to "depends on DMA_CMA" but ran
>> into recursive dependencies ...
>>
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/mcde/Kconfig
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/pl111/Kconfig
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/tve200/Kconfig
> 
> Right, this is the main problem caused by using 'select' to
> force-enable symbols that other drivers depend on.
> 
> Usually, the answer is to be consistent about the use of 'select'
> and 'depends on', using the former only to enable symbols that
> are hidden, while using 'depends on' for anything that is an
> actual build time dependency.
> 
>> I was assuming these are "real" dependencies. Will it also work without
>> DMA_CMA?
> 
> I think in this case, it is fairly likely to work without DMA_CMA when the
> probe function gets called during a fresh boot, but fairly likely to fail if
> it gets called after the system has run for long enough to fragment the
> free memory.
> 
> The point of DMA_CMA is to make it work reliably.

Right, and even at runtime there is no guarantee that DMA_CMA will do 
anything -- especially if we don't reserve a CMA region (e.g., "cma=X").

So this really sounds like a

"desires DMA_CMA"

and achieving that via an additional symbol or via "default y if ..." 
for DMA_CMA sounds reasonable.

Thanks!

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb