linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: Fix SOCs with DDR starting above zero

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Message-ID: <20240103174531.GE5954@willie-the-truck>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2024 17:45:32 +0000
From: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To: Elad Nachman <enachman@...vell.com>
Cc: catalin.marinas@....com, thunder.leizhen@...wei.com, bhe@...hat.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, yajun.deng@...ux.dev,
	chris.zjh@...wei.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: Fix SOCs with DDR starting above zero

On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 07:00:02PM +0200, Elad Nachman wrote:
> From: Elad Nachman <enachman@...vell.com>
> 
> Some SOCs, like the Marvell AC5/X/IM, have a combination
> of DDR starting at 0x2_0000_0000 coupled with DMA controllers
> limited to 31 and 32 bit of addressing.
> This requires to properly arrange ZONE_DMA and ZONE_DMA32 for
> these SOCs, so swiotlb and coherent DMA allocation would work
> properly.
> Change initialization so device tree dma zone bits are taken as
> function of offset from DRAM start, and when calculating the
> maximal zone physical RAM address for physical DDR starting above
> 32-bit, combine the physical address start plus the zone mask
> passed as parameter.
> This creates the proper zone splitting for these SOCs:
> 0..2GB for ZONE_DMA
> 2GB..4GB for ZONE_DMA32
> 4GB..8GB for ZONE_NORMAL
> 
> Signed-off-by: Elad Nachman <enachman@...vell.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> index 74c1db8ce271..8288c778916e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> @@ -115,20 +115,21 @@ static void __init arch_reserve_crashkernel(void)
>  
>  /*
>   * Return the maximum physical address for a zone accessible by the given bits
> - * limit. If DRAM starts above 32-bit, expand the zone to the maximum
> - * available memory, otherwise cap it at 32-bit.
> + * limit. If DRAM starts above 32-bit, expand the zone to the available memory
> + * start limited by the zone bits mask, otherwise cap it at 32-bit.
>   */
>  static phys_addr_t __init max_zone_phys(unsigned int zone_bits)
>  {
>  	phys_addr_t zone_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(zone_bits);
>  	phys_addr_t phys_start = memblock_start_of_DRAM();
> +	phys_addr_t phys_end = memblock_end_of_DRAM();
>  
>  	if (phys_start > U32_MAX)
> -		zone_mask = PHYS_ADDR_MAX;
> +		zone_mask = phys_start | zone_mask;
>  	else if (phys_start > zone_mask)
>  		zone_mask = U32_MAX;
>  
> -	return min(zone_mask, memblock_end_of_DRAM() - 1) + 1;
> +	return min(zone_mask, phys_end - 1) + 1;
>  }
>  
>  static void __init zone_sizes_init(void)
> @@ -140,7 +141,16 @@ static void __init zone_sizes_init(void)
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA
>  	acpi_zone_dma_bits = fls64(acpi_iort_dma_get_max_cpu_address());
> -	dt_zone_dma_bits = fls64(of_dma_get_max_cpu_address(NULL));
> +	/*
> +	 * When calculating the dma zone bits from the device tree, subtract
> +	 * the DRAM start address, in case it does not start from address
> +	 * zero. This way. we pass only the zone size related bits to
> +	 * max_zone_phys(), which will add them to the base of the DRAM.
> +	 * This prevents miscalculations on arm64 SOCs which combines
> +	 * DDR starting above 4GB with memory controllers limited to
> +	 * 32-bits or less:
> +	 */
> +	dt_zone_dma_bits = fls64(of_dma_get_max_cpu_address(NULL) - memblock_start_of_DRAM());
>  	zone_dma_bits = min3(32U, dt_zone_dma_bits, acpi_zone_dma_bits);
>  	arm64_dma_phys_limit = max_zone_phys(zone_dma_bits);
>  	max_zone_pfns[ZONE_DMA] = PFN_DOWN(arm64_dma_phys_limit);

Hmm, I'm a bit worried this could regress other platforms since you seem
to be assuming that DMA address 0 corresponds to the physical start of
DRAM. What if that isn't the case?

In any case, we should try hard to avoid different behaviour between DT
and ACPI here.

Will