Date:   Thu, 23 Sep 2021 15:07:34 +0530
From:   Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>
To:     Nick Kossifidis <mick@....forth.gr>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: Add RISC-V svpbmt extension

On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 2:55 PM Nick Kossifidis <mick@....forth.gr> wrote:
>
> Hello Guo,
>
> Στις 2021-09-23 10:27, guoren@...nel.org έγραψε:
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml
> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml
> index e534f6a7cfa1..1825cd8db0de 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml
> @@ -56,7 +56,9 @@ properties:
>       enum:
>         - riscv,sv32
>         - riscv,sv39
> +      - riscv,sv39,svpbmt
>         - riscv,sv48
> +      - riscv,sv48,svpbmt
>         - riscv,none
>
> Isn't svpbmt orthogonal to the mmu type ? It's a functionality that can
> be present on either sv39/48/57 so why not have another "svpbmt"
> property directly on the cpu node ?

Actually, "mmu-type" would be a good place because it's page based
memory attribute and paging can't exist without mmu translation mode.

Also, "svpmbt" is indeed a CPU property so has to be feature individual
CPU node. Hypothetically, a heterogeneous system is possible where
some CPUs have "svpmbt" and some CPUs don't have "svpmbt". For
example, a future FUxxx SoC might have a E-core and few S-cores
where S-cores have Svpmbt whereas E-core does not have Svpmbt
because it's an embedded core.

Regards,
Anup

>
> > + * rv64 PTE format:
> > + * | 63 | 62 61 | 60 54 | 53  10 | 9             8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
> > 3 | 2 | 1 | 0
> > + *   N      MT     RSV    PFN      reserved for SW   D   A   G   U
> > X   W   R   V
> > + * [62:61] Memory Type definitions:
> > + *  00 - PMA    Normal Cacheable, No change to implied PMA memory type
> > + *  01 - NC     Non-cacheable, idempotent, weakly-ordered Main Memory
> > + *  10 - IO     Non-cacheable, non-idempotent, strongly-ordered I/O
> > memory
> > + *  11 - Rsvd   Reserved for future standard use
> > + */
> > +#define _PAGE_MT_MASK                ((u64)0x3 << 61)
> > +#define _PAGE_MT_PMA         ((u64)0x0 << 61)
> > +#define _PAGE_MT_NC          ((u64)0x1 << 61)
> > +#define _PAGE_MT_IO          ((u64)0x2 << 61)
> > +
>
> It'd be cleaner IMHO if you defined _PAGE_MT_MASK as (_PAGE_MT_PMA |
> _PAGE_MT_NC | _PAGE_MT_IO), like other masks are defined (e.g.
> _PAGE_CHG_MASK on the same file). I also suggest you use unsigned long
> instead of u64 for consistency.
>
> > +enum {
> > +     MT_PMA,
> > +     MT_NC,
> > +     MT_IO,
> > +     MT_MAX
> > +};
> > +
> > +extern struct __riscv_svpbmt_struct {
> > +     unsigned long mask;
> > +     unsigned long mt[MT_MAX];
> > +} __riscv_svpbmt;
> > +
> > +#define _PAGE_DMA_MASK               __riscv_svpbmt.mask
> > +#define _PAGE_DMA_PMA                __riscv_svpbmt.mt[MT_PMA]
> > +#define _PAGE_DMA_NC         __riscv_svpbmt.mt[MT_NC]
> > +#define _PAGE_DMA_IO         __riscv_svpbmt.mt[MT_IO]
> > +#else
> > +#define _PAGE_DMA_MASK               0
> > +#define _PAGE_DMA_PMA                0
> > +#define _PAGE_DMA_NC         0
> > +#define _PAGE_DMA_IO         0
> > +#endif /* CONFIG_64BIT */
> > +#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
> > +
> >  #define _PAGE_SPECIAL   _PAGE_SOFT
> >  #define _PAGE_TABLE     _PAGE_PRESENT
> >
>
> This struct is not useful as part of enabling the standard Svpbmt
> extension on Linux, we can set _PAGE_DMA_* macros directly on this patch
> and introduce the struct approach later on, when we also define
> alternative values for _PAGE_DMA_* flags. Also to someone reading the
> code the struct doesn't make sense without some documentation on why
> it's needed. Finally why the enum / array ? Why not just have different
> fields on the struct ?
>
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
> > b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
> > index 39b550310ec6..d07ba586c866 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
> > @@ -136,7 +136,8 @@
> >                               | _PAGE_PRESENT \
> >                               | _PAGE_ACCESSED \
> >                               | _PAGE_DIRTY \
> > -                             | _PAGE_GLOBAL)
> > +                             | _PAGE_GLOBAL \
> > +                             | _PAGE_DMA_PMA)
> >
>
> That's a bit misleading, it's like marking the kernel pages as DMAable.
>
> -/*
> - * The RISC-V ISA doesn't yet specify how to query or modify PMAs, so
> we can't
> - * change the properties of memory regions.
> - */
> -#define _PAGE_IOREMAP _PAGE_KERNEL
> +#define _PAGE_IOREMAP    ((_PAGE_KERNEL & ~_PAGE_DMA_MASK) |
> _PAGE_DMA_IO)
> +
> +#define PAGE_IOREMAP        __pgprot(_PAGE_IOREMAP)
>
> This isn't used anywhere.
>
> @@ -490,6 +489,28 @@ static inline int ptep_clear_flush_young(struct
> vm_area_struct *vma,
>       return ptep_test_and_clear_young(vma, address, ptep);
>   }
>
> +#define pgprot_noncached pgprot_noncached
> +static inline pgprot_t pgprot_noncached(pgprot_t _prot)
> +{
> +    unsigned long prot = pgprot_val(_prot);
> +
> +    prot &= ~_PAGE_DMA_MASK;
> +    prot |= _PAGE_DMA_IO;
> +
> +    return __pgprot(prot);
> +}
> +
> +#define pgprot_writecombine pgprot_writecombine
> +static inline pgprot_t pgprot_writecombine(pgprot_t _prot)
> +{
> +    unsigned long prot = pgprot_val(_prot);
> +
> +    prot &= ~_PAGE_DMA_MASK;
> +    prot |= _PAGE_DMA_NC;
> +
> +    return __pgprot(prot);
> +}
> +
>
> We also have the IO type, we should also define pgprot_device to also
> ensure ordering, or else it'll fallback to pgprot_noncached, which in
> our case won't work well due to RVWMO:
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/include/linux/pgtable.h#L930
>
> +void __init riscv_svpbmt(void)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
> +    struct device_node *node;
> +    const char *str;
> +
> +    for_each_of_cpu_node(node) {
> +        if (of_property_read_string(node, "mmu-type", &str)) {
> +            continue;
> +        }
> +
> +        if (!strncmp(str + 11, "svpbmt", 6)) {
> +            __riscv_svpbmt.mask      = _PAGE_MT_MASK;
> +            __riscv_svpbmt.mt[MT_PMA] = _PAGE_MT_PMA;
> +            __riscv_svpbmt.mt[MT_NC]  = _PAGE_MT_NC;
> +            __riscv_svpbmt.mt[MT_IO]  = _PAGE_MT_IO;
> +            break;
> +        }
> +    }
> +#endif
> +}
>
> You break; here the first time you find a cpu node with svpbmt enabled,
> shouldn't we make sure that all used cpu nodes support svpbmt before
> using the extension ?
>
> Regards,
> Nick
>
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