linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v6 1/6] riscv: mm: dma-noncoherent: Switch using function pointers for cache management

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Date:   Mon, 09 Jan 2023 13:59:12 +0100
From:   "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@...il.com>
Cc:     "Conor.Dooley" <conor.dooley@...rochip.com>,
        "Geert Uytterhoeven" <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        Heiko Stübner <heiko@...ech.de>,
        guoren <guoren@...nel.org>,
        "Andrew Jones" <ajones@...tanamicro.com>,
        "Paul Walmsley" <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        "Palmer Dabbelt" <palmer@...belt.com>,
        "Albert Ou" <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        "open list:RISC-V ARCHITECTURE" <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "open list" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux-Renesas <linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Lad, Prabhakar" <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@...renesas.com>,
        "Philipp Tomsich" <philipp.tomsich@...ll.eu>,
        "Nathan Chancellor" <nathan@...nel.org>,
        "Atish Patra" <atishp@...osinc.com>,
        "Anup Patel" <apatel@...tanamicro.com>,
        "Tsukasa OI" <research_trasio@....a4lg.com>,
        "Jisheng Zhang" <jszhang@...nel.org>,
        "Mayuresh Chitale" <mchitale@...tanamicro.com>,
        "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@....de>, "Will Deacon" <will@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v6 1/6] riscv: mm: dma-noncoherent: Switch using function
 pointers for cache management

On Mon, Jan 9, 2023, at 13:03, Lad, Prabhakar wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 8, 2023 at 12:08 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>> >> > +struct riscv_cache_ops {
>> >> > +     void (*clean_range)(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size);
>> >> > +     void (*inv_range)(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size);
>> >> > +     void (*flush_range)(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size);
>> >> > +     void (*riscv_dma_noncoherent_cmo_ops)(void *vaddr, size_t size,
>> >> > +                                           enum dma_data_direction dir,
>> >> > +                                           enum dma_noncoherent_ops ops);
>> >> > +};
>> >>
>> >> I don't quite see how the fourth operation is used here.
>> >> Are there cache controllers that need something beyond
>> >> clean/inv/flush?
>> >>
>> > This is for platforms that dont follow standard cache operations (like
>> > done in patch 5/6) and there drivers decide on the operations
>> > depending on the ops and dir.
>>
>> My feeling is that the set of operations that get called should
>> not depend on the cache controller but at best the CPU. I tried to
>> enumerate how zicbom and ax45 differ here, and how that compares
>> to other architectures:
>>
>>                   zicbom      ax45,mips,arc      arm           arm64
>> fromdevice      clean/flush   inval/inval   inval/inval   clean/inval
>> todevice        clean/-       clean/-       clean/-       clean/-
>> bidi            flush/flush   flush/inval   clean/inval   clean/inval
>>
>> So everyone does the same operation for DMA_TO_DEVICE, but
>> they differ in the DMA_FROM_DEVICE handling, for reasons I
>> don't quite see:
>>
>> Your ax45 code does the same as arc and mips. arm and
>> arm64 skip invalidating the cache before bidi mappings,
>> but arm has a FIXME comment about that. arm64 does a
>> 'clean' instead of 'inval' when mapping a fromdevice
>> page, which seems valid but slower than necessary.
>>
>> Could the zicbom operations be changed to do the same
>> things as the ax45/mips/arc ones, or are there specific
>> details in the zicbom spec that require this?
>>
> I'll let the RISC-V experts respond here.

Adding Christoph Hellwig and Will Deacon to Cc as well.

I had another look at the arm64 side, which (like the zicbom
variant) uses 'clean' on dma_sync_single_for_device(DMA_FROM_DEVICE),
as that has changed not that long ago, see

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c50f11c6196f45c92ca48b16a5071615d4ae0572

I'm still not sure what the correct set of operations has
to be, but nothing in that patch description sounds ISA
or even microarchitecture specific.

    Arnd