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Message-ID: <21feac2d-24e9-43f4-8a1b-728d4af6c4c7@ics.forth.gr>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2024 14:39:00 +0300
From: Nick Kossifidis <mick@....forth.gr>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Vladimir Kondratiev <Vladimir.Kondratiev@...ileye.com>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@...ti.fr>, Paul Walmsley
<paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>, Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
Andrew Morton
<akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
"linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] riscv: make ZONE_DMA32 optional
On 10/7/24 09:22, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 06:17:14AM +0000, Vladimir Kondratiev wrote:
>>> Well, this doesn't get any more true by just irgnoring the previous
>>> discussion and just reposting :(
>>
>> Sorry, this wasn't the intention. Perhaps I messed with the message-id, I see my "patch v1" in one mail thread together with the previous discussion, but not in the other thread.
>>
>> Anyway, I think making ZONE_DMA32 selection depend on NONPORTABLE answers the concern
>> that was raised
>
> It doesn't at all.
>
> For one not having ZONE_DMA32 is going to break a lot of things.
> Drivers do expect 32-bit addressable memory. And because SOC designers
> know this there usually is a way to provide it, e.g. by doing window
> translations between cpu physical and bus physical address. Please go
> back to your data sheet or talk to the designers.
>
> And if there really is not way to provide this, the right way is just
> to stop the runtime allocation that triggered you to do this if
> ZONE_DMA32 is empty, not to add a non-portable option.
>
I agree with Christoph on this one, by the time dma_atomic_pool_init()
gets called we already know the system's DRAM base for example and if we
have 32bit addressable regions (or aliases / translation windows as
Christoph mentioned) or not. We could use this info to skip ZONE_DMA32,
or just use a command line argument like this RFC proposed:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20230201040913.GA4959@hu-cgoldswo-sd.qualcomm.com/T/
There is no reason to configure this at compile time, and completely
remove support for ZONE_DMA32. Also NONPORTABLE doesn't address Alex's
point on distro kernels, since distro kernels won't set NONPORTABLE.
BTW I tried reproducing this with a recent 6.10 kernel and couldn't, our
system also has DRAM way above 32bits and this is also on a modified
QEMU machine, here is the full log:
https://pastebin.com/9HLcphgY
You can use this script to reproduce our QEMU setup if interested:
https://github.com/CARV-ICS-FORTH/yarvt/tree/eupilot
Regards,
Nick
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